Bargain mansions in Palmer Woods

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The article mentions three apartment buildings--Palmer Lodge, Sarasota and Seville--for a total of 102 units. It's the same company that used the affordable housing grants for La Vogue and they doing it for the other three as well. It's just one company--Shelborne developments-that's doing it and all of them must reserve so many apartments for low income tenants before they can offer the other units for market rate tenants. That's a requirement.

First, these 4 buildings are not most of the buildings in Palmer Park. With La Vogue, it's just those 4 in the past two years. The rest are being mothballed. The worst part of these rehabs is the "low income" tenant requirement. Why would somebody who makes $100K a year at say, Quicken Loans or the DMC, want to live in a building with someone who makes under $20K a year? The higher income earner [[if they take a gamble living there) is going to get their locks picked or doors kicked open while they are at work and their possessions stolen. And it may not even be the low income tenants who were screened really well, but their friend or relative who's visiting from the other side of Woodward that's doing it. It's a recipe for perpetuating the same crime problems that caused these buildings to go under in the first place.

What's going to happen is those higher income earners are going to get robbed and rumours will spread around the building and all the higher income earners will move out and you're just going to have low income tenants fill up those other apartments, the gang bangers and crack dealers [[if they didn't get in already as a low-income tenants) will get in there, more crack heads will break into more apartments to feed their habit, and it's going to go downhill from there and the neighbourhood isn't going to get any better.

The redevelopment formula for those vacant Palmer Park buildings is set up to make the whole area fail and that mess will spread up north. In fact, Palmer Park would probably have been better off not redeveloping those buildings as the apartment buildings that continue to be active are not restricted by low income tenant requirements.

Talk about denial the area is being improved and you do not want it to. Stay in your hovel in South Detroit and live a useless life. Time to go don't waste your time I will not be back.