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Post by Dr. Michelob Lite on Jun 16, 2009 1:56:58 GMT -5
There are a lot of areas like that in Nashville and they look GREAT. I still wouldn't live there because the area and the people have not changed. Plus when I leave school I want to LEAVE school...I do not enjoy being in walking distance from campus unless I'm living on it, lol. I just don't like the idea of PJs. Used to live in Vanderveer Projects way back when in BK...heard they recently got changed into "Flatbush Gardens". Overall, I'm for the tearing down of the pjs...but where do all the poor folk go? Similarly to what Cam said, some of Nashville PJ's were transformed via the HOPE VI program from:    to    With the one nearest to me getting a new community center across the street from a park and a magnet school. They moved all the renters out, and once the new homes were built...they invited former tenants back. They also allowed some folks to purchase homes to develop a mixed-income neighborhood. However, from what I've heard...alot of the poor folk just ended up moving out of the city to once quieter suburbs (only bout 10-30% returned.) Downtown/Midtown Nashville is basically being gentrified and pushing the "ghetto" part of Nashville North and South. I do long for the days when the local black doctor lived by the local black plumber, lawyer, butcher, teacher, accountant, garbage man, etc. I don't know if this would accomplish that, but it'd be a beautiful sight. |
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Post by Bunny Hop on Jun 16, 2009 6:58:24 GMT -5
to With the one nearest to me getting a new community center across the street from a park and a magnet school. They moved all the renters out, and once the new homes were built...they invited former tenants back. They also allowed some folks to purchase homes to develop a mixed-income neighborhood. However, from what I've heard...alot of the poor folk just ended up moving out of the city to once quieter suburbs (only bout 10-30% returned.) Downtown/Midtown Nashville is basically being gentrified and pushing the "ghetto" part of Nashville North and South. I do long for the days when the local black doctor lived by the local black plumber, lawyer, butcher, teacher, accountant, garbage man, etc. I don't know if this would accomplish that, but it'd be a beautiful sight. I remember those old projects, lol. I can count the number of times I went to any of them. The new places are really nice and seem fairly quiet (at least from driving by often). But that would be nice to have neighborhoods like the ones you mentioned. I always thought that's why many HBCUs are in the hood. A lot of the areas around these schools were where everyone that worked and attended the schools once lived....I'm so sure you could not be Black and living too many other places in the city back in the day. Times changes and people ventured out and these areas turned into what they are today. I was never one to believe that they just stuck HBCUs in the middle of already existing projects. I could be wrong though. |
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Post by Cambist on Jun 16, 2009 8:33:48 GMT -5
I've learned that some people just feel comfortable around those of like socio-economic condition even if a better situation is available. So what happens is, these housing projects are razed and a new, mixed income development replaces it. So now, Ms. Johnson, Pookie, Ray-Ray and lil' Nuk Nuk lives next to the medical resident or the school teacher or business manager. Ms. Johnson doesn't feel comfortable around these folks and desires to find an environment more comfortable (usually a ghetto)
It's sociologically understandable....that cycle is not easily broken...
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Post by No Screen Name on Jun 16, 2009 8:50:05 GMT -5
I've learned that some people just feel comfortable around those of like socio-economic condition even if a better situation is available. So what happens is, these housing projects are razed and a new, mixed income development replaces it. So now, Ms. Johnson, Pookie, Ray-Ray and lil' Nuk Nuk lives next to the medical resident or the school teacher or business manager. Ms. Johnson doesn't feel comfortable around these folks and desires to find an environment more comfortable (usually a ghetto) It's sociologically understandable....that cycle is not easily broken... Or, the people of the higher socio-economic status slap a "For Sale" sign up the first time they see TyQuanNeisha sitting on a stool braiding hair out in front of her house.  As SOON as I get out of school, I'm selling my chyt.  My neighborhood is fairly mixed, and there are roughly 150 units out there. But there are about maybe ten households who have made me want to roll up out of there.  Smoking weed, selling weed, loud music, Bey-Bey's kids running around, your teenagers out the door all hours of the night... I don't understand. I guess I'm getting more and more bourgie as time goes on. |
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Post by T-Rex91 on Jun 16, 2009 8:59:15 GMT -5
I don't understand. I guess I'm getting more and more bourgie as time goes on. Is that a bad thing? |
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Post by Cambist on Jun 16, 2009 9:31:20 GMT -5
To answer 91's question: No. It's not a bad thing. You know better...you do better.
