Reply #62: I suppose kicking moving people from their homes and neighborhoods is easier than

[Raineyb]

say actually fixing things up and providing services. This is typical I must say. Deny services to certain areas and force out as many people as possible. Usually these are people of color because let's face it most white people aren't going to make a stink if it's only happening to people of color. Then when enough of them have moved out you let some twit with a lot of money either fix up the house and start demanding services thus gentrifying the neighborhood or you give the land to some developer for next to nothing to save him the trouble of having to actually make the effort to buy the land from the people who were living there (because if they really wanted it they'd actually pay some money for it unless you can get the government to get rid of those pesky residents for you) and there's always people applauding this nonsense.

If the government didn't give that neighborhood short shrift and actually did it's job of providing services the odds are the neighborhood wouldn't have become an eyesore whose residents you're so quick to allow the government to dislocate in the first place.

But why should we make the developers actually pay for things when we can just force people to relocate for free?