The story behind this is, these homes were built for the military. DCSC, is less than a half a mile away. The US government sold to local business man, who turned it into a civilian community. It wasn't taken care of and turned into an area of crime and drugs. The city of Whitehall forced the owner to upgrade or it would be closed permanently. There is going to be office buildings and condo's built on the site. I live nearby and have grown up seeing the demise of this ex-military housing. There is even more to the story, but hopefully i helped people understand this story a little better
i wonder (and i have no clue ) that this community was designed for renters (military and then civilian ) mostly rather then home ownership ? i can c people taking pride in their props if they own but not so much if they just rent and let things erode away
@@brewcrew5854 these homes were built specifically as a temporary neighborhood for the civilians working at the military instalation. It's also right up against the airport. Instead of tearing it all down, the government decided to sell it and turn it into doubles for the community. At first, these homes were well taken care of, but 1990 or 1991, it was sold to another property owner and it went downhill from there. The properties weren't maintaining and they allowed "anyone" into the neighborhood. The worse it got, the worse the clientele became. In the last 2 years these places were lived in, there were 3 murders. When I was little, we lived here. There is also another area just south of DCSC, now referred to as DCSS.Not exactly sure why the name change. This area is called English Village and is still being used. Exactly like homes in this video, just that they've been taken care of and Woodcliff wasn't
I can't speak for this housing, but much of military housing on federal installations isn't built to local code. The housing at (long closed) George AFB in California was deemed unsuitable for the homeless because it contained so much asbestos. One house I lived in definitely wouldn't have met electrical code; when you turned the bathroom light on, a whole wall in the bedroom would go dead. Maintenance finally realized that in lieu of a junction box, wiring was just stuffed behind the bathroom switch. (@@royhibbler7321
I lived here in its final years. It was so bizarre. Some of the houses were updated on the inside. Kitchen remodel, new appliances, new bathroom, etc. Other houses were falling apart, and REEKED of cat urine from the absolute army of stray cats that lived in the area. I remember hearing stories from some of the neighbors. They usually involved someone being held up at gunpoint a few houses down. It also wasn’t uncommon for me to get up in the morning and find my extremely alcoholic neighbor passed out on my front lawn. I started waking him up and we would have coffee on my front patio. Wild times.
Screw Amazon! Filthy swine's! They have 8 different contractors in Amazon in Greenville WI..They all pay different salaries, and have different rules and times of delivery!
I grew up in this neighborhood. We lived it two of the houses on Midcliff Dr. It was the street in the middle. It breaks my heart to see it in this condition. I've drove through it a few times and it's just awful how the last owners let it all go. It could have been maintained and been doing just fine had they taken care of it. So many good memories with friends and going to the pool there.
@@56caddnot true at all I have experienced homelessness before and I ended up getting a job as for other homeless people there’s reasons why they aren’t working weather that be because they don’t have an address and a state ID, or they have drug problems, or they have mental health problems, or even because they have criminal records there’s reasons why homeless people aren’t working it has nothing to do with being lazy.
@@G-Man-half-life I've been alive long enough to remember when America wasn't like this. Today's " homeless " society is the ramifications of the " peace and love" movement.
We lived there in 1971. we lived there for 4 years. it was a great place to grow up. So much fun. I delivered news papers & it was big job for a 9 yr old especially on Sundays.
As a Brit I still struggle to get my head around the sheer size of America, the fact that you have the space to even have massive abandoned housing estates, can't do that over here too many people not enough houses as it is!
It pains my heart that England will soon be a country with a minority of ethnic British people. British people are openly persecuted by it's own government.
You have to remember we have states that are bigger than your whole country. Alaska, Texas, Oregon, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, California and Michigan are bigger then the UK.
Built in 1953, they were condominiums. The houses were cheaply built. In the mid 1970s, gangs and drugs moved in, then the whole area went down. Recently, the city bought the land, it took 10 years to get all of the residents out. Some who had purchased the house and others that rented. It was a huge legal mess. There are still some who refuse to sell. Demo has begun on the rest, big new buildings planned by 2030.
