Man good looking out. Was literally about to snag MLB.tv and this saved me $149. Just a fyi though to other peeps the blackout only covers live. I will usually get back and watch the game later if I can't watch it on Cable and it's not blacked out

Lol you cannot answer my question. Look at any city you mentioned and look at which part of the city has the highest rate of crime. Shocker its the poorest portion.

Which area in NYC compares to Sandtown/ Winchester? You're saying poverty levels are the same. but lol you are using baton rouge as a talking point when baton rouge is incredibly violent. I'm not sure where you pulled your statistics from. But tell me why you think Baltimore has such high violent crime if it's not poverty

But you didn't. You are generalizing statistics for a whole city. If you look at Baltimores affluent areas you'd be like wow Baltimore is a pretty safe city. If you look at west and east Baltimore you be like holy smokes this place is a war zone. The difference being those who live in abject poverty vs high income earners.

Look at where the crime is happening and what the income levels are in those areas..it really is that simple.

Crime is directly tied to material condition. You can't "solve" crime when a quarter of your tax base lives in poverty. You either have to fix the reasons that they are poor or push poor people out of the city. Baltimore isn't attractive enough to push poor people out of the city. This idea would go towards improving the material conditions of it's residents so lol good luck getting that approved.

Someone went to Chipotle today

Who you responding to? I didn't say that

It's why the city shouldn't let people sit on vacants and should absolutely have programs that keep people in houses. Making cosmetic changes is a heck of a lot cheaper than a complete tear down

Nimbyism isnt really demolish old buildings to put up parking lots. It's usually literally the opposite - demolish to put up more high capacity living spaces.

Open the picture up and look at the back. People generally wrote the date and location on the back of photographs.back in the day

Was just commenting on the "dead" aspect. There isn't a lot of people out tonight

Think it's just a slow night. Went to a couple places in LP tonight and there wasn't many people

Lol yeah let's never look at things that work extremely successfully to emulate. What a stupid take.

Community owned, non profits and PPPs. Here's a good read for housing done probably as about as good as you can get it. 78% of Vienna's housing is rentals but only 7.4% of all housing stock is for profit without any rent controls. https://housing4.us/how-vienna-ensures-affordable-housing-for-all-with-an-extremely-complicated-housing-system/

What you're describing is exactly what I'm saying is stupid - wealth accumulation and profit seeking being tied to a life necessity, housing. No one should have to scrimp and save to put a roof over their head and then immediately be incredibly fucked when they experience hardship.

Not anti renting just anti landlord. Like I said my position is that housing should not be a profit seeking endeavor.

I've been pretty clear with my position. I don't think landlords should engage in profit seeking. Obviously people are going to rent out rooms to their family or friends and you cant really stop that. But if you're buying a 2 bedroom apartment to charge some guy out the ass just so you can afford a 2 bedroom that you don't need or to use that person to build your own personal wealth then yeah sure I got a problem.

What is their fair share of the mortgage. 50/50 isn't their share cause ultimately you are the capital owner in that situation and are benefiting from their occupancy.

It wouldn't be your roommate, it would be your tenant. I think there is work that needs to be done with live in tenants. If you look at NYC it's a bit absurd that a 200ft basement can cost thousands for a hazardous shit box. But ultimately I don't have an issue increasing the occupancy of a single family home when the owner is living there. I'm not anti-renting. I still don't think you should be making a profit off housing someone because as I said I think it's a human right. If you have the chance look up the system Austria has for their public housing.

Youre not a landlord?

If you don't live in the house then you shouldn't own the house or be taxed heavily. Family home landlords do not provide a service worth keeping in my opinion. Apartments are clearly different as they are high occupancy housing. Clearly there could be more regulation around them but OP isn't that or he wouldn't be asking reddit.

No I didn't say that.

A human right shouldn't be a profit seeking endeavor and the main driver for wealth accumulation is property ownership for some idiotic reason. There really shouldn't be landlords outside high occupancy housing.

Neither are really that great. Little Havanas food is not great but has a view (it is winter though). Outpost is very overpriced for okay food - cute European pub vibe to it though