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That's because West Compton, Inglewood and Long Beach have some of the nicest housing stock in South LA. Watts definitely looks the part... the main streets running through South LA (South Broadway, West Slauson, etc.) do too.
That's because West Compton, Inglewood and Long Beach have some of the nicest housing stock in South LA. Watts definitely looks the part... the main streets running through South LA (South Broadway, West Slauson, etc.) do too.
True. But the difference is that SF and LA are world class cities. World class U.S. cities like NYC, LA, SF and DC are the hubs of gentrification. Oakland, Camden and Baltimore are ghetto second tier cities which may never see rapid crime reduction and widespread gentrification. In SF, all the city has to do is knock down the projects in places like Hunter's Point and Sunnydale. In Baltimore, Oakland and Camden, you would have to bulldoze down massive swaths of the cities. That being said, certain SF ghettos look just as bad as anywhere in Baltimore, Camden or Chester, PA. Case in point, take a look at the Potrero Hill Projects in SF (the hood where O.J. Simpson grew up) and tell me this looks "nice":
Yeah it does. Potrero Annex (the project pictured in his post) is a slum in every sense of the word... it's a high-density, high-crime, impoverished (average household income is $14,000 vs. $65,000 for the city of San Francisco) isolated and very dilapidated slice of hell that hasn't been structurally renovated since it was built in 1941. Sadly enough though there's considerably worse-off than it in SF.
Yeah it does. Potrero Annex (the project pictured in his post) is a slum in every sense of the word... it's a high-density, high-crime, impoverished (average household income is $14,000 vs. $65,000 for the city of San Francisco) isolated and very dilapidated slice of hell that hasn't been structurally renovated since it was built in 1941. Sadly enough though there's considerably worse-off than it in SF.
Did you even read what I said.I said it doesn't look that compared to the Camden,Nj link.
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