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Yes it's sad. But what are the options? Are you saying neighborhoods should never increase in property value? People complain when wealthier residents "invade"
by ChrisNorstrom 13y ago
Yes it's sad. But what are the options? Are you saying neighborhoods should never increase in property value? People complain when wealthier residents "invade" a poor neighborhood and lower the crime rate and raise the property values but no one says anything when poorer residents move into a neighborhood and increase the crime and lower the property value. And there are a LOT of cities like that. In St. Louis alone: South St. Louis, Spanish lake, Bellfontaine, Ferguson, Dellwood, Maryland Heights, Black Jack, Hazelwood have all had this happen to them.
- HarryHirsch 13y agoIs it true that no one says anything when poorer residents move in? In general, suburban America is very good at keeping poverty out, it plays out every time when public transport or affordable housing is suggested to be built somewhere. The next thing that would need to happen is that the police department gets extra funding because the two suburban cops currently there have neither the manpower nor the expertise to deal with the increase in crime. The locals tend to vote against either, and who can blame them? It's the system that's at fault, especially the fact that a substantial amount of taxes is raised and spent locally.