The story behind this is, these homes were built for the military. DCSC, is less than a half a mile away. The US government sold to local business man, who turned it into a civilian community. It wasn't taken care of and turned into an area of crime and drugs. The city of Whitehall forced the owner to upgrade or it would be closed permanently. There is going to office buildings and condo's built on the site. I live nearby and have grown up seeing the demise of this ex-military housing. There is even more to the story, but hopefully i helped people understand this story a little better
i wonder (and i have no clue ) that this community was designed for renters (military and then civilian ) mostly rather then home ownership ? i can c people taking pride in their props if they own but not so much if they just rent and let things erode away
@@brewcrew5854 these homes were built specifically as a temporary neighborhood for the civilians working at the military instalation. It's also right up against the airport. Instead of tearing it all down, the government decided to sell it and turn it into doubles for the community. At first, these homes were well taken care of, but 1990 or 1991, it was sold to another property owner and it went downhill from there. The properties weren't maintaining and they allowed "anyone" into the neighborhood. The worse it got, the worse the clientele became. In the last 2 years these places were lived in, there were 3 murders. When I was little, we lived here. There is also another area just south of DCSC, now referred to as DCSS.Not exactly sure why the name change. This area is called English Village and is still being used. Exactly like homes in this video, just that they've been taken care of and Woodcliff wasn't
I can't speak for this housing, but much of military housing on federal installations isn't built to local code. The housing at (long closed) George AFB in California was deemed unsuitable for the homeless because it contained so much asbestos. One house I lived in definitely wouldn't have met electrical code; when you turned the bathroom light on, a whole wall in the bedroom would go dead. Maintenance finally realized that in lieu of a junction box, wiring was just stuffed behind the bathroom switch. (@@royhibbler7321
@@56caddnot true at all I have experienced homelessness before and I ended up getting a job as for other homeless people there’s reasons why they aren’t working weather that be because they don’t have an address and a state ID, or they have drug problems, or they have mental health problems, or even because they have criminal records there’s reasons why homeless people aren’t working it has nothing to do with being lazy.
@@G-Man-half-life I've been alive long enough to remember when America wasn't like this. Today's " homeless " society is the ramifications of the " peace and love" movement.
I lived here in its final years. It was so bizarre. Some of the houses were updated on the inside. Kitchen remodel, new appliances, new bathroom, etc. Other houses were falling apart, and REEKED of cat urine from the absolute army of stray cats that lived in the area. I remember hearing stories from some of the neighbors. They usually involved someone being held up at gunpoint a few houses down. It also wasn’t uncommon for me to get up in the morning and find my extremely alcoholic neighbor passed out on my front lawn. I started waking him up and we would have coffee on my front patio. Wild times.
As a Brit I still struggle to get my head around the sheer size of America, the fact that you have the space to even have massive abandoned housing estates, can't do that over here too many people not enough houses as it is!
It pains my heart that England will soon be a country with a minority of ethnic British people. British people are openly persecuted by it's own government.
You have to remember we have states that are bigger than your whole country. Alaska, Texas, Oregon, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, California and Michigan are bigger then the UK.
I live in Columbus, I can tell You what happened these were turned into low income Section 8 housing. So you can imagine what took place after that. What you imagine then multiply that by 10. The city ended up taking this over condemning the whole neighborhood. It has since been completely demoed and a new development is on going in its spot. How ever my prediction is the new project will follow the same path. I think it’s throwing good money after bad. But the liberals that control Columbus think nothing of spending tax payers money for lip stick on a pig !!!
There was a low-income housing project built in Detroit during WWII. It was pretty run down by the early 1970s. It was spruced up in the mid- to late 1970s and in less than ten years, most of the buildings were vacant, vandalized or already torn down. The complete project was demolished in 1998. Many renters don't respect other people's property. They have nothing invested and won't lose anything when they walk away. Their attitude is 'Easy come, easy go' and various governments encourage it because it is tax dollars paying for these failed programs and the politicians, construction companies, or investors that are raking in the money. It's hard to have pity for people hell-bent on destroying their lives and the lives of their children.
Why you gotta bring politics into everything...stop blaming....start doing something...you must be a millennial....me me me...soft people who had everything handed to them...blame blame blame...what are you doing to change anything? Just as I figured...zero zip nada....shutty your fat mouth
Built in 1953, they were condominiums. The houses were cheaply built. In the mid 1970s, gangs and drugs moved in, then the whole area went down. Recently, the city bought the land, it took 10 years to get all of the residents out. Some who had purchased the house and others that rented. It was a huge legal mess. There are still some who refuse to sell. Demo has begun on the rest, big new buildings planned by 2030.
