NAACP president calls for Baltimore city leaders to resign

[NJ2MDdude]

Building modern rowhomes on a large scale will attract young, white, college-educated people. This demographic tends to flock to the city after completing college. I've seen it done on large scale in both Baltimore and Philadelphia. This group is not too concerned about the school system, potholes or city politics in general.

[NJ2MDdude]

A second fireman dies from injuries sustained during last week's vacant rowhome fire.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5f3hEPpINU

[North Beach Person]

Originally Posted by NJ2MDdude

Building modern rowhomes on a large scale will attract young, white, college-educated people. This demographic tends to flock to the city after completing college. I've seen it done on large scale in both Baltimore and Philadelphia. This group is not too concerned about the school system, potholes or city politics in general.

Yeah. Given Baltimore's political culture how well will that go over as a stated goal? You'd be accused of trying to implement Baltimore's version of DC's "The Plan".

[NJ2MDdude]

Originally Posted by North Beach Person

Yeah. Given Baltimore's political culture how well will that go over as a stated goal? You'd be accused of trying to implement Baltimore's version of DC's "The Plan".

DC is a small city where land is in limited supply and so economic development is costy and by neccessity dense. Unfortunately, it means replacing one group of people (poor blacks) with another (educated people). The speed and intensity of the change obviously rubs a lot of local people the wrong way.

In contrast, cities like Baltimore, Philadelphia and Brooklyn have lots of land available for redevelopment. They've got old manufacturing districts with abandoned buildings and rowhomes ready for teardown. My father's old neighborhood in Philadelphia, Northern Liberties, is an example of a former working class "hood" that's gone through intense redevelopment in recent years. Check out the video below.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcNo4UN8XCQ

[North Beach Person]

Originally Posted by NJ2MDdude

DC is a small city where land is in limited supply and so economic development is costy and by neccessity dense. Unfortunately, it means replacing one group of people (poor blacks) with another (educated people). The speed and intensity of the change obviously rubs a lot of local people the wrong way.

In contrast, cities like Baltimore, Philadelphia and Brooklyn have lots of land available for redevelopment. They've got old manufacturing districts with abandoned buildings and rowhomes ready for teardown. My father's old neighborhood in Philadelphia, Northern Liberties, is an example of a former working class "hood" that's gone through intense redevelopment in recent years. Check out the video below.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcNo4UN8XCQ

None of what you mentioned will mean a thing when the politics is arrayed against it.

Now, the movers and shakers know what needs to be done, and they've told the elected officials, but no one from either group will say it out loud.

[bufflove]

Originally Posted by North Beach Person

Yeah. Given Baltimore's political culture how well will that go over as a stated goal? You'd be accused of trying to implement Baltimore's version of DC's "The Plan".

As an outsider, "attract young, white, college-educated people" very much appears to be the goal of "Baltimore's political culture," at least as far as investment priorities. Public money floods into places like Harbor East, Harbor Point, and Baltimore Peninsula while low income black neighborhoods see some token funding to help people move out of them as they're left to rot. Significant redevelopment of dilapidated public housing projects is a financial outlier in favor of minority communities, but that's driven by federal dollars not state or city prioritization. The state and city care about the O's, higher ed institutions, and the white L.