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re: Historically black neighborhoods in lafayette fear gentrification pushing them out.
Posted on 4/30/21 at 11:16 am to The Boat
Posted on 4/30/21 at 11:16 am to The Boat
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Heaven forbid someone attempts to invest back into the trash heap that's Evangeline thrw and north lafayette.
Need to invest in it by plowing it down with 8 lanes of Interstate 49 through there.
So 50 years later some wacked "progressives" can say you have to tear THAT down because it destroyed a culturally vibrant African American neighborhood economic corridor.
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Posted on 4/30/21 at 11:37 am to A Smoke Break
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The fear is if the properties in these neighborhoods are bought the long-standing history and culture will be lost.
I see. So again, the goose and gander play under different rules.
Posted on 4/30/21 at 11:38 am to A Smoke Break
Why is not letting areas fall apart and look like shite a bad thing?
Everything has to be updated at some point.
Gentrification is such a BS excuse
Everything has to be updated at some point.
Gentrification is such a BS excuse
Posted on 4/30/21 at 11:38 am to Tiger Prawn
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Use proceeds from selling their house
Many don't own their homes. So they weren't really invested in real estate in those neighborhoods to begin with.
This post was edited on 4/30/21 at 11:39 am
Posted on 4/30/21 at 11:41 am to Fat and Happy
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Gentrification is such a BS excuse
An excuse to be racist
We mix until we don’t want to mix, and then it’s your fault for wanting to mix in areas we don’t want to mix in.
Posted on 4/30/21 at 11:43 am to jmcwhrter
That’s the light at the Throughway and Johnston/Louisiana. Yep I see that fella daily, he just sits there knocking down tall boys and mean mugging everyone that has to stop at the light in front of his house. All. Day. Long.
Posted on 4/30/21 at 11:46 am to A Smoke Break
Cut your grass. Paint your house. Remove the trash and burnt out vehicles. It has the added bonus of raising property values, which will make you richer and keep you from being bought out by developers.
Or let it go to rot until someone buys it all and plows it to the ground to make room for a strip mall.
Or let it go to rot until someone buys it all and plows it to the ground to make room for a strip mall.
Posted on 4/30/21 at 11:46 am to Seuqnoc
Why would anyone have a problem with this?
Posted on 4/30/21 at 11:50 am to A Smoke Break
I wish someone would gentrify the ghetto rent house that I pass every day on my way home.
shite is all over the yard. The house has broken windows and damage.
Trash time? They heap all the trash in a huge pile in the back yard and burn it once a month. The plastic burn smell is awful. No one does anything because the landlord is politically connected.
shite is all over the yard. The house has broken windows and damage.
Trash time? They heap all the trash in a huge pile in the back yard and burn it once a month. The plastic burn smell is awful. No one does anything because the landlord is politically connected.
Posted on 4/30/21 at 11:56 am to A Smoke Break
Phark these people . Just run I-49 down west of Laffy by Cankton,west of Scott,down to Maurice and tie back into old US 90 just north of New Iberia. Fork evangeline thrwy. Let them keep their culture of shacks and 40 oz. My proposed route will bring in NEW development and business options. Plus it could be built on ground,not elevated. Elevated kills any chance of new development and makes it more expensive to widen the highway in the Future. Phark these people.
Posted on 4/30/21 at 12:00 pm to A Smoke Break
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unpaid taxes, liens, need for repairs and foreclosure are all reasons people are losing their homes
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people in my district that are losing homes that have been in their families for generations for factors that are sometimes beyond their control,
Posted on 4/30/21 at 12:01 pm to A Smoke Break
People buying property from other people isn't "pushing them out.".
They're basically asking for housing discrimination in "their" neighborhoods.
They're basically asking for housing discrimination in "their" neighborhoods.
Posted on 4/30/21 at 12:02 pm to A Smoke Break
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Heaven forbid someone attempts to invest back into the trash heap that's Evangeline thrw and north lafayette.
The residents and those with stakes there bitch, moan, and complain about nobody spending money in "North Lafayette" no longer the "northside" (its racist now). They really want only people to open businesses there, so they get the tax dollars. But they don't want to do anything about the crime, and lack of respect people have for property. They let their shite look like shite, and say it's racist to suggest blacks clean up their neighborhoods, and act against crime. So when nobody spends money there, or moves away, it's racist. But when people buy up land for sale and redevelope it, and white people move in, it's also racist. frick the Northside. Just move to the rural areas of Carencro
Posted on 4/30/21 at 12:07 pm to A Smoke Break
I have a friend who is as reasonable as any liberal I’ve ever met and we had a conversation about gentrification and it blew my mind how she just didn’t understand the basics of how economics works.
She lives in Brooklyn and she mentioned that there were people living in Harlem when it was a shite hole and now that it’s gentrified there are so many nice amenities in that area. Her point was that business owners should have built the nice stuff in that area for the poor people who live there, not waited for rich hipsters to show up before building the stuff.