@@joemtnmanyou are right, we learned that from past issues. But in the 70s condo houses that are part of a community w pool where the buy in was low priced was viewed as a cheaper alternative to buying outright. But here, the mgt company was lousy and it attracted low income residents. It went down hill quick. It was the condo contracts that made it so legally tough to buy the entire community and renovate. The area remains a hit-and-miss low income area of Columbus. It will eventually become low income aka affordable apartment buildings. Primarily minority residents. White flight in the 70s left the area in a slump. It has never recovered. Columbus is financially segregated. No one wants to live in crime and drug neighborhoods. Those that could got out and moved to northern Columbus. If you are more interested search Town and Country shopping center 1960. It used to be a hot up and coming neighborhood. There was circus and high divers when the shopping center opened. Now it is just strip malls. Very sad how this area was destroyed by welfare, section 8 vouchers, food stamps, drugs and crime. But the same thing happened to many areas in the US. Also check out Spanish Lake, Missouri. Same thing happened.
We lived there in 1971. we lived there for 4 years. it was a great place to grow up. So much fun. I delivered news papers & it was big job for a 9 yr old especially on Sundays.
@@niccovisconti1712 for some reason I read that in Samuel L Jackson's. "Say abandoned one more time! Abandoned ain't no country I ever heard of! They speak English in abandoned?"
When military (or government) housing is constructed, it is often cookie-cutter because it's cheaper (everything is standardized, which speeds up construction and keeps costs down). Can't spend too much money on those active-duty military types! You might spoil them!
"Little boxes, little boxes, and they're all made out of ticky-tacky... Little boxes, little boxes, and they all look just the same 🎵" ( a 1962 song by Maivina Reynolds)
Was not due to lack of maintenance. That was all the fire department training. They had problems with utilities too, couldnt shit off to each unit but only each building.
Its going to be much more than a park... It will become a mixed use development called Rockwell District development.ohio.gov/home/news-and-events/all-news/2023-0223-city-of-whitehall-and-partners-kickoff-300-million-redevelopment-and-revitalization-of-major-gateway-at-east-broad-street-and-north-hamilton-road
@@TrumpyBooden he didn't say that! There's a huge homeless problem in this country & ppl who can hardly afford housing. Possible solutions that could be used to help ppl.
I grew up in this neighborhood. We lived it two of the houses on Midcliff Dr. It was the street in the middle. It breaks my heart to see it in this condition. I've drove through it a few times and it's just awful how the last owners let it all go. It could have been maintained and been doing just fine had they taken care of it. So many good memories with friends and going to the pool there.
So many hardworking people that cannot afford to have their own homes! Very sad indeed that this situation can be found all over USA. Abandoned houses all over.
It was military housing. That usually isn’t great quality. Then it was sold to a private company. They did not maintain it, so the properties all fell into disrepair.
Ohio has proven to be more purple. I am proud that they voted to codify abortion rights, and to make Pot legal. Thankfully they are not all MAGA freaks@@arthurchavers7554
I tried to help more than one. They all ripped me off, robbed me blind.....broke in later and robbed me again 6 months after kicking them out. He and his girlfriend were prefectly happy being homless with their haroin. No one should be homelss THAT DOSENT WANT TO BE
Ah, said like someone who has never worked with that population. "Homelessness" - ask yourself, why don't you house a few of those people yourself? Now, imagine you run a shelter, do you think there are people who are so wretched that they willingly destroy the physical, economic, and social structure of the place you manage... what would you do? Does a jail become then the refuge of the "homeless".. the point is many, I won't say all, but by far most, are that way by choice.
@@marthawardell4854I guess you want to do the thankless jobs they do here that no one else wants to...get out there old lady...pick strawberries..bend over 12:-14:hours a day
Who's going to pay to rehab those homes? Pay the utilities, property taxes, home insurance, maintenance, and garbage & sewage? NOT THE HOMELESS 😂 You can't GIVE people homes who can't afford them. 🤦🏽♀️ It's too big of a burden on taxpayers.
@@extremedrivrnot all homeless people are bad. We are all one step away from homelessness. Appreciate your life . And pray you don't lose everything one day 🙏
They were all rented condos. The management company allowed all the properties to deteriorate, not repairing the houses, till they were unlivable. It was the owners, not the renters who let things go.
Dude thats a lie ! I spent a lot of my childhood in Woodcliff , my mom worked at the government base across the street. It went down hill because of the new renters that moved in after the military families moved out .
