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dopkick t1_itcu5am wrote

Reply to comment by sllewgh in Can Baltimore vacant properties provide housing for new immigrants? by bearjew64

So you're saying the author didn't intend to refer to abandoned city blocks despite referring to them in both words and the picture? And the author instead meant to refer to entirely different properties instead but provided no contextual clues to this, leaving it as an exercise to the reader to jump through hoops to figure out what is actually intended? Brings back memories of textbooks with "the proof is left as an exercise to the reader" kind of statements.

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sllewgh t1_itcvasx wrote

>So you're saying the author didn't intend to refer to abandoned city blocks despite referring to them in both words and the picture?

Here is what you said:

>Because that picture IS a picture of the mentioned "abandoned city neighborhoods."

That's false. The article is not referring to the homes in the picture, it's referring to vacants in general. The article does not reference any specific locations this would happen whatsoever, so all your criticism is based on facts you invented yourself.

There are plenty of habitable, good vacants in this city to be filled.

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dopkick t1_itcvq9v wrote

The article literally says

> Seeding abandoned city neighborhoods with enough immigrant households to build real communities is just an idea now. But it is under serious consideration.

I think you need to visit these abandoned city neighborhoods. The places that are generally habitable are not abandoned. Run down with some vacants, yes, but not abandoned.

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sllewgh t1_itcwiwt wrote

I've visited them plenty. I've gone door to door talking to poor folks in just about every area of the city. I help run a community garden in Harlem Park. I've personally observed the purchase, renovation, and occupation of a vacant as described in this article. I've helped establish community land trusts and I helped fight to secure a permanent source of funding from the city for projects like this. How about you take a look at your own ignorance before you assume mine?

Plenty of people are living decent lives in these neighborhoods you're writing off. There are plenty of problems to be solved, sure, but you've got the audacity to accuse me of ignorance when you don't know a damn thing about the people actually living in places like this.

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