Posted on 03/14/2010 6:45:48 AM PDT by devane617
Ridgecrest Terrace, a sprawling, low-income apartment complex in west Oak Cliff, has an infamous history as a crime-infested blight on a hillside.
Drug dealers once lined its streets like carnival barkers. Gunfire and assaults were a constant. Housing code inspectors came with police escorts, if they came at all. Twice, the city of Dallas sued to have Ridgecrest declared a public nuisance and closed.
Yet federal housing officials have kept the money flowing. Last year, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development sent the owner $1.5 million in stimulus funds – the largest allocation to any subsidized housing project in Dallas County.
(Excerpt) Read more at dallasnews.com ...
Stuff like this plus the shenanigans about to be perpetrated on Obama care in the House - ought to be enough to enrage voters to a degree that will make the 1994 turnover of the house look like a mild tremor. Let’s roll!
I pray you are right....
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