@@joemtnmanyou are right, we learned that from past issues. But in the 70s condo houses that are part of a community w pool where the buy in was low priced was viewed as a cheaper alternative to buying outright. But here, the mgt company was lousy and it attracted low income residents. It went down hill quick. It was the condo contracts that made it so legally tough to buy the entire community and renovate. The area remains a hit-and-miss low income area of Columbus. It will eventually become low income aka affordable apartment buildings. Primarily minority residents. White flight in the 70s left the area in a slump. It has never recovered. Columbus is financially segregated. No one wants to live in crime and drug neighborhoods. Those that could got out and moved to northern Columbus. If you are more interested search Town and Country shopping center 1960. It used to be a hot up and coming neighborhood. There was circus and high divers when the shopping center opened. Now it is just strip malls. Very sad how this area was destroyed by welfare, section 8 vouchers, food stamps, drugs and crime. But the same thing happened to many areas in the US. Also check out Spanish Lake, Missouri. Same thing happened.
Was not due to lack of maintenance. That was all the fire department training. They had problems with utilities too, couldnt shit off to each unit but only each building.
Its going to be much more than a park... It will become a mixed use development called Rockwell District development.ohio.gov/home/news-and-events/all-news/2023-0223-city-of-whitehall-and-partners-kickoff-300-million-redevelopment-and-revitalization-of-major-gateway-at-east-broad-street-and-north-hamilton-road
@@niccovisconti1712 for some reason I read that in Samuel L Jackson's. "Say abandoned one more time! Abandoned ain't no country I ever heard of! They speak English in abandoned?"
They were all rented condos. The management company allowed all the properties to deteriorate, not repairing the houses, till they were unlivable. It was the owners, not the renters who let things go.
Dude thats a lie ! I spent a lot of my childhood in Woodcliff , my mom worked at the government base across the street. It went down hill because of the new renters that moved in after the military families moved out .
They didn't really allow them to deteriorate. The price to fix a building cost more than you get if you were to sell or rent out. It's more of cost to profit. They would loose money if they had fix everything. With maintenance and taxes. The building is il-liquid.
So many hardworking people that cannot afford to have their own homes! Very sad indeed that this situation can be found all over USA. Abandoned houses all over.
It was military housing. That usually isn’t great quality. Then it was sold to a private company. They did not maintain it, so the properties all fell into disrepair.
This place is about 10mins from where I used to live. This place was riddled with a ton of plumbing issues making it unbearable to live in. Not to mention the amount of crime in the area makes it a place nobody should raise a family.
@@TrumpyBooden he didn't say that! There's a huge homeless problem in this country & ppl who can hardly afford housing. Possible solutions that could be used to help ppl.
I live in Columbus, I can tell You what happened these were turned into low income Section 8 housing. So you can imagine what took place after that. What you imagine then multiply that by 10. The city ended up taking this over condemning the whole neighborhood. It has since been completely demoed and a new development is on going in its spot. How ever my prediction is the new project will follow the same path. I think it’s throwing good money after bad. But the liberals that control Columbus think nothing of spending tax payers money for lip stick on a pig !!!
There was a low-income housing project built in Detroit during WWII. It was pretty run down by the early 1970s. It was spruced up in the mid- to late 1970s and in less than ten years, most of the buildings were vacant, vandalized or already torn down. The complete project was demolished in 1998. Many renters don't respect other people's property. They have nothing invested and won't lose anything when they walk away. Their attitude is 'Easy come, easy go' and various governments encourage it because it is tax dollars paying for these failed programs and the politicians, construction companies, or investors that are raking in the money. It's hard to have pity for people hell-bent on destroying their lives and the lives of their children.
Why you gotta bring politics into everything...stop blaming....start doing something...you must be a millennial....me me me...soft people who had everything handed to them...blame blame blame...what are you doing to change anything? Just as I figured...zero zip nada....shutty your fat mouth
When military (or government) housing is constructed, it is often cookie-cutter because it's cheaper (everything is standardized, which speeds up construction and keeps costs down). Can't spend too much money on those active-duty military types! You might spoil them!
