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Social cleansing Houston

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  • #2
    Aint Eazy Being Cheezy
    Registered Users Posts: 4,629 ✭✭✭Aint Eazy Being Cheezy


    What about it? Is there a gas chambers hidden inside?


  • #3
    Grab All Association
    Registered Users Posts: 3,918 ✭✭✭Grab All Association


    Aint Eazy Being Cheezy wrote: »
    What about it? Is there a gas chambers hidden inside?

    Parts of Dublin will be like Houston in the next few years.


  • #4
    Stheno
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 51,687 Mod ✭✭✭✭Stheno


    Grab All Association wrote: »
    Parts of Dublin will be like Houston in the next few years.

    What exactly is your point?


  • #5
    Dr. Mantis Toboggan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,278 ✭✭✭Dr. Mantis Toboggan


    wat


  • #6
    Aint Eazy Being Cheezy
    Registered Users Posts: 4,629 ✭✭✭Aint Eazy Being Cheezy


    I must be missing something. What's the building on the left which replaced the house?


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  • #7
    the dark phantom
    Closed Accounts Posts: 772 ✭✭✭the dark phantom


    That's probably the 5th ward. Not far off Daly Ave i'll guess.


  • #8
    TheLastMohican
    Registered Users Posts: 1,837 ✭✭✭TheLastMohican


    Stheno wrote: »
    What exactly is your point?

    Limerick leads and Dublin follows! :p


  • #9
    KERSPLAT!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 31,152 ✭✭✭✭KERSPLAT!


    Commercial building replaces dilapidated house...?


  • #10
    Badly Drunk Boy
    Registered Users Posts: 6,441 ✭✭✭Badly Drunk Boy


    Aint Eazy Being Cheezy wrote: »
    I must be missing something. What's the building on the left which replaced the house?

    That's where they cure cancer.


  • #11
    Grab All Association
    Registered Users Posts: 3,918 ✭✭✭Grab All Association


    KERSPLAT! wrote: »
    Commercial building replaces dilapidated house...?

    Commercial buildings or bigger houses replacing affordable cheap accommodation driving more people on low incomes out of the area. How long before this happens in all the deprived parts of Dublin city forcing those on SWA/rent allowance out?


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  • #12
    Dtp1979
    Registered Users Posts: 12,725 ✭✭✭✭Dtp1979


    Back to the future


  • #13
    Firefox11
    Registered Users Posts: 1,515 ✭✭✭Firefox11


    Grab All Association wrote: »
    Commercial buildings or bigger houses replacing affordable cheap accommodation driving more people on low incomes out of the area.

    Gentrification??

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentrification


  • #14
    Aint Eazy Being Cheezy
    Registered Users Posts: 4,629 ✭✭✭Aint Eazy Being Cheezy


    Grab All Association wrote: »
    Commercial buildings or bigger houses replacing affordable cheap accommodation driving more people on low incomes out of the area.

    Nah. All the 'Mun heads still live in IKEA anyway.


  • #15
    KERSPLAT!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 31,152 ✭✭✭✭KERSPLAT!


    Grab All Association wrote: »
    Commercial buildings or bigger houses replacing affordable cheap accommodation driving more people on low incomes out of the area.

    Bar your image where is the context for this? How do we know it was social housing or cheap accommodation? Maybe they sold out, made a fortune and bought mansions with their new found wealth?


  • #16
    Massimo Cassagrande
    Closed Accounts Posts: 626 ✭✭✭Massimo Cassagrande


    Firefox11 wrote: »
    Gentrification??

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentrification

    Shame the "gents" seldom are.


  • #17
    Sheep Lover
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,730 ✭✭✭Sheep Lover


    It's kinda simple, as a city expands the cheaper land near it will be bought for commercial purposes.

    Is the tin foil hat cutting the flow of blood to your head?


  • #18
    foggy_lad
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,373 ✭✭✭✭foggy_lad


    Those houses are not real houses but prefab type buildings built on blocks so they can be moved around if required. so trailer trash was replaced by a nice building serving some purpose, what's the problem?


