The city of Baltimore is going to sell all of the abandoned properties for $1 each to help lower income residents with homeownership. Unfortunately, there’s a catch; you must have $90,000 in your bank account to put towards the house renovations. No low income people in Baltimore will have that kind of money, but you know who will? All of the corporations who are about to own the city of Baltimore. Democrats have once again found a way to screw the poor and help the rich. America is broken!
@Travis_in_Flint Then, they will turn them into high-priced rentals and again take advantage of Americans. I wonder whose idea this was.
@Travis_in_Flint Corporations should not be allowed To own single family homes
I have heard how Baltimore is so scenic and safe. Beautiful parks and great schools. Artist’s like John Devine (still love Pink Flamingo’s) and falling bridges in the evening to amuse the citizens. Fair prices on crack and meth, and the only way to go to jail is wear a MAGA hat.
I was a Baltimore City Police Officer in the 70s. The city passed an ordinance that required all city employees to live in the city limits. Cops and Firemen couldn’t afford the more upscale and safer areas of the city so the city management decided to offer $1 houses to city employees. These were also abandoned homes. However they also arranged for us to get rennovation loans. These were typical Baltimore City row house. My house was actually built in 1835. It was 3 stories, 12’ wide and 60’ deep. My Dad and I rebuilt the inside and pointed all the brick outside. My mortgage pmt was $168 per month for 12 years. The entire project cost me about $15K. It was a very successful project at the time. As luck would have it, my house was in the 600 block of N. Paca st. Walking distance to downtown and the budding Inner Harbor, 3 blocks from the Lexington Market and directly across the street from St. Elizabeth Seton’s original home and Chapel. After Elizabeth Seton was canonized as America’s first Saint, in 1975-6 the city declared the area an historical district. The value of that little house almost quadrupled in value overnight as did every home on the block. It was a very successful program but, unfortunately, Baltimore is one of those cities that could never stand its own prosperity. Haven’t been back there in more than 10 years and based on what I see in the news I don’t think I’ll be returning. In the 70s though there was a vision of what Baltimore could have been. Unfortunately that vision was never fulfilled. Truly a shame.
@Travis_in_Flint It isn’t turning socialist, they are already socialist. You can have something nice all you have to do is give them your ambition, your self respect, goals /thoughts of independence.
@Travis_in_Flint Todays America is all about the elites and eliminating the middle class. Trbl.
@Travis_in_Flint They’re going to sell them all to their friends and get rich off this scam. Democrats are next level grifters.
@Travis_in_Flint It's a spin-off of HUDs- $1 home rigged system. It should be shut down.
@Travis_in_Flint @Macus7152023 Yep. This is the way for Baltimore to dump off dilapidated properties to liberal slum lord owners. It's just going to get much worse for poor people in Baltimore.