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No, not really.
Posted on: March 31, 2017 at 13:31:57 CT
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"Pinning down the reasons why the St. Louis metro area as a whole has seen a decrease is difficult.
Generally, people move to where they have economic opportunity. And while St. Louis is no longer the traditional manufacturing hub it once was, there is still advanced manufacturing that makes up a significant portion of its local economy."
The facts are these. The housing in St. Louis City is for the most part ancient. The 850,000 in the 1950s was housed a great deal like New York City. High rises everywhere downtown and midtown. There is not much left of that kind of housing. Most of it is individual family houses or small apartment complexes. We no longer throw up a Pruitt-Igoe to house the poor. Instead, there are smaller duplexes, houses, and apartments made available under section 8, and other programs.
St. Charles County has experienced massive expansion in the last 2 decades, Jefferson County is going through a lesser expansion now. And not to be left out, there are many places across the river that are also expanding. East St. Louis is very similar to St. Louis with regard to the decay of the old building, now sitting empty, and in need of money to begin the rebuild in that city. The old buildings need to be brought down, and cleaned up. Investors are needed to pay local workers to do that work, and pump some money back into the local economy.
That is happening in St. Louis, but not East St. Louis, to the best of my knowledge. The old brick buildings of St. Louis City are coming down at a faster rate than new housing is being built. This is what has driven the population shift. Once the massive number of the old vacant structures in the city proper are gone, people will once again move into the City.
It's far less about job availability, and more about feeling safe in the midst of empty decrepit buildings which need to be torn down, (no drug houses waiting for problem children to wreak havoc on the neighborhoods), and the legitimate concerns about the safety of people's children growing up in that kind of environment.
And this is much less about race that some want people to believe. Blacks and whites get along for the most part in St. Louis, but there are always those who want to say it is the main issue, and use it for self promotion. It's not. It's when the drugs and the criminals run the neighborhoods that people get scared and leave. It's about an individual feeling of personal safety, and that knows no color boundaries.
Edited by MizzouTigerz at 13:33:49 on 03/31/17
Generally, people move to where they have economic opportunity. And while St. Louis is no longer the traditional manufacturing hub it once was, there is still advanced manufacturing that makes up a significant portion of its local economy."
The facts are these. The housing in St. Louis City is for the most part ancient. The 850,000 in the 1950s was housed a great deal like New York City. High rises everywhere downtown and midtown. There is not much left of that kind of housing. Most of it is individual family houses or small apartment complexes. We no longer throw up a Pruitt-Igoe to house the poor. Instead, there are smaller duplexes, houses, and apartments made available under section 8, and other programs.
St. Charles County has experienced massive expansion in the last 2 decades, Jefferson County is going through a lesser expansion now. And not to be left out, there are many places across the river that are also expanding. East St. Louis is very similar to St. Louis with regard to the decay of the old building, now sitting empty, and in need of money to begin the rebuild in that city. The old buildings need to be brought down, and cleaned up. Investors are needed to pay local workers to do that work, and pump some money back into the local economy.
That is happening in St. Louis, but not East St. Louis, to the best of my knowledge. The old brick buildings of St. Louis City are coming down at a faster rate than new housing is being built. This is what has driven the population shift. Once the massive number of the old vacant structures in the city proper are gone, people will once again move into the City.
It's far less about job availability, and more about feeling safe in the midst of empty decrepit buildings which need to be torn down, (no drug houses waiting for problem children to wreak havoc on the neighborhoods), and the legitimate concerns about the safety of people's children growing up in that kind of environment.
And this is much less about race that some want people to believe. Blacks and whites get along for the most part in St. Louis, but there are always those who want to say it is the main issue, and use it for self promotion. It's not. It's when the drugs and the criminals run the neighborhoods that people get scared and leave. It's about an individual feeling of personal safety, and that knows no color boundaries.
Edited by MizzouTigerz at 13:33:49 on 03/31/17
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No, not really. - MizzouTigerz MU - 3/31 13:31:57