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LiberalArkie

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1. What usually happens here in Arkansas is code enforcers kick everyone out, the residents are now

Reply to nadinbrzezinski (Original post)

Tue Dec 22, 2015, 09:03 PM

Dec 2015

homeless. The owner guts the place and rebuilds and now the rent is 10 times or more what it was. It gets so bad for the poor that the last thing you want is a code enforcer to come around...

Slums are cheap but at least the person has a roof (sometimes not much of one) and a place to bath and cook. Maybe a doors and windows that can be locked.

I don't think the US does public housing any more. I guess one war too many.

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When John Edwards, warts and all, spoke of the two Americas [View all] nadinbrzezinski Dec 2015 OP

What usually happens here in Arkansas is code enforcers kick everyone out, the residents are now LiberalArkie Dec 2015 #1

That is one issue I raised nadinbrzezinski Dec 2015 #2

I agree people are trying to bring public attention to the slum lords. They used to try that LiberalArkie Dec 2015 #3

These are the kinds of things that will lead sooner or later to a social explosion nadinbrzezinski Dec 2015 #4

The landlord laws I think are new in the last 5 years or so. Republican legislature. ACORN was found LiberalArkie Dec 2015 #5

people can only be told so many times...to eat cake w0nderer Dec 2015 #7

K & R w0nderer Dec 2015 #6