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re: Can we please start the gentrification of North BR?
Posted on 9/5/17 at 10:47 am to BTT15
Posted on 9/5/17 at 10:47 am to BTT15
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Sweet, you have grades 9-12 covered for the new and affluent NBR residents, but what are you suggesting they do for PreK-8?? I'll hang up and wait for your response...JS
Our Lady of Mercy?
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Posted on 9/5/17 at 10:50 am to biglego
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STOP BUILDING BRAND NEW APARTMENTS EVERYWHERE
They can do this because Section 8 creates a virtual price floor for the market, ensuring that any vacancies can be filled with steady federal money.
Federally backed, nearly limitless and restrictionless student loans enable students to spend spend spend on apartment housing. The flood displaced thousands of citizens for the suburbs. Tigerland is considered dangerous. Put that all together and you get an apartment building boom.
Posted on 9/5/17 at 10:52 am to kingbob
You're exactly correct. And no politicians say a word about it. Section 8 will never go away.
Posted on 9/5/17 at 10:53 am to LadyTigress
Ok, I can admit that I overlooked Scared Heart and OLOM. What do the families that are not Catholic do for school? Pretty sure it is damn near impossible to get into OLOM if you are not a parishioner of Mercy and/or Catholic; not so sure about SH, but I be it is safe to assume it is not easy to get in if you are not a Catholic. Besides those schools, what other private options are there north of Florida Blvd.? So far, 2 x K-8 schools have been given, and 3 x 9-12 schools that also service students that live south of Florida Blvd.
Posted on 9/5/17 at 10:56 am to BTT15
You don't have to be catholic to get your kids into a catholic school. Also, Mercy is expanding their school, so they can meet the demand for slots. If you don't want to go to the catholic system, there's always the magnet system lottery. Scotlandville Magnet and Baton Rouge High are HS options and Westdale Heights Magnet is your nearest K-8. There's also the Charter system.
This post was edited on 9/5/17 at 10:59 am
Posted on 9/5/17 at 10:57 am to kingbob
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You don't have to be catholic to get your kids into a catholic school. Also, Mercy is expanding their school, so they can meet the demand for slots.
Sure, believe what you want. 2-3% of any of those schools are kids that are not Catholic, so you are sort of correct in your statement.
Posted on 9/5/17 at 10:59 am to BTT15
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Sure, believe what you want. 2-3% of any of those schools are kids that are not Catholic, so you are sort of correct in your statement.
Significantly more than 2-3% of Mercy's student population is non-Catholic.
Posted on 9/5/17 at 11:04 am to Golfer
I went to catholic school most of my childhood. Many kids weren't catholic and few kids were devout in any case. In elementary we had daily religion class and weekly mass. In high school it was monthly mass and religion class I think fresh and soph years only. It's not much for a non-catholic to endure.
Posted on 9/5/17 at 11:09 am to fr33manator
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What does North Baton Rouge have that would draw anyone who would gentrify it though?
Lower property values, better road layouts, land less likely to flood, easier access to plants (for workers), less traffic.
The problem with the area trying to gentrify is mainly housing due to a frickton of property owners in the area like their guaranteed Section 8 checks every month (hello, Elysian) and you have some housing authority developments that aren't going to just up and move.
Without some drastic infrastructure improvements though we'll probably see expansion east along 12 and south on 10 reach a breaking point within the next 10-20 years, at this point it wouldn't be outside the realm of possibility to see gentrification start up (especially if it was being supported by the Mayor's office, which damned sure isn't happening with the current administration).
Posted on 9/5/17 at 11:36 am to Roaad
Not going to happen actually the reverse is happening in SE Baton Rouge now. Tiger Bend has a bunch of single street section 8 neighborhoods popping up.
Posted on 9/5/17 at 11:53 am to Bard
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easier access to plants (
Probably not a compelling incentive for gentrifiers who are usually younger and gayer.
Posted on 9/5/17 at 1:44 pm to Roaad
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Can we please start the gentrification of North BR?
I think one viable option would be for some legit national brand to come in and buy out Cortana - like Ikea, or some company that needs a lot of space - and then other smaller companies would maybe come to the surrounding commercial spaces, causing the area as a whole to revitalize. Residential would slowly follow suit if that were to happen. Bit of a long shot, I know.
Posted on 9/5/17 at 2:11 pm to Roaad
dont start this talk unless you got an ORGANIC alternative
Bulldze all of North BR and build a giant crawfish pond and supply the nation with organics LA crawifhsh. its a win win!
Bulldze all of North BR and build a giant crawfish pond and supply the nation with organics LA crawifhsh. its a win win!
Posted on 9/5/17 at 2:14 pm to LadyTigress
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I think one viable option would be for some legit national brand to come in and buy out Cortana - like Ikea, or some company that needs a lot of space - and then other smaller companies would maybe come to the surrounding commercial spaces, causing the area as a whole to revitalize. Residential would slowly follow suit if that were to happen. Bit of a long shot, I know.
The problem, as usual, is that these people want their area of town to be as nice as Bocage, but don't want their property values to increase. These anti-gentrification movements are run and supported by people who don't understand the very basics of economics.
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