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How much urban blight plays an enormous role in our health
Posted on 7/27/21 at 10:20 am
Posted on 7/27/21 at 10:20 am
Urban Blight and Public Health Study
If Democrat cities would spend more time on demolishing dilapidated buildings, cleaning and maintaining lands, and improving the very visible and psychologically felt conditions of their cities instead of statues and doing absolutely nothing, I am convinced it would go a very long way in actually improving the lives of their citizens, and in creating a much happier and more hopeful environment for everyone to live in.
I’ve long said every time I go into North Baton Rouge for business how awful and hopeless i feel when I get there. It literally puts you in a very depressed state of mind. I cannot imagine actually spending 2/3rd or greater of my life in those conditions. I come away with the overwhelming realization of why violence, hatred, drugs, hopelessness, and all forms of horrible human conditions remain so fixed in places like it and NOLA. If we lived in that squaller, we would be no different. People who claim to love their cities and allow this to remain the standard do not care one bit for their cities or the people therein, or they would ACT, and yet they do nothing.
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We spend more than 2/3rds of our time where we live; thus, housing and neighborhood conditions invariably affect our individual and family’s well-being. The health impacts from blighted properties—substandard housing, abandoned buildings, and vacant lots—are often not immediately visible or felt. This report—Urban Blight and Public Health—synthesizes recent studies on the complexities of how blight affects the health of individuals and neighborhoods while offering a blend of policy and program recommendations to help guide communities in taking a more holistic and coordinated approach, such as expanding the use of health impact assessments, tracking health outcomes, and infusing public health into housing policies, codes and practices.
If Democrat cities would spend more time on demolishing dilapidated buildings, cleaning and maintaining lands, and improving the very visible and psychologically felt conditions of their cities instead of statues and doing absolutely nothing, I am convinced it would go a very long way in actually improving the lives of their citizens, and in creating a much happier and more hopeful environment for everyone to live in.
I’ve long said every time I go into North Baton Rouge for business how awful and hopeless i feel when I get there. It literally puts you in a very depressed state of mind. I cannot imagine actually spending 2/3rd or greater of my life in those conditions. I come away with the overwhelming realization of why violence, hatred, drugs, hopelessness, and all forms of horrible human conditions remain so fixed in places like it and NOLA. If we lived in that squaller, we would be no different. People who claim to love their cities and allow this to remain the standard do not care one bit for their cities or the people therein, or they would ACT, and yet they do nothing.
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Posted on 7/27/21 at 10:21 am to Mike da Tigah
Posted on 7/27/21 at 10:22 am to Mike da Tigah
Broken window theory...is real, IMO
Posted on 7/27/21 at 10:22 am to Mike da Tigah
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If Democrat cities would spend more time on demolishing dilapidated buildings, cleaning and maintaining lands, and improving the very visible and psychologically felt conditions
Why bother when the residents don't give a frick and will just trash it again?
They'll vote democrat no matter what, and that's really all that matters.
This post was edited on 7/27/21 at 10:23 am
Posted on 7/27/21 at 10:23 am to Centinel
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Why bother when the residents don't give a frick and will just trash it again?
Cause and effect. They feed upon each other.
Posted on 7/27/21 at 10:23 am to Mike da Tigah
I've long thought that requiring businesses or investors or somebody to post a demolition bond was a really good idea. It's probably not even that expensive, relative to several other compliance requirements we put on these people.
Posted on 7/27/21 at 10:24 am to Mike da Tigah
They are the cause, and blight is the effect.
Fix the blight, and the cause will have the same effect.
Fix the blight, and the cause will have the same effect.
Posted on 7/27/21 at 10:26 am to Mike da Tigah
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If Democrat cities would spend more time on demolishing dilapidated buildings, cleaning and maintaining lands,
You gentrifier
Posted on 7/27/21 at 10:28 am to Centinel
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They are the cause, and blight is the effect.
Fix the blight, and the cause will have the same effect.
I hear ya, but it’s like when you have a messy kid who always has a messy room. The answer isn’t to just shut his door to no expose the rest of the family and house guests to his mess, but require the kid to clean his room, thus correcting said behavior and creating a better environment for everyone in the house, including messy kid.
Posted on 7/27/21 at 10:29 am to Centinel
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They are the cause, and blight is the effect.
Fix the blight, and the cause will have the same effect.
It's a vicious cycle.
Drug dealers aren't comfortable hanging out on a well-lit, well maintained corner. So if you clean up a certain corner they'll move somewhere else.
Posted on 7/27/21 at 10:31 am to Mike da Tigah
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or they would ACT, and yet they do nothing.
The old adage, “you can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink.” Those people in NBR don’t want help. It takes effort to get ones self out of the perpetual poverty, violence, and squalor. It’s a way of life they choose to live, hence why the homicide rate has always been right around 50-70 every year, and now it’s blowing those numbers away (no pun intended).
Posted on 7/27/21 at 10:32 am to Mike da Tigah
Gentrification is bad mkay
Posted on 7/27/21 at 10:34 am to Breauxsif
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Those people in NBR don’t want help
Collectively, no. Individually, they all do. Let’s be honest here.
Posted on 7/27/21 at 10:34 am to USMEagles
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I've long thought that requiring businesses or investors or somebody to post a demolition bond was a really good idea. It's probably not even that expensive, relative to several other compliance requirements we put on these people.
Another good idea is to incentivize new businesses to remodel/renovate existing buildings. Instead of them building a new building on an undeveloped piece of property right beside another defunct business, they could move into the existing building. It wouldn't be the best solution for everything, but a Hobby Lobby near me just did this with an old Kmart building. Of course, their old building is now sitting empty.
Posted on 7/27/21 at 10:34 am to Mike da Tigah
Again, blame the blight instead of the reason for the blight.
Posted on 7/27/21 at 10:36 am to Mike da Tigah
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but require the kid to clean his room
But that's not what they're talking about. They're talking about coming in an cleaning the kid's room for him without forcing him to learn to clean his room.
He'll just mess his room up again, because that's all he knows.
No one wants to actually tackle the problem of forcing the kid to learn to keep his room clean, because that would be racist.
Posted on 7/27/21 at 10:37 am to Bestbank Tiger
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Drug dealers aren't comfortable hanging out on a well-lit, well maintained corner. So if you clean up a certain corner they'll move somewhere else.
Not when they know the corner will be trashed again with a quickness.
Posted on 7/27/21 at 10:37 am to High C
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Again, blame the blight instead of the reason for the blight.
We all know where the blame is, but that does nothing to actually fix a problem that’s not getting better, but growing as it is trying to escape it’s own conditions.
Posted on 7/27/21 at 10:38 am to Mike da Tigah
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but that does nothing to actually fix a problem that’s not getting better
Neither does "cleaning up blight" when the blight will just come right back.
Posted on 7/27/21 at 10:39 am to Centinel
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Neither does "cleaning up blight" when the blight will just come right back.
Well then, enjoy the blight coming into your neck of the woods. You can’t run from it. It just follows.
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