It really depresses me to see the boarded up house...

2009-11-15T01:32:33.037-05:00

It really depresses me to see the boarded up houses overlooking the lake in Druid Hill Park. Now that's a waste. But I read somewhere that there are rules that the city has to comply with federal guidelines when it comes to taking care of these houses--I don't know. Seems like a big bureaucracy is stopping these houses from getting fixed. And that whole Recession thing, I suppose.

Still, every national article that talks about good places to move to mentions Baltimore, so you have to imagine other cities are doing worse.

I live in Hampden too, Medfield actually. But I wa...

2009-11-14T23:50:53.030-05:00

I live in Hampden too, Medfield actually. But I was over on the west side in the Fulton/Monroe area recently and MAN are there ever a lot of boarded-up houses! What is the deal with this city? I feel like it must be somewhere near 1/4 or 1/3 of the buildings across all of town are boarded-up. Maybe that's an exaggeration, but not much!

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It really depresses me to see the boarded up house...

I live in Hampden too, Medfield actually. But I wa...