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10.16.2004
 "Those who take the risks deserve the rewards" - Old Capitalist saying circa 2004 Those of you from outside of Tulsa have no idea what the Towerview Apartments are but I can bet that you know about something similar in your community. Maybe tomorrow I'll head downtown and take a picture for you? The Towerview Apartments are a dilapidated building downtown that looks like it should have been condemned years ago. Yet, someone is still charging people rent to live there. Recently a reporter did a story on the deplorable living conditions there and as a result the city has gone in a condemned the building, forcing all the tenants to move out. Many of the people being forced out have nowhere else to go, so they face the prospect of becoming homeless. Its hard to suss out where the blame lays here but its pretty obvious that it should not be with the tenants who were paying rent and getting horrible housing in return. In this case there is some confusion over who is being the bigger asshole, the owner or the city. Word is that the city wants to run in and condemn the building to get rid of it. They have a plan to build a nice hotel there to serve the new arena being built downtown. So they are more than eager to get the building torn down, and in the process they have said "too bad" to the people living there. The irony is that within the same downtown area the city is putting up a $1 million in public money to convert the top floors of the Philtower into loft apartments. Which is fine, as long as you don't turn around and kick real people out of their homes with no compensation. So since the building owners did not maintain the property, the city will have to shut it down? The renters will be the ones hurt, not the city, not the owner. Since they are renters they have no rights. Who said there no such things as serfs anymore? |
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