I lived in a neighborhood that was ruined by High density housing. I wish I was rich I would find a beautiful home
and count my money.
“I lived in a neighborhood that was ruined by High density housing. “
Was HUD responsible?
That’s one agency I’d love to see eliminated.
My neighborhood is fighting this/going through this right now.
The landowners and developers make their money and then leave after running the neighborhood.
And you know the motivation behind that. Limousine liberals from the suburbs want to keep the riff-raff out of their own towns so they have these ugly "Soviet-bloc" style apartment buildings erected in the city to keep the underclass holed up there.
I would much rather live in a neighborhood where "gentrification" is going on than to live in one where "low-income" housing is being thrown up.
Years ago, I purchased a home in a gentrifying neighborhood just outside Boston. It was your basic working-class s*-hole, with three deckers, concrete playgrounds and old abandoned brick schools . But it was only 10 minutes to the city and I saw that yuppies were already starting to convert some of those three-deckers and brick buildings into condos and that funky coffee shops and ethnic restaurants were popping up. I pounced and bought an old Victorian for a song. Four years later, we sold it for nearly double what we paid and escaped to the outer suburbs. Never looked back. We lucked out. Had it gone the other way, we would have been stuck there.