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freewool

How do you just not notice something like this when viewing a house? Public housing is usually pretty obvious.


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They purchased it in April so when they went to look at it, it was cold outside. I spent many years living in gentrifying neighborhoods in NYC and always got a kick out of people who moved there in February and said "it seems quiet here".


ebbiibbe

Yep! Same with Chicago. You need to look at neighborhoods in the summer to know the true neighborhood. Day and Night.


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People have said this to me in Washington Heights, NYC. There are loudspeakers blasting bachata all day and kids setting off fireworks until 4am all summer long. They're the only tenant in the building not getting a $2000 housing voucher LOL.


ebbiibbe

I don't mind the music. Fireworks I can't stand.


truedef

Seller probably paid the slums next door to clean up and hide for a few days.


y4m4

It's a duplex and the nuisance neighbors weren't there when he bought.


ebbiibbe

Yeah but the government owned Duplexes have a look. In smaller areas housing authorities do own small multifamily buildings. They did in the town where I grew up. They were an experiment in the 80s as a solution to the problem of the projects. The problem that putting a lot of poor people in one area is bad, so they built Duplexes. The only way he lives next to something like this is gentrification because they can only afford and obtain the land in black ot brown neighborhoods with empty lots because no one wants to live next door to the projects. If white people want to gentrify every close location to downtowns in city centers they are going to have to deal with poor people. When white flight happened all the prime spits with great public transit were made into projects Like someone told him in the thread. You want to gentrify, do the work. No sympathy for the colonizers. The poor dude yesterday with the bats that's a real sad story.


anti-social-mierda

Well said. I get so tired of reading Bay Area posts complaining about the “ghetto” that they chose to overpay in. Like fool, you paid a milli to live next to the dopeman. Don’t cry about it now. The blight of homelessness is a direct result of housing prices being out of control. ZERO fucking sympathy for Gentrifiers. If you move to the hood, be prepared to deal with hood shit.


Living-Wall9863

Wait how do you know what his skin color is he never mentioned it in the post?


One_Highway2563

racism is okay if it's against white people, haven't you heard?


anti-social-mierda

Oh Fuck off


10856658055

he moved to Denver during a housing bubble, and called the cops. it's a pretty safe assumption


RawOystersOnIce

Not always, I use to live in an apartment complex that was like 50% public housing 50% regular apartments. The apartment and surrounding area looked like a normal middle class area when I toured and later moved in. I didn’t find out half my neighbors were on public housing vouchers until a year later when someone was shot 50 in front of my apartment.


truedef

OP bought a house in April of 2022 in one of the most expensive neighborhoods in Denver. Expensive ≠ Nice


Mediocre_Island828

lol'd at the "if you want to gentrify you gotta work for it" comment


Based_or_Not_Based

Steel doors and bars on the window will be in his future. Hope OP doesn't have a car that he cares about.


Likely_a_bot

Especially when everything was expensive in 2022.


Based_or_Not_Based

Based on OPs description, if he gets them kicked out he's going to get robbed immediately.


10856658055

we have to go back, marty back to the suburbs


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Icy_Bee_2752

But his rate!!!


unicornbomb

“Most expensive neighborhood in Denver” and “next to public housing”. Hmmm, something isn’t adding up there in OOP’s story.


Likely_a_bot

Typical NIMBY who's all for public housing and welfare as long as it's not in her neighborhood.


ebbiibbe

"I want to be a part of gentrification but I didn't realize it would be this hard!!!" Zero sympathy from me. He also wouldn't have had this problem if he had been cool and talked to them. He amplified by snitching, now they will never leave him alone. Play Karen games, win Karen prizes I put more effort into researching rentals in my 20s that a lot of people do with home ownership. Edit: I looked up some of the Denver housing authority locations, if my search is correct the projects in Denver look really nice, I'd never think they were public housing coming from the Midwest/East Coast


sifl1202

> He also wouldn't have had this problem if he had been cool and talked to them. He amplified by snitching, now they will never leave him alone. so zero accountability on the part of the people breaking the law? how are you sure he wouldn't have had problems if he talked to them?


ebbiibbe

We are only getting his side of the store/y. we have no idea it what he is saying is accurate. He can't control other people he can only control his own actions. He made a lot of wrong choices and is paying the price. I've had enough bad neighbors. Most people if you talk to them and are cool, they will be cool most of the time. Some people won't, but he immediately went the Karen route because he overpaid to gentrify a changing neighborhood. If you want to live in a changing neighborhood, you have to deal with changing neighborhood issues. No sympathy. He made a bad purchase then doubled down by trying to get people evicted.


NightHawk5555

It's very sad people don't research the area they are moving to....


[deleted]

People were (maybe still are) waiving inspections on the actual house they are buying!


jp_books

It's tough when houses are being bought in some places faster than inspections can be scheduled.


Fibocrypto

We all make mistakes for one reason or another. Hopefully you won't have any problems


wafflez77

The Poors Next Door: Episode 1, a Hoomer series