What I don't get is why the city doesn't at least auction these lots off instead of awarding them directly to individuals? True, they wouldn't get more than a few hundred bucks at best, but to confiscate someone's land and award it to someone else for a dollar is Communism.
I also don't understand why, if these lots were overgrown and harboring danger, the neighbors haven't taken it upon themselves to clear them and report crime? Self-reliance seems strangely absent from those communities.
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To: Gunpowder green
Set up this puppy on a corner lot...
2 posted on
07/03/2014 5:55:33 AM PDT by
Dallas59
To: Gunpowder green
Get rid of Leftist policies in Chicago and you’ll see those lots worth a whole lot more than a dollar
To: Gunpowder green
The city is getting no tax revenue and they’re on the hook for maintaining the lot, which is beyond their capabilities. Why not allow an established home-owner (and responsible taxpayer) to take that liability off their hands and turn it back into some kind of productive (and eventually taxable) use?
4 posted on
07/03/2014 5:57:55 AM PDT by
kevkrom
(I'm not an unreasonable man... well, actually, I am. But hear me out anyway.)
To: Gunpowder green
How much taxes is the city going to charge you for those $1 lots?
9 posted on
07/03/2014 6:02:32 AM PDT by
Blood of Tyrants
(Haven't you lost enough freedoms? Support an end to the WOD now.)
To: Gunpowder green
Location, location, location.
See, the problem is these lots are located in Chicago, in a blighted area of Chicago. Where the means to keep the blight off your newly acquired property is against the law.
To: Gunpowder green
Comminism In The Hood!
The man has ALWAYS taken the lead/
12 posted on
07/03/2014 6:04:31 AM PDT by
MeshugeMikey
( "Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill)
To: Gunpowder green
Do they have city water ?
To: Gunpowder green
I also don't understand why, if these lots were overgrown and harboring danger, the neighbors haven't taken it upon themselves to clear them and report crime? Self-reliance seems strangely absent from those communities.
In the case of Detroit it was the city government that has created and intensified the problem and I'm assuming its the same in Chicago. Touch a property and you become responsible for it including all the accumulated back taxes, fees and fines going back years.
15 posted on
07/03/2014 6:08:14 AM PDT by
cripplecreek
(Remember the River Raisin.)
To: Gunpowder green
Yeah.. buy it for $1, then find yourself enmeshed in that rancid hellhole’s politics for a lifetime.
A quagmire is the easiest thing to enter. Exiting is the problem. No thanks.
20 posted on
07/03/2014 6:28:52 AM PDT by
ScottinVA
(If it doesn't include border security, it isn't "reform." It's called "amnesty.")
To: Gunpowder green
Probably there are some well-connected people who recently bought houses next to city-owned lots. This policy makes it possible for them to do what Obama did in Hyde Park when he bought the lot next to his home for a below-market price from Tony Rezko.
21 posted on
07/03/2014 6:29:23 AM PDT by
Piranha
(Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have - Saul Alinsky)
To: Gunpowder green
More empty lots = lower property tax revenues.
Lower property tax revenues = higher property tax rates.
Higher tax rates = more abandoned buildings.
More abandoned buildings ———> cleared structures (= more empty lots).
More empty lots = etc. ———> “death spiral”
Death spiral = Detroit.
in the end, Chicago = Detroit.
Thank you Democrats.
23 posted on
07/03/2014 6:33:33 AM PDT by
Stosh
To: Gunpowder green
Chicago's an amazingly friendly place. Once you buy your stake in urban pioneering, your "neighbors" will be stopping by to say "howdy."
25 posted on
07/03/2014 6:36:29 AM PDT by
ScottinVA
(If it doesn't include border security, it isn't "reform." It's called "amnesty.")
To: Gunpowder green
27 posted on
07/03/2014 6:46:01 AM PDT by
Don Corleone
("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
To: Gunpowder green
“to confiscate someone’s land and award it to someone else for a dollar is Communism”
They didn’t confiscate anything. The lands were forfeited when nobody paid the property taxes.
To: Gunpowder green
There is no way I would buy an empty lot on any block if I was just going to leave it an empty lot. Wouldn’t take long for it to become a trash dump that I had to keep clean and mowed.
To: Gunpowder green
The City of Chicago owns close to 5,000 vacant lots in the greater Englewood area alone, and is supposed to clean up, mow and maintain them. My commuter train goes through Englewood into and out of Chicago daily. Trust me on this: NO ONE wants to buy a lot in Englewood. It's one of the top two or three high crime/gang-land shooting neighborhoods in Chicago. Even the people that live there don't want to live there.
31 posted on
07/03/2014 7:38:34 AM PDT by
usconservative
(When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
To: Gunpowder green
Self-reliance seems strangely absent from those communities. Two words: Multi-Generational Welfare.
Need I say more?
32 posted on
07/03/2014 7:40:23 AM PDT by
usconservative
(When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
To: Gunpowder green
For Sale: Vacant Lots On Chicago Blocks, Just $1 Each...BUT WAIT, if you buy now, we’ll include an EXTRA lot for a total of just $1.50.*
*Property taxes and other fee’s may apply.
To: Gunpowder green
Is this an attempt to make Obama’s “purchase” of part of the Rezko property more legal?
34 posted on
07/03/2014 8:24:54 AM PDT by
VanShuyten
("a shadow...draped nobly in the folds of a gorgeous eloquence.")
To: Gunpowder green
Vacant lots, being overgrown by weeds. I would think the Greens would be ecstatic over this. Let’s return all city land to nature. Isn’t that what they want?
35 posted on
07/03/2014 8:52:26 AM PDT by
Hardastarboard
(Please excuse the potholes in this tagline. Social programs have to take priority in our funding.)
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