[StBernard] Road Home property buyouts-what happens

Westley Annis westley at da-parish.com
Wed Dec 27 18:53:20 EST 2006


MJ/Jerry:

We have already had low income housing in the parish. Remember all along
St. Bernard Hwy around Kaiser?

Who says it's going to be black females with bastard children that move in?
There may possibly be some developments for the elderly who are on Social
Security and a modest retirement income. Way too early to determine. Not
everyone can live in Corrine Estates, Lexington Place or Jumonville
Plantation.





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This is going to an interesting outcome: **25%*** if exising homes
to be
let out to "low-income" housing. That's going to be an even greater
proportion of pre-Katrina existed housing going to many who could
not afford
homes (renters/those never could afford homes (including many single
minorities with hoards of children, pitbulls, junk cars, aimed at
middle
income neighborhoods whereas the gatehouse and upper echelon may not
have
concern about this--but are sure to have been a deciding factor into
this).
There's "dicussion" about many changes coming to neighborhoods
that's felt
would "turn" in a hurry. If one could remember "white flight" of the
late
50's, early 60's, to the suburbs, they'll be déjà vu as history
repeats.
Demographically, brick by brick is going to be quickly weakened by
economic
stuggles to get a piece of the economic pie. As in the white flight
model of
survival, economic upprisal, lower classes will replace
neightborhoods lot
by lot until the next element usurps/inundates approaches.

Mandating that 25% of all acquired properties are earmarked for
low-incoming
housing could possibly deter the middle class from restarting their
lives in
St. Bernard Parish. Not that there's anything wrong with being poor,
in
exception that everyone hates to be in poverty, learns to
accept/tolerate it
or gets stuck with it after years of bad luck, wrong decisions,
stuck in the
cycle of poverty or wouldn't give a **** about their economic means.

--mj.





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