So true — I look around at the decent, average to below average middle class home in which I dwell and think of how fast such bozos could trash the place. I have no idea whether those apartment buildings were built properly or not, but the home in which I live could be wrecked in a matter of weeks or months by any low-lifes posing as humans. The plumbing, the walls, the appliances, none of them are invulnerable to abuse and destruction, not by a long shot.
As has been said, the biggest problem with “public housing” proves to be the people who are housed there — think about it, who would willingly live there if they were competent and accomplished enough to live anyplace on their own and without public subsidies, etc.?
Oooops, was that politically incorrect?
I don’t think that’s accurate. The problem is that the landlord won’t remove the people who behave like that, and decent people refuse to live in such “housing.” They work second jobs and find ways to avoid such places, or they suck it up for a few years and get out as fast as they can. But there’s more to it than that.
A line in the Globe article said Tony Rezko got $87,000,000.00 worth of loans, grants, and tax credits (not deductions) to renovate 1,000 apartments. That’s $87,000.00 per apartment. I’d like to think for a few minutes about what I could do to a two bedroom apartment with $87,000.00.