The first thing the LRA can do is market their properties. They do not do this.

The second they can do is actually make an effort to acquire more funds. They are very much underfunded.

What they city could do is actually have some legislative attempt at reform which would need the efforts of state rep’s too since the LRA isn’t a city agency.

Yet the Mayor has great control since he appoints the head of SLDC, currently Rodney Crim, which oversees the operations of the LRA.

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The test that a person would fix it up is met when that person is willing to pay money for the property. Mr./Ms. Po doesn’t want the albatross of a house that is bringing in no income/not being used by M. Po. The buyer is demonstrating interest by paying cash money for the property.

Of course the new buyer may not pay taxes etc., but if someone is willing to spend more capital than anyone else, they should be able to acquire the property.

A business would sell to the highest bidder, getting the non-performing asset off its books. Businesses and govs are different in that a business may get the most money out of the property (renting to a check cashing place) when a gov may look at things like ‘community value’ (day care center) in evaluating who to sell the property to.

The reason the LRA has a property is because the property owner either abandoned the property or didn’t pay their taxes. What should city government do? Let property owners not pay taxes or do like any company would do and take away privileges?

A creditor will re-po your car or house if you don’t pay.

A bank won’t let loan you money to fix your house if you can’t pay.

A bank won’t sell you a re-poed house if you can’t prove that you can pay for it.

I’m not saying Po righteous teacher doesn’t have the ability to fix up the property, but a test to see if some one has the ability to properly rehab a property is reasonable.

It looks to me that government is acting just like a private business in this case.

Do you have a theory how this would be handled by a non-governmental actor?

Another fact. It was Democrat, Senator Patrick Moynihan who communicated an alarm as to what the welfare system was doing to the African American community–not Reagan. He noted that when the same lifestyle hit the white community, the same destructive forces would be at work–all based on the exponential growth of out-of-wedlock children.

“In the past, the government supported lifestyles that led only to generational poverty, i.e., supporting women regardless of how many children out of wedlock (also regardless of how many different fathers) they produced. That was performing the job of being a co-enabler.”

People were never dependent on AFDC. Many cycled off, as they wanted to work, and back on the program because single mothers had children while the program provided benefits and in fact most of the jobs in the private sector did not. The problem was not with welfare, the problem is that corporate America created a disincentive to work because of the horrible wages and benefits. If the wages were higher, and benefits provided, then you wouldn’t see people getting back on AFDC after they initially left the program.

this whole issue about students graduating and being “work ready” is a load of crap

the only time African Americans had full employment was during slavery

financial literacy is the key principle that is a hinderence to the poor

you can’t will a job, no matter how good it is, to your family

if you have no assets to leave them, they start at ground zero and there is no generational growth

deNILE is not just a river in Egypt!

Many African Americans are not buying into the rest of society and government are to blame for choices individuals make.

Buy into? DON’T GET ME STARTED!

I don’t argue that it is the responsibility of an individual to uplift himself, however, LRA housing blocks access for that to happen. I am a working class individual. I attempted to buy LRA property, had proof of financial responsibility, but was not approved because it was told to me, that they would rather a developer purchase the property. That was 6 years ago. The house I wanted is still vacant. The government, in this case, is denying access!