They didn't really allow them to deteriorate. The price to fix a building cost more than you get if you were to sell or rent out. It's more of cost to profit. They would loose money if they had fix everything. With maintenance and taxes. The building is il-liquid.
@@psgistheworstclubineurope no I'm not talking about druggies. I'm talking about all the Veterans of war that have been tossed aside by the government. They've been put out as well as Seniors to let illegal immigrants come & live in those spaces. Sometimes things happen to Veterans of War that are a continuous battle because they never see life the same again. But they fought for our country with or without an active war.
@@psgistheworstclubineurope you know there are plenty of celebrities who get great tax right offs for donations. Those ppl could easily support the costs of a project but mostly narcissistic & don't want to miss a $1 of their own $$. Do you have a better idea?
Had an aunt & uncle live there. Then, as an auditor, I audited a couple of businesses whose offices were in a few homes. I was a terrible sight when last seen around 2006. If looking up where this was, type in Woodcliff, Whitehall, OH.
However, this is in the Columbus suburb of Whitehall. The Columbus area has been steadily growing for decades. This neighborhood's woes would have to do with some combination of neglect, disinterest, apathy, NOT a lack of industry.
If you do google street view on parts of Hamilton Road, it looks like they began razing the houses in October 2022. So these images are old, but not that old. I'm sure they're all gone by now.
I tried to buy this land a few years ago to no avail, I could not get the funding due to the lenders not wanting to back me because of my idea of turning it back into an affordable housing development, it’s sad how many do not actually care about helping our own American people. But, I haven’t given up currently helping true Americans one home at a time.
@@dnorcal1 absolutely and if you ever decide to move to Cincinnati I have a few homes for rent and two in Dayton listed on Zillow, and HotPads, and my rent is $1,000 & $1,350 and the less than a dollar per square foot.
Have you given thought to crowdfunding, or putting together a collective of like-minded people? There are many other ways to raise funds other than trying to deal with the greedy bankers.
I'm from Akron. I remember when Rolling Acres Mall opened. Like other malls gangs took over, legitimate shoppers quit going, anchor stores move out and they close. Randall Park mall, Chapel Hill mall. Same thing.
This place is about 10mins from where I used to live. This place was riddled with a ton of plumbing issues making it unbearable to live in. Not to mention the amount of crime in the area makes it a place nobody should raise a family.
It’s 😢that all those abandoned homes aren’t livable. Instead of gett’n them repaired to help those n need they prefer to just leave all those home abandoned. It’s insane dsn’t make sense at all.
The neighborhood underwent a “cultural” shift in the 80s and crime and drugs made it unlivable. We all know what happened but cannot say it because it is politically incorrect
Nah... They were made cheap and horribly maintained. Would cost more to fix it up and fix all the problems, be easier and cheaper to make a whole new housing development
Black people moved in after it was allowed to be run down, because that is one of the few places they could afford. You racists are dumb and disgusting
Why can't they send some of the migrants to places like this? What they've been though already, think they could handle fixing up things. Winter is almost here and stupid mayors in blue cities have them sleeping on the floor in Police stations and community colleges but getting kicked out during the day. Could even send them to Detroit.
You could write a book about that story. The owner was in years long fights with the county and state over unpaid taxes, lack of maintenance a whole host of issues. And it may have been seven miles outside Columbus when first built but I’m fairly certain it had been annexed to Columbus by the time it was torn down.
Lived a mile from there growing up. They were already terrible in the 90’s and just continued to go downhill. We never ventured to that side of town due to safety concerns.
We used to call this ticky tack garbage homes. Stop building this crap and they won’t go abandoned. Same thing happened in CA and AZ in the. 90s and 00s. Nobody wants to live in these identicle poorly built ticky tack housing developments.
I lived there in late 60s. We had so much fun playing hide and seek, all those fun games. Always a bunch of kids to play with. Good times! I cant believe it looks like that!
They were in fact really nice...what they didn't mention is there were two sections the ones shown sat empty for a few years then an artist offered to paint them all...which looked crazy solid blues purples pinks etc before being torn down...the other section is still up and maintained...they've still not made any attempt at building anything new on that site
2 miles outside of Cincinnati on 76 acres on a hill with great views is a government housing complex named City Heights which opened up in 1953 as Ida Spence Homes is being thrown down and replaced by new condominiums.
I grew up playing in this neighborhood, my grandma lived in woodclif . It was nice when i was a kid , nice playground , lots of squirrels especially all white ones , bowling alley across the street . Everything went down hill quick when the military families started moving out .
