A Benefit of Gentrification

This is or rather was the most notorious drug dealer houses in our corner of the neighborhood. 4806 N. 10th Street (corner Louisiana). The teengagers and young adults who lived there and their friends including Willie Findley, dealt drugs from the porch, from the yard, from the street around the house. they also rode around in bicycles and offered mobile drug dealing. They would also deal along 15th Street. Despite multiple arrests the grandmother who owned the house refused to do anything about the drug dealing. At one point she was arrested because of drugs found in the home and that only temporarily stopped the activity. She said the kids were her kin and she was not about to boot them out of the home.

The drug dealing has now stopped because this home, and another problem house a block over, were recently sold. Thanks to gentrification we finally lost some bad people. This allows the rest of us good people, (poor and middle class, white and black) to live in peace.

The house is being completely redone. See the work as it progresses.