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Originally Posted by Libertarian
Some tourists would be concerned by the safety issue. A better use of the money would be to demolish all the empty structures, use eminent domain to buy all the empty lots, and give the lots to people who will build owner-occupied houses. Also, the defunct Morris Brown campus should be levelled and the ground used to develop various types of subsidized managed housing, for example for the homeless presently at Peachtree-Pine.
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but there aren't any empty lots between international blvd and magnolia street... it's just one block. and you want to level the historic buildings on morris brown college for project housing? have you actually been to this neighbourhood or is this just looking at a map? morris brown college might be defunct but the buildings and the campus are a cherished historic landmark in the neighbourhood and are very important to the history of HBCUs in this country... would you propose to knock down georgia tech's historic structures?
the combined ideas of "the people in this neighborhood aren't safe, let's cut them off from everything else" and "let's level the whole thing and redo it because it sucks" shows a real apathy for the people that actually live there and the community that already exists, and given the history of these types of quarantine/urban renewal being pushed on poor black communities... sounds incredibly racist, to be frank. you should spend more time in the neighborhood, i think. being around people different from you is scary at first but it's a necessary step in personal growth.
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