As City Hall discusses the demolition of 4500 housing units in NOLA scuffles broke out and police use tasers and chemical spray to 'calm' down protesters more
What - you mean people are tired of waiting for Bradd Pitt, Mayor Sexual Chocolate and the wing ding theorists to agree on new housing concepts? Fuck it - put up the same shacks that were there before - at least they housed people and lasted for 50 yrs or more - enough time to renew the wood used in their construction and then some. Take note - this failure of rebuilding is lack of free market economics pure and simple.
Free market is the only ones who will build for poor people. Mixed use is the gov way of saying we want 4 upper middle class people for every 1 poor person at 2x the cost. Ive seen some of those retro shotgun houses - why arent the city opening up for single site development? 1 house at a time? Because they want to make a broad sweeping jester, like the kind that gives you Pruitt Igo, or the new victorian public housing in Chicago which is even more desolate than the high rises. NOLA seems fubar, and when the phto ops are over and the election is done, nobodies really gonna give a crap and then the shotgun shacks will be back.
While the city rots away take heart, at least whatever gets built there will be Leed Certified.
new orleans (and its controversies and foibles) are eternal. some people will try to do good, despite naysayers like ep. some of it might happen; some might not.
the teardowns are primarily being protested because nothing is being proposed which will fill the vacuum. pitt's project is positive, but much smaller than the response needed. if this was part of a replacement proposal, great. if it's just a city clearing project, it tears out the heart of those trying to build hope.
Steve - How could I be a naysayer if Im saying build the dam frame houses on grade like before - there quick and cheap, and part of the local vernacular. Instead the positive people have let something like 15-20% of the population permantly relocate giving cities like Houston a labor advantage. This is a clusterfuck response to the highest order - from the morons who wouldnt leave, the president and his frat buddy not being able to handle the recovery response, to the parade of glamour trying to get their 15 minuetes. Fuck it - I bet the Mexicans will take it, and turn it into something nice.
If the free market was so interested in building for the poor people of New Orleans, they would have done it already. There's a lot of building that has gone on there already, and its nearly all been for profit enterprises. Although I am accused of being paranoid there is no more government conspiracy to keep the "free marketeers" from building houses for the poor than the well off I find its often the paranoid I am being accused by. Nobody, especially in this administration, is going to stop someone rich from making a buck off poor people. The reason that its not getting built is that the right person is not getting the line on the government coffers and the money is not there to do it without government assistance (or the government assistance looks too juicy to pass up.) Wake up evil, this is the free market lassie faire america you want, and in it the poor are going to get ground up and made into sausage because they have no protection from the people in power.
And after all, if its so easy to go down there and put the nail in the board, and you can make money by doing it, why the ef aren't you down there already? LA and NO has one of the most corrupt systems around (and coming from a Chicagoan, that saying something). Grease a few palms and get to it!
I call bullshit Crowbert - no sane person in the world will go near it for fear of becoming a profiteer, just like no one will touch the 911 site except for a shady connected demo company.
I never said it was easy, and its become much harder with all the government policy makers scrambling for the next big idea, ting up development and creating an atmosphere hostile to development.
As for free market capitalism making a buck off poor people, whats wrong with that? Profit driven activities are the only way to churn an economy. And im offended by your ignorant assumption that business people are somehow tied to greasing palms and dirty politics - if you knew much about deal making you'd know most legitamate biz people are all about reputation, which is why they dont go rolling around with Brad Pitt and Al Gore, accept Government subsidies, and sure as hell avoid "government coffers" with strings attached and its the residents that will suffer their absence. So no I wouldnt go to NOLA, in fact Id stay as far away as possible, the only opportunity there is for the leachers, preachers and bullshitters now.
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What - you mean people are tired of waiting for Bradd Pitt, Mayor Sexual Chocolate and the wing ding theorists to agree on new housing concepts? Fuck it - put up the same shacks that were there before - at least they housed people and lasted for 50 yrs or more - enough time to renew the wood used in their construction and then some. Take note - this failure of rebuilding is lack of free market economics pure and simple.
notice no one is crying and screaming for a briez solei clad house on stilts with an on site shit treater with integral bird feeder.
free market don't build for poor people
@ Evil...
It's true end of the day, something needs to be built.
They lived in shotgun houses before, as do i now.
Free market results in HUD tearing down the only public housing in town....
Bahh....Mixed use..
Just give us buildings.
Free market is the only ones who will build for poor people. Mixed use is the gov way of saying we want 4 upper middle class people for every 1 poor person at 2x the cost. Ive seen some of those retro shotgun houses - why arent the city opening up for single site development? 1 house at a time? Because they want to make a broad sweeping jester, like the kind that gives you Pruitt Igo, or the new victorian public housing in Chicago which is even more desolate than the high rises. NOLA seems fubar, and when the phto ops are over and the election is done, nobodies really gonna give a crap and then the shotgun shacks will be back.
While the city rots away take heart, at least whatever gets built there will be Leed Certified.
new orleans (and its controversies and foibles) are eternal. some people will try to do good, despite naysayers like ep. some of it might happen; some might not.
the teardowns are primarily being protested because nothing is being proposed which will fill the vacuum. pitt's project is positive, but much smaller than the response needed. if this was part of a replacement proposal, great. if it's just a city clearing project, it tears out the heart of those trying to build hope.
Steve - How could I be a naysayer if Im saying build the dam frame houses on grade like before - there quick and cheap, and part of the local vernacular. Instead the positive people have let something like 15-20% of the population permantly relocate giving cities like Houston a labor advantage. This is a clusterfuck response to the highest order - from the morons who wouldnt leave, the president and his frat buddy not being able to handle the recovery response, to the parade of glamour trying to get their 15 minuetes. Fuck it - I bet the Mexicans will take it, and turn it into something nice.
If the free market was so interested in building for the poor people of New Orleans, they would have done it already. There's a lot of building that has gone on there already, and its nearly all been for profit enterprises. Although I am accused of being paranoid there is no more government conspiracy to keep the "free marketeers" from building houses for the poor than the well off I find its often the paranoid I am being accused by. Nobody, especially in this administration, is going to stop someone rich from making a buck off poor people. The reason that its not getting built is that the right person is not getting the line on the government coffers and the money is not there to do it without government assistance (or the government assistance looks too juicy to pass up.) Wake up evil, this is the free market lassie faire america you want, and in it the poor are going to get ground up and made into sausage because they have no protection from the people in power.
And after all, if its so easy to go down there and put the nail in the board, and you can make money by doing it, why the ef aren't you down there already? LA and NO has one of the most corrupt systems around (and coming from a Chicagoan, that saying something). Grease a few palms and get to it!
Amen!!!
I call bullshit Crowbert - no sane person in the world will go near it for fear of becoming a profiteer, just like no one will touch the 911 site except for a shady connected demo company.
I never said it was easy, and its become much harder with all the government policy makers scrambling for the next big idea, ting up development and creating an atmosphere hostile to development.
As for free market capitalism making a buck off poor people, whats wrong with that? Profit driven activities are the only way to churn an economy. And im offended by your ignorant assumption that business people are somehow tied to greasing palms and dirty politics - if you knew much about deal making you'd know most legitamate biz people are all about reputation, which is why they dont go rolling around with Brad Pitt and Al Gore, accept Government subsidies, and sure as hell avoid "government coffers" with strings attached and its the residents that will suffer their absence. So no I wouldnt go to NOLA, in fact Id stay as far away as possible, the only opportunity there is for the leachers, preachers and bullshitters now.
i'll repeat:
new orleans (and its controversies and foibles) are eternal. some people will try to do good. some of it might happen; some might not.
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