By:Travis McGee
Theft is a crime that is also known as Gentrification. How can poor communities highest in crime and poverty become the highest in property value? They often say these communities are too dangerous to live in, but not so dangerous to build in. The taxes always increase but core services and re- sources steadily decrease. The CRIME has never been down, however the areas where the most gentrification is taking place is said to be the most dangerous. One would think high as crime is the police presence and visibility would increase in a proactive manner, but in reality, it decreases unless a killing has taken place which is reactive. Crime especially murder or gun violence will SCARE most out of their communities/homes.
School closures are also a step in the gentrification process because when you are decreasing education, you also are increasing the chances of incarceration. We shouldn’t have to worry about more schools closing, but more jails and half houses opening. It should be prevention before detention; they need more options like trades that guarantee money vs college just guaranteeing DEBT.
They shouldn’t have to go to jail to receive a Free trade.
The Neglect of the Drainage and infrastructure is also step in the gentrification process. It doesn’t take a hurricane or a storm to FLOOD us out, just a good rain. We are told to call,”311 and to Turn around don’t drown. “However, we were also told that a dedicated drainage fee “Rebuild Houston “would take care of our prehistoric drain- age and infrastructure. It’s becoming impossible to afford insurance if you are even lucky to get insurance in our communities in which we pay a fee to flood now. Our communities are being Redlined as well as being deprived of federal funds by being the flood plains in some cases.
Unaffordable housing is a bigger step in gentrification because the city is focused on increasing the density vs improving the quality of life in our communities. The city doesn’t have any zoning so writing bad ordinances like Chapter 42 that empower the developers vs protect- ing our communities can be considered taxation without representation also, by the way this particular ordinance is what allows them to re-plat, divide, decrease the minimum lot sizes, and put multiple structures on one lot in which the demographics of the area can’t afford as well as the tax increase that comes with the unaffordable housing vs traditional single family dwellings.
They can also name it another whole subdivision within a preexisting subdivision, DEED restriction really doesn’t matter if the city is making monies off the permits and etc. If the areas are below the poverty level who can afford these unaffordable structures Starting @400K per unit to Price us out. The Final step to gentrification is to TAX us out by planning to put millions of dollars’ worth of property in residential neighborhoods that would love to see hundreds of millions in improvement to improve their quality of life with their tax dollars vs building things that will greatly increase their taxes even more.
The goal is to scare us out, close our schools, flood us out, price us out, tax us out, and with no quality grocery stores in hopes we would run out or die out, so they can continue to Buy Us Out.
