The following four page section features articles concerning housing redevelopment plans, and law suits which will affect and are affecting the future of our area.
Housing today is like Mark Twain’s weather; everybody talks about it, but nobody knows quite what to do about it. In any discussion of housing in Skinker-DeBaliviere or any place else, it is important to remember that housing is always concerned with real estate and real estate is big business. It is also a business noted for having more angles than a chain link fence.
When the average citizen or the concerned citizen or the social worker or the representative of some government agency launches into the housing question, he had best remember that he is dealing with real estate, a for-profit business. The home buyer or home renter can look at a piece of property with a real estate agent and each of them will “see” the property in an entirely different manner. Property values then are also a state of mind. Property is either desirable or undesirable. When an area becomes listed as “undesirable” in the for-profit real estate business, it takes strong measures to change this trend and, just as important, a citizenry, apartment dwellers as well as property owners, willing to weather the storm, work for the redevelopment and to creatively select among alternatives. The following six stories describe the strong measures necessary to reverse the trend in our neighborhood.” Read them carefully, send us your questions or comment.
Now is a critical time in the future of our area. Only an aware community can determine its future.
Original photograph caption
Detail from the original housing-supplement photographic montage, The Paper, February 1971, page 5.
Originally published in The Paper, February 1971.
Read this article in the original newspaper issue.
Original source: SD_Times1971_02.pdf, printed page 5.
