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Posted on 05/29/2014 2:49:35 PM PDT by Mikey_1962
Detroit spent as much as $537,000 per home renovating 30 houses starting in 2011 under a federal program to fight blight before selling most for less than $100,000 each, according to a newspaper's investigation published on Thursday.
The Detroit Land Bank transformed eyesores into gems, with features such as glass-tiled bathrooms, stainless steel appliances, underground sprinkler systems and, in some cases, geothermal heating, The Detroit News reported
A goal was to entice middle class families into the East English Village and Boston Edison neighborhoods. Land bank Executive Director Richard Wiener, who took over in January, said officials "are now moving in a different direction."
The bank is working to sell the last three homes in the program. It spent nearly $8.7 million from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development on 30 homes. So far, sales have brought in about $2 million.
An average of $290,000 was spent on each home, with the 13 most expensive ones costing $300,000 to $537,000 apiece. Susan Hanafee learned from The News that $430,000 was spent on the three-story Boston Edison home she bought last year for $80,000.
"It kind of makes me sick," she said. "It didn't really need that much rehab. ... It makes me sad to think about the money that was poured into a particular house and ... to know my neighbors are having to scrape enough together to put a new roof on."
(Excerpt) Read more at therepublic.com ...
Makes YOU sick?
We paid for it.
Well, they can always make it up in volume.
Rehabbing homes in Detroit. Like painting Debbie W Schultz’s toenails.
Rule # 1
No middle class person is going to move into a ghetto......
Oh.....what a horrible thought.
“It kind of makes me sick,”
Just about everything that’s happened since 1992.
“Your Government At Work”!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What good is a nice house in a town where the natives are trying to mug, kill or rape you? One can only take so much diversity.
Some cities, like Detroit, need to be dealt with like Carthage, levelled and salted over. Or, nuked from space.
Corruption and stupidity are so ingrained that nobody is going to be able to fix Detroit until they totally clean house of every corrupt and incompetent bureaucrat. Now that is going to be a career-long job for whoever does it (NOT).
But then the fired bureaucrats will get a job for life under Obama The God King, and continue their locust-like plundering and pillaging of America, all the while getting a nice fat paycheck.
The Democrats make Attilla the Hun look like a lowly community disorganizer. Meanwhile they assume the greater role of Ghenghis Khan, Attilla the Hun, Tamerlane, Guderian, Mao, and Obama all rolled into one Gozer-the- Destroyer-of-mankind bureaucracy.
Just look at Detroit, California, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Cleveland, E. St. Louis, Chicago, and DC and, coming to a theater near you soon, New York City.
Biblical plagues of locust are envious of the Democrats and their paths of destruction through America and American society.
Nov. 2014 can’t come fast enough for me. It will be the first time in two years that we will be able to use flamethrowers against the Democrat locust hordes, and clear the fields of these society destroying pests.
FLAME ON!
How stupid is that? Detroit is worse than I thought.
With the exception of the federal entities indicated in the Constitution's Clauses 16 & 17 of Section 8 of Article I as examples, entities under the exclusive legislative control of Congress, the states have never delegated to the feds, via the Constitution, the specific power to tax and spend for the purpose of renovating homes.
In other words, this issue is just another example of vote-winning earmark spending for some Constitution-ignoring federal lawmaker imo. And corrupt federal lawmakers continue to get away with constitutionally indefensible taxing and spending because parents have not been making sure that their children are being taught about the federal government's constitutionally limited powers.
GUbamint run. — legally bungasized
The last agency you want advice is from the gubamint.
When it’s OPM, cost is not a factor.
But Detroit was a fine city, and just turning itself around. /s
If someone has the goal of increasing the national debt, this works out very well.
Heh.
What a deal!
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