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-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Baltimore starts tearing down 17,000 abandoned crack homes after decades of social decline
2017-06-06
[Daily Mail] A dilapidated block of homes in Baltimore has been demolished as part of a $94 million project to tear down a chunk of the 17,000 abandoned homes in the neighborhood.

More than 800 crumbling homes have already been razed and this section of Herbert Street in West Baltimore is the latest to be reduced to rubble.

The homes - many of which are riddled with asbestos and lead paint - have come to symbolize the deep social divide in Baltimore.
Roofs have caved in on the abandoned rowhomes, boards are fastened to the doors and window frames and the streets are littered with garbage.
Posted by:Skidmark

#8  If the mayors home is not on the list then they have more work to do.
Posted by: Airandee    2017-06-06 21:48  

#7  It's not the homes it's the lack of culture in the people in them (thanks to benefits).
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2017-06-06 16:49  

#6  Bunch pikers in Ballmore: Detroit to demolish, rehab or board up 25,000 vacant houses
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418   2017-06-06 14:48  

#5  It's a start.
Posted by: Deacon Blues   2017-06-06 12:40  

#4  Binge watch "The Wire" if you wanna see what Charm City has become
Posted by: Frank G   2017-06-06 09:42  

#3  Scroll down to the lament of a fed judge with his job.

I seem to recall the dictate of Federal Judiciary who imposed forced busing on these metro areas. The federal judiciary ignores its culpability in these matters. Social virtue is allowed to trump the consequences of reality in their hands. While all the Lefties decried the 'white flight' they ignored the upper and middle class black flight that real desegregation provide for. How much of the downward spiral for cities like Detroit and Baltimore could be traced to a combination of forced busing, decline in discipline (which further fueled the flight), and the lowering of academic standards (they're racist!) as parents of all colors took to the suburbs and elsewhere? /rhet question.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2017-06-06 09:12  

#2  Detroit 2.0.
Posted by: no mo uro   2017-06-06 05:33  

#1  I wonder what went wrong?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2017-06-06 05:08  

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