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i was one of the first sightings of little mexican boy many in sun city saw in the early 70's. lol. thanksgiving and christmas time visits to my grandparents i would get caught up chasing rabbits through the unfenced community...fun times bending the civil rights era growing up upper class.
My family and me BUILT this valley. We are of the first people and farmers in queen creek and east mesa..we been here since 1909.. and wish everyone and structures would just leave. We are not kind to you all. We also once had 19 acres in gilbert
Cheap and weak land offered in a desert will always be cheap financially. Doesn’t make sense for this city to exist and cheap housing on deteriorating land is why people move here in droves. Can’t walk anywhere out here so you have to drive. Nothing but single family housing and no public transportation compared to neighboring cities is just wild to me. If this city wants to grow it may want to start acting like a big city. Stop trying to grow a city and keep it like it was when it first became a state.
Wow, in '03 "we have plenty of water, we can expand forever" phoenix uses LESS water then we did in the 80's when we had a population of only 800k... Now we are more then 6 mil and use LESS water.... But still in a massive drought and leak mead at historic lows. Such an amazinf fast turn of events
Value capture sounds like an attempt to transfer private land ownership to the government. People will stop investing in land if we allow our government to capture the value of the investment. Communism never works it has been tried many times and always ends in the worst way.
I moved from L A to Phoenix back in 1979, at that time the population was only 670000 and I also remember when I lived near Bell road and 32nd Steeet in 1984 north of Bell road was where Phoenix ended and the north side of Bell road was in the county.
This is an incredbile documentary. I am a New Yorker who briefly moved to Cleveland. I have such a love for the hearty people of Cleveland and its affordable housing stock while realizing how many problems the city has. The answer may be hard money Bitcoin since Case Western has the talent to create a whole new ecosystem, CLE can once again be the Silicon Valley of Ohio.
47:06 This is EXACTLY what needs to happen!!! If you can't get the people in the community involved, if you can't get the people of the community to work WITH the Police and not against.... you'll never clean up these areas. Garfield has some great people, great families there. It takes courage to do what they did and I'm proud of them for having that courage. Downtown and south Phoenix has had some great renovation going on. Downtown is a different place from when I was kid. It was dead. Now, it's crowded on weekends. I love going to First Friday! Has restaurants, bars, entertainment and it seems like new apartments and residential buildings all the time. It can be done!
Well, Queen Creek is at about 70k now...lol. Been here since 79 and have lived mostly in the NW Valley and can remember when Queen Creek was God's country. Just farm land. Anthem... I remember when that was in the planning and thought...this is crazy. 35k people that far up I17. It filled right up! It is a very nice place to live. My Father in Law bought 10 acres on the eastern boarder of what is now Anthem, in the early 70s when he came home from Viet Nam. Those 10 acres then was just $500 per acre. He has a greenhouse on it for a while and dug a well through that hard, hard caliche! Well, in the early 2000s when Anthem started popping off, a small developer paid him $250k....for just 5 acres. The dev split them up into 4 lots and build 4 spec homes before the foundation was even laid. Two years later, the came back and bought the remaining 5 acres for $325k!!! Couldn't have happened to a better guy either. But, hell of a return after 30 years....lol.
INNER RING SUBURBS IN CLEVELANBD ARE GETTING WORSE BY THE YEAR .................ALL ON THE EAST SIDE.................... EUCLID A PRIME EXAMPLE..................... EXCEPT FOR HOMES NORTH OF LAKE SHORE BLVD.................. IF THIS FILM WAS MADE IN 2006 .......................... IN 2024 .................POCKETS OF IMPROVEMENT ................ BUT ................ GOOD LUCK CLEVELAND...............
But! The communist democrats will destroy this desert just like they have finished off the destruction of California. Those politicians are quintessential communist democrats with not one creative idea but a whole lot of criminal energy.😊
East Cleveland essentially used to be Rockefeller's home with a golf course, stables and lakes. Look at it now. John D liked the land because it was on a small bluff and caught breezes off the lake in summer. Now it just stinks
HCV needs to be an entitlement as SNAP is and Social Security are. Shelterforce has an article out that mentions the deteriorating conditions in existing low-income multiunit buildings Another thing that does not help any of this is that people on HCV have a bad rep due to high crime in some high-poverty majority-minority neighborhoods. Folks need to try to keep their neighborhoods safe, or else gentrification will win.
The Skyway was a public service, not an asset. It wasn't built to make a profit but to provide transportation into and out of the city. The worst thing that can happen is for public assets to be monetized and sold to a private company in it for profit. At that point the public (that's us folks, our taxes built the Skyway) begins to lose all around. Subject to prices increase without anyway to debate them in a public forum, service cutbacks at the whim of the owners, reduced access in order to increase profits and so on. Eventually the private owners will run the Skyway into the ground and end up demanding public money to keep it in operation. They have no incentive to keep the road maintained at a high level unless that is specified in their contract, which I understand wasn't specified. I think the state should step in and build a subway line like on the Ryan down the middle of the Skyway and offer cheaper fares than the tolls.
People would rather cheat another individual by barely paying them, so they could buy more stuff they don't need, More luxury more vehicles bigger house, burn an individual and his life so you could have more. Greed. Insecurities. People need to think about people more I'm sick of it
Beautifully shot video of my hometown and region. Your storytelling here tells the plight of what the valley is having to deal with right now and of the best ones I've seen on this as of late!
"The local control" is the one that allowed the out of state big farmers and the huge cow farms move to Sulphur Spring Valley . Local control has no power over the use and abuse of the underground water by these big farms.
I live here and need to make some comments to round out the story. 1. Ed Curry's farm is organic and a beautiful example of what should be grown in an arid environment. Plants requiring little water. 2. Our rain takes 12 years to reach the aquafer. 3. Subsidence is reducing places underground water can collect. 4. The AMA is not a solution. In over 40 years they have yet to reach their recharge goals and have not put a stop to large ag. 5. Water here is free, land is cheap. To reduce the big commercial ag start charging them for water. 6. Develop a fund large ag must pay into to redrill residential wells that have gone dry due to big ag's huge water consumption. 7. Any water management groups need to include some residential folks not involved in ag.
Educative. Thanks. But the bigger question is who benefits more? The Landowners or the developers? What if the land itself is not sold and the value accrued to the beneficiaries can be notional. e.g. a poor man living in a 5-million-dollar home with no source of income. Let's say he doesn't want to sell or lease. Isn't property tax subsuming all this?
12:45 on 5-3-2024. I'm so glad that we finally have people coming together to try to solve a huge problem that I started working on 17 years ago. With all the effort some of us put into getting petitions signed to try to stop the large corporate farms and deep wells being drilled. Time and time again we were shot down with the idea that we didn't know what we were talking about even though we had experts and their testimony backing us. I had lost hope last summer that we would ever accomplish anything so now I believe we are headed in the right direction and all the hard work over the years has finally made the right people listen and understand and I can't be happier that everyone's energy and ideas will make it happen.
Judy, it’s because everyone is beginning to work together, despite politics. A lot of people have awoken to see that our water truly IS on it’s way out if we don’t make changes in our legislature so it will start taking care of not only our small farmers, but the common person who just wants to live here and enjoy the desert.
