re: Will Gentrification Ever Happen in Baton Rouge?

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15 years ago most of America was pointing and laughing at Detroit which had become Hell on earth and was lost forever. Slowly they are recovering, and Baton Rouge/New Orleans is descending to that shitty level. So presumably the cycle could come back around, but Louisiana has some of the worst leadership and most troubled populace in the country.

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Detroit was literally ripped away from its elected representatives and placed into the equivalent of corporate receivership during the largest municipal bankruptcy in US history. The city didn't come around and fix itself. A dictator was installed as "emergency mayor." That's what it takes.