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Old Posted Feb 9, 2009, 12:17 AM
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There's a strange balance to strike.

There's dying/stagnating tax bases versus people that are actually willing to occupy places their parents or grandparents abandoned 40 years ago. There are people who occupied neighborhoods and cities that white flight left for dead, who weathered everything race riots, crack and deindustrialization threw at them - people who chose to remain. And then there are the people who still live in such places because they haven't the means to live elsewhere and are often the type of people who require more from social services than they contribute in terms of taxes. This is devil's advocate time. Something, in some way, will have to give. It's ugly because it isn't entirely fair. Who does the market care about? Who do city governments care about?
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