Posted on 08/03/2013 3:16:20 PM PDT by bgill
The U.S. Census finds that the number of people in poverty in Austin's suburbs more than doubled in the last decade -- up a whopping 142 percent. Meanwhile, Williamson County started off with 11,735 people living in poverty in 2000 and ended up with 34,069 by 2010.
That figure includes a lot of working poor. People who perhaps accepted a limited time offer of a job and a place to live. And others lost their job altogether in the economic downturn of 2008.
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Yes, I'll agree with that. Surprises me how large and spread out Austin has become. Takes forever to get anywhere. My daughter lives there. We've seen the same thing in the San Francisco area, where I live. Sky high rents, long waiting lists to rent a place, and the poor living far from the jobs they want. SF is a small city in area with a vertical footprint, unlike Austin, but like Austin, people still commute up to a hundred miles away to get to the jobs. No solution in sight.
It’s all a damned shame.
Yes Rice Village. Anyone driving through that area can’t miss the huge yellow signs of the association the residents formed to fight the city over the high rise issue. I’ve been in the Houston area since 1985 and I have yet to see them deal with traffic movement or street changes before they add housing to accommodate hundreds of thousands more new people.
Traffic is a total nightmare on 59 and 610. I only go in now twice a week for meetings but try to never go during normal business hours. Except for parts of upper Kirby and around the mosque off of Richmond streets are really bad or in need of repair. Kind of a family joke that we have to have our tires balanced and front end aligned after driving on the city streets, unlike the suburbs where our streets are all maintained and we don’t have flooding during the rains.
If we have to evacuate again for a hurricane it’s going to be much, much worse than the evacuation for Rita or Ike, not only because of the traffic but because of all the new people who haven’t a clue as to what to do to get prepared. They learned during Rita that you just can’t put 3 million people on highways that can only handle 2 million. But with the passage of time and no hurricanes since Ike most of those hard learned lessons have been forgotten.
That is the money quote on this thread.
If the population increases so will the amount of poor inhabitants.
There are counties in every state that are poorer than others. It’s not some strange phenomena.
Since the area is booming, I wouldn’t expect it to be a long term situation.
My advise to people from other states is to stay out.
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HAH! I agree. Texas doesn’t need any more liberals and carpetbaggers!!
If you had bet me that Houston would elect an openly lesbian mayor, and Dallas would elect an openly lesbian sheriff within my lifetime, you would have made some money.
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Don’t forget that Dallas also had an openly gay Mayor a few years ago. I can’t recall his name right now, but he was in the TX Senatorial debates that included Ted Cruz and David Dewhurst. Cruz crushed them all!!!
The battle will be over before then.
One way or another.
Freedom will live or die.
Freedom is never free, the cost is often measured in blood and lives. But it is always worth the price.
Hands other than ours control the future.
God Bless the US, God Bless Texas, God Bless your family and mine.
Do you live in the Clear lake area? I don’t have to evacuate for hurricanes and I live right in the middle of town. People got scared when Rita hit and left when they should have stayed put!
I don’t remember things being bad in Houston since oil was cheap. I remember houses weren’t selling, there was no traffic. It was strange.
I live near 288 and Highway 6 in an evac zone. We left for Rita - natural reaction after Katrina. Problem was caused by all the people in the city who left and should have stayed put and the fact that everyone seemed to leave at once. Most of family left for Ike except for my son who stayed to mind the two houses. Said he would never do that again-has nightmares about the unrelenting wind! I had major wind damage to my house and yard.
If a hurricane gets close I’m out of here to the hill country with my grandson. We leave early and stay late. As good as an excuse as any to get clear away from the city.
Tom Leppert wis gay?
Just received notice today that HCTRA Toll Road charges on the Beltway surrounding Houston are going up - AGAIN - in September. They have a rule that if you have an E-Z Pass account you have to maintain a minimum balance of $40.00. Can you just imagine the amount of money they have - must be mind boggling. At some of the toll plazas where there is E-Z Pass and cash, cash costs more.
There is going to be an issue on the ballot this fall about funding Texas state highways. Lots and lots of money - what could possibly go wrong?
Also understand that tax dollars were restored to the voucher program in one county in Texas to allow payment to individuals who couldn’t afford to get their car repaired to pass inspection. Includes funding for repairs up to $600 as well as I believe some $3,000 for people to purchase a car. Smells just like a California-type program and totally B.S. Political payoff or just big ripoff by Dewhurst and Strauss?
Tom Leppert wis gay?
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Yep. An ‘out of the closet’ gay, who didn’t hide it.
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