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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's not just the slum lords.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/baltimore-public-housing-workers-demanded-sex-repairs-lawsuit-alleges-n492161

The entire system is corrupt from top to bottom. There are some good people, trying to do good things. And they're surrounded by people doing whatever they can to get whatever they can.[/quote]

This. The corruption is massive. What exactly has happened to all of the gazillions of cash Baltimore got???[/quote]

Which gazillions would that be?[/quote]

The city (and its residents)  gets a couple billion in aid each year.  The vast majority is related to housing subsidies.  In terms of direct payments to city hall, the number is on the order of hundred of millions.

Other billions are SS/Medicare, billions to JHU etc,  the same stuff that people calculate when saying red states are a net drain.[/quote]
How much cash goes to the people of Baltimore City, is the question.[/quote]

There were news reports on it after the riots. Very little of the money actually makes it to the people of Baltimore City. This is the problem with a lot of government (and private) investment. It goes into overhead. There's been a not insignificant amount of money intended for Sandtown-Winchester over the past decade+, and nothing changes. Not because no money is allocated, but because once the "helping" organizations consume the money, very little is left for actually doing things.

This is not unique to Baltimore. Baltimore does, however, have a level of corruption that seems higher than other places I have lived. It's possible that's because other places I have lived have hid it better. Or it's possible Baltimore's been dealing with its problems for so long, it seems normal to take what you can, when you can, because how else are you going to possibly come out ahead?[/quote]

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