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For Sale: Vacant Lots On Chicago Blocks, Just $1 Each
http://www.npr.org/2014/07/02/325803705/for-sale-vacant-lots-on-chicago-blocks-just-1-each ^
Posted on 07/03/2014 5:52:55 AM PDT by Gunpowder green
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What I don't get is why the city doesn't at least auction these lots off instead of awarding them directly to individuals? True, they wouldn't get more than a few hundred bucks at best, but to confiscate someone's land and award it to someone else for a dollar is Communism.
I also don't understand why, if these lots were overgrown and harboring danger, the neighbors haven't taken it upon themselves to clear them and report crime? Self-reliance seems strangely absent from those communities.
To: Gunpowder green
Set up this puppy on a corner lot...
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posted on
07/03/2014 5:55:33 AM PDT
by
Dallas59
To: Gunpowder green
Get rid of Leftist policies in Chicago and you’ll see those lots worth a whole lot more than a dollar
To: Gunpowder green
The city is getting no tax revenue and they’re on the hook for maintaining the lot, which is beyond their capabilities. Why not allow an established home-owner (and responsible taxpayer) to take that liability off their hands and turn it back into some kind of productive (and eventually taxable) use?
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posted on
07/03/2014 5:57:55 AM PDT
by
kevkrom
(I'm not an unreasonable man... well, actually, I am. But hear me out anyway.)
To: PATRIOT1876
You’ve got to be assuming that in the absence of leftist policies, the current population will disperse. Otherwise, it’s still going to be a mess.
To: kevkrom
I agree, except with the method. An auction would generate fair value, the system they are proposing means the city gets to decide who gets it.
To: Dallas59
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posted on
07/03/2014 6:00:07 AM PDT
by
knarf
(I say things that are true .. I have no proof .. but they're true.)
To: Gunpowder green
The advantage to the city’s method - whether you or I may agree with it - is that the lots are going to an already-established local interest with presumably a history of maintaining the property they already have.
An auction would likely result in absentee ownership.
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posted on
07/03/2014 6:01:47 AM PDT
by
kevkrom
(I'm not an unreasonable man... well, actually, I am. But hear me out anyway.)
To: Gunpowder green
How much taxes is the city going to charge you for those $1 lots?
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posted on
07/03/2014 6:02:32 AM PDT
by
Blood of Tyrants
(Haven't you lost enough freedoms? Support an end to the WOD now.)
To: Gunpowder green
Location, location, location.
See, the problem is these lots are located in Chicago, in a blighted area of Chicago. Where the means to keep the blight off your newly acquired property is against the law.
To: Dallas59
With a concertina wire perimeter that’d be a real nice place.
To: Gunpowder green
Comminism In The Hood!
The man has ALWAYS taken the lead/
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posted on
07/03/2014 6:04:31 AM PDT
by
MeshugeMikey
( "Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill)
To: knarf; Dallas59
youre weird You say that like it's a BAD thing!
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posted on
07/03/2014 6:05:38 AM PDT
by
null and void
(If Bill Clinton was the first black president, why isn't Barack Obama the first woman president?)
To: Gunpowder green
Do they have city water ?
To: Gunpowder green
I also don't understand why, if these lots were overgrown and harboring danger, the neighbors haven't taken it upon themselves to clear them and report crime? Self-reliance seems strangely absent from those communities.
In the case of Detroit it was the city government that has created and intensified the problem and I'm assuming its the same in Chicago. Touch a property and you become responsible for it including all the accumulated back taxes, fees and fines going back years.
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posted on
07/03/2014 6:08:14 AM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Remember the River Raisin.)
To: null and void
heh heh heh
Happy Birthday, Patriot
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posted on
07/03/2014 6:10:39 AM PDT
by
knarf
(I say things that are true .. I have no proof .. but they're true.)
To: cripplecreek
That’s nuts! It’s also a recipe for disaster, as evidenced by Detroit today.
If someone designed policies that would deliberately gut cities and render them useless, they would look remarkably like what we actually have in place.
To: Dallas59
Where is this property? (post #2)
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posted on
07/03/2014 6:18:38 AM PDT
by
The_Media_never_lie
(The media must be defeated any way it can be done.)
To: Gunpowder green
It will happen all across the country as the desperation to fund themselves grows worse.
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posted on
07/03/2014 6:19:45 AM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Remember the River Raisin.)
To: Gunpowder green
Yeah.. buy it for $1, then find yourself enmeshed in that rancid hellhole’s politics for a lifetime.
A quagmire is the easiest thing to enter. Exiting is the problem. No thanks.
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posted on
07/03/2014 6:28:52 AM PDT
by
ScottinVA
(If it doesn't include border security, it isn't "reform." It's called "amnesty.")
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