There’s no need to sell off public land “for housing” when we have one city after another looking like abandoned trash heaps. Parts of St Louis look like a war zone. Remove the gangs, rebuild, and you’ll have plenty of housing. Instead, we have pretty much given up on urban life to cater to the ideological fads of a small bunch of very confused people.
17 responses to “Bring Back City Life”
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I have mixed opinions about this. First though I would like to state I do firmly agree with removing the gangs, destroying the ruins and rebuilding the cities. I just don’t think it is exactly possible at the moment.
On the (public land,) the thing about this is that while a lot of land does need to be under a program like this, it was also being used by various presidents as vanity projects. Obama was particularly bad about it. As in to make themselves look good in the media, they designated huge amounts of land as national reserves or public land.
As for the rebuilding of the cities. The main issues your going to run into and the why I don’t think its possible at the moment more or less boil down to who is in control, who will be doing the building, and how much political will power there is for such a movement.
Typically, not in every case, but in most, the cities with urban blight, ruin, decay, etc. Are leftist hellholes; they have been run by the left often for decades. These parasites will oppose you every step of the way. They don’t actually care about improving the city. After all, if it is improved after decades of their rule, it will provide picture proof that they are parasitical scum. So they will do everything they can to block and stop it.
Then you have the media. You will be lambasted as gentrifying the cities and attacking the blacks. This will naturally spread to the more zealous members on the left who will quite possibly protest at our house or office, if they don’t do worse.
The last bit of resistance you will face is the local community. Oh they know where they live is a hellhole, and they hate it too. But like all humans they will see you coming in to rebuild as an outsider and will do everything in their power to resist you, because you are not one of them (local.)
Lastly you will need to take into consideration how much political will is available for this project. Money too, but in this case political will is much more important. How long will the parasites calling themselves politicians support this endeavor before the pressure is too much and they bow before the mob? These days it likely won’t take long.
This is one of the main weaknesses of this form of Government. You are forced to rely on representatives to stand up for you or you might get shut down quickly. And they are simply not interested in anything besides money and power. So I don’t see this going too well.
Now all that being said I do think this is a much better idea. Lord knows I would love to see some of the old cities return to their glory days. I don’t even like cities, but doing so might restore some of the American dream that has long sense been lost.
In all honestly people tend to take the path of least resistance, thus the going after (public lands) rather than to rebuild the cities. This is not to say we will never see this happen. If America ever manages to get an actual nationalistic movement in place. Hopefully by removing the RINOs first, then I think we could see this happen. But right now there is simply no political will to do it, and the parasites run …. well camp out in the ruins of the cities they destroyed and are not inclined to allow any interference in their looting.
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I agree completely that it’s an issue of political will. Money is always an excuse, not the real issue. And you are absolutely right regarding locals. Look at NYC where a socialist dude with the most bizarre ideas imaginable is getting a lot of support for mayor. I don’t think he’ll win but that there are many people eager to vote for his clearly moronic ideas is very discouraging.
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EXACTLY.
Cleveland used to be a great city. Detroit, Syracuse, Cincinatti, St. Louis, Pittsburgh, Birmingham, Montgomery… we have so much available housing, and available land that previously had housing and could have housing again, where there’s already infrastructure.
Why do we have to *build more* instead of fixing the things that make all these previously-great-places-to-live into nasty ghettos? Basic law/drug/border enforcement would do most of the work. Undoing mass offshoring of everything would do the rest.
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I first came to the US in 2003 and we drove through Bridgeport, Connecticut. I had no previous knowledge that would enable me to comprehend what I was seeing. In my mind, what I saw didn’t track with the concept of America. It took years to understand what I was seeing and what had caused it. Now I know that these were the early signs of a global favela into which our liberal friends are pushing the entire developed world. The most sincere of them feel guilt over third-world favelas and want to expiate that guilt by erasing all signs of a decent standard of living everywhere.
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There are SO MANY of these cities, small and large. Wilmington, DE, Scranton PA, Spartanburg SC. You drive through them, and you can tell from the architecture… this used to be nice. People invested money in this place. And now… what happened?
Same with great swathes of rural America. And there are tons of people dying to live out there, do the small farm thing. But collectively, on a policy level, we decided huge conglomerate farms and cheap, low-quality food were better. The barriers to entry and profitability for the farms people actually want to run are formidable. All it would take is some really basic regulation reform, and we, right here in America, could have good food and revitalized small towns. But no, we can’t have nice things.
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…because keeping boomer asset values inflated trumps all other political causes (eyeroll).
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…all that said, the fedgov *does* own too much land. But arguing that is the solution to housing woes is way beyond dumb. It’s just another case of buying off your rich donors by giving them access to govt. goodies. It was ugly when Obama was handing out ‘green’ grants to nonexistent startup renewables companies, and it’s ugly now. Doesn’t do anything to address the stated problem, it’s just an excuse to give special privileges and access to your rich friends and relatives.
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Following WW2, both the USA and Canada established subsidized programs to create and repair housing for returning veterans and their families — restoring older homes and creating suburbia. There is no doubt that western civilization can reinstitue such programs. Men can build, we always have, but how do we rebuild the nuclear family?
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Affordable is the real question, other than a brief period of the early Trump presidency, average male wages have largely been stagnant since the 70’s. Most men have always had the skills to build, measuring and building is what we do ;-D
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Well, it’s either raise wages so that skilled essential people like electricians and plumbers aren’t averaging $70k/yr (I looked it up, that’s where we’re at), OR get prices down enough that you can afford a house, groceries, transport, medical care, clothes, etc. on that income.
It seems like there’s a lot to be gained from attacking it at both ends– enforcing immigration law does both at once: raising wages and freeing up affordable housing. But there are a lot of other things that’d help immensely, without even getting to the larger problem of inflation. Tackling fraud in the mortgage and insurance markets would be huge.
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Yeah, speculators and Chinese money made a difference here too. But the real problem is that everybody wants to live in a warm Pacific climate protected by a rain shadow behind the mountains — California North ;-D
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“I’d rather have my teeth pulled out without an anesthetic.”
Hmmm, well Kid, that does seem rather gruesome. What if I mentioned that you could grow figs ;-D
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I’d be more than happy to just afford a home near my family, right here. I wish more people would depart for CA. Since 2020, we’ve been competing with blue-state transplants of the sort who can afford to just up and move to another state and buy a house, no problem. It has not been great for those of us who would be bankrupted by doing the same.
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Yeah, that is what they want to do here. Tear out the hedges and the patio, knock down the house, rip out a lifetime of the fruit and nut trees and her flower and vegetable gardens so some greedy arsehole can build four monster houses, duplexes or triplexes. I speak fluent redneck, my response was rather colourful ;-D
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A lot of talk about farmland and land ownership in SA is just a distraction from the government’s biggest failure, their failure to govern the cities.
https://www.politicsweb.co.za/opinion/amidst-the-ruins-of-anc-rule
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