No I saw the prices...a home for 200K is really good price. They are not assed out, just need to gather people to buy in numbers.
Buying Detroit
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In a way, yes. But if there is a place its still possible its Detroit. We have huge swaths of unoccupied land and even more lots that are taken up by vacant properties. The Detroit Land Bank is tearing down alot of these plots but what happens to them in the future is still up in the air.
Land is the one resource that we can't and won't make any more of. And as far as big cities go on this side of the country, Detroit has a premium of it.
You can find property in NYC for 200k or even less, believe it or not. I just applied for a co-op going for that price in Manhattan. If I was to leave here, I'd be looking for a real steal and something more urban.
I've never lived in a house...too many entry points
I'd like to take something different and build it up.Look what they
did to this bank, copped for 11k a few years ago West Corktown Bank Building Converted into Amazing Home
You can find property in NYC for 200k or even less, believe it or not. I just applied for a co-op going for that price in Manhattan. If I was to leave here, I'd be looking for a real steal and something more urban.
I've never lived in a house...too many entry points
Look what they
you see alot of shyt like that. We even have a container homes village about to go up. Take a peek at condos in cargo containers Friday
But you know what the issue is...Do you know what "West Corktown" is? Its fukking Mexicantown...thats the part those articles don't say...now while im all for people taking over vacant land and making is of some use. I'm NOT for people re-branding areas that already have identity.
I'll be real i dont care....money talks bs walks. There is no such thing as a neighborhood with an identity. Identity transfers in the hand of the residents.
This was was an irish neighborhood before it became a Mexican neighborhood.
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This is the reasoning that lets people gentrify.
People wouldn't romanticize NYC the way they do if it wasn't for the cultural enclaves it created. Same for San Fran, Chicago and basically every other big city. It also takes discourages small business as well. When you have a hood that has an identity people are more encouraged to create business that caters to that clientele. No one likes having to drive 45 mins to get real tamales, or have to go two towns over for some Lamb Kafta. I should, by logic, be able to go to the Latin and Arab areas of the city to do that.
Like with Chicago for instance. Gold Coast is nothing like Hyde Park which is nothing like Wicker Park which is nothing like The Loop which is nothing like Calumet....these are all things that people identify with and it tempers how they live.
You don't have that diversity when you try to rip people's identity from them. This isn't like the 60's and 70's when Irish/Italian/Polish people left the cities in droves. We are talking about the people who CAN'T AFFORD to leave. I'm not against making an area better...but you can't say it doesnt matter. Because it does.
The fact that you can say there is no such thing as a neighborhood with an identity lets me know you aren't ready for what you propose.
This is the reasoning that lets people gentrify.
People wouldn't romanticize NYC the way they do if it wasn't for the cultural enclaves it created. Same for San Fran, Chicago and basically every other big city. It also takes discourages small business as well. When you have a hood that has an identity people are more encouraged to create business that caters to that clientele. No one likes having to drive 45 mins to get real tamales, or have to go two towns over for some Lamb Kafta. I should, by logic, be able to go to the Latin and Arab areas of the city to do that.
Like with Chicago for instance. Gold Coast is nothing like Hyde Park which is nothing like Wicker Park which is nothing like The Loop which is nothing like Calumet....these are all things that people identify with and it tempers how they live.
You don't have that diversity when you try to rip people's identity from them. This isn't like the 60's and 70's when Irish/Italian/Polish people left the cities in droves. We are talking about the people who CAN'T AFFORD to leave. I'm not against making an area better...but you can't say it doesnt matter. Because it does.
The fact that you can say there is no such thing as a neighborhood with an identity lets me know you aren't ready for what you propose.
I should have specified singular identity. What you are saying sounds nice but how do you implement what you suggest.
If you can't implement in a way that makes sense. It is just feel good speech that doesn't trnaslate into action.
This is the reasoning that lets people gentrify.
People wouldn't romanticize NYC the way they do if it wasn't for the cultural enclaves it created. Same for San Fran, Chicago and basically every other big city. It also takes discourages small business as well. When you have a hood that has an identity people are more encouraged to create business that caters to that clientele. No one likes having to drive 45 mins to get real tamales, or have to go two towns over for some Lamb Kafta. I should, by logic, be able to go to the Latin and Arab areas of the city to do that.
Like with Chicago for instance. Gold Coast is nothing like Hyde Park which is nothing like Wicker Park which is nothing like The Loop which is nothing like Calumet....these are all things that people identify with and it tempers how they live.
You don't have that diversity when you try to rip people's identity from them. This isn't like the 60's and 70's when Irish/Italian/Polish people left the cities in droves. We are talking about the people who CAN'T AFFORD to leave. I'm not against making an area better...but you can't say it doesnt matter. Because it does.
The fact that you can say there is no such thing as a neighborhood with an identity lets me know you aren't ready for what you propose.
She's not even American breh
It aint difficult.
You create a neighborhood action board. (headed up by the local alderman/district city council person) New business and new developments should be presented to this board in a very broad manner (as to not confuse those without some of the more technical training). Approval or not MUST come in 30 days or less.
You create mixed-income residency requirements as to not totally ostracize those who are lesser off. Certain areas must be zoned to certain number of business to residential units unless voted on by the aforementioned board.
Naming rights of that neighborhood can ONLY come up for change once every 25 years and MUST be voted on and then submitted to the city.
those are just ideas off the top of my head