"Little boxes, little boxes, and they're all made out of ticky-tacky... Little boxes, little boxes, and they all look just the same 🎵" ( a 1962 song by Maivina Reynolds)
I tried to help more than one. They all ripped me off, robbed me blind.....broke in later and robbed me again 6 months after kicking them out. He and his girlfriend were prefectly happy being homless with their haroin. No one should be homelss THAT DOSENT WANT TO BE
Ah, said like someone who has never worked with that population. "Homelessness" - ask yourself, why don't you house a few of those people yourself? Now, imagine you run a shelter, do you think there are people who are so wretched that they willingly destroy the physical, economic, and social structure of the place you manage... what would you do? Does a jail become then the refuge of the "homeless".. the point is many, I won't say all, but by far most, are that way by choice.
Ohio has proven to be more purple. I am proud that they voted to codify abortion rights, and to make Pot legal. Thankfully they are not all MAGA freaks@@arthurchavers7554
Lived a mile from there growing up. They were already terrible in the 90’s and just continued to go downhill. We never ventured to that side of town due to safety concerns.
However, this is in the Columbus suburb of Whitehall. The Columbus area has been steadily growing for decades. This neighborhood's woes would have to do with some combination of neglect, disinterest, apathy, NOT a lack of industry.
@@psgistheworstclubineurope no I'm not talking about druggies. I'm talking about all the Veterans of war that have been tossed aside by the government. They've been put out as well as Seniors to let illegal immigrants come & live in those spaces. Sometimes things happen to Veterans of War that are a continuous battle because they never see life the same again. But they fought for our country with or without an active war.
@@psgistheworstclubineurope you know there are plenty of celebrities who get great tax right offs for donations. Those ppl could easily support the costs of a project but mostly narcissistic & don't want to miss a $1 of their own $$. Do you have a better idea?
Had an aunt & uncle live there. Then, as an auditor, I audited a couple of businesses whose offices were in a few homes. I was a terrible sight when last seen around 2006. If looking up where this was, type in Woodcliff, Whitehall, OH.
Its abandoned now because they made everyone leave. I knew someone who lived there and homes were a mess. Drugs and crime ridden. The homes weren't being kept up at all some had already fallen apart. There are a lot of apartment buildings being shut down in Columbus because owners aren't taking care of the properties. An apartment/ townhome property called colonial village pretty much 3 minutes from the location in this video is in terrible condition and has been condemned and uninhabitable. They're making all the residents move out and the city is paying for relocating most of them. Another property in West Columbus/ Lincoln village called Galloway apartments is shutting down too. Nothing was getting fixed. No trash was being taken away. Actually there wasn't even dumpsters. The city eventually had to pay for the trash to be hauled away. It was literally filling up the parking lots. The property has been deemed uninhabitable as well. So many people facing homelessness these days. Its so sad
If you do google street view on parts of Hamilton Road, it looks like they began razing the houses in October 2022. So these images are old, but not that old. I'm sure they're all gone by now.
I tried to buy this land a few years ago to no avail, I could not get the funding due to the lenders not wanting to back me because of my idea of turning it back into an affordable housing development, it’s sad how many do not actually care about helping our own American people. But, I haven’t given up currently helping true Americans one home at a time.
@@dnorcal1 absolutely and if you ever decide to move to Cincinnati I have a few homes for rent and two in Dayton listed on Zillow, and HotPads, and my rent is $1,000 & $1,350 and the less than a dollar per square foot.
Have you given thought to crowdfunding, or putting together a collective of like-minded people? There are many other ways to raise funds other than trying to deal with the greedy bankers.
It’s 😢that all those abandoned homes aren’t livable. Instead of gett’n them repaired to help those n need they prefer to just leave all those home abandoned. It’s insane dsn’t make sense at all.
I'm from Akron. I remember when Rolling Acres Mall opened. Like other malls gangs took over, legitimate shoppers quit going, anchor stores move out and they close. Randall Park mall, Chapel Hill mall. Same thing.
I grew up playing in this neighborhood, my grandma lived in woodclif . It was nice when i was a kid , nice playground , lots of squirrels especially all white ones , bowling alley across the street . Everything went down hill quick when the military families started moving out .
