Posted on 03/29/2017 1:48:35 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Reaction to Sunday's column on Baltimore's distressing loss in population ranged from genuine empathy to snarky glee. Some citizens took the opportunity to complain about city life: A woman in Roland Park said she has a rat problem and that her water has been brown for months. I told her to get on her landlord about the rats and her City Council rep about the water — and to call me if she can't get no satisfaction.
It's a depressing development, the city losing some 6,700 residents during the 12 months that ended in July 2016. After years when the city's falling population finally seemed to stabilize, even grow modestly, raising expectations that maybe we had turned a corner, the drop in 2016 was a true bummer.
Too much of the city's housing stock has deteriorated, and there is not enough that's livable and affordable, Iyer says.
Hundreds of low-income Baltimore families, eligible for government rent subsidies, have moved to the surrounding counties because that's where they found decent, affordable housing.
That's why inclusionary housing — mandating real diversity in income levels among residents — needs to be constantly emphasized in Baltimore's redevelopment efforts.
(Excerpt) Read more at baltimoresun.com ...
Wasn’t this the place that has a bunch of riots cause some guy died and everyone blamed the cops, then a bunch of blacks rioted and vandalized property? Yea, I wouldn’t want to live in a place like that either!
Color me surprised.
Hopefully enough of them will piss off to parts unknown, so I can go photograph the cemetery before I die...without dying *that* day.
What goes around comes around. Baltimore, Detroit, et al.
Cities run by Democrats eventually fail.
Dominoes.
It is tragic that so many of our old, historic, once-great cities are going down the drain. I see that in a much smaller scale in the town I grew up in, the oldest permanent settlement in Illinois, going back to 1699. It was an important place in the early days of Illinois. A number of buildings from the colonial period still stand. It became a solid blue-collar community, and was a great place to grow up. Today, because of the usual reasons, it is impoverished and crime-ridden and much of the housing is in ruins. It’s going down the drain.
There are now properties selling for over a million dollars in Southie,even a new single house.
It’s gentrified.
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There are now properties selling for over a million dollars in Southie,even a new single house.
It’s gentrified.
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Baltimore was allowed by it's own mayor to riot freely and without consequence. This isn't rocket science.
Yep. There's the solution! Liberals are too stupid to live.
Must be a Rolling Stones fan:
(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggSswQx7Enk
Yup,I know...a fairly recent trend IIRC.But the stories I heard from my Dad and his siblings pretty strongly suggest that that wasn't the case 100 or so years ago.
Forcing people to live in certain places, according to a temporary statistic.... ahhhh, freedom!
People say it’s because of Democrats running things, but that isn’t the real reason. Austin and San Francisco don’t have this problem.
stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com
Betcha the riots didn’t help much. Anything run by Dems eventually turns to crap. At least the property taxes are outrageously high, though.
I was about to say that in my post 35, but stopped short for fear of being castigated. I think, though, it’s that poor, ignorant people, regardless of race, tend to make poor political decisions. In places with a heavy concentration of poor, ignorant people, the folks borne of poor decision making tend to run things.
Just who keeps voting for these democrats? ;-(
Maryland “Freak State” PING!
They are pissed. These people are ruining Howard Co., Baltimore Co, and Anne Arundel county. Not to mention Columbia, Md.. Howard Co. aiding these people by building "affordable housing" for them isn't helping the situation. Believe me, many have noticed the changing "environment" (aka crime).
That’s why inclusionary housing — mandating real diversity in income levels among residents — needs to be constantly emphasized in Baltimore’s redevelopment efforts.
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Typical of the idiot pseudo-reasoning that has contributed to this problem. Decent people with the means to do so want to live in safe, clean neighborhoods. There are, unfortunately, lowlifes whose behavior makes this impossible in many neighborhoods. So “inclusionary housing” is not the answer.
Baltimore and its suburban areas have been subjected to much experimentation such as housing welfare-dependent people in government-subsidized units within upper middle class neighborhoods. The explanation given has been that seeing neighbors going to work would set a good example for layabouts.
There are numerous tales of the crimes suffered by citizens who have attempted to gentrify crumbling neighborhoods. I wonder why decent people would want to give up on fixing up a house in a residential area after being the victims of theft, muggings, and graffiti.
Baltimore’s number 1 problem is that it has been subjected to Democratic control for far too long. Corruption and incompetence reign supreme.
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