They built "project housing" in and around the neighborhood starting in the late 1970s causing all the local businesses to close due to crime, which resulted in everyone moving away in mass, which resulted in all the homes becoming section 8 rentals.
The neighborhood became a crime ridden shithole and has remained one ever since.
My parents were elderly and wouldn't/couldn't move and start over. Unfortunately they lost their lives in the most horrific way to a home invasion back in 2012.
They forced all us students to attend schools based on zip code which resulted in everyone attending schools in the ghetto that were 90% or more black. This resulted in a best case scenario of not getting an education - and being raped, beaten or murdered at worst. I ended up with a GED because I had PTSD due to all the violence I experienced. It persists to this day.
I watched liberals destroy an entire living breathing community.
Now I see Biden and the leftists expanding on these policies. I know what's coming because I've already lived through it once before. I won't go through it again.
I'm a small time real estate investor that can only afford run down properties in the hood and there's something more insidious going on. When half a street is section 8 and owned by the local housing authority, the private owners try to sell, fail, and then the housing authority in cahoots with the inspector start tag teaming the private owner, and forcing them to sell for pennies on the dollar. The housing authority will also setup non profit corps to buy homes. Ultimately this becomes a profitable enterprise by sucking up federal section 8 money while skirting around their own inspection and eviction laws. These government staffers in "affordable housing" are absolutely killing it.