[Vigilanteman]

Back when I was in grade school, Shaker Heights was held out as a model city of encouraged integration and relative prosperity. What happened?

[traditional1]

"Shaker Heights was held out as a model city of encouraged integration and relative prosperity. What happened?"

What happened was the "inner-city" of Cleveland expanded into the "diverse" community.....

Loans were made to avoid "red-lining" lawsuits against lenders, and anyone (especially certain minorities) were given loans freely with no money down, and no background checks. Those that could (and most Shaker residents previously) moved out to more affluent suburbs, leaving the "Democrat voterbase" take the town....

[dennisw]

Back when I was in grade school, Shaker Heights was held out as a model city of encouraged integration and relative prosperity. What happened?

The Shaker Heights I knew 30 years ago was a middle to upper middle class Jewish community. Not all Jewish of course but many Jewish families there. I'm amazed

[E Rocc]

There was a recent incident in Ludlow, a SH neighborhood near the Cleveland border, where a pack of predators attacked a resident (white lawyer, in SH presumably liberal) and beat him severely.

To it's credit the neighborhood is trying to respond, but in their naivety they are targetting "violence" instead of targetting predators.

Actually, it's my old home town of Maple Heights that's been getting all the foreclosure attention. It's been the subject of NY Times and Economist stories lately. Those stories also missed a major point, how MH's city fathers lost well over a thousand manufacturing jobs...using apathy in one case and hostility about "pollution" in another.

-Eric