Those townhomes are usually junk. Just look at the ones all through the heights and other historic neighborhoods. Less than a decade old with visible signs of wear because of cheap materials. Probably built worse now due to costs being higher than ever.
Stick built. Made to sell not to last. 5 story stick built apt building are built financing. Will fall apart but they plan on selling to govt to house the poor after a few years.
Many “micro builders” are coming into Houston buying up lots and building these townhouse with very poor building practices. Most commonly, stucco homes that are not ideal for Houston’s humidity.
So is 3rd ward suppose to stay run down forever? I don't like it either but what are the people in 3rd ward willing to do? Affordable housing still doesn't bring the value up when you definitely don't have a group of people that don't even care about trying to keep the property clean. That generation of renter's that cared are gone. These younger adults don't care about it at all..... Just take a look in 3rd ward for yourself.... You can't be mad at losing an area when the area isn't trying to keep it! I'm not from Houston but understand it because it happened in Detroit.
Rather than gentrifying a poor neighborhood for the rich/wealthy, they should be making it a better place for the residents-many of whom have lived there for generations. Why displace them?? The wealthy have many more options.
That can be said to what happen to California back in 80s and 90s; when these types of buildings began showing up there. Problem is, these houses are not worth living. They will for younger individuals but for older folks ; most older folks want a single family home 🏡 ; not a townhouse like these here .
They're not being displaced, they're selling their houses to them and moving to the burbs to make that look like the 3rd ward before they fixed it up with these condos.
its evil trying takeover neighborhood because close downtown, college campus in area european american use strategy make black people move from neighhoods offer black money to move look at data 97% home buyers European Americans
This Europeans strategy Where place have Value gentrify it, 3rd ward have 2 universitys area 90% blacks what do get land Build for European residents set price where only they afford I do real estate Europeans use same strategy remove black or hispanics out neighborhoods so cant be around nice stuff... Atlanta houses 5 minutes mid downtown area House $180k next door house new contruction $1.5m😂💀😂City hall aproved that real estate evil because they set price Miami houses actually 3bds 2bths 1200 sqft $480k houses really worth $180k set prices meet certain buyer European are buyers why Usa keep data for salaries companies do research offer homeowner price cant pass live Devil...Brooklyn they litteraly shoot in air so cant gentrify neighborhoods
this is happening all over the city , just look at houston heights! it used to be majority hispanic now it’s predominantly white , same thing’s happening to the northside/northline area
Yes, all the minorities are moving to Katy larger homes for cheaper prices and all the rich people are moving out of Katy and back into the city. It’s expensive now to live inside the beltway if you want to buy a home inside west beltway and i10 to downtown. I was looking for a home near i10 inside beltway towards downtown, geez it’s expensive. The closer you get to downtown the more expensive it gets .
@@Bnguyen276 yeah, it’s just due to market trends, white middle-class people want to live inside the 610 loop as there is more to do, while minorities are being pushed out & forced to live in the suburbs, which were once solely white
@@omar9268 I see a lot of Asians that live in Washington , heights also. Not just whites. Just people with money. The minorities were dumb and got excited and sold their homes when developers offered them 150k-200k for their homes back then, when now it’s worth 3x that price now. Can’t blame them the homes back then in that area was dirt cheap. They got excited and sold all their homes and moved to Katy.
@@Bnguyen276 yeah, although there’s still a significant amount of hispanics there, but I guess the people that left couldn’t keep up with the property tax increases & didn’t see growth potential in their own neighborhoods. my dad has 3 properties around the northside area and they’re valued up in the 300k range because he bought them just at the right time (the 2008 recession), I’ve already seen people complaining in the cypress area about people ruining their neighborhoods, the suburbs are getting pretty bad.
@@Bnguyen276 also younger professionals (25-35) want walkable neighborhoods, neighborhoods where you can walk in a peaceful environment, go to work using public transportation, and not rely on a car all the time.
Even the beat up apartments are expensive. I was living in a decent 1 bedroom with an attached garage 1k sq ft for 1200 a month. At the end of the contract they wanted to raised it to 1800 a month. I just went ahead and purchased a house instead.
Can't believe you're bringing this up now , it's done already and not the only area they done this to. Also Think your mayor and city council members for this you know those of pieces _hit that say they care soooo much about you
Gentrification has been happening in all cities all over the world for decades. Cities grow and change. If you want to try to avoid gentrification, try to move to a small town or city that is not growing economically or changing socially or culturally.
