tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9299655.post116948154271456520..comments2024-03-28T10:34:04.784-04:00Comments on Lehigh Valley Ramblings: The Lehigh Valley Has a Homeless Problem, too!Bernie O'Harehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13756311150988957401noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9299655.post-1169489925925841722007-01-22T13:18:00.000-05:002007-01-22T13:18:00.000-05:00Part of the problem was sumed up best by an articl...Part of the problem was sumed up best by an article in the MCall about two sunday's ago on the area' unemployment rate. It stated that thre are jobas out there, but not necesarrily good paying jobs. Ten dollars an hour is barely enough and in some cases not enough to get an apartment for a single person. <BR/><BR/>Gentrification is happeing everwhere in the Valley. The valley was once a place where the working man could raise his family as well as the professional man, but with the influx of money from New York, Jersy and such, many Valley families cannot compete. Plus some of the unavailabiltiy of affordable housing is because many of these proerpties where lost when their landlords saw the potential for windfalls by kicing out the low income renteres and getting much higher rents. The valley is a scary place to live anymore. I won't be able to afford to live here much longer myself.LSTresidentPIAhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09363453610874838651noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9299655.post-1169487986731967342007-01-22T12:46:00.000-05:002007-01-22T12:46:00.000-05:00"the Lehigh Valley Homeless", now why didn't someb..."the Lehigh Valley Homeless", now why didn't somebody submit that for the AAA baseball franchise!<BR/><BR/> In all seriousness though, housing costs are skyrocketing, and you have 2 choices, inner city Allentown or suburban McMansion. There's a hell of a lot more McMansions than 3 apartment row homes. The people living on the edge of the poverty precipice are getting squeezed, while their numbers increase. And that's WITH state supplied healthcare. <BR/> Where's Bush's Faith Based Initiatives now? Oh, he must have got his FBI's confused, and funded the domestic spying instead of domestic shelter instead.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com