Get a frigging job!
I guess the buildings are alive in Cairo, Illinois.
I’ve been to that town. One of the most hopeless places I’ve ever seen.
“For sure they needed to fix this place up a long time ago,” said Nena Ellis, 38, a mother of three who lives in the McBride development, which, along with a second complex, Elmwood, is now set for demolition. “But there’s really nowhere else for us to go around here — even with a housing voucher, there just aren’t other places
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysKhbaLyIFw
It probably would make a great background for a zombie show or movie. =)
Two major issues that causes these things to happen.
1) Freeloading leeches living for nothing have no investment in where they live so they trash the places
2) Government agencies that would rather spend money on building New Taj Mahal type building then put maintenance and upkeep money in what they already run.
Not much pisses me of more than listening to public entities claim they need NEW buildings because the ones they have are falling apart that are 20-40 years old.
How many Americans need a new house that is that old because it’s falling apart
Maintain it you freaking MAROONS!
on the average, an American moves 11.4 times in their lifetime. This must be one of those times. Suck it up and start packing.
This is kind of a local story for me. The background is that the leader of the local “housing authority” made off with the funds to maintain the housing units. HUD took over and realized that there was no way to refurbish the housing units. They are unfit for human habitation—at least by American standards. The local TV station did a report showing what the units looked like and they were beyond disgusting. Some units didn’t even have front doors.
So they were rightly condemned and the occupants have to leave. There is no replacement housing for them in the Cairo area, so who knows where they’ll end up. Cairo is an unbelievably sad place. You can buy a hundred-year-old mansion (it used to be a thriving place) for just 10s of thousands of dollars. No one who has a choice in the matter wants to live there. It’s kind of like the pictures you see of Detroit, except Cairo is much smaller and has no prosperous parts. Most houses and buildings are abandoned. A few liquor stores and mini marts are the only businesses that survive.
Cairo is an example of how bad race relations can destroy a place. Blacks started a boycott of white-owned businesses because the businesses were glad to do business with blacks, but wouldn’t hire them. The boycott worked. The white-owned business went out of business, but nothing and nobody replaced them. Cairo is much like Rhodesia/Zimbabwe. Even though the whites did treat them unfairly, the blacks were much better off when Cairo was prosperous. Now, it is all despair.
This makes me sad, Cairo (KAY-RO) was a fun place years ago......many relatives in Southern Illinois. But yes, the leeches have no reason to keep it going. They know they can just go somewhere else and live off the working people. Never mind they killed the town in which they lived.
Gonna give em vouchers, and maps to YOUR neighborhoods.
Mainstreaming.
Clicking on the link shows the article lead with a photo of the “projects”. And what do I see? Satellite TV dishes mounted on them.
What's missing from this entire article?
Anyone?
Bueller?
A plan to demolish two public housing developments would force many residents to leave and cut the school enrollment in half.
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I would guess that is the reason. We are going to look like Brazil soon. Shanty towns surrounded by high rises.
This is the policy (Section 8 housing, etc.) that destroyed neighborhoods and communities. "Integration" has done a lot to destroy America.
There is a great documentary about Pruitt Igoe. One of the diverse residents is interviewed and she says when she was a kid she would vandalize the place. When the city didn’t repair the damage they would ruin more stuff in protest of all the broken stuff. I have zero sympathy for these people. None. Throw them on the streets for all I care. Decades of freeloading and they made zero effort to improve their situation.
Easy just move them to public housing in another state.
The Affirmatively Futhering Fair Housing Act passed by Obama and funded by Congress is already law.
Just find one of a plethora of racist neighborhoods,designated so by the census,and move them in
lots of apts in ames iowa being filled up with public housing voucher transplants. A hold up outside the hyvee foodstore just two blocks from me yesterday...........