Price controls don’t work, regulations don’t work. Federal Reserve should stop rigging the housing market and young people should adopt bitcoin tl fix this problem
All I hear is complaining but none of y’all did ish. Step ya game up and make more money. Should’ve bought your grandparents house and renovated it. People wanna buy jags and Benzs and range rovers but forget about buying land. Get your ish together
Progress happens. Of course that term is subjective, but it happens. There were horse and buggies on Houston streets at some time. Times and trends change. Development isn’t a racial issue, it’s a money issue. A developer sees a chance for profit, then makes a profit. If you are willing to be a part of that process, perhaps you can profit also. Renters don’t have that option, they don’t own the property. Yet many communities forget that little fact when these situations arise. Just because 2 or 3 generations of a family have rented the same house doesn’t make it theirs. My father sold his place based on taxes (and tax corruption) and development in his area. Had he taken a little initiative, he could have turned his home into an investment and done well for himself. It’s not about race, it’s about money. If you don’t own the property, you are along for the ride. If you own the property, you have the chance to do well if you make good decisions. If you don’t make good decisions, you can be squashed. Of course if corruption is any part of the process you can be squashed also. If you are just renting, don’t be bitching. Keep in mind, if you rented the same place for several years, you basically bought a house for someone else.
Tell that to the Black people in Compton who tried to buy the Compton Mall. They offered the most money and had a solid plan and they still lost out to a Russian firm. Please break down how the folks who offered the most money had ended up losing out?
I deliver in the 3rd ward all day and a lot of those townhomes are empty, some have been empty long enough to be completely destroyed and vandalized. I guess building and waiting for someone to buy is more profitable somehow than just waiting to build, but it doesn't really feel like building and abandoning large, cheap homes is great for the neighborhood.
Imagine buying one of those townhomes and looking out of your side window and BOOM a wall in your face. They are soooo close to each other. No way I would buy that cheaply made crap.
How it Improving when no one can afford it the same people who kept the city alive when it was trash . There building that for newcomers nothing for the backbone of the community
Don't they have grocery stores in 3rd Ward? I mean I am in north Texas and the black communities don't have grocery stores at all in their communities....you have to drive way out just to get food. South Dallas, Stop 6 you know what I'm talking about....On the other hand the houses in Houston are gorgeous compared to DFW.
Argue with those black folks that sold out to developers. Now they can afford to improve their lives and buy one of those new condos!!! New housing has lifted the value of the existing homes.
You're skipping the part of why they're selling, which is due to property taxes becoming a hassle to keep up with. It's not as simple as folks just selling their homes all willy nilly.
@@apexone5502 ....and where will they move to with low taxes?? i actually looked up the taxes on a house in Atlanta that was listed at $234,000. the taxes were 2400/ year! In NJ those taxes would be $7-$8 thousand/year!!!!!
@@sunlite9759 what does Atlanta have to do with this? The news story is about a Houston neighborhood. Atlanta had nothing to do with that particular neighborhood. Besides that, since you're doing comparisons, NJ pay is typically higher than GA pay, so a person can still struggle with the lower property taxes because they get paid a lower amount compared to the state with higher taxes and higher pay to offset those taxes. Once again, the folks in that neighborhood were struggling with the property taxes. Black people are at the bottom economically in this country, so what might not be that big of a deal to you might be a big deal to those who have had their property taxes raised to an unaffordable level. Gentrification starts with raising taxes beyond what the residents of the targeted neighborhood can afford.
@@apexone5502 Your reply states that property taxes are commensurate with incomes. A greater threat to the core housing in the US is the loss of identity that neighborhoods once commanded. The result is urban blight that is irreversible. New construction in some suburbs will be doomed as soon as they are built and occupied. To compensate for this, property tax increases have turned what might have been stable middle class neighborhoods into a RE traps. Where is the turning point? At what point will the cost of living outweigh income and those that could leave left. It is a snowballing effect very visible in places like Irvington, NJ and Cleveland. The result: urban blight and crime. More and more of the country is falling victim to blight. The media ignores it preferring to reach stardom by chasing the scandal de jour. Please don't recommend public housing. That as been a dismal failure where ever it was tried. Ask yourself why?
This is an example of the Bible's Law of Use. Sorry that lot's not being used to fight pitbulls or deal drugs anymore, it's now to provide shelter and memories to people trying to better themselves. I'm not being a b**ch, I lived in the 3rd Ward and know something about it.
