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ColdJay64 t1_izgarh2 wrote

Reply to comment by ifthereisnomirror in Fishtown, Point Breeze have become far wealthier in the last 10 years and other new Census findings by Dryheavemorning

We live in the poorest big city in America. Believe it or not, preventing safety improvements to roads, keeping amenities out of neighborhoods, limiting the tax base, etc. won't help the current residents with anything except keeping them in poverty. Is that really the best outcome?

I don't know all the answers, but keeping an area an objectively worse place to live for everyone, just to keep property values down, isn't it.

There is definitely plenty of bad leadership. I'm saying he's exemplary of everything that's wrong with it - corrupt, self-serving, shortsighted, misguided, etc.

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AbsentEmpire t1_izgwdw8 wrote

Keeping the place deprived of amenities isn't keeping property values down either, because at its core Point Breeze is a transit accessible neighborhood to Center City, and Philly overall has a housing shortage in in demand locations, hense what's driving Point Breeze.

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