Wilmington is not the only place to find deep institutional poverty alive and well.
Route 40. With some Northern New Castle County's last pastoral views sandwiched between shopping centers of various sizes and blight, where low-rise apartment buildings sprung up against the working class neighborhoods of the 1990s, before there was a mortgage crisis.
Where arsonists move faster than mobile home park managers when it comes to demolition...
Where residents fear retribution from their lot owners for speaking too loudly about the drugs, crime, homelessness, and the squatting that happens just next door, a few hundred feet from the Boys and Girls Club.
Further off the main Route, you can't miss the McMansions, where builders capitalized on cheap farmland. But, most of us have to drive past at least one and often more than one trailer park to reach those well-manicured greenscapes. Those trailer parks and the older Section 8 neighborhoods that line the highway.
Where Brookmont Farms became Sparrow Run because sum years back some well-meaning political hack thought a new name might re-invigorate the suburbs version the projects.
And where Westside Family Healthcare led the charge into a poverty stricken corridor and opened the first clinic for un/under-insured residents. Long before MedExpress put down roots or Glasgow Medical Aid grew its foot print.
Yet,
The Route 40 Corridor is still a sleeper cell of poverty. All the conversations in the world, and I am told there have been many, haven't made a dent. The poor get poorer everyday.
Just Read This, http://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/crime/2016/04/02/glasgow-mobile-home-fires-point-bigger-concerns/82526586/
More importantly, look at the photos from the fire. A picture tells a million stories.
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1 comments:
I am glad to see you make note of this. SO IMPORTANT in understanding CSD's burden.
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