Comments on: Vacancy, Legitimated

By: dempster holland

dempster holland — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 16:22:14 +0000

One of the worst developments in city government over recent decades has been the aldermanic veto on develoopment projects. Translated, it means “please come to my fund-raising party”. But these quirks are not the reason for widespread population loss. That is basically a function of the age of the neighborhood and of the prevelance of a large number of obsolete multi-family bildings with shotgun apartments. This in not unique to St. Louis: it is commom to all older midwestern and eaqstern cities. Ironically, a major cause of this population loss has been the exodus of working and middle claas blacks whose improved economic status has enabled them to move to newer and better neighborhoods. In turn, this economic improvement was substantially influence4d by the civil rights movement and the fedral government’s Great Society programs.

By: vroman

vroman — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 04:05:31 +0000

Lacking intimate knowledge of how the census is correlating its statistics, is it not also possible that St. Louisans are simply more likely than residents of other cities to ignore the census forms, and thus have their addresses assumed vacant?

By: David Shane

David Shane — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 22:27:30 +0000

So what is the procedure to fix something like this? Obviously no new law needs to be passed – they aren’t following the current one.