Z- this is why i'm a big advocate for restrictions and requirements on those benefiting from housing. If you had restrictions and requirements like random inspections, property curfews for minors, loitering enforcement, restrcitions on visitors, zero tolerance on drug possession.....
Make it safe and nice but also inconvenient for those who are not contributing.
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Post by Bunny Hop on Jun 18, 2009 10:29:54 GMT -5
www.v103webmag.com/girltalk/501/somebody-tell-emto-cut-his-grass/Somebody Tell ‘Em…To Cut HIS GRASS!!Soulja BOY, WHAT IS GOIN ON WITH YOUR YARD?!! I talked with one of Soulja Boy’s neighbors and they are MAD. His house looks a HOT GHETTO MESS. Neighbors also note that someone is occupying the house but no one is taking care of the yard. All that money he makes and he can’t get someone to cut his grass? Can say you stacks OFF deck?!! C’mon Soulja Boy, CRANK THAT LAWNMOWER and cut your GRASS! -------------------------------------------------------- I immediately thought about this thread when I heard them talking about this this morning, lol. The neighbor that took the pictures called in and I don't blame him. He went to the HOA and they did what they were supposed to do and then nothing happened. Some folks (Project Pat and the other host Wanda) said the neighbor was hating and that he should have went to him as a neighbor and told him to cut his yard while also saying that he's never there. If people working regular 9 to 5s can have their grass cut regularly then so can Soulja Boy, especially if someone is occupying the home. People need to just get really nice condos if they aren't ready for the good, bad and ugly of home ownership. And all that tacky stuff of not cutting your grass, broken down cars everywhere, dirty siding, etc affects the other neighbors and the property value.
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Post by No Screen Name on Jun 18, 2009 11:01:11 GMT -5
People need to just get really nice condos if they aren't ready for the good, bad and ugly of home ownership. And all that tacky stuff of not cutting your grass, broken down cars everywhere, dirty siding, etc affects the other neighbors and the property value. A lot of people look down on condos and townhouses. I remember when I bought my townhouse, folks had a lot of slick mess to say--that they were basically just "apartments". But one girl talking junk about my townhouse had a 10% ADJUSTABLE rate mortgage on her (OVERPRICED) freestanding house. Meanwhile, I paid 90k for my stuff, and they're now selling for $115.  There are even some renters in my neighborhood who have been renting for nearly ten years that won't buy in the neighborhood because "I want a house, not a townhouse". Well, as long as you've been here, you could have been paying on a mortgage and you could eventually take the proceeds and put that towards the kind of house you want. It all goes back to people being too concerned with material things and appearances, and not being fully educated on issues such as home ownership. |
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Post by Bunny Hop on Jun 18, 2009 11:07:48 GMT -5
^^Ain't that the truth.
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Post by T-Rex91 on Jun 18, 2009 12:24:19 GMT -5
We confuse material wealth with class and Soulja clearly has none. Is he even old enough to buy property? Rihanna is in one of these same situations with her neighbors.
PS-HATES Frank and Wanda almost as much a Kobe. They are some straight coons and hypocrites.
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Post by Bunny Hop on Jun 18, 2009 13:25:20 GMT -5
Frank is ok now...I don't think I cared much for him when he first came to Atlanta. Now Wanda...pure foolishness. Her taking up for Soulja Boy made me roll my eyes...talking about as a neighbor someone should have told him.
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My neighborhood is fairly mixed, and there are roughly 150 units out there. But there are about maybe ten households who have made me want to roll up out of there. 
Smoking weed, selling weed, loud music, Bey-Bey's kids running around, your teenagers out the door all hours of the night...
