“Just so many things wrong with this.”
It’s almost as if they still believe this kind of propaganda still works.
So copper pipe gets stolen out of repossessed homes more frequently in minority neighborhoods and it’s a big racist conspiracy. OK.
Yep, less vandalism in the white neighborhoods. Obviously a civil rights suit is in order.
I know you aren’t a racist. Go ahead and say what you are thinking.
The article makes a big sleight-of-hand and assumes all homes are abandoned in equal condition.
Maybe because there is much more vandalism in black and Latino neighborhoods???
I thought the Kenyan was supposed to usher in a new post-racial era. He gave a speech on it and all...
Look at ANY Public Housing Project in America, populated by blacks, and I defy you to find ANY care, maintenance, pride, etc. They become drug-infested ratholes and are over-populated with a 75%+ illegitimate birth rate within.
In Hartford and New Haven, repossessed properties in white neighborhoods scored 89 points, properties in African-American neighborhoods scored 78 and Latino neighborhoods, 66.
Those racist banks. Oppressed minorities in foreclosure have a right to equal curb appeal!
The key word in this article is “maintain”. It doesn’t take much to “maintain” a piece of property that has been trashed even before it was vacated.
I remember once reading an article about racist evil landlords not making sure smoke detectors had batteries in minority apartments because they wanted poor minorities to burn to death.
At least, that’s what I got from the article. The last line had some twaddle about how druggies in those apartment were stealing the batteries out as fast as the landlords could put them in, or destroying wired in ones.
How long would a well maintained home stay that way in a minority neighborhood? Why waste the expense of improving property that was probably destroyed by the former owners before they left?
Well, what would those properties have scored when they were bought? I can look at my town and see that for equally paired professional welfare recipients of each race, the housing would consistantly score lower for blacks and latinos than for whites.
Do whites pay more attention to their property’s appearance? not always, but in the majority of incidents, they do. One ride through the communities will testify of that fact - if you dare ride through them....