[CityBoyDoug]

Originally Posted by tovangar2

The saddest one of all. When the well-fed, disapproving suits show up to make catastrophic decisions about people's lives without asking them what they want or need. Such a clash of sensibilities and imbalance of power:

I also noticed that photo of the suits. The ''big'' picture is complex and has many facets. This goes on worldwide. Neighborhoods are slowly abandoned by the city fathers.
One element is that the owners of the decrepit buildings become default slumlords and do not renovate their buildings. They see the handwriting on the wall and realize there is no point in spending money on improvements if their apartment buildings are going to be condemned anyway.

I was once the owner of an older apartment building in LA and learned a lot in the process. I made many costly improvements and my tenets were still demanding more.

The last apartment I lived in I never asked the owner for anything. I paid for most of the repairs out of my own pocket. That was 25 years ago.