He is financially illiterate.

I'm not being a dick cuz I cannot be. As I said, I can be an asshole but I can't be a dick. In any way.

Did I call him dumb or any variation thereof? No.

But maybe I'm wrong. Please anyone explain how someone with a new car and no job who wants to drive uber or lyft makes financial sense. More So then selling or trading it.

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Love it. Must keep.

“Dick” is obviously being used in the colloquial way, you don’t need to double down on said dickishness. If you’re unfamiliar with the colloquial usage, I recommend looking it up instead of being a dick about it. You called them financially illiterate. That’s a dick move, whether you have one as part of your anatomy or not.

I did Taharka Bros last year and it was a hit!

You expect common sense from the Baltimore city government now that is funny

Totally agree. It's a waste of resources. My niece was recently assaulted by them on President St. Squeegee Boys need to go sooner rather than later.

I know some people who won the dollar house lottery and still live in their fixed up houses. One had no roof when they bought it! I've heard some interesting stories about how all that played out; the process wasn't without it's tribulations.

Why can't it be both? That building wouldn't be in Sandtown would it? How about Middle East, Berea? Old town? I don't think so

I will make an exception for TJs if they have it less expensively than other places. Guess I will add it to my county field trip list.

Yep!

The national dollar house program turned into the Urban Homestead program in the 90’s or 00’s. The city can still sell or lease any vacant property they already own for $1, the new owner has to make repairs to being the house up to code. Once the house is up to code after a few years the city officially gives the house to the new owner. The city owns thousands of vacant properties they could sell or lease for $1. The problem is those properties are in blighted neighborhoods where the city won’t spend money on infrastructure, new streets, new pipes and all that.

There was a case recently where a man bought a house to rehab on North Avenue, the city didn’t do any repairs to the streets or the pipes, then the street collapsed and the man lost everything. The city won’t pay for the repairs or the losses. But in other areas like around the UM Technology Corridor, the city invested money to improve the roads and infrastructure.

The difference in level of services makes it hard for individual investors who are not well connected to someone in control in the city. No one wants to invest in a property of the infrastructure is broken.

https://www.wmar2news.com/homepage-showcase/homeowners-forced-to-pay-a-mortgage-for-homes-that-were-torn-down-from-a-sinkhole

This is the answer. Redlining was really the government limiting access to loans and capital in certain areas. The dollar home program showed how a blighted neighborhood could quickly turn around when given access to loans and grants.

Redlining has gone away, but there are still plenty of ways we are keeping capital away from these neighborhoods.

Edit: You might consider reading Not In My Neighborhood for some of the history. You could also read The Color of Law to see how zoning plays a big part.

There is the answer to the question

Proof?

You make a very good point. "People discussing urban issues that lack an urban background". In itself that's not wrong but the problem is that they don't try to ask questions all that happens is the same crap gets spewed over and over and then the county folks come in with their comments from the peanut gallery and it goes on and on.

The good part when you look around enough you are bound to find a nugget of value in the comments where someone says something that actually makes sense.

Cops have been in the area I agree with you completely. Just the same they were not parked on that corner of Conway and Light the way they are now.

I'm over there everyday as part of my work and so I see it clear as day.

Costs and time and effort to rehabilitate homes that are not wanted or needed.

Old pipes and foundations have to be redone and that's immensely expensive. Not to mention the demolition.

Yes, and I totally disagree with that approach. Once someone died I figured that was going to be a wrap for that activity but NO!

Someone dies and instead of it getting shut down you try to negotiate with these folks as it they are in any position to make demands? I thought these were children?

Children don't need to be ripping and running the streets. They need to be with with their parents. If their parents aren't giving them the proper care for whatever reason then they need case workers to check on them and get them the proper resources to try to address those issues.

But to say to them "Oh you want to wash windows and harass people in the process because you don't want a real job? That's ok, we'll just give you money to not do that ok?

What kind of message are you sending to the young people when you allow them to call the shots like that?

No. As the adult, you set the rules and if rules aren't followed then consequences are in order. That's the way to dignify people and help people to be elevated, not to just pander to a bunch of folks that are causing a whole lot of drama.

The Dollar house program worked because there was federal guarantees to the lending institutions that they would get their loans paid. Lending institutions generally will not loan you money for a run down building. There were, and may still be some private non profits which will aid you in getting a loan for the property and a 2nd mortgage for renovations. I bought my first house going through Neighborhood Housing. (That was in 1986)

I do not know all the details about Federal Hill. Though I do remember hearing chatter in the White Coffee Pot, (1970s) in SoBo, that at least some of what took place in Fed Hill was some back room deal making and possibly with some developers. The were two factions. One group wanted more to be bulldozed and they had no problem with I-395 gashing its way into the city, nor the FED bank which takes a huge chunk of property. Then there were the true preservationists who want loans for people to make quality repairs and not house flippers gobbling up fed & State funding, while doing shoddy work.

I did not know that! I'm very glad I-95 didn't go through Federal Hill - that would have been awful.

I do suppose there would be a legal cost to seizure even if the owners are utterly absent and have a lien on the property.

My company like many cut pensions about 5 years back. Honestly if I could find a decent company to work for that offered a generous retirement package I would take it

The govt had already purchased the houses due to the planned I95 highway through the area. When that was stopped, all of the empty houses remained so the dollar house plan was created.

Money.