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Interesting article, I hope Baltimore can benefit if this trend materializes. The City's leaders need to take this as an opporunity to continue to position the city to make it more attractive...though some of the ills and definately the taxes rate do present some potential barriers.
I had read an article about certain suburbs becoming more like some inner cities in terms of decay and the notion that many large homes may become illegally subdivided and turned into boarding/rooming houses by landlords seeking to off set mortages or to profit from the decline...sound familiar? Some neighborhoods were already experiencing decline because of foreclosures and bank repos that had overgrown lawns, failing siding, and vandalism further pushing neighborhoods into decline. Atlanta was one of the cities mentioned and it noted the poor quality and quick construction of certain subdivisions also as a problem as these homes age they would become a maintenance burden. All of this is unfortunate but it is all in the life cycle of cities and communities ....growth, stagnation, and decline.
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