🚀 go-pugleaf

Eternal Nay-sayer wrote:

> In dc.biking wrob <wrob@erols.com> wrote:
> > Kenneth Cornelius wrote:
>
> <munch>
>
> >> Then the ownership and everything else changed.  Most of the staff vanished.
> >> The boilers went to hell.  Piss stains appeared on the walls and holes appeared
> >> in the plaster.  The laundry rooms became a free kill zone.  My mother, of
> >> course, was long gone the instant this started.  I retained a mild interest in
> >> the place and one day I woke up to discover that my Clifton Terrace was just
> >> about the most notorious slum in the city.
>
> <munch>
>
> > Barry, Cora, and the rest of the DC Govt now want to evict the
> > subsidized Section 8 tenants and sell the building to a luxury housing
> > developer. That's right, no affordability provisions involved.
>
> My god... they're not letting people who piss on the walls and make holes in the
> plaster stay when they try to pitch the place to folks who won't buy if they
> see piss stains on the walls and holes in the plaster! How totally unfair!

There are different time frames involved here.  Presumably, by the time subsidized
tenants appeared the worst elements were living elsewhere.

> Oddly enough, of all the places we rented before we bought, the landlord would
> have evicted my ass had I (or any member of my family) started leaving piss stains
> on the walls or making holes in the plaster. I guess I was just dealing with a
> bunch of tight-assed stiffs.

At the time this was going on the "tight-assed stiffs" had long been fired.  Nobody
was minding the store.