Posted on 08/17/2023 1:07:00 PM PDT by Red Badger
* 10 vacant homes in Jeanette, PA, have been deemed public nuisances
* Officials want to use funds from the American Rescue Plan to demolish them
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Vacant homes in Pennsylvania have been turned into drug dens by squatters who have even set indoor campfires to cook their meals.
State officials are ringing the alarm as they hope to demolish 10 empty homes that have been overtaken in the town of Jeanette, about 30 miles from Pittsburgh.
The 10 homes were declared public nuisances earlier this month; they all have had years of code violations property maintenance issues.
In one home on Fifth Street, squatters built a fire to cook cans of ravioli, according to fire chief Bill Frye.
Frye told Trib Live the home, which is boarded up, has served as a 'prime spot' for illegal activity.
'They actually were cooking with fire in the building,' Frye told the outlet. 'They had a fire inside the floor and were cooking Chef Boyardee raviolis.'
At a home on Third Street, playing kids left mounting trash behind that made the home inhospitable.
The officials want to use $10.4million from funds from the American Rescue Plan to demolish the homes; they are also considering dozens of other homes for dilapidation.
The 10 homeowners have been notified of the state's plans , and two of them received reprieves and are expected to figure out a plan for renovations.
Frye said he had difficulty even getting to the mail boxes of some of the homes to post the notices because they were in such poor condition.
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what? no owners?
$10 million to demolish 10 homes in Jeannette PA is a bad JOKE
For anyone who’s been to Jeannette
Is that anything like uninhabitable?
Indoor campfires, huh? I think this problem, left alone, will be self-correcting.
Chef Boyardee raviolis.’
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the new Skittles ???
Example of a home on 5th Street Jeannette
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/405-S-5th-St-Jeannette-PA-15644/10626578_zpid/
vacant homes ???
Were they abandoned or were the owners just on vacation ???
vacation vacant homes ???
Vacant as in not currently rented................
$35k?
I’ll take three................
Disco Inferno baby!!
Who doesn’t love a nice cozy indoor campfire?
Cultural Appropriation!!!
I know. Surprising no one would want to live there. /s
Chef Boy Ardee ravioli is some nasty stuff.
Let's pour millions more illegals into our country and the hell with the hard working taxpayers who are gonna pay the bills!!
I would have bought store-brand ravioli.
That’s nuts. Give me one bulldozer, an excavator, five dump trucks, ten men and ten days and the job is done. Government get the eff out of the way. You certainly can build anything and you are so incompetent that you cannot clean up after the messes you make with your leftist policies.
we have some abandoned homes in our neighborhood.
Thats why we’re getting ready to move.
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