Toledo, Ohio and its abandoned homes is becoming another Detroit!!! part 4

[FORMATERMAN]

i use to live in toledo,ohio where we use to live it was near the "airport road" and Angola road near the park, was geting bad and each and ever time i drive back to ohio i always stop in and see how bad it's really geting .it very sad i live 500 miles a way i live near the smokey mountains now and i love it ! i miss my other friends ..i hope toledo clean up them home ! i went to rogers i see they have a new rogers up the old one is gone !

[AttentionAttention88]

I really like the big blue house at 9:12

[liljgoneman]

This is going to become even more common as we lose more and more blue collar jobs. Ask yourself, "Is the cheap walmart garbage worth what we're losing?"...... Form your own conslusions and then ACT on them. Vote as a producer instead of as a consumer and then, continue voting with your dollars. If we don't MAKE it here in America then don't buy it. Make these choices known to the companies who ship jobs overseas to the detriment of their customers (that's you and me)....

[drewhon]

Pretty Sad just another broke Union town going down the tubes.

[EconCat88]

@drewhon

YUP

[jvolstad]

Building for lease. How about a head shop?

[DjBubbaNubz]

I live in toledo... its sad.... honestly sad. Need the 90's back

[GordonTurnerpark]

Well shoot. I know why all those houses are boarded up. There are no jobs in Toledo. I am fortunate to be working and I work in that area with some regularity. There are factories out there that look to have been abandoned for about 40 years. Toledo has been in decline for decades.

[answerstolucky]

These homes were so majestic in their day! Too bad we can't look close enough and see all the good people that used to live there! I wish I had one of those homes on the lot I live now.

[TrillCoop]

Why homes in the midwest are built so close together?

[jeTTaTurbO]

@2:40 there is a nice looking house with bars over the windows. seems a lot of the occupied houses have them. Are the fastened right to the framing of the house? Can they be opened from the inside in case of fire?

I just noticed the same type popping up in the bad area of my city, was wondering if those opened or how they were held to the house.

Seems like this is starting to happen everywhere

[NewDigitalMktg]

That area of Toledo (43604) was horrible as far back as I can remember. I left Toledo almost 20 years ago and even way before that I NEVER would've lived in that part of town.

Toledo is very depressed, I agree. But that specific neighborhood that you were in has been depressed for a long time and probably always will be.

[no1cp]

@caleb6868 ... and Ford, GM, Wal-Mart, backward politics, etc. etc. etc.

[win2008workstation]

Jamie Farr grew up in the house one block up on the right on Erie and Mulberry. In the beginning of your video when you say "I'm on the corner of Huron and Chestnut." That blue house caught fire. One block up the house caught fire. The house across from it caught fire. One block to the right on Erie, that house got fire. All within a few weeks. I lived in North Toledo at the time when that happened. We were like "FUCK THAT SHIT" and got out of there. I'm living in West End now thank god.

[MegaDarkangel420]

america is going to get worse i am seeing it happen im trying not to be depressed and look at it as a new begining cycle build farms and go learn survival learn how to grow crops hunt for food and cut wood for winter to stay warm get some wood stoves for that learn to trade goods i see it comming

[cheeriosinabowl]

Sign of the times .... how depressing.

[topbulldog70]

Toledo is a another Detroit, the fucking cops are youless

[liljeeper99]

And once upon a time Toledoians took pride in their homes, neighborhood and city.

Give a man a fish, he'll eat for a day!!! Teach a man to fish and he;ll have food for a life time! My Grand Parents have pictures of these once beautiful homes from way back when they were growing up.... What a shame, a real crying shame ....

[newzerokarolina]

i think most cities have this, to be honest. i live outside of durham, north carolina, and the whole east side of the city is abandoned factories, vacant lots and boarded-up/burned-out houses/crackhouses. its just how old industrial cities seem to go in the US. with durham, when the tobacco industry left, the ghetto just spread...

[SidneyBou]

Thanks. It is a little better here but all the area that was flooded after the hurricane is mostly abanded. I believe Fats Domino went back home. If we can't drill for oil we will soon be in the same shape.

[akemi811]

this is my neighborhood... :( we have gradually been puuting money in our house trying to bring it bak to what it should be,this is my hubby's childhood neighborhood,that is the only reason we bought the house,but the city makes it nearly impossible for the home owners that do try ,I understand that it is considerate a historical area,but it really has become more hysterical then anything else....we ask them to bring those empty houses down but it all falls in deaf ears...

[lutrix86]

nothing like detroit tho, atleast these houses arent all burned up and still standing lol

[jimkinner]

Without the manufacturing jobs that employed thousands, the cities have become obsolete.

At least the ghetto's look better with a fresh coat of new snow!

[joeyblack1980]

@jimkinner it wont be long that your precious little suburbs become the new ghettos. this is the new america.

[EconCat88]

@jimkinner

I agree, but damn does it look horrible when the spring thaw finally arrives! 

