mikecrow:

“Roughly a quarter of the 139-square-mile city could go from urban to semi-rural.”

“Politically explosive decisions must be made about which neighborhoods should be bulldozed and which improved. Hundreds of millions of federal dollars will be needed to buy land, raze buildings and relocate residents, since this financially desperate city does not have the means to do it on its own. It isn’t known how many people in the mostly black, blue-collar city might be uprooted, but it could be thousands. Some won’t go willingly.”

pretty exciting stuff!

why in the fuck is it a good idea to relocate people? especially if they like living there. negro removal 2.0. who the fuck is going to make the decisions about where the millions of dollars in bulldozers have to go. why is “poltically explosive” in this case a good thing?