Great idea! (sarc) St. Louis could be renamed Trailer Park City.
Posted on 06/06/2018 10:30:04 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Street after street, neighborhood after neighborhood, we toured St. Louis over a quarter of a century ago, stunned by how many vacant lots and abandoned homes there are. It confirmed what we had researched: by the early 1990s, over 17,000 of these lots in St. Louis alone, and the numbers were growing. It was like cancer throughout the city, lowering surrounding property values and drawing crime like a magnet. Very few new homes were being built, not because there was a lack of demand, but trying to site-build homes on these lots was simply not practical.
What you built during the day was stolen during the night. The facts were that the economics couldn't withstand full-time security. Total new homes built in St. Louis that year: a dismal 27.
We believed we had the solution. It was a pretty radical solution that would overcome the many problems of site-building; provide not only affordable houses, but truly attractive homes; and create a new industry in St. Louis with new jobs for the inner city and a training ground for high-skilled, high-paying jobs. We were truly excited.
The solution is manufactured housing but with a new twist: build these homes in a plant located right in St Louis. Beautiful Victorian homes or any style or size that the buyer wants that can be set up in 48 hours, with only finish work still required. A new St. Louis could arise overnight.
St. Louis is a strong union town, so our first stop was to make a presentation to all the trade unions. Unions have always been strongly opposed to manufactured housing, since the homes are made in rural areas with non-union labor. The unions understood our plan and how it would benefit them and the city.
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I think this fails to address the underlying problem.
Or we could go back to ordering prefab homes from Sears and save them too.
Great idea! (sarc) St. Louis could be renamed Trailer Park City.
the central planners ... what DON’T they know?
Trump needs to come to Chicago. Trump was somewhat intimidated and chased out of Chicago during the campaign, thanks in large measure to Robert “Creamy Bob” Creamer and Chicago’s thugocracy. I think Trump could go a long way to embarass the crap our of Rahm by coming to Chicago. But then again, according to Chuck U Schumer, Trump could be in danger if he crosses the Deep State.
MEMO TO: NFL millionaire Marxists, NBA millionaire Marxists.
Stop your empty virtue singling and cultural marxist bullish*t.
Man up, move into the inner cities you live in where the crime is you claim is the fault of the police. Patrol the streets at 3 a.m. and bring civility back.
IF you got the guts!
But they don’t. They virtue signal their hate and cultural marxism, then drive home to their gated communities in their 1/2 million dollar sports cars after the game is over.
*to live in
>> What you built during the day was stolen during the night.
>> Beautiful Victorian homes or any style or size that the buyer wants that can be set up in 48 hours,
I fail to see how the second statement solves the problem of the first.
The only way.
“My daughter , son in law and grandson live in a Sears house.
1200 sq ft bungalow style, circa 1913. Still in good shape along with around 20 or so others sprinkled throughout her locale.”
They weren’t built by today’s unions.
Well, there are two underlying problems but I’ll grant you they are related. One reason there are so many abandoned buildings (primarily in the northern half of town) is the population has dropped dramatically in the last 60 years—from over 800,000 to less than 400,000. Since most of the housing was brick, they still stand, pretty much, but gutted. Then there is the problem of who is living in the part of town where the abandoned housing is. You know the kind of people who steal any construction materials left about on a job site.
They weren’t built by today’s unions.
My grandfather built his own Sears house while holding down a full time factory job and running his farm. The only thing he contracted out was the electric.
They don't make men like that any more I guess.
Shhh! They’re on a roll!
Nope. FedGov is like a chain smoker; his role in society is to make the whole room stink.
Until the urban zone re-establishes the strong father-mother nuclear family and bases their worldview on God’s word, they can expect no improvement.
It’s not the Federal Government’s role to revamp cities.
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