When I was a kid there were lots of little pickers shacks that the migrant fruit pickers stayed in that was absolutely deplorable. Often without clean running water, septic, and insulation these places were infested with mice and often probably other pests such as fleas and lice. Although many Mexicans worked in the neighborhood I grew up in, not many had the chance to have their children with them, let alone have them go to a year-round school.
Bello Rio is a new option for farmworkers which provides year-round affordable housing for farmworkers. The neighborhood in which it is situated in spent more than $50,000 in legal fees to fight the development- which they feared would reduce property values in the area.
Right across the street from this new development is a old farmhouse that has been abandoned. Down the street from it is the old red farmworkers house at the beginning of the video. Abandonded and neglected properties bring down property values probably more than anything- not brand new apartments in which everybody works.
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Chula Vista’s Residential Abandoned Property Program, an Innovations in American Government Finalist, presented before the National Selection Committee in May 2009. The program addresses the adverse conditions and blight caused by vacant, abandoned, and financially distressed residential properties, by affirmatively placing responsibility for security and maintenance on mortgage holders.
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This is a prime example of what street not buy on in Detroit.