Nah... They were made cheap and horribly maintained. Would cost more to fix it up and fix all the problems, be easier and cheaper to make a whole new housing development
The property wasn't maintained and it was cheaply built with lots of issues like bad plumbing. Residents moved out and it was sold to a new owner that didn't maintain the property and let it continue to deteriorate. The homes just weren't good quality at all. It was meant to be military housing.
Black people moved in after it was allowed to be run down, because that is one of the few places they could afford. You racists are dumb and disgusting
You could write a book about that story. The owner was in years long fights with the county and state over unpaid taxes, lack of maintenance a whole host of issues. And it may have been seven miles outside Columbus when first built but I’m fairly certain it had been annexed to Columbus by the time it was torn down.
The neighborhood underwent a “cultural” shift in the 80s and crime and drugs made it unlivable. We all know what happened but cannot say it because it is politically incorrect
They were in fact really nice...what they didn't mention is there were two sections the ones shown sat empty for a few years then an artist offered to paint them all...which looked crazy solid blues purples pinks etc before being torn down...the other section is still up and maintained...they've still not made any attempt at building anything new on that site
I lived there in late 60s. We had so much fun playing hide and seek, all those fun games. Always a bunch of kids to play with. Good times! I cant believe it looks like that!
We used to call this ticky tack garbage homes. Stop building this crap and they won’t go abandoned. Same thing happened in CA and AZ in the. 90s and 00s. Nobody wants to live in these identicle poorly built ticky tack housing developments.
This doesn't actually explain why these closed down, and it's not quite correct that it's "7 miles from Columbus." This is roughly 7 miles from the center of Downtown, in a city/suburb of Columbus called Whitehall. Columbus dominates the entire county, for reference. Water didn't process correctly in this area, and after awhile sewage would back up in numerous homes that were on the lower end of the incline. Neighborhood management/property owners also failed to pay for trash, and so they'd get contractors to toss it in a makeshift dump that was made from a community pool. Due to an unwilingness to fix it on managements' part, they were told to fix it or sell. It got to a point where the land itself was too contaminated to live on, and both this property and a golf dome down the road were shut down because of it. City of Whitehall bought it, and is trying to make an outdoor concert venue in the same place- all a part of the mass "beautification" project that's just gentrification given better paint.
The story behind this is, these homes were built for the military. DCSC, is less than a half a mile away. The US government sold to local business man, who turned it into a civilian community. It wasn't taken care of and turned into an area of crime and drugs. The city of Whitehall forced the owner to upgrade or it would be closed permanently. There is going to be office buildings and condo's built on the site. I live nearby and have grown up seeing the demise of this ex-military housing. There is even more to the story, but hopefully i helped people understand this story a little better
i wonder (and i have no clue ) that this community was designed for renters (military and then civilian ) mostly rather then home ownership ? i can c people taking pride in their props if they own but not so much if they just rent and let things erode away
@@brewcrew5854 these homes were built specifically as a temporary neighborhood for the civilians working at the military instalation. It's also right up against the airport. Instead of tearing it all down, the government decided to sell it and turn it into doubles for the community. At first, these homes were well taken care of, but 1990 or 1991, it was sold to another property owner and it went downhill from there. The properties weren't maintaining and they allowed "anyone" into the neighborhood. The worse it got, the worse the clientele became. In the last 2 years these places were lived in, there were 3 murders. When I was little, we lived here. There is also another area just south of DCSC, now referred to as DCSS.Not exactly sure why the name change. This area is called English Village and is still being used. Exactly like homes in this video, just that they've been taken care of and Woodcliff wasn't
I know that area also. I use to be in a military unit close to there.
Yes. Thank you for explaining.
