Posted on 07/24/2013 9:26:55 AM PDT by Renfield
The Detroit area remains one of the top 10 metros for foreclosed and vacated homes. Its abandoned residences often become hideouts for drug users and prostitutes, and occasionally scenes of murder. So it's no wonder that government officials want to simply tear down many of these homes. But in the community of Highland Park, Mich., several of the homes recently demolished were nearly new and never owned after a neighborhood revitalization project turned disastrous. And even the wreckers hired to do the job expressed shock at the waste.
"The project was supposed to transform a derelict section of Highland Park into a model neighborhood," reported Detroit TV station WXYZ. But a lot of the homes built just eight years ago are now abandoned, stripped, burned and now being demolished by the state as a part of its "Michigan Blight Elimination Program."
Just recently, several homes built this decade were marked for demolition alongside some 60-year-old homes. (See the demolition slideshow below.) "Four houses over, there were abandoned homes more than 30 years old, but they had me come take out a new one," Bill Koresky, the owner of Able Demolition hired to raze the homes, told AOL Real Estate. "I called the inspector. I said 'There is no way I can rip these down. There are new doors, new windows. The interior has not even been painted yet.' "...
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Isn’t Highland Park one of the towns that has turned off all of their street lights?
Democrat run administrations are based on the concept of foolish
waste
Corruption breeds corruption and leads to stupid crap like this.
This happens time and again when Leftists, full of noble intentions, want to save The Poor by changing their environment. Insanity is trying the same stupid thing over and over expecting a different outcome. It never works.
Big Government is a Big Flop, but taxpayers are robbed of their money and the fat cat bureaucrats are never fired for their failures.
The world is full of idiots and 50% of them run Detroit!
Scamming a housing project?
“Anyone who doesn’t take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.” Albert Einstein
The residents would have demolished them anyway.
This is an excellent example of how bureaucrats are totally disconnected from the real world.
House demolition, SWAT raids, whatever.
“An address is just a line on a government form. One is no different from another.”
As a famous bureaucrat once said, “What difference does it make?”
Disgusting!
Meanwhile....
Carlita Kilpatrick loses job, leaves Texas mansion
http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20130723/METRO01/307230111/1410/METRO01
Ever heard of urban homesteading?
Model neighborhood in Highland Park? It’s worse than most of Detroit.
Photo#5 seems to be the newer project building ... Why would ANYONE buy a $150k property that is basically in the middle of “Fort Apache” , much better off to commute or buy a $1 property and live in it until it’s taken for back taxes ..
"The project was supposed to transform a derelict section of Highland Park into a model neighborhood," reported Detroit TV station WXYZ. But a lot of the homes built just eight years ago are now abandoned, stripped, burned and now being demolished by the state as a part of its "Michigan Blight Elimination Program."
If all current residents of Detroit were offered free homes in New Orleans or Chicago... And Detroit homes were sold to Chinese, Japanese, Hispanic, White, French, Canadians or Jews, etc..) - the city would be saved. The American black underclass culture destroys cities...
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