Austin Ghetto (Houston, Alamo, Cameron: apartment complex, theater, living in)

[north2south.]

There are a few areas that Are for sure sketchy..

Just off the top of my head

North Lamar basically from Anderson ln north is ghetto.

North Lamar and rundberg

Parts of burnet

Stassney and 35 area

Norwood off 183 and 35

Plenty of parts off 35 are

The homeless shelter area downtown


I'm more familiar with north austin but
trust me there are some ugly areas that's for sure.

[gpurcell]

Nowhere in Austin is "ghetto" by any serious use of the term. There are working class areas, but it is nothing like deeply impoverished areas in other cities.

[Novacek]

Originally Posted by north2south.

Parts of burnet

I'm scratching my head to think of one. Which are you referring to? Southern/middle burnet is all fairly expensive. Burnet above 183 is more industrial, but hardly sketchy (and without any residential, it can't really be ghetto).

[TexasHorseLady]

Originally Posted by Novacek

I'm scratching my head to think of one. Which are you referring to? Southern/middle burnet is all fairly expensive. Burnet above 183 is more industrial, but hardly sketchy (and without any residential, it can't really be ghetto).

I'm thinking "ghetto" in this context falls into the category of "You keep using that word. I do not think that word means what you think it means."

[Raskolnikov]

There are no ghettos here, compared with Oakland California, or Camden New Jersey, or parts of St. Louis, Philadelphia, East Los Angeles, etc. In fact, there is nothing even close in the entire state of Texas, with the possible exception of border towns that aren't safe due to Cartels.

[A-Tex]

Originally Posted by TexasHorseLady

I'm thinking "ghetto" in this context falls into the category of "You keep using that word. I do not think that word means what you think it means."

The only thing I can think of is maybe they're thinking of the Quail Creek area that starts behind the businesses along Burnet north of 183 and extends over to the Lamar area. Getting a bit better over there but still pretty rough. There are some pockets of roughness between Burnet and Lamar north of Anderson as well, although most of those are related to rundown apartment buildings. I'd expect a lot of changes over in that area as well due to the rate that the older centrally located apartments are evicting their current less financially flush tenants in order to fully renovate for trendy town transplants.

[Novacek]

Originally Posted by A-Tex

The only thing I can think of is maybe they're thinking of the Quail Creek area that starts behind the businesses along Burnet north of 183 and extends over to the Lamar area.

Behind the businesses behind the businesses, behind the railroad tracks, and then behind other businesses. That's just to get to Metric, which along most of it has _another_ layer of warehouse/industrial/commercial before reaching any residential in Quail Creek.

[Aquitaine]

anything north of 51st

I was actually up on North Loop yesterday looking at a property there and took a walk around the neighborhood - sandwiched in between McCallum to the North and the Texas Dept of Health to the South. I walked up Lamar a few blocks and it's definitely not pretty - lots of auto shops - but there's also a pretty new looking apartment complex there -- Camden? -- and the houses that are being redone there look pretty sweet.

In other words, while Lamar at 51st ain't Circle C, I got the sense that the rents in that area are going to start driving out a lot of the current residents. But then I'm biased since I'm looking at moving to exactly that part of town: so you tell me, would you build a house west of Lamar at 51st?

[riaelise]

Originally Posted by Raskolnikov

There are no ghettos here, compared with Oakland California, or Camden New Jersey, or parts of St. Louis, Philadelphia, East Los Angeles, etc. In fact, there is nothing even close in the entire state of Texas, with the possible exception of border towns that aren't safe due to Cartels.

No, there aren't any inner city ghettos like NYC, but there are pockets of poverty here and throughout Texas that look just as bleak and suffer from the same issues that plague inner city ghettos (gang violence, higher crime, poorly performing schools, etc).

[A-Tex]

Originally Posted by Aquitaine

I was actually up on North Loop yesterday looking at a property there and took a walk around the neighborhood - sandwiched in between McCallum to the North and the Texas Dept of Health to the South. I walked up Lamar a few blocks and it's definitely not pretty - lots of auto shops - but there's also a pretty new looking apartment complex there -- Camden? -- and the houses that are being redone there look pretty sweet.

In other words, while Lamar at 51st ain't Circle C, I got the sense that the rents in that area are going to start driving out a lot of the current residents. But then I'm biased since I'm looking at moving to exactly that part of town: so you tell me, would you build a house west of Lamar at 51st?

That's Brentwood. You can't pick up a house for under $300K in that area anymore --- most of the lower priced ones are tear downs or at least bought to remodel. Definitely not a depressed area at all.