I can't speak for this housing, but much of military housing on federal installations isn't built to local code. The housing at (long closed) George AFB in California was deemed unsuitable for the homeless because it contained so much asbestos. One house I lived in definitely wouldn't have met electrical code; when you turned the bathroom light on, a whole wall in the bedroom would go dead. Maintenance finally realized that in lieu of a junction box, wiring was just stuffed behind the bathroom switch. (@@royhibbler7321
I lived here in its final years. It was so bizarre. Some of the houses were updated on the inside. Kitchen remodel, new appliances, new bathroom, etc. Other houses were falling apart, and REEKED of cat urine from the absolute army of stray cats that lived in the area. I remember hearing stories from some of the neighbors. They usually involved someone being held up at gunpoint a few houses down. It also wasn’t uncommon for me to get up in the morning and find my extremely alcoholic neighbor passed out on my front lawn. I started waking him up and we would have coffee on my front patio. Wild times.
That shit about to become a Amazon warehouse.
Truth! smh
Screw Amazon! Filthy swine's! They have 8 different contractors in Amazon in Greenville WI..They all pay different salaries, and have different rules and times of delivery!
I grew up in this neighborhood. We lived it two of the houses on Midcliff Dr. It was the street in the middle. It breaks my heart to see it in this condition. I've drove through it a few times and it's just awful how the last owners let it all go. It could have been maintained and been doing just fine had they taken care of it. So many good memories with friends and going to the pool there.
And yet we have an incredible homeless problem. Go figure.
My thoughts exactly
The homeless won't work...
Go figure. 😂
@@56caddyour a fool
@@56caddnot true at all I have experienced homelessness before and I ended up getting a job as for other homeless people there’s reasons why they aren’t working weather that be because they don’t have an address and a state ID, or they have drug problems, or they have mental health problems, or even because they have criminal records there’s reasons why homeless people aren’t working it has nothing to do with being lazy.
@@G-Man-half-life I've been alive long enough to remember when America wasn't like this. Today's " homeless " society is the ramifications of the " peace and love" movement.
We lived there in 1971. we lived there for 4 years. it was a great place to grow up. So much fun. I delivered news papers & it was big job for a 9 yr old especially on Sundays.
As a Brit I still struggle to get my head around the sheer size of America, the fact that you have the space to even have massive abandoned housing estates, can't do that over here too many people not enough houses as it is!
British "person"
@@drl52488leave the Brit alone PC nazi
It pains my heart that England will soon be a country with a minority of ethnic British people. British people are openly persecuted by it's own government.
For one thing, y'all drive on the incorrect side of the road.
You have to remember we have states that are bigger than your whole country.
Alaska, Texas, Oregon, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, California and Michigan are bigger then the UK.
I bet you couldn't find a piece of copper in there with a magnifying glass😂
I don't mow my lawn for 2 weeks and it looks like a jungle, how these yards look soo clean been abandoned for years?
I watched a program of this and the city after they had it, they pay to have it mowed.
maybe roundup?
Looks like all fencing was removed. Might help in maintaining the lawns.
You do know that this is a computer generated picture poor quality graphics
Stop telling lies boy
These were considered condos. There should be better laws in place against HOA's and Condominium Associates. This neighborhood should still be around.
I couldn't agree with you more. It's an absolute disgrace that Boston has abandoned condo owners in development larger than 6 units.
No, this neighborhood should not be around. Live by here, they were not condos ever but apartments. The city closed it for many reasons.
Built in 1953, they were condominiums. The houses were cheaply built. In the mid 1970s, gangs and drugs moved in, then the whole area went down. Recently, the city bought the land, it took 10 years to get all of the residents out. Some who had purchased the house and others that rented. It was a huge legal mess. There are still some who refuse to sell. Demo has begun on the rest, big new buildings planned by 2030.
Anyone dumb enough to buy a home on someone elses land deserves what they get. Buy your land, then build. I paid 28k for my land. View is my pic
@@joemtnmanyou are right, we learned that from past issues. But in the 70s condo houses that are part of a community w pool where the buy in was low priced was viewed as a cheaper alternative to buying outright. But here, the mgt company was lousy and it attracted low income residents. It went down hill quick. It was the condo contracts that made it so legally tough to buy the entire community and renovate. The area remains a hit-and-miss low income area of Columbus. It will eventually become low income aka affordable apartment buildings. Primarily minority residents. White flight in the 70s left the area in a slump. It has never recovered. Columbus is financially segregated. No one wants to live in crime and drug neighborhoods. Those that could got out and moved to northern Columbus. If you are more interested search Town and Country shopping center 1960. It used to be a hot up and coming neighborhood. There was circus and high divers when the shopping center opened. Now it is just strip malls. Very sad how this area was destroyed by welfare, section 8 vouchers, food stamps, drugs and crime. But the same thing happened to many areas in the US. Also check out Spanish Lake, Missouri. Same thing happened.