I just kind looked at her when she finished speaking. I was floored. Eventually I explained that there were 2 major flaws in her idealistic world view:
1) if developers did build the nice amenities first while the poor people still lived there, the property values in the area would have gone up just the same and those people would still be displaced by higher cost of living.
2) developers don’t build nice things in shitty areas because the people who live there can’t afford to support the businesses that they would bring to the area. Not to mention dealing with crime and what not.
Even after my economics lesson, she still didn’t agree that gentrification was unavoidable if you want to make a slum into a nice area. I just dropped the subject cuz she obviously couldn’t see past her idealistic viewpoint to touch base with reality.
She lives in Brooklyn and she mentioned that there were people living in Harlem when it was a shite hole and now that it’s gentrified there are so many nice amenities in that area. Her point was that business owners should have built the nice stuff in that area for the poor people who live there, not waited for rich hipsters to show up before building the stuff.
I just kind looked at her when she finished speaking. I was floored. Eventually I explained that there were 2 major flaws in her idealistic world view:
1) if developers did build the nice amenities first while the poor people still lived there, the property values in the area would have gone up just the same and those people would still be displaced by higher cost of living.
2) developers don’t build nice things in shitty areas because the people who live there can’t afford to support the businesses that they would bring to the area. Not to mention dealing with crime and what not.
Even after my economics lesson, she still didn’t agree that gentrification was unavoidable if you want to make a slum into a nice area. I just dropped the subject cuz she obviously couldn’t see past her idealistic viewpoint to touch base with reality.
This post was edited on 4/30/21 at 12:10 pm
Posted on 4/30/21 at 12:12 pm to jimbeam
Buddy if you really think I'm that dumb than I'm not sure what to tell you. I don't know if you generally spend a lot of time with people that are retarded or what.
Posted on 4/30/21 at 12:12 pm to TheFritz
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Fair enough to look at the Black community and say "What culture?" But never forget that culture actually exists. Do you not think Europe has culture? They have buildings up today that were first created in the 1300s. If you don't think people trying to make a quick buck here in the US rather than thinking about the long term has a negative effect on the overall quality of life of the average American than you are wrong.
What the hell is this?
Posted on 4/30/21 at 12:29 pm to jchamil
I volunteered at a charity org in a large US city for a few years. The types of projects were mostly worthwhile. We'd clean up playgrounds, install new equipment, including basketball goals, the like.
You can see where this is going.
Nothing like spending a day trimming bushes that the locals won't do themselves.
Picking up trash by the truckload, that the locals won't do themselves.
Scrubbing and painting over graffiti, only to have it back WITHIN THE WEEK.
Installing new, heavy duty basketball goals to have them broken within the week.
It's just ridiculous that a group of people can be so loud about being treated poorly, yet piss away every gift they've been given.
Free education. Can't be bothered, it's the school's fault.
Free housing. Complain that it's not nice enough.
Nowhere to get fresh food nearby, all the stores have closed due to shoplifting and safety concerns. Racist owners.
Parks aren't safe. Won't do anything about it themselves.
Free food delivered by charities. Complain about the brands in the donation (yes).
Free Christmas shopping. (aka Empty Stocking Fund) Complain about the brands.
There really is no satisfying some people. Give them the world, and they expect the universe.
You can see where this is going.
Nothing like spending a day trimming bushes that the locals won't do themselves.
Picking up trash by the truckload, that the locals won't do themselves.
Scrubbing and painting over graffiti, only to have it back WITHIN THE WEEK.
Installing new, heavy duty basketball goals to have them broken within the week.
It's just ridiculous that a group of people can be so loud about being treated poorly, yet piss away every gift they've been given.
Free education. Can't be bothered, it's the school's fault.
Free housing. Complain that it's not nice enough.
Nowhere to get fresh food nearby, all the stores have closed due to shoplifting and safety concerns. Racist owners.
Parks aren't safe. Won't do anything about it themselves.
Free food delivered by charities. Complain about the brands in the donation (yes).
Free Christmas shopping. (aka Empty Stocking Fund) Complain about the brands.
There really is no satisfying some people. Give them the world, and they expect the universe.
Posted on 4/30/21 at 12:42 pm to Bert Macklin FBI
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friend
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liberal
Posted on 4/30/21 at 1:38 pm to A Smoke Break
quote:And why do you think this occurred?
the trash heap that's Evangeline thrw and north lafayette.
I'll hang up and listen.
Posted on 4/30/21 at 2:01 pm to madddoggydawg
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And why do you think this occurred?
I'll hang up and listen.
Acadiana mall on the southside.
Further expansion on ambassador and the south end of johnston.
Pinhook blowing up heading towards youngsville and broussard.
Since all the professional jobs originated from the oil center outwards, flow of local economy followed suit.
People wanted to build newer homes in Scott/Carencro/Broussard/Youngsville because duh.
Those 4 towns now have their own strong local economies for young professionals.
I-49 serves those towns moreso than the northside
This post was edited on 4/30/21 at 2:01 pm
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