[2237lemon]

this is gonna sound crazy but...after checking out the ghetto of the Philippines, this seems pretty clean by that standard and complete destruction by American standards... the two realities are getting closer to each other in reality...we're becoming third world class although there is still a ways to go. Too bad the' teaser rate' loans didn't factor in maintenance costs when setting the lending standard to peoples incomes. Instead there was no standard with maintenace being left out of the equ

[EconCat88]

Katie Holmes isn't from this part of town. LOL

[ABEY73]

is this were katie holmes used to lived?

[turntableable]

@ABEY73

She lived, and actually still owns houses in an area called Ottawa Hills, it's the exact opposite. Million dollar mansions there.

[ABEY73]

hey where did katie holmes lived?

[MrWade1966]

the dempsey house, james pharmacy, beerdocks, st francis park, service station, jimmy house, lagrange school, joseph store , bobby wilkes house , joey bais house , johnny grandparents house, northwood apartments

[MrWade1966]

the dempsey house

[MrWade1966]

my friend stayed the to 9:22 what you name man i might know you ? we all played football , baseball, and basketball up at st francnis park.

[MrWade1966]

this was my old neighborhood from 76- 86 i lived on walnut in the northwoods aka cherrywoods. it seems things changed around 86 when crack came.

[immasuperninja]

i wouldnt call it south detroit, i'd just call it another u.s city people forget how slummy and gritty the u.s is, especially here in the midwest

[7996hobguy]

i lived in the building shown at 1:20 that was for lease a little over ten years ago, i am familiar with that area. at the time there were a few abandoned homes. but not like it is now.

nice vid

[lonnyg773]

This videographer only went around a few blocks. Trust me there are more blighted neighborhoods than this in Toledo. And to say its far from Detroit, are you serious???? Toledo is only a 45 minute drive from Detroit. Wouldnt you think the same issues affecting Detroit and Flint would also affect cities like Toledo, Dayton, Youngstown, Akron and Cleveland??? Have you ever even been to Toledo???? Toledo now has the highest arson rate behind Detroit in the country.... This is problem here....

[immasuperninja]

@lonnyg773 it's a problem throughout the midwest, check out parts of chicago, most of gary, various small cities, and all the cities you've listed it's just how it is here we have no industry, no jobs, so shit just gets gritty people tryin to survive, maybe if police quit thrown nonviolent offenders in jail we'd have more people to help solve the problem lol, i've been to akron(have family there) and toledo and yes they are getting pretty rough

[lonnyg773]

@immasuperninja I know, I actually used to stay in Englewood in Chicago and I have family in Gary, IN. It is a problem throughout the midwest, but the real problem is these jobs going overseas and no real industry to hire anyone other than in manufactoring. Toledo's unemployement rate has been constantly about 12 percent the past two years and Cleveland has been above 10 percent, while Detroit has been above 20 percent.

[BoyScout1960]

I went to GoogleMap and checked out various parts of the city. Do you know what I mostly found? Well kept houses, neatly mown lawns, clean streets. Definitely nothing like the areas shown here.

And that intersection with the boarded up, two story commercial building looks a lot better in broad daylight and without the snow.

[abandonedNJandbeyond]

anywhere you go that has a decently high crime rate you will see this. I live a stones throw from newark, irvington, orange, east orange, and paterson. any time i drive by i see at least 3 more abandnoed houses. This is FAR from detroit, believe me

[Cyrus992]

Such beautiful places and homes... IF ONLY UGLIER places turned into slums!!

The streets of California might look like this soon...

[jazzy4887]

Old northeastern cities are dying

[boots920]

Coming soon to a city, town or village near you.

All because the Federal Government idiots can't read the US Constitution.

This has been all part of a planned agenda that started in 1913. They want you folks dead.

[dlw0911]

i think you need to go elsewhere than the north end....... yeah there may be boarded up homes in other hoods too but you make it seem like thats all there is in toledo

[Aquamelli]

there are plenty in the south, west, and east ends of toledo... its been getting worse every single year

[dlw0911]

i think these people need to get out of the north end and drive elsewhere....... yeah there may be a few in other hoods but you make it sound like thats all there is in toledo, boarded up homes

[Aquamelli]

First of all... im not a liberal... nor am I a conservative... I dont vote based on party lines (im a rare one!) I vote for whats right

Secondly... they wouldnt use taxpayer money... toledo received 12 million dollars in federal grant money back in november '09.... they can use that money to repair or bulldoze these homes.

These abandoned homes house murderers, rapists, drug dealers... not to mention the pest it attracts - rats, mice, roaches

[Aquamelli]

City of Toledo needs to follow the steps of Flint, Michigan... if these houses have been vacant for so long... than tear them down and land bank them. There is no point to keep these up...

Once a upon a time the North End was a great place to live...

[ben5017]

Land bank them? I am sure at the cost of the taxpayer ... how about you paying the cost to do it?

Liberals always want the govt to bail them out!