@@joemtnmanand that isn't your land. They can come and snatch it straight from under you without any resistance.
Typical. People of color moved in and they don’t take care
@@jeepmanxj not without getting lead poisoning in the process
This is In Whitehall Ohio these homes have been removed due to high crime and lack of maintenance its now becoming a large Park for the community
Was not due to lack of maintenance. That was all the fire department training. They had problems with utilities too, couldnt shit off to each unit but only each building.
I always wondered what the story was with that place. Abandoned neighborhood you could see right from the road.
Its going to be much more than a park... It will become a mixed use development called Rockwell District
development.ohio.gov/home/news-and-events/all-news/2023-0223-city-of-whitehall-and-partners-kickoff-300-million-redevelopment-and-revitalization-of-major-gateway-at-east-broad-street-and-north-hamilton-road
Narrator really likes the word abandoned.
Say abandoned one more time! 😏
Lol I noticed that too
@@niccovisconti1712 for some reason I read that in Samuel L Jackson's. "Say abandoned one more time! Abandoned ain't no country I ever heard of! They speak English in abandoned?"
IT'S A COMPUTER.
So you don’t realize that’s computer generated? 🙁
Houses require maintenance.
Fire department punch holes in roofs for training.
Well these places were cheaply built in the first place
Airsoft/paintball wars here as a kid would be legendary
Duuuude let’s do it 😂
Heck yeah
Facts
Yes!
That's a great idea.
They were all rented condos. The management company allowed all the properties to deteriorate, not repairing the houses, till they were unlivable. It was the owners, not the renters who let things go.
They don't look like condos. They look like homes
Dude thats a lie ! I spent a lot of my childhood in Woodcliff , my mom worked at the government base across the street. It went down hill because of the new renters that moved in after the military families moved out .
My mother worked at DCSC. These homes were run down by gangs and dope. Just like the rest of not so Whitehall.
@@patricenagel9442in Ohio they have gated communities with free standing homes called condos.
They didn't really allow them to deteriorate.
The price to fix a building cost more than you get if you were to sell or rent out.
It's more of cost to profit.
They would loose money if they had fix everything.
With maintenance and taxes. The building is il-liquid.
So many hardworking people that cannot afford to have their own homes! Very sad indeed that this situation can be found all over USA. Abandoned houses all over.
Why are they abandoned?
No work. No income. Inflation. Then crime & drugs would be me surmise.
It was military housing. That usually isn’t great quality. Then it was sold to a private company. They did not maintain it, so the properties all fell into disrepair.
This place is about 10mins from where I used to live. This place was riddled with a ton of plumbing issues making it unbearable to live in. Not to mention the amount of crime in the area makes it a place nobody should raise a family.
It’s sad to see abandoned homes and neighborhoods. Especially when we have a cost of living and a housing crisis going on.
You can’t just stick people in some shit hole OH town because there are cheaply constructed abandoned homes 😂
We have a crisis of people wanting to sit on their ass and have things given to them!!
@@TrumpyBooden he didn't say that! There's a huge homeless problem in this country & ppl who can hardly afford housing. Possible solutions that could be used to help ppl.
If these properties have been abandoned that long, who's been cutting the grass?
The city
Al bladez or sbmowing
AI's got a southern accent now 😂
Trying to imitate Morgan Freeman 😮
I love it 😅
😂that is funny
I live in Columbus, I can tell
You what happened these were turned into low income Section 8 housing. So you can imagine what took place after that. What you imagine then multiply that by 10. The city ended up taking this over condemning the whole neighborhood. It has since been completely demoed and a new development is on going in its spot. How ever my prediction is the new project will follow the same path. I think it’s throwing good money after bad. But the liberals that control Columbus think nothing of spending tax payers money for lip stick on a pig !!!
