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  • Coming to your suburb: The ghettos -- WND, Bob Unruh

    Coming to your suburb: The ghettos

    'Forced diversity' to 'destroy' living environment

    WND

    Bob Unruh
    12/27/2015

    Excerpt:

    The Housing Authority of Baltimore City is secretly relocating Section 8 subsidized housing families from the inner city into suburban homes – and some critics are charging it is part of a plan to deliberately cause damage to the communities there.

    “They’re going to be destroying every suburb that they move into, just as they’ve done the inner cities,” said Jesse Lee Peterson. “This is ‘forced diversity.’”

    The “forced diversity” to which Peterson objects has been pursued by the Obama administration in several ways, from new regulations putting the federal government’s thumb on the pulse of local zoning actions to immigrant programs that have dumped illegal aliens, both from south of the border as well as the Middle East, into American cities without so much as a notification to the local governor or mayor.

    Critics have cited it as a goal of socialist-minded and left-leaning interests who want to assure themselves of power in the federal government for the foreseeable future through the electoral process. The inner cities, with their heavily government-dependent populations, already reliably vote Democrat. Critics charge that moving large numbers of dependent populations into suburbs and other areas is intended to change the voting nature of those populations.

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    View the complete article at:

    http://www.wnd.com/2015/12/coming-to...b-the-ghettos/
    B. Steadman

  • #2
    I've been aware of this trend since as far back as the mid 1990's.

    From what I've gathered in the recent past (I was interested in learning about this before I'd ever heard of Barack Obama) this was mostly because most people began to realize that "inner city" should be (and is), for obvious reasons, high-end real estate and not 'ghettos' filed with the downtrodden.

    This new trend (not so new really, but more notable in 2015) in many cities, including relatively small ones like Cedar Rapids, Iowa is not just for relocating 'ghettos' and the downtrodden but also to clear away structures which should probably not be sitting next to, or in, high-end real estate locations in downtown & inner city areas.

    For example in down town Cedar Rapids, Iowa there was for many years a parking garage - the First Street Parkade - which was located on the east bank of the Cedar River and it even extended out over the river (the spiral ramp to drive up & down). Somewhat unique:

    1stParkade_lg.jpg

    That picture above was taken more than 50 years ago. The First Street Parkade was torn down in 2011 and the site is soon to be home of the CRST office tower which is currently being built on the site.

    I sort of agree that in 2015 (very soon to be 2016, only a couple of days left!) a parking garage doesn't belong on downtown riverfront property.

    I'd also like to point out that in many countries around the world the slums are often located on the outskirts of the cities if not entirely outside the city limits.

    NOTE: I believe that the new CRST 'tower' will only be 11 stories tall. So for now the tallest buildings in downtown Cedar Rapids will remain:

    Cedar River Tower - 25 story

    Alliant Tower - 21 story

    DoubleTree by Hilton - 16 story

    APAC Building - 14 story

    The Roosevelt - 12 story

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