Times are changing

Twodogs · #1 07-21-2009, 04:44 PM

Even in the small Kansas town where I live. I was coming home from the store yesterday and saw two little black girls riding their bicycles.

It really made me do a double take. The only people of color you ever see in this town are in cars, and just passin through (not sure why). When I got home I told the wife about it, and she informed me that they had just finished putting some section 8 housing in behind the grocery store. I drove by there today and sure enough, there's a whole row of duplex looking things. Why on earth would they put section 8 housing in a town that doesn't have a bus-line, cab, or any real job base. Seems to me the folks would be better served in the city where they could find some work and get a start. Then after they get established with a car and job, they could move to the burbs. Does anyone know exactly how they pick spots for section 8 builds?

noonereal · #2 07-21-2009, 05:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Twodogs

Even in the small Kansas town where I live. I was coming home from the store yesterday and saw two little black girls riding their bicycles.

It really made me do a double take. The only people of color you ever see in this town are in cars, and just passin through (not sure why). When I got home I told the wife about it, and she informed me that they had just finished putting some section 8 housing in behind the grocery store. I drove by there today and sure enough, there's a whole row of duplex looking things. Why on earth would they put section 8 housing in a town that doesn't have a bus-line, cab, or any real job base. Seems to me the folks would be better served in the city where they could find some work and get a start. Then after they get established with a car and job, they could move to the burbs. Does anyone know exactly how they pick spots for section 8 builds?

saw two little black girls riding their bicycles.

??????????

of course black girls live in section 8 housing?????????????

we should round them all up and put them in the cities????????????

I think times are not a changing.

This is a shocking post.

Twodogs · #3 07-21-2009, 05:14 PM

Well, it was very odd to see something I hadn't seen before. There were white folks in that row of housing too. I just think the city could offer more opportunity for jobs and such. I didn't start out in Johnson County Kansas either, I worked my butt off to live here. The post is not meant to be what you are thinking, it is just the honest truth. I'm sorry if it offended you (really I am).

Charles · #4 07-21-2009, 08:28 PM

I would imagine that a developer determined that your community fell within the Federal guidelines for this type of development, and the money was available.

We have a couple of small affordable housing developments here in Bugtussell. Built by developers from somewhere else. And most of the people living there are from somewhere else too.

Now I'm not saying that the poor should live in a packing crate, I'm just stating the facts. And the people who built them didn't do it to help the poor, they did it to help themselves. Unfortunately, the poor are a commodity in the US.

Chas

chuckworkb · #5 07-27-2009, 04:09 PM

In the sixties, it was the projects, big ugly high rise towers to house the poor.

They of course eventually became run down drug, and crime infested hell holes, that no one wanted to be in or near.

Those all got torn down to make room for Malls, and parking lots, because they cost a fortune to maintain, and no one had the money, or wanted to spend the money on them any more.

Now it's affordable housing. Duplexes, 3 families, etc. Two or three story more appealing to the eye buildings, that I guarantee will become run down, drug and crime infested hell holes in time, just like the high rises.

The developer most likely is not building these places to be nice. He is building them to make money and keep his business alive.

Sandy G · #6 07-27-2009, 04:49 PM

Yeah, this little town wasn't big enuff for hi-rise "Stak-A-Proletariat" style flatblocks, we just built duplexes. They are just as crime ridden, though, if you ask the cops, as anything that went before. The ones closest to me seem to have mainly elderly, & some younger people in 'em, & consequently aren't TOO bad, but the other bunch down near the hospital are bad news...

Twodogs · #7 07-27-2009, 04:56 PM

As long as I've lived in this little town, I've never carried a house key. Always left the key in my old beater pickup too, but I'm afraid those days are over. I'm not talking about people being black either. It seems like these types of housing bring trouble in all colors. I hope I'm wrong and just an old Archie Bunker type bigot, but we shall see.

Sandy G · #8 07-27-2009, 06:04 PM

I knew the world had changed was when I saw an Oriental girl riding a bicycle down the street in my town...Typically, I don't think Orientals much like to live in places where there's NOT an Oriental community already existent...She was REAL cute, though, for my money, it'd be alrite if a whole bunch more of 'em showed up...

noonereal · #9 07-27-2009, 08:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Twodogs

I'm not talking about people being black either. .

Then why do you mention it?

Charles · #10 07-28-2009, 09:16 PM

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Originally Posted by Twodogs

As long as I've lived in this little town, I've never carried a house key. Always left the key in my old beater pickup too, but I'm afraid those days are over. I'm not talking about people being black either. It seems like these types of housing bring trouble in all colors. I hope I'm wrong and just an old Archie Bunker type bigot, but we shall see.

Hate to say it, but Buggtussell ain't the same either. People are getting their cars stolen, houses broken into, pulling guns on people, a couple of Mexicans even pulled a drive by on one of the city cops...shot out his living room window with a shotgun while he was watching teevee. We even have a murder every now and then.

I've started securing my shop and vehicles of a night, installed a bunch of motion sensor lights, even have a video camera in one. Still don't lock the doors of my house at night, but little Rat Face can, and will wake up the dead if anything happens. Probably should lock the house though. And although I really don't care to do it, I should probably make use of the CCW permit in my possession.

Chas