There was a low-income housing project built in Detroit during WWII. It was pretty run down by the early 1970s. It was spruced up in the mid- to late 1970s and in less than ten years, most of the buildings were vacant, vandalized or already torn down. The complete project was demolished in 1998.
Many renters don't respect other people's property. They have nothing invested and won't lose anything when they walk away. Their attitude is 'Easy come, easy go' and various governments encourage it because it is tax dollars paying for these failed programs and the politicians, construction companies, or investors that are raking in the money.
It's hard to have pity for people hell-bent on destroying their lives and the lives of their children.
Why you gotta bring politics into everything...stop blaming....start doing something...you must be a millennial....me me me...soft people who had everything handed to them...blame blame blame...what are you doing to change anything? Just as I figured...zero zip nada....shutty your fat mouth
Look at those roofs. Talk about fly by night contractors.
Homes have to be taken care of. Paint and roofing has to be maintained
The shingles are generally guaranteed for 25 years. They probably held up for more than 30. By that time, the neighborhood was already slum.
The fire dept used them as practice. Setting fires and chain sawing roofs
@Jawa614 exactly right. It's been bulldozed but the fd used it for practice everyday for a couple months!
@@MrRollingstone2518 - sad.
Its real strange that every single one of those houses are the same. Its a cookie cutter village.
When military (or government) housing is constructed, it is often cookie-cutter because it's cheaper (everything is standardized, which speeds up construction and keeps costs down). Can't spend too much money on those active-duty military types! You might spoil them!
"Little boxes, little boxes, and they're all made out of ticky-tacky...
Little boxes, little boxes, and they all look just the same 🎵"
( a 1962 song by Maivina Reynolds)
Very creepy
Did the brotherhood move in before the demise of the relationships between neighbors?
Yo Man, We dinna du nuffin!
😆 👏
First thing I thought....
No American should be homeless.
Ideally yes, but some homeless are hopeless
Why should no American be homeless,
I think you meant, "Nobody should be homeless except Americans"
I tried to help more than one. They all ripped me off, robbed me blind.....broke in later and robbed me again 6 months after kicking them out. He and his girlfriend were prefectly happy being homless with their haroin. No one should be homelss THAT DOSENT WANT TO BE
Ah, said like someone who has never worked with that population. "Homelessness" - ask yourself, why don't you house a few of those people yourself? Now, imagine you run a shelter, do you think there are people who are so wretched that they willingly destroy the physical, economic, and social structure of the place you manage... what would you do? Does a jail become then the refuge of the "homeless".. the point is many, I won't say all, but by far most, are that way by choice.
Shared driveways and no fences
What could go wrong ?
They used to all fences. Even each side of the doubles had their own fences
I used to live there, that is where I was during the Blizzard of 78. That place shook like a bulldozer was hitting it during that storm.
Is that in Columbus Ohio?
@@Whereempathsgather yes, it's in the suburb of Whitehall, just down the road from the airport
Ohio Stanks period the people are all like Trump
what happened?
Ohio has proven to be more purple. I am proud that they voted to codify abortion rights, and to make Pot legal. Thankfully they are not all MAGA freaks@@arthurchavers7554
Lived a mile from there growing up. They were already terrible in the 90’s and just continued to go downhill. We never ventured to that side of town due to safety concerns.
If I was a kid again living near there, I’d play there all the time, nothing better than exploring places like that.
Nah bro a lot of fiends and trappers be out there
They should make / create a contract with homeless for the houses
A lot of industry left Ohio which created a lot of this.
That is also true!
yes look at detroit
However, this is in the Columbus suburb of Whitehall. The Columbus area has been steadily growing for decades. This neighborhood's woes would have to do with some combination of neglect, disinterest, apathy, NOT a lack of industry.
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That, and it was military housing.
Sounds like the contractor that built these homes was a scammer.
This could be turned into veteran's housing, senior housing to resolve alot of the issues for ppl. What a waste.
Do veterans not have their own homes? You talking about homeless druggies or what?
