Dan, remember the Dollar Days for abandoned city homes? The practice being that you purchase/lease an abandoned home for a $1 then we’re required to rehab it and live in it for a specified amount of time.
yes. it never worked. people eventually took advantage of the loopholes and resold the homes without doing anything to them for a profit. i’m sure there were a few successes but all in all i don’t think baltimore will be revisiting those plans again.
So sad to see my home town rotting and descending into such squalor from such a distance. So sad for the people who live and die in all that filth, crime and drugs. It is hardly recognizable in the nearly fifteen years I have been gone and it was certainly decaying when I was still around. All that passed is now just memories, pictures and old videos. Far from what I even remember growing up in the 1970s.
I want everyone to remember that the junkies that you think are nasty are real people and they have real emotions and they have real trauma, and they just aren't a force of nature that exists. 😅 Saying this as someone whose dad was a professional heroine addict his whole life. Watched him die of cancer. Watch him also die overdosing multiple times and then have to be revived by paramedics. 😢 It makes me very sad face when people dehumanize anyone. Let's not do that when it's all trying to be loving and compassionate and you recognize that everyone is a result of their individual experiences. And there is not always appropriate support mechanisms in place for you to get the required education. You need to realize that there's something wrong in the first place. I know I wouldn't be where I am if I hadn't had an intervening grandmother. At seven who put me into psychotherapy
@March madness that and a massive amount of psychedelics, debauchery, and probably liver damage i cant handle a single whiteclaw. Thanks lol for what its worth its nice to see people validate this.
It's some of the subtleties that make the difference and why I love Dan's content. There is an ambience track added, a desolate, whispering wind that adds so much yet is almost unnoticeable. That's good filmmaking.
Mad that there's such homelessness & yet so many abandoned buildings. Fascinating to think that there's a story behind every door & it's incredible that the area in front of that leaning house hasn't been sectioned off because it looks lethal. Another great video Dan - you are my favourite on YT ❤
@@lucianaromulus1408 You do realise that foreign aid represents a tiny fraction of your government's budget, don't you? Always slightly mystified me why it's the _one_ (aritrary) expenditure people complain about What could possibly be the reason 🤔
kinda wish there is some program to give tax breaks for creating green spaces in cities.... like turn old abandoned city blocks into parks, farmer's markets, and community gardens or at least use the empty spaces for solar panels or recycling centers... something other than another parking lot, strip mall, box store, or storage warehouse.
@@gigibtsurvivor3348 or even bring better jobs in the area... give incentives to build housing in areas with raising job markets and discourage landlords from monopolizing low income properties.
It's depressing right, but also fascinating. Also in a morbid sense, cozy for people like me who grew up in the bottom rungs of society, especially in the rust belt/Appalachia. I am so spiritually attached to the abandoned city and rural town that I even started building them in Minecraft as a side hobby. America's downfall and vanity is an enthralling thing to witness.
It's always sad seeing things like this, places with much grander, illustrious histories from better days, eventually having to be abandoned and forgotten as people come in and "sh*t where they eat" and destroy their own communities. I'll never understand why people do that. As usual, great video.
Really wonderful to see these types of videos again Dan. I also feel conflicted because they're amazing to see but were and still are, peoples lives, local surroundings. That's incredibly sad 😔
Great video. So much urban decay. I always imagine what these places were like back in the day, someone's business or someone's home.... As usual great commentary and very interesting.
Whenever I see whole blocks boarded up like that it always reminds be of the Wire when they we’re throwing all those bodies in the abandoned row houses and boarding them back up. Once again great video. Love your content
Really appreciate these opportunities to have a look at Baltimore. What a far cry from back in the day. My grandfather built a house in what was then called Baltimore Highlands and it was made of Formstone. This would have been the 1950s. Previous to that my entire family had a very large house on Pratt Street right near Patterson Park.
Everytime I see these neighborhoods, I sit and try to fathom why the local government will allow such filth, decay and trash to keep piling up. Just seems like something could be done. I'd love to see you go to Kensington Ave in Philly.
Thanks for the interesting take on all the ruins left behind. We have so much to learn as humans. Sigh. Hope you are doing well these days. Much love from Oregon🌲
This is so sad.. Hurricane Katrina rocked the hell out of New Orleans...and it still doesn't look this bad.. I was there around 1997 and went to Fells Point.. it hadn't gotten like this yet... So much history in Baltimore..used to be a beautiful city I wonder if Poe would be appalled or impressed? ( Joke)
I used to rehab old Baltimore city houses in up and coming neighborhoods and I am amazed more of these brick rowhouses arent falling down. You could dig a brick out in no time with a screwdriver on most of them.
As someone who lives in Canada it’s insane to see the state of certain areas within the cites of the US, we have bad, or not very nice areas with shady people, and undesirable housing, but nothing like I’ve seen on videos like this one.
Imagine if the city could use those SQUEEGEE KIDS to clean up these eyesores instead of busting out windshields and shooting people down on President St.
What a shame. I wish the govt would educate and employ people on building restoration and an apartment, or ver ylow rent apartment, when so many courses and apprentship hours were performed as an incentive. The key being a home at the end of the whole thing. Then these buildings could be saved and re-utilized.
It’s so sad to see the decay of a surely once beautiful city. For me, as I’m Swiss, this is something I don’t „understand“. I know, the big companies left and the whole economy broke down. It’s just totally insane from my perspective, as I’m living in a very small country with a strict border around to 5 countries. We don’t have any space, our cities are heavily crowded… sad to see the difference here, where so much space and beautiful buildings are left to rot.
Think about it like this dan ,we are all homeless until we all make it home .why not start over in baltimore ? It has potential to grow ,get new residents ,new corner stores ,barber shops,maybe a matket .but the abandoned buildings have to get up to code .now that its warmer out here ,now its a good time to start it .lets rebuild ...
Sections of the states that are in this amount of rubble dont have much information to warn tourists and people that might move one day. Is there any ounce of presentable counties in Maryland? I almost considered going to Salem but I read about the patriotic behavior and number of college parties its not so isolated anymore.
Seems like Baltimore leadership is doing an outstanding job. If you have an urbex or abandoned YT channel then Baltimore will definitely help your views.
Now ,it only worth a dollar .im homeless but not hopeless .i would get a large dumping bin ,clean it out and start renovations.what are you planning to do about it ?
