Monday, Nov 19, 2007
Do we really want this? Year Zero in USA working-class neighbourhoods
CNN: Cleveland's mortgage meltdown has sparked a crime wave in the nation's hardest hit area for troubled homeowners.
Most of us who read this blog secretly or openly hope prices will crash here like they are in the USA at the moment. Read this and be careful what you wish for !
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1. speculatorone said...
Judging by the amount of lead being stripped of church roofs at present I think it has already started...........
2. japanese uncle said...
After the 'stripping alminum siding' comes a series of arson incidents involving insurance fraud. North of England may be the first to see this.
3. Mark said...
funny i posted same article ages ago, but it never got put online because this website is getting left to people to run it !!!!
4. handle_it said...
We have record crime and prison levels now. So how much worse will it get ? Doesn't bare thinking about....
5. Stevie Dee said...
@handle_it.. well lets just hope they have enough to put the whole of the Labour Government in there too.
6. Stevie Dee said...
Imagine USA 2007... But on this subject, I wouldn't want to own a jeweller's..
7. drewster said...
Don't worry, we have the fundamentals: a strong economy, low unemployment, high immigration, strict planning controls. There could never be nearly a million empty homes in Britain, nor could a third of flats in central Liverpool be empty. None of these empty properties would ever become a target for criminals, squatters, or drug dealers.
I must be unlucky - in my block of new-build flats, my last neighbour was a drug-dealer and the one before that was a prostitute.
8. enuii said...
Metal recycling is rampant in my area the NW of England with Liverpool being particularly hard hit, it has nothing to do with hardship but more to do with high metals prices and travellers. The particular favourite at the moment being the towing out of older lead covered copper rich BT cables with a transit van from underground ducts leaving neighbourhoods without BT phone lines for up to a week whilst they are repaired. Most travellers do not have mortgages and don't pay much tax so are particularly unaffected blair/brown economic happenstance.
9. robh said...
There is a derelict house at the end of my road. Rubbish built up around it and the council refused to clear it telling me to get together with the neighbours and get a solicitor on to it... find the owners... send a letter. In the end I found out the council owned it! .... and they cleaned it up quite quickly after that. The house has had squatters, then a fire (maybe attempted murder as people were in it), then was boarded up. Some kind of 'deals' involving little cases being left in the garden and people 'walking up and down looking shifty' go on from time to time.
You don't need many places like that to make a neighbourhood nasty
I've just had a planning application through that someone wants to make it into a pub... with two flats :)
On the metal stripping front, I believe some dozens of heavy drain covers were stolen from the A13... now that's considerate
10. confused76 said...
But look this is already happening in the empty blocks of "luxury" flats in Manchester and Leeds.
Developers can t afford to spend money on security
11. the northerner living in oz said...
Unfortunatly this will happen in the U.K
But just think for a moment are these crimes worse than a house finace provider
issuing morgages that they do not care if they can be repaid.
Or a bank that has recived finace from the U.K Government attempting
to issue annual dividends to its share holders.
Or a director selling his share holdings just before the bad news is released to the public.
12. Fizzgig said...
This is getting like Robocop............they say that society is always one step away from anarchy.
13. enuii said...
Most new-builds are stuffed full of nice new kitchens with granite worktops and stainless white goods, it won't be long before a lot of the flats in 25% full developments are stripped bare especially when maintenance charges are not being payed by BTL loan defaulters and Insolvent developers.
Buyer Beware!
14. drewster said...
I'm glad I don't own right now. If a crack den opens next door, I can give my one month's notice and escape quickly!
15. planning4acrash said...
Mark, e-mail the webmaster for an admin password (entered by clicking the golden key by e-mail address) and you will by-pass moderators.
16. lvmreader said...
Most of Liverpool has been like this for almost 40 years!
17. Tenchama said...
I'm glad to be living on a council estate....very quiet and peaceful.Neighbors are either harmless old people or
O.O.'s. As you might expect, no empty houses.