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New homes in EBR Zion City Introduced to the Community
Posted on 7/5/17 at 3:21 pm
Posted on 7/5/17 at 3:21 pm
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Nineteen new brick, two-story homes unveiled Wednesday in north Baton Rouge's Zion City neighborhood have given community leaders hope that similar developments will sprout in other neighborhoods where blight has crept in and where mixed-income housing is needed.
Local political leaders were all smiles as they toured the homes Wednesday, and applauded developer Brian LaFleur's long road toward building them.
Several years ago, instead of manicured lawns and shiny windows, the lots in the Fortune Addition subdivision near Glen Oaks Middle School were adjudicated as owners stopped paying property taxes while the houses fell into disrepair.
"It's projects like this that have the real potential to change the trajectory of a neighborhood," said Mayor-President Sharon Weston Broome at Wednesday's ribbon-cutting ceremony.
In 2014, LaFleur partnered with the East Baton Rouge Redevelopment Authority to acquire the properties, along with some others in Melrose East. He received a $2 million grant from City Hall's Office of Community Development to develop affordable housing in Fortune Addition, and initially expected to build duplexes for rent.
But LaFleur ran into problems with the lot sizes, which had to be subdivided to make them large enough to build on, and the zoning was also problematic for building duplexes. He and the city-parish's Office of Community Development instead agreed that he would build 19 single family homes for purchase.
LaFleur Industries spent $1.1 million of its own capital to build the three bedroom, three bathroom houses that are listed for between $100,000 and $140,000 depending on the square footage. Five of the houses are market-rate, while the other 14 are affordable housing for families earning 80 percent or less of the median salary in East Baton Rouge.
In case you didnt know where this generally is:
Posted on 7/5/17 at 3:22 pm to tke857
They'll be tagged with graffiti and have a couple of shootings outside in a month
Posted on 7/5/17 at 3:24 pm to tke857
over/under number of days until they have broken windows,graffiti and bullet holes?
Posted on 7/5/17 at 3:25 pm to tke857
This pic just slays me. Nice new homes on one side of the street...ghetto on the other.
Posted on 7/5/17 at 3:25 pm to tke857
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LaFleur Industries spent $1.1 million of its own capital to build the three bedroom, three bathroom houses that are listed for between $100,000 and $140,000 depending on the square footage.
Who would spend a $140k on a house in the hood? You can get a starter home way out in the burbs for that.
This post was edited on 7/5/17 at 3:25 pm
Posted on 7/5/17 at 3:25 pm to tke857
Why would someone buy a market rate house knowing you would be neighbors with 14 others who are not?
Edit: they're in the ghetto? No thanks.
Edit: they're in the ghetto? No thanks.
This post was edited on 7/5/17 at 3:48 pm
Posted on 7/5/17 at 3:26 pm to tke857
That's the hood. This will go well.
Posted on 7/5/17 at 3:26 pm to tke857
The BEFORE pics look great. Give it 5 years.
Posted on 7/5/17 at 3:27 pm to tke857
A local slum-lord will buy them and start collecting a check from his section 8 tenant all while never fixing the inevitable problems that will arise from cheaply made houses.
Posted on 7/5/17 at 3:27 pm to tke857
Okay
What's the issue here?
Do we not want to better our communities?
What's the issue here?
Do we not want to better our communities?
Posted on 7/5/17 at 3:27 pm to tke857
Dude, the Right Reverend Lurch in that first picture is huge.
Posted on 7/5/17 at 3:28 pm to tke857
quote:Several years later, this is how it'll be again.
Several years ago, instead of manicured lawns and shiny windows, the lots in the Fortune Addition subdivision near Glen Oaks Middle School were adjudicated as owners stopped paying property taxes while the houses fell into disrepair.
But they'll keep taxing us to build this bullshite. Yay! I love propping up people who can't hold their own.
Posted on 7/5/17 at 3:36 pm to tke857
Those will be completely destroyed by Friday
Posted on 7/5/17 at 3:36 pm to tke857
Look like apartment buildings that someone had a last minute idea to make into single family dwellings.
Oh, and isn't that a beautiful view they get of the old run down shacks.
Looks like they used Window World for the windows.
The counter space under the stairs that is half cut off by the underneath of the stair case is pretty much useless.
Oh, and isn't that a beautiful view they get of the old run down shacks.
Looks like they used Window World for the windows.
The counter space under the stairs that is half cut off by the underneath of the stair case is pretty much useless.
Posted on 7/5/17 at 3:38 pm to tke857
I'll take the fixxer upper on the left with the sweet dish antenna.
Posted on 7/5/17 at 3:48 pm to tke857
So how does this grant work? Are we to believe $3.1MM went into these 19 homes?
Posted on 7/5/17 at 3:53 pm to tke857
That's not too far from the Cadillac street projects. I did some work on those 4plexes a few years back. Every day the buses would start rolling in bringing the kids back from school, and every day that EBR super would show up while they were rolling in and tell us to leave, because the kids were dangerous.
Posted on 7/5/17 at 4:05 pm to tke857
At least the thugs will be able to trap in comfort now.
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