Black on White Violence Is Accelerating in America

capemaycountyherald.com ^ | 10 Nov 2014 | By Barbara Beitel

[Osage Orange]

I'd guess no one here much cares what you think.......

Just saying.............

[Osage Orange]

Whites still have choices to, sister............

[Osage Orange]

But respect for private property rights also means the guy across the street can sublet to 16 Mexican day laborers who want to bunk up in your neighborhood to be close to the construction job down the road.

Really? I think most cities...even here where I live,,have ordinances against 16-18 people living in one house.

Nice post....but wrong headed.

[Osage Orange]

Integration has not failed. It is the un-integrated left behind population that constitutes the problem.

You are saying it's whose fault here?

[SWAMPSNIPER]

[sphinx]

The question is, how can poor people move out of terrible neighborhoods to better ones, with better schools, and closer to jobs? Local circumstances vary, but in many places local zoning and occupancy rules prevent prevent families from doubling and tripling up, and block the constuction of lower income rental properties in affluent areas. (Gotta keep those property values up ....)

I live in the city and cheer whenever a big housing project is torn down. We have lost a number of them on Capitol Hill over the past 20 years, and the area improves with each one that disappears. But as the projects close, where are the people supposed to go? I have posed that question more than once on this board, and the overwhelming response I get is ... immediate NIMBYism from the suburbanites, followed by ... silence, on the question of just where, when we shut down the project, people should actually move.

I am not in favor of a big federal sledgehammer. I would much prefer to work through voluntary accommodations and adjustments of incentives at the local level, recognizing that communities are different and that one size doesn't fit all. But one consistent planning objective should be to break up very large concentrations of the poor; the culture of poverty cannot be addressed if we continue to concentrate the poor in areas where dysfunction is normalized. Another basic objective should be to encourage affordable housing in reasonably close proximity to job centers.

I suppose, just to round out the discussion, we can also consider the option of bringing jobs to poor neighborhoods. The track record on this is mixed. There have been some notable failures, but also some successes. Here in DC, for example, the old St. Elizabeth's campus in Anacostia is being converted into a consolidated headquarters for Homeland Security. The St. Elizabeth's site is a spectacular piece of real estate that has been begging for a major anchor tenant for many years, and it is finally happening. This will bring thousands of high paying jobs into an interesting, and challenged, area. (Anacostia has a number of quite nice enclaves, some near St. E's; it is not the complete disaster area out-of-towners assume.) This part of town, in 20 years, will be transformed, and the ancillary development will much enlarge the local jobs base. All to the good.

But the point remains, poor people need to live somewhere, and NIMBY isn't an answer. I keep reading that gentrification, in many cities, is already pushing poverty further out into the suburbs. Suburbanites should perhaps give serious thought to this before the displacement reaches critical mass.

[sphinx]

Really? I think most cities...even here where I live,,have ordinances against 16-18 people living in one house

I was making a hypothetical argument about what would happen under an absolute private property rights dispensation. Get rid of exclusionary zoning, including occupancy rules, and poor families could double and triple up in four bedroom split levels out in cul-de-sac land. And some would. Some of this already happens illegally, of course, but it is discouraged.

If you don't want that to happen, what would you do to allow poor families access to better school districts and greater proximity to job centers? Not all the poor will want to move -- but a lot of them are desperate to get out. A lot of misdirected policy over the past half-century has conspired to keep them fixed in place.

[Tijeras_Slim]

I worked on the St. E’s grounds in the early 90’s. Some beautiful buildings and scenery there, as well as small 5-10 stone Civil War graveyards. Great view too.

The rest of Anacostia, well...

[sphinx]

If you've not visited your old stomping grounds for 20 years, you might enjoy a quick drive through. Even Anacostia is changing. Too close in not too ...

There are some nice areas off Branch Avenue, Alabama Avenue and Ridge Road. Hillcrest is all new. Westover is one of the best kept secrets in DC. Even the old downtown has spruced up considerably.

Yes, it's still patchy and a work in progress, but a big fedjob center at St. E's will make a big difference.

[PLMerite]

That’s all well and good until someone runs by and snatches the purse off her shoulder and gone, gun and all.

[PLMerite]

“Don’t know if the second part is happening.”

It’s called “gentrification.”

[Osage Orange]

I was making a hypothetical argument................

Oh....okay, thanks.

[IrishBrigade]

libs want to disarm whites so they can be shut down and herded by a viscous group

...I can just picture them oozing down the street being herded by a viscous group...ghastly...