#1 2009-05-01 16:03:39
My friend Johnny Nolan from High Street unearthed these.
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#2 2009-05-02 13:58:19
These are great pictures, Bill. Is the yellow building the building that is being converted into affordable housing. The one where because they can't afford rent on their own, they will need to drag their children and groceries up four flights of stairs because the company will not spend the money to put in an elevator?
Where/what is the old high school now?
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#3 2009-05-02 14:40:27
Mixie wrote:
These are great pictures, Bill. Is the yellow building the building that is being converted into affordable housing.
Thought I knew the answer to that but I'll have to ask the library's Lynda Ames, if the Selectmen haven't laid her off yet. Not a joke.
Mixie wrote:
Where/what is the old high school now?
Currently located at the bottom of Gibbs Ave.
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#4 2009-05-02 16:32:14
Thanks, Bill.
The building looks nice red. They took off the steeple and the chimney, though...
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#5 2009-05-02 18:29:56
Mixie wrote:
Thanks, Bill.
The building looks nice red. They took off the steeple and the chimney, though...
Didn't know for sure until you asked and thought, wait a minute, I know that place. I photographed each of the 37 buildings on this street several years ago.
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#6 2009-05-02 19:27:26
what an historic and picturesque town we live in..what geniuses thought we needed so much subsidized housing??
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#7 2009-05-02 20:14:43
slagisDB wrote:
what an historic and picturesque town we live in..what geniuses thought we needed so much subsidized housing??
Subsidized housing is usually done with the best of intentions but unfortunately it also attracts a criminal element. Woods of Wareham for example has a drug dealing problem that the small Wareham Police force will never get a handle on. It has also been the location of violent crimes. Brandy Hill is not much better. Wareham is bearing more than it's share of the subsidized housing burden.
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#8 2009-05-02 22:08:28
TBL wrote:
slagisDB wrote:
what an historic and picturesque town we live in..what geniuses thought we needed so much subsidized housing??
Subsidized housing is usually done with the best of intentions
No, it's not. It's a highly profitable venture for those directly involved, from the out-of-town developers to the polictians who court them.
And the tenants? Well, who give a fuck about them?
In places like East Providence, RI (until the Civil War, a part of Massachusetts) local police milk those tenants for all they're worth.
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#9 2009-05-02 23:01:41
Affordable housing has good intentions, but look at all the houses in foreclosure. These beautiful houses: brand new 5 room ranches, 6 room colonials, 6 room capes, all purchased as part of affordable programs for between $75,000.00 - $160,000.00 (these are prices during the housing boom). These houses are now in foreclosure. Not because the family couldn't afford the mortgage, but because they were allowed to take out second mortgages on the equity, that in essence, was given to them....There should be a law to save people from themselves.
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