Race, class and antisemitism in Baltimore (Mayo: 2015, insuring, landlord)

[barante]

The restrictions specifically approved black domestics. Somewhere I read that a respectable family in one of the big Bolton Hill houses averaged three servants.

Many domestics, BTW, lived in Cross Keys, a village on Falls Road that had two segregated parts and to which scattered blacks were evicted when Roland Park was built. Some of the remaining frame houses, now in commercial use, may be seen on Falls Road opposite to Poly/Western High School. Most were demolished when Poly/Western was built and the Jones Falls Expressway built.

[Infinite_heights77]

Yeah and I see read Tracey's work because it's on point! No one really listens to the city's problems unless a white woman brings it up.

Originally Posted by barante

Tracey Halvorsen

[Infinite_heights77]

What the hell is a black domestic? Are you a transplant from the 1940's?

Originally Posted by barante

The restrictions specifically approved black domestics. Somewhere I read that a respectable family in one of the big Bolton Hill houses averaged three servants.

Many domestics, BTW, lived in Cross Keys, a village on Falls Road that had two segregated parts and to which scattered blacks were evicted when Roland Park was built. Some of the remaining frame houses, now in commercial use, may be seen on Falls Road opposite to Poly/Western High School. Most were demolished when Poly/Western was built and the Jones Falls Expressway built.

[dogpark]

Originally Posted by Infinite_heights77

What the hell is a black domestic? Are you a transplant from the 1940's?

Your reading comprehension needs work dude...

[barante]

Some terrific footage. Including a young Abe Sherman at his downtown news stand.

The 20-minute film depicts East Baltimore, not far from the Johns Hopkins medical instititutions:

https://archive.org/details/0918_Bal...he_00_35_36_08

[barante]

Terrific [vimeo]111574999[/vimeo]
Jennifer Bishop Street Photographer on Vimeo

[james777]

Originally Posted by barante

Some terrific footage. Including a young Abe Sherman at his downtown news stand.

The 20-minute film depicts East Baltimore, not far from the Johns Hopkins medical instititutions:

https://archive.org/details/0918_Bal...he_00_35_36_08

This film should be mandatory viewing for anyone who posts on this forum. The posters here blame all the ills of Baltimore on the landlords. Very few know that Baltimore now has the most strict housing code in the country for dealing with all types of violations. As a matter of fact it is too strict because the Baltimore Housing authority can come to your house, enter, and make any repairs that they deem necessary, without a court order, and with very little or no notice. The cost of the repairs becomes a lien on the property, just like the taxes and the water bill. Many have lost their homes and life savings from liens for work that in many cases was unnecessary.

Housing code violations in Baltimore are like a drunk who has been convicted of multiple DUIs, but is still driving. They only exist because the authorities are not doing their job.

[barante]

https://www.baltimorebrew.com/2014/1...race-and-more/

[barante]

http://www.amazon.com/dp/0801888700/..._0EhKub13V6C5S

This is a link to a 2008 book about Mary Elizabeth Garrett, who gave the money for Bryn Mawr School and the Johns Hopkins Medical School. It's quite pricey but should be available in public libraries. Read about the family that owned much of NE Baltimore, explaining why certain changes came later to those parts than to West Baltimore.

[BMoreJuice]

Originally Posted by james777

This film should be mandatory viewing for anyone who posts on this forum. The posters here blame all the ills of Baltimore on the landlords. Very few know that Baltimore now has the most strict housing code in the country for dealing with all types of violations. As a matter of fact it is too strict because the Baltimore Housing authority can come to your house, enter, and make any repairs that they deem necessary, without a court order, and with very little or no notice. The cost of the repairs becomes a lien on the property, just like the taxes and the water bill. Many have lost their homes and life savings from liens for work that in many cases was unnecessary.

Housing code violations in Baltimore are like a drunk who has been convicted of multiple DUIs, but is still driving. They only exist because the authorities are not doing their job.

Too bad my past landlords didn't receive this memo.