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I'm sure they've seen what's been happening in San Francisco with the Mission District, high rises for the Geek squads, marching down Mission Street right into the Mission District, driving the Mexicans out to where?
Curiously, I took the Gold Line East, couple of months ago, and stopped to check out Mariachi Plaza, and I see there was a 4 story apartment building going up there.
Given the Nimby lunatics in Califor-Nimby-a, they're probably opposed to the height of the building.
Ban it? Nope.. but it should be considered extracurricular activities. This way, there is much more time for the key important topics and students can choose to take part in art, music, etc.. similar to sports.
There is no value in teaching the arts to a student while foregoing Critical Thinking, Reading, Writing, Logic, math, physics, etc...
In Houston, it's the taxes that drive minorities out of theses neighborhoods allowing the urban liberals to take over. Once they do, they use the power of lawyers and political lackies via revised ordinances to keep out the "undesirables ". They then oppose school vouchers to keep THEM out of their gentrified schools.
When the ethnic and racial ghettos are broken up by gentrification and the inhabitants forced to move out into the big wide world, they are basically forced to integrate into wider society... to find housing elsewhere in the fabric of America. To find the reason to get out of the ethnic ghetto and find opportunity to better themselves, rather than holding on to the failed neighborhood.
It cannot happen fast enough. We meed MORE gentrification, not LESS!
If home affordability is a problem, cities and states should enact things like we have in Florida - a homestead exemption that caps tax rate increases for homeowners, and extra exemptions based on age. It's why we have 85 year old grandmas still able to live in their homes next to million dollar homes. Their children of course will reap a benefit when grandma passes, but she doesn't have to move.
When the ethnic and racial ghettos are broken up by gentrification and the inhabitants forced to move out into the big wide world, they are basically forced to integrate into wider society... to find housing elsewhere in the fabric of America. To find the reason to get out of the ethnic ghetto and find opportunity to better themselves, rather than holding on to the failed neighborhood.
It cannot happen fast enough. We meed MORE gentrification, not LESS!
If home affordability is a problem, cities and states should enact things like we have in Florida - a homestead exemption that caps tax rate increases for homeowners, and extra exemptions based on age. It's why we have 85 year old grandmas still able to live in their homes next to million dollar homes. Their children of course will reap a benefit when grandma passes, but she doesn't have to move.
I wish we had that same cap in Texas. Our's is 10% per year, which tends to be what they do. Our conservative legislators are trying to get it down, but they constantly face opposition.
In the Houston area, minorities forced out of their neighborhoods generally move to suburban 'ghettos' and are forced into longer commutes causing them greater hardship.
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