"Human Blight": ghastly view of humanity

[NotNow]

JOBSSSS.   Buy in from the residents. And intelligent policing.

[thelakelander]

Btw, this would be a great area to use NSP funds to fix up vacant structures and get people living in them.

[NotNow]

Btw, this would be a great area to use NSP funds to fix up vacant structures and get people living in them.

An absolute necessity if you want to turn the neighborhood around.

[thelakelander]

The talk of more demolition is the scary part. The neighborhood and others like it have already lost half of their building stock.  Most of the vacant lots, are overgrown and look horrible.  There's also a snow ball's chance in hell that something new will be built on them.  All in all, they add to the look of blight, hopelessness, and abandonment.  I'm headed to Detroit for July 4th. This video reminded me of that city's Eastside.

[sheclown]

The talk of more demolition is the scary part. The neighborhood and others like it have already lost half of their building stock.  Most of the vacant lots, are overgrown and look horrible.  There's also a snow ball's chance in hell that something new will be built on them.  All in all, they add to the look of blight, hopelessness, and abandonment.  I'm headed to Detroit for July 4th. This video reminded me of that city's Eastside.

We need to mothball these properties.  They are 50 plus years and not eligible for demolition using federal money but they are eligible for mothballing at a lower cost.

Then the city could issue tax abatement to people who purchase mothballed properties in the urban core and renovate them.

We need to keep our affordable housing in the urban core.

[thelakelander]

I took some pics of a few abandoned houses in the vicinity of 13th & Moncrief this morning.  This is the type of stuff that would be demolished. I'm no structural engineer but all of these look salvageable to me. In Riverside, all of these properties would sell for over six figures. It would be cool to see NSP dollars used to fix properties like this up for affordable/market-rate housing and truly stabilize a struggling and forgotten part of the urban core.











I only went down two streets between 8th and 13th Street. All of these homes are within a 3 blocks of UF Health Jax and Stanton High School. This section of the neighborhood is boxed in by 8th Street, I-95 and the S-Line.  Most of the building stock is still in place, so you get a good feel for what the built density in these neighborhoods used to resemble.  Since a good portion of the housing stock is still occupied, this would seem like an ideal location to invest in better utilizing the empty properties.  Your other option is what COJ did to Sugar Hill, which is about five blocks to the south. There, most of the houses we're torn down.  This is what it looks like today:

[IrvAdams]

^^Thanks for the pictures, they tell such a good story.

Good Lord, these houses would fit in nicely in Springfield or Riverside! Large buildings with generous porches, lots of windows. They look well constructed. It serves no purpose whatsoever to tear them down unless your purpose is to create a particularly ugly nature preserve.

Channel some of the city, state and federal money towards the mothballing and rehab of these dwellings. This area is openly neglected, and it obviously will breed ill will towards the city. Why wage war with one of your own neighborhoods?

[strider]

^^^what he said.  Now ask with millions coming in every year for what, 25 or 30 years, why hasn't this area already been improved?  After all, this is exactly what the funding was supposed to be for - raising up the poorer and neglected neighborhoods.  I do not think the Feds gave us that money to just carry on and even worsen the neglect.