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Baltimore Has Decided Some Neighborhoods Just Aren’t Worth Saving
Business Insider ^
| 02/24/2012
| Yepoka Yeebo
Posted on 02/24/2012 6:35:42 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Yepoka Yeebo / Business Insider |
In Baltimore the wrecks stretch for blocks in every direction. Shattered windows, buckling walls, sometimes just a façade, propped up by the houses on either side.
The vacant streets are punctuated by the odd meticulously-kept home; a living city slowly turning into a ghost town.
Baltimore has tried to deal with the tens of thousands of abandoned houses that mar the city. They’ve been refurbished. They’ve been raffled for $1. They’ve been demolished. But the number of vacant houses keeps growing.
There were radical efforts to seize abandoned homes and sell off city-owned property. In the nineties, $100 million was poured into some of the most troubled areas. Now the city is trying another approach: jump-starting the housing markets in healthier neighborhoods.
As Baltimore faces a $52 million budget shortfall, there is a more urgent need than ever to deal with the vacant homes, which still require public services like fire and police patrol.
47,000 vacant properties.
The numbers vary depending on who's counting, but the highest estimates suggest there are 46,800 vacant houses and lots in Baltimore —
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To: Tijeras_Slim
RE:
At least they have Dish Network in that first pic.
The following chart from The Heritage Foundation shows that even poor Americans – those who fall below the official income poverty line – usually have a DVD player, video gaming system, multiple televisions, a computer, washer and dryer, cable TV, dedicated internet, a cell phone, and in a very limited amount of cases, even a jacuzzi.
The figures were taken in a government consumption survey near the height of the financial and economic bubble in 2005.
With “poor” people enjoying the benefits of what would traditionally be considered middle class is it any wonder, then, that the entire debt based system of this country is in collapse?
America, it seems, has the richest poor people in the world.
To: SeekAndFind
Here in Pittsburgh, I drove up Larimer Avenue to the meat market near the bridge.
It looked like a war zone, very few standing buildings in testament to the war on poverty.
To: RightGeek
Of course they are still voting at those addresses. They may finally have to level the properties but you can bet that the former residents, living or dead, are still voting democrat from those addresses and probably other addresses as well.
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posted on
02/24/2012 7:20:27 AM PST
by
RJS1950
(The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
To: I_Like_Spam
The worst areas of the cities have become like the Indian reservations, people living off the government, have little incentive to take care of their surroundings, they don’t know the meaning of responsibility.
Just wait though, the left has a solution for that, too. It’s called environmental justice. it means that the government will take responsibility for making their environment beautiful and healthful, with parks and jogging trails, gardens, etc. It’s all in Obamacare.
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posted on
02/24/2012 7:24:59 AM PST
by
Eva
To: PapaBear3625
The schools are horrible because of the students. Any school which has significant numbers of children of welfare moms will be horrible.
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One the major points made in the documentary, “Waiting for Superman”, was that the neighborhoods are horrible because the **schools** are horrible! Please think about it.
** If children attend godless and socialist-funded schools they will learn to think and reason godlessly. They must just to cooperate in the classroom. Godlessness begets sin and sin produces poverty.
** If children attend socialist-funded and government run and owned schools there is great risk that the children will learn to be comfortable with socialism and looking to government as their Savior.
** The white middle class is well on its way to circling down the sewer drain as well with three out of white babies being born out of wedlock.
By the way, my husband and I work with the cub scouts in our rural county. The **white** kids here in this bright red county can NOT READ or do simple arithmetic. The **only** children in this red state county that are learning to read and do simple math are those kids whose parents are doing a **ton** of afterschooling. All ( yes, **all**) of the kids spout Global Warming propaganda.
It's like watching a train wreck in slow motion. In one generation our peaceful and bucolic county will look like the Kensington neighborhood of Philadelphia.
If children attend godless and socialist government owned and run schools we will get a nation of sin produced poverty, socialism, and eventual tyranny. Some neighborhoods are there are, already. They rest are only a generation or two behind.
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posted on
02/24/2012 7:28:21 AM PST
by
wintertime
(Reforming a government K-12 school is like reforming an abortion center.)
To: SeekAndFind
Another mural painted in the style of American Soft-Socialist Delusionalism. They look more and more ironic as time goes by.
To: SeekAndFind
Actually, the street in the photo above doesn’t look that bad. There are not piles of torn garbage bags with trash being blown around. There are no sofas out on the side walk with stuffing hanging out. The car in the photo isn’t on blocks with the tires and wheels missing and the windows smashed. Someone has put out flower pots that amazingly haven’t been stolen. The street looks like it has been swept recently. I don’t see any boarded up homes.
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posted on
02/24/2012 7:33:58 AM PST
by
wintertime
(Reforming a government K-12 school is like reforming an abortion center.)
To: BfloGuy
One day one is looking at a healthy working class neighborhood and, overnight, that darn market comes in and destroys it...and it happens time after time in those progressive meccas run by the most enlightened. Thankfully we have a president who will see to it that the suburbs share the pain.
To: SeekAndFind
Maybe I’m out of the loop, but, the people living in these decrepit buildings have satellite TV? What the heck?
well, at least they get entertained as they live their lives and do God knows what in these places. Wonder if they pay extra to get HBO?
To: SeekAndFind
Does anyone remember the TV series, “The Wire”? This is exactly what happened on the TV show. One of the supervisors said, “Let them deal drugs in these blocks and don’t touch them. Everywhere else hitting hard.” Crime dropped like a rock and the few blocks weren’t any worse than before. Eventually the supervisor got fired as I recall.
To: SeekAndFind
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posted on
02/24/2012 7:43:36 AM PST
by
Wings-n-Wind
(The main things are the plain things!)
To: patton
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posted on
02/24/2012 7:44:10 AM PST
by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")
To: Portcall24
That’s a TV show though. I’d like to see how such a plan works in REAL LIFE, not the way a script writer wants it to end.
To: bigdirty
“Our little street, what a kingdom it was. Oy veh, Oy veh.”
To: cripplecreek
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posted on
02/24/2012 7:51:02 AM PST
by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")
To: blueunicorn6
It is a real shame. I drove across one of Baltimore’s old neighborhoods, beautiful brick homes with the curved fronts and marble stoops line in a nice row about a mile down to the harbor. Empty. Boarded up. Burned out. The legacy of The Great Society.
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posted on
02/24/2012 8:00:57 AM PST
by
firebasecody
(Orthodoxy, proclaiming the Truth since AD 33)
To: firebasecody
That is a shame. We need a President with courage and conviction and not this empty-headed, “Look at me.....I know how to roll up my sleeves” dipstick.
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posted on
02/24/2012 8:20:27 AM PST
by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")
To: SeekAndFind
Not worry.
Maryland has its priorities right. They just legalized homosexual "marriage."
So all will be well...
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posted on
02/24/2012 8:25:09 AM PST
by
Flycatcher
(God speaks to us, through the supernal lightness of birds, in a special type of poetry.)
To: SeekAndFind
The Chinese always say, "A picture is worth a thousand words.".
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posted on
02/24/2012 8:35:45 AM PST
by
Bon mots
("When seconds count, the police are just minutes away...")
To: Tijeras_Slim
I counted 5, not the norm. Usually just one, and all units tie into that one for free.
I noticed those beautiful doors, love to have them.
To the suburbs now, got to find a new home/neighborhood to infest. You don't mind do you?/s.
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