Gentrify This Salisbury!
♦ Historic Salisbury Foundation are at their game once again with a backdoor gentrification program to covertly buy homes from the elderly and the poor under the guise of being “historic”. The game is to disapprove less expensive home improvements and to stick the owner with costs beyond their ability to afford. Found in the archives of the Salisbury Post is an article below circa 2009 which tells the story of the owner’s request to use lifetime-warrantied fiber-cement siding and being shot down by the “Historic Salisbury Foundation”. The owner could not afford the Historic Salisbury Foundation demand and was forced to unload his property. This story happens on a regular basis in Salisbury. The ones whining loudly about gentrification articles are likely the largest perpetrators of covert gentrification.
An arbitrary, but effective way to cleanse a neighborhood of the poor and the elderly and chase them elsewhere in Salisbury so the wealthier can move in, is demonstrated in the Salisbury Post article below. If this is how the Historic Salisbury Foundation acquires properties, many of us would not be inspired to buy their properties or contribute alms to their fund raising efforts to oppress the elderly and the poor. All too often we have seen the elderly and the poor being forced out of their stable neighborhoods to harsher conditions elsewhere in the city or to city housing. To read the 2009 Salisbury Post article about this house acquired by the Historic Salisbury Foundation, scroll all the way to the bottom of the link below where the article will appear.
Had they not turned down the owner’s proposal for lifetime-warrantied fiber-cement siding, the home pictured in the Historic Salisbury Foundation’s alms-begging email would be lived in and would be indistinguishable from the wood clapboard siding of the other houses in the neighborhood. Is this how the Historic Salisbury Foundation acquires their properties? If so, we are not very inspired to give a nickel. Are you?
http://rowanfreepress.com/2012/11/22/gentrify-this-the-dark-side-of-gentrification/
