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Buttigieg 2020

marylandblue

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3. One of the things they didn't cover is why home demolition is important.

Reply to IndyOp (Original post)

Sun Apr 21, 2019, 09:58 PM

Apr 2019

Old abandoned homes become health hazards. Rats live in them, kids play in them, drug dealers work out of them. They crumble and shed asbestos into the air. The value of all the homes around an abandoned home goes down. It's a big problem in the rust belt, especially since 2008. Detroit demolished 17,000 homes since 2014.
https://detroitmi.gov/departments/detroit-building-authority/detroit-demolition-program

It's not like this was something that didn't need doing.

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How the media is getting Buttigieg's story wrong... [View all] IndyOp Apr 2019 OP

Well, the media is probably trying to make a controversy to sell their stories. CaliforniaPeggy Apr 2019 #1

its BuzzFeed and CNN, the bottom dwellers of politricks who still claim legitimacy Celerity Apr 2019 #2

He said that the issue of abandoned houses came up IndyOp Apr 2019 #4

One of the things they didn't cover is why home demolition is important. marylandblue Apr 2019 #3