[Normal4me]

Exactly. We had a local news report a few weeks ago about a run down housing project. They showed plywood over broken windows, cockroaches, overgrown weeds....Over course they also showed the Ford 'Expeditions' and the Chevy 'Suburbans' in the parking lot all with the 20" custom wheels and tires.

Sorry, but if you can afford a $40K+ vehicle then you can afford to pay for your own upkeep.

What a joke!

[Fraulein]

Here's a bit of information on Detroit's Douglass complex:

Late at night, prostitutes and drug-dealers loiter in the courtyard of the Douglass public housing project near Ford Field. Inside the four high-rises, trash and graffiti cover concrete stairwells. Odorous hallways have dirty carpets and walls with holes....

The buildings were refurbished just three years ago but already are showing signs of decay. The trash left in stairwells isn't just candy wrappers or old newspapers. On the landing of one floor was a 5-foot-high stereo speaker. Another landing had a discarded portable television. A resident who went to mail a letter in the ground-floor lobby found four mice scurrying around in circles near the laundry room.

Davis, 48, who has lived at Douglass for seven years, said the complex's management has failed to fix the lock of a rear door to one of the buildings...

Patricia Greenlee, 57, who has lived at the complex for five years, told management that her shower was faulty, spraying water everywhere. Two months later, she's still waiting for the problem to be fixed. "They say they'll get someone over," she said. "I don't like it."

During the summer, her church holds Sunday services in the same area, she said, and church members have found used condoms among the debris.

The hallway outside Neeley's apartment Wednesday was dark in the middle of the day, the only light coming from a dim fluorescent bulb. She complained to the building superintendent in the middle of April. First, she hoped the light would be replaced by Easter. Now she hopes it will be done by Mother's Day, which is this Sunday.

These people can't even replace a lightbulb or fix a lock for themselves! Sheesh!

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