Private Partnership Has St. Louis Blight Removal In Its Sights

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2. I disagree...why should my government (supported by my taxes literally since I live in STLMO) ...

spend our hard earned money for tearing down old structures? Other than the fact that we all get stuck with the bills when folks abandon these structures.

I know that there have been some efforts to go after these folks who abandoned these structures too, to get them to cough up some dough or take responsibility for them. Probably not a great success since sometimes you can't locate next of kin, etc. easily.

A lot of folks picked up and abandoned these homes (land lords unwilling to put money back into old structures, older folks died off leaving properties abandoned etc.) leaving the city and its residents holding the bag. Like Me.

If we can get private industry to help in this giant task, wonderful. This has been an issue for quite some time and we're making big headways towards eliminating a lot of these properties. Most of these kinds of abandoned properties are pretty well gone in the more upscale neighborhoods such as Tower Grove Park, Dutch Town, etc. (40,000 Households), and so this kind of work is rather limited to certain areas of the city.

We'll get there.