> mass improvement in certain small areas has a negative impact

This phrase doesn't make any sense. How can there be mass improvement in small areas? Also, how is this negative? Are you insinuating that improvement to these small areas is negatively affecting other areas? But how so?

I don't want to deal with passengers so I do Door Dash. I make about $20/hr when I drive outside the city. But considering what I pay for gas, it's like $15/hr which is the same as what my job before this paid.

You're right shopping center wise, I was tricked by the language in the article. I stand by my description of the area though.

One of the reasons why the dollar houses in Federal Hill, Ridgely's Delight, Otterbein, and Barre Circle were so successful was because the city had condemned them en masse to build a highway. When the highway didn't materialize, the city had contiguous blocks of vacant houses to sell at the same time. The density and continuity of the vacants was hugely advantageous for building healthy neighborhoods. Individual house-buyers could be confident that every other house on the block was being renovated to a similar standard and that every future neighbor was committed to living in the neighborhood for several years after renovations were finished. A completely renovated block surrounded by completely renovated blocks, all with a high rate of owner-occupancy, is a fantastic way to develop and maintain neighborhood stability.

Today, unfortunately, the city-owned vacants are scattered all over the place. You might see one or two (or several) on a block, but it's basically unheard of for the city to own every house or lot on a block. Large numbers of vacant properties in the city are in private hands - some are owned by speculators, others by out-of-towners, still others by owners who have died without a known heir. If tomorrow the city listed every vacant property it owns for $1, and somehow made financing available and affordable, you'd be helping on average one or two houses on a block - which, while a good thing, wouldn't be enough to create the completely renovated blocks surrounded by completely renovated blocks with high rates of homeownership throughout that are the markers of a healthy neighborhood.

To bring back the dollar house program and make it as successful as it was in the '70s, the city would need to figure out how to condemn entire neighborhoods at once while navigating a whole host of thorny, expensive problems that will make a lot of people very angry. I just don't see how that happens today.

I didn’t give any suggestions, because OP wasn’t asking for them and didn’t want them. I respect people.

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needs more squeegee boys.

Love the question!

I know vacants cost average $20-30K each to knock down. Pricey for 15,000 vacants.

Another issue I’d add is the city needs enough buyers that 1) have access to $50-100K for repairs, and 2) think the neighborhoods the houses for sale are in are cool.

They won’t do anything without the slumlords approval.

Wtf? Am I supposed to give multiple suggestions? Did you? Others already gave suggestions.

You're disingenuous. Your only complaint is financially illiterate and all this fucking time you still haven't answered the question.

>butt the fuck out

No.

>because you’re not helpful

That's your opinion.

Sell the fucking car. Or keep it. I don't give a shit. Adding unnecessary miles, wear n tear on a new vehicle so you can pay bills is fiscally irresponsible.

If you can get it. A tower one block over from me but I can't sign up for it which is mildly infuriating.

You’re definitely being judgmental. You’re so stuck on this one possible thing that OP “should” do that you refuse to entertain that it may not be an option for them. Find another suggestion or butt the fuck out, because you’re not helpful, just a dick.

OT doesn’t count for pensions.

Eh, that shopping center has a chick fil a with a drive thru that takes up a ton of space. It's not really "in" Canton so much as adjacent in a former industrial area. Still think drive thrus are a waste of gas/space and we shouldn't be building them though.

Honestly what surprised me is the idea that shake shack is fast enough for a driver through. Don't think I've ever gotten my food in less that 15 minutes in any one of their restaurants.

This isn't AITA. I didn't give judgement.

If it makes financial sense to take a depreciating asset, add unnecessary wear and tear so that it's worth considerably less plus the added costs, if that makes sense to you. I don't know what to say.

Is what it is I guess.

There's other options instead of that. It's holiday season, op can pick up jobs at any retail shop.

They can get with UPS, FED EX, or any of these hundreds of delivery ops with contracts with Amazon.

I find it interesting that your hangup is , "financially illiterate" like I cursed OP lineage or something. Most ppl are not financially literate.

A car is a liability that's generally easy to get rid of. He should sell the car, get what he can and get a older Honda.

You also have to factor in that they aren't paying any taxes either. Imagine how much more you would be bringing home if you didn't have taxes taken out of your check each pay period.

Then imagine having that money and not having to pay rent, not having to pay for food and not having to pay for medical care either or and no car insurance.

So it doesn't take a rocket scientist to understand WHY they do it.

The problem is that the fact that it's ALLOWED in the first place.

Someone has to be benefiting by pandering to these folks and until that person is properly addressed the status quo will absolutely continue.

Or use the car to keep yourself above water financially while you look for another job. Beaters are notoriously unreliable, and cost a ton in maintenance. That’s not a smart option, either. Just because you would do something differently doesn’t make this person financially illiterate. Nobody asked for your judgement.

u/rob-cubed Seconding CA! And if they don't have something, try talking to the owner Sylva. She usually has a supplier hookup for like, basically any food item in existence.

Yes it does. Shit happens. In this case, sell the car.

Yes. R u

He bought the car last year. He lost the job this year. Shit happens.

R u ok

Right.

Ok.

Thank you for answering the question.

Shitty leadership.

There you go, being a dick again.

Edit: before you come at me in a dickish way again, please check out the third definition.