  • #19
    DrumSteve
    Registered Users Posts: 10,799 ✭✭✭✭DrumSteve


    Grab All Association wrote: »
    Parts of Dublin will be like Houston in the next few years.

    Yeah like Houston station.


  • #20
    RedemptionZ
    Registered Users Posts: 1,758 ✭✭✭RedemptionZ


    Has this not already happened? And doesn't this happen in every city? Prices are driven up and the poorer people have to move further away from the city.

    I thought it was going to be about the 'ethnic cleansing' of sorts in traditional black neighbourhoods by Hispanic immigrants. Mark my words that will become a huge issue in the coming years.


  • #21
    The Randy Riverbeast
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,770 ✭✭✭The Randy Riverbeast


    There's a point here somewhere. Come on gang, if we work together we can find it.


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  • #22
    Cookie_Monster
    Registered Users Posts: 24,469 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    yeah urban spread is awful; trees being replaced by Walmart, grass being replaced by concrete, hedges by telephone poles.


  • #23
    Eugene Norman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,191 ✭✭✭Eugene Norman


    foggy_lad wrote: »
    Those houses are not real houses but prefab type buildings built on blocks so they can be moved around if required. so trailer trash was replaced by a nice building serving some purpose, what's the problem?

    The original houses look nice in fact. Hardly trailer trash. Not so much the next picture. Not even sure these pictures are in the same area.


  • #24
    kneemos
    Registered Users Posts: 20,407 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    Grab All Association wrote: »
    Commercial buildings or bigger houses replacing affordable cheap accommodation driving more people on low incomes out of the area. How long before this happens in all the deprived parts of Dublin city forcing those on SWA/rent allowance out?



    Never take over all of Tallagh.


  • #25
    Overheal
    Registered Users Posts: 81,598 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    Eugene Norman wrote: »
    Not even sure these pictures are in the same area.

    They are. Blue house in first 2 photos, walmart sign in last 2 photos.
    Grab All Association wrote: »
    Parts of Dublin will be like Houston in the next few years.
    Yeah, that's economics. Where does the "social cleansing" come from?


  • #26
    JONJO THE MISER
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 12,333 ✭✭✭✭JONJO THE MISER


    Grab All Association wrote: »
    In one of the lower middle class parts of Houston 2011-2015

    https://us.v-cdn.net/6034073/

    this a american forum all of a sudden, lets see how long this thread lasts on here, for if it was about sweden for example it would be moved to politics.


  • #27
    S. Goodspeed
    Registered Users Posts: 418 ✭✭S. Goodspeed


    Ah yes Gentrification, what an evil phenomenon. I hate being able to safely walk through areas now without getting harassed by youths (or worse)... Down with this sort of thing.


  • #28
    Martial9
    Registered Users Posts: 655 ✭✭✭Martial9


    Grab All Association wrote: »
    Parts of Dublin will be like Houston in the next few years.

    Parts of Michigan are already Irish looking!


  • #29
    Dravokivich
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Music Moderators, Politics Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 22,360 CMod ✭✭✭✭Dravokivich


    Grab All Association wrote: »
    Commercial buildings or bigger houses replacing affordable cheap accommodation driving more people on low incomes out of the area. How long before this happens in all the deprived parts of Dublin city forcing those on SWA/rent allowance out?

    To my untrained eye... those 3 pictures do not appear to be at the same spot...

    The third one dated "2015" is considerably further away from the buildings in the background.


  • #30
    biko
    Registered Users Posts: 81,223 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Houston, you have a problem.


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  • #31
    kneemos
    Registered Users Posts: 20,407 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    Dravokivich wrote: »
    To my untrained eye... those 3 pictures do not appear to be at the same spot...

    The third one dated "2015" is considerably further away from the buildings in the background.



    The grey building behind the Walmart sign is there in 13 and 15.
    Looks like it was zoned for commercial use rather than gentrification.


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