Posted on 09/14/2022 8:26:14 AM PDT by devane617
Negligent landlords—those who allow their properties to become dilapidated despite having tenants—are a significant predictor of violence in Richmond neighborhoods, even more than personal property tax delinquency, population density, income levels and other factors, according to a new study by researchers at Virginia Commonwealth University.
"Negligent landlords contribute significantly to violence in Richmond neighborhoods via the environment," said lead author Samuel West, Ph.D., an alum of the Department of Psychology in the College of Humanities and Sciences and an assistant professor of psychology at Virginia State University. "This impact was above and beyond the impact of those who live in these neighborhoods in terms of the state of their respective properties."
West and other researchers at VCU collected data on violence events, tax delinquency of company-owned properties (such as rental homes and apartments), tax delinquency of personal properties, population density, race, income, food stamps and alcohol outlets for each of Richmond's 148 neighborhoods.
Tax delinquency of company-owned properties was the only variable that predicted violence in all but four of Richmond's 148 neighborhoods.
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So the property owners create teens
You explained it well.
Only landlords allow tenant-occupied properties to become delapidated? Who runs those delapidated public housing projects?
“Thank God we got penitentiaries!” - Richard Pryor
Can't try that lie anymore. The lead abatement program is decades old.
Maybe it's the drugs both officially and unofficially legalized. Did the landlord cause that? Was he dealing drugs to his tenants?
The landlords names are Dunning & Kruger and they’re in the tenants heads all the time.
Just a crazy thought here, have these academics (any academics), looked into a correlation between government requirements and rental housing? Understand that rental housing is an expensive investment and a failure to maintain will decrease the value of that investment. WHY would an investor do that and why?
Potential examples of why. If the repair / improvement is more than a simple patch-up, many places require an inspection before granting a 'certificate of occupancy'. No certificate, no rent without meeting ALL DEFICIENCIES found in the inspection. While under repair, the owner may be required to house the renter at an equivalent property.
Many localities place limits on what the owner can restrict in way of renters. What happens if the renter starts dope dealing from that property? The owner may be totally out of luck if the renter is a 'preferred' class. Yes, the police may raid the house but repairs from the raid are the owners and the renter may be immune from eviction.
Do academics own or rent their 'Ivory Towers'? Do they understand real world economics? Are these academics STUPID?
At least this is an original excuse for black violence.
ANYWHERE blacks exist in the world, there is an instance of higher violent crime relative to non-black populations save certain locations in Mexico and Central America driven by drug war issues and not the genetics of the inhabitants.
Blacks drive a MUCH higher % of the violent crime in the USA, especially murder, than their 13% of the population. This is especially true for gun crime. Go do your research, the data doesn’t lie.
The good black people, of which there are a few, should police their own population and take out their own trash. The rest of the world is sick of being victimized by violent, low-impulse control, low IQ black people.
ACADEMIC (ak-uh-DEM-ik): An individual educated beyond his intelligence who is unwilling or unable to create or provide anything of value to others, who while hiding out in a think-tank, college or university pontificates and expects to be paid for it, usually from public funds.
Take these academics to these hoods and ask them if this is the way their homes look? Do they clean up and maintain their homes or do they destroy their homes too?
A local landlord’s association admitted that they (and the Dem policymakers) exacerbated the homeless problem when efforts were made to increase the “liveability” of rental properties. Money was spent, rents were raised (go figure).
When Covid arrived, the same insane marxists didn’t wait more than a few seconds to start up the “moratorium” on evictions, thus illegally taking away owners’ rights.
Now they are criticizing owners for not repairing their property after negligent tenants trash it.
Where this is going is eventual confiscation of property by the collectivity and its redistribution, without compensation to the owners. Communism, IOW.
And they don’t mean “predictor.” They mean correlation. And they didn’t consider all the possible factors.
What led the owners to neglect their property? That they ran out of money when the tenants stopped paying? That they couldn’t keep up with the destruction - as soon as they fixed something the tenants broke it again?
I know these people want us to think that negligence CAUSES violence. Then NEVER put the blame where it belongs.
I would NEVER become a landlord today.
That won't happen. Good black people are just as scared as the rest of us. They move out of bad neighborhoods when they're able to. I have black friends who lamented that their young sons were being influenced by blacks in the ghetto. Raised middle-class but picking up slang and mannerisms of ghetto punks, and the parents try their best to stop that. Some parents are successful. Ghetto punks have weak family structures, subsidized by liberal leftist society. The change will have to come from massive societal changes. In the meantime, be wary of black punks who don't give a darn about destroying others' lives.
One of my sister’s contractor friends told me that any repair to anything in the Sec 8 he sometimes works in is hard to plan out. Two-man teams, at least one concealed carrier, and sometimes a third to sit in the truck to prevent thefts. And he said the vast majority of problems were not due to faulty construction or materials or normal wear-and-tear, but due to the tenants.
I read the article: don’t see “section 8” or “subsidized housing” anywhere in it. Maybe the authors need to add another variable to their equation:
“JILLIAN CARR: We find a substantial increase in violent crime arrests due to voucher receipt. And this large increase is driven by men and those with a past criminal history. It’s pretty substantial. We find an approximate doubling of violent crime arrests for this population.”
Sherlock remains with intestinal fortitude most unsurprised.
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