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Franklinton Residents Push For Rebirth
Thursday, Apr 03, 2008
By Denise Yost
A neighborhood with a bad reputation is seeing a rebirth. Franklinton is an area just west of downtown Columbus. For years, the area has been thought of as run down, but it’s now becoming a location of news development.
For the first time in years, the neighborhood is rebuilding, and several local and state agencies are helping to rehabilitate houses and build new ones.
“People interested in moving here are surprised by the quality of houses you can get out here and quality of people out here,” said Jim Sweeney, of Franklinton Development Association.
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Yes, but which residents of Franklinton are pushing for this?
It’s great to clean up the neighborhood and everything, but maybe we should make it so that poor people don’t need to steal copper wiring from old houses in the first place.
Well, I don’t think they are stealing it to feed themselves or to pay their rent.
The ones not destroying property and stealing things that don’t belong to them.
Well this thread got out of control in a hurry. :lol:
This has been happening in all kinds of neighborhoods where you’ll find empty homes. It’s not a problem limited to bad neighborhoods.
More on topic though, I thought this news report was mostly pretty positive coming from NBC4. Doesn’t seem like it was as reactionary as a lot of their reports like this are either. Hopefully that’s a trend.
It’s great to clean up the neighborhood and everything, but maybe we should make it so that poor people don’t need to steal copper wiring from old houses in the first place.
And then we’ll institute world peace. :roll:
More on point, exactly what is your plan to alleviate poverty in Franklinton?
Mine would be to start fixing up the housing stock first, so that new families from a variety of incomes would move in. That would help stabilize neighborhoods, provide affordable housing, and reduce crime. Hopefully that would also improve schools in the area… more kids with active involved parents who work with the school system. Over a period of years, the combination of better housing and better schools should provide an attractive place for families to settle, and more and more people would start fixing up houses on their own. That would a start on my revitalization plan.
Oh wait… that’s what they are already doing.
This just in:
HeySquare is moving to Franklinton to help with the revitalization! She brings with her the ability to fix up some of the housing stock, thereby stabilizing the neighborhood and reducing crime.
HeySquare is moving to Franklinton to help with the revitalization! She brings with her the ability to fix up some of the housing stock, thereby stabilizing the neighborhood and reducing crime.
If I didn’t have my own l’il slice of heaven under construction already, I’d look there.
How’s your porch coming along, btw? :) And your kitchen?
PS… sorry I didn’t get a chance to catch up at Drinking Liberally last night. Ran into a friend I hadn’t seen in a while, and ended up chatting with her for most of the night.
HeySquare is moving to Franklinton to help with the revitalization! She brings with her the ability to fix up some of the housing stock, thereby stabilizing the neighborhood and reducing crime.
If I didn’t have my own l’il slice of heaven under construction already, I’d look there.
How’s your porch coming along, btw? :) And your kitchen?
PS… sorry I didn’t get a chance to catch up at Drinking Liberally last night. Ran into a friend I hadn’t seen in a while, and ended up chatting with her for most of the night.
I’m just messing with you. I’m feeling a little jerkish this morning. I was hoping to finish the porch this weekend but I don’t think the weather will cooperate. It just needs some trim and a few handrails and its done. And I don’t think I’ll ever have a kitchen again.
I hope that they talk about their costs on this show. All the HGTV shows seem to be filmed in California and everything there seems to cost 5 times more than it does here so it’s hard to get a sense of what they’re spending.
It’s great to clean up the neighborhood and everything, but maybe we should make it so that poor people don’t need to steal copper wiring from old houses in the first place.
So you’re saying all poor people over there are criminals? (of course your not, but I’m just trying to make a point). Or maybe you’re saying that we should completely get rid of poverty and in turn get rid of crime before we try and rehab a neighborhood (again I know you dont think that way). All I’m saying is we are talking about 2 different things here. This is prime land that people want to live in, if it’s rehabbed correctly. Some people might get pushed out in the process, but I’m sorry, I can’t feel bad about that.
I think a great first step in any revitalization is making copper thieves move away…
second that.
second that.
Come on, we just got them to move there from the near east side!
Lets start advertising campaign on how much copper is in the power lines.
HA!…def. just laughed loud enough where people at work think i’m crazy.
In a world run by Genghis Gramarye, I’d have both the thieves and the scrap dealers accepting this stuff on the black market with no questions asked sent to forced labor in copper mines. It would appeal to my sense of poetic justice.
No, but it really doesn’t take a massive percentage of the population being criminals to cause a crime problem. If you’ve got a hundred thieves in a town of 10,000, that’s only 1% … but it still means there’s a hundred thieves out there skulking around.
It sadly is one of those things where the few can ruin things for the many.
In a world run by Genghis Gramarye, I’d have both the thieves and the scrap dealers accepting this stuff on the black market with no questions asked to forced labor in copper mines. It would appeal to my sense of poetic justice..
Neither local nor confirmed, but I’ve heard that the thieves are selling to ‘legit’ demolition companies who essentially launder the stolen metals by batching them into the normal drops they make.
(This from an out-of-state scrap metal dealer who has essentially unprovable suspicions.)
A.
Guess that’s what makes me a bleeding heart liberal.
http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2008/03/17/ANN17_ART_03-17-08_B1_5T9LQCU.html?sid=101
Guess that’s what makes me a bleeding heart liberal.
Liberals like me agree that the poor should not have to live in unsafe neighborhoods in sub-standard housing.
I don’t know if your heart’s bleeding or whatever, but let’s enforce housing/building codes equitably.