@@psgistheworstclubineurope no I'm not talking about druggies. I'm talking about all the Veterans of war that have been tossed aside by the government. They've been put out as well as Seniors to let illegal immigrants come & live in those spaces. Sometimes things happen to Veterans of War that are a continuous battle because they never see life the same again. But they fought for our country with or without an active war.
@@sarahgomez6740 Who is going to pay for renovation, utility bills, and other things? The veterans? Lol
@@psgistheworstclubineurope you know there are plenty of celebrities who get great tax right offs for donations. Those ppl could easily support the costs of a project but mostly narcissistic & don't want to miss a $1 of their own $$. Do you have a better idea?
@@sarahgomez6740 Better idea? create a temporary shelter, I don't think homeless people deserve their own homes paid for by "celebrities"
Had an aunt & uncle live there. Then, as an auditor, I audited a couple of businesses whose offices were in a few homes. I was a terrible sight when last seen around 2006. If looking up where this was, type in Woodcliff, Whitehall, OH.
Talk about the taxes.
Its abandoned now because they made everyone leave. I knew someone who lived there and homes were a mess. Drugs and crime ridden. The homes weren't being kept up at all some had already fallen apart. There are a lot of apartment buildings being shut down in Columbus because owners aren't taking care of the properties. An apartment/ townhome property called colonial village pretty much 3 minutes from the location in this video is in terrible condition and has been condemned and uninhabitable. They're making all the residents move out and the city is paying for relocating most of them. Another property in West Columbus/ Lincoln village called Galloway apartments is shutting down too. Nothing was getting fixed. No trash was being taken away. Actually there wasn't even dumpsters. The city eventually had to pay for the trash to be hauled away. It was literally filling up the parking lots. The property has been deemed uninhabitable as well. So many people facing homelessness these days. Its so sad
We can send men/women to the moon. Yet we can't solve the homeless, hunger, and the wasteful problems we have.
Yeah, right! And we have to pay more taxes because of global warming. Bullshit! HELP STOP GLOBAL LAMING
We can but we Don't.
@@taylorfox6436 truth
No matter what you do there will always be homeless people and alot of them do it by choice, get over it
No homeless problem in US. There is a mental illness and drug problem.
I'm agreeing with the guy ahead of me.
Who is saying how come the grass isn't knee high ??
Maybe the soil is contaminated so it doesn't grow much is what I'm thinking
I need to know how someone sells my property and then tells me I have one year to get out
Eminent Domain
Eviction notice. Happens often.
And yet the homeless remain homeless? Absolutely disgrace!!
Why are the homeless, homeless? Please give us your insight.
Are these old images, then? At the end they say it’s been completely razed.
Google Earth is a thing you are miles behind technology
If you do google street view on parts of Hamilton Road, it looks like they began razing the houses in October 2022. So these images are old, but not that old. I'm sure they're all gone by now.
Yes, they are all gone and new construction has begun. This is not far from where I live.
I'm 9 blocks from that neighborhood I was shocked they were nice 7 years ago what happened there to everyone is a complete mystery. 😮
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Hello diversity… my sweet friend, I’ve come to visit you again… but you were not there , always showing your underwear 🎶🎶🎶 !
I tried to buy this land a few years ago to no avail, I could not get the funding due to the lenders not wanting to back me because of my idea of turning it back into an affordable housing development, it’s sad how many do not actually care about helping our own American people. But, I haven’t given up currently helping true Americans one home at a time.
God bless you and yours for not just blowing hot air...and doing something...never quit what you're doing...xxx
@@dnorcal1 absolutely and if you ever decide to move to Cincinnati I have a few homes for rent and two in Dayton listed on Zillow, and HotPads, and my rent is $1,000 & $1,350 and the less than a dollar per square foot.
Have you given thought to crowdfunding, or putting together a collective of like-minded people? There are many other ways to raise funds other than trying to deal with the greedy bankers.
I believe that was section 8 housing that finally got worn down so bad they had to tear them down.😢
I believe it TAXPAYERS BEING ROBBED AGAIN😮😮😮😮
That explains why.
It was not section 8 just terribly managed
Was not section 8, you are just racist
First was military housing, then Section 8. 😢
It’s 😢that all those abandoned homes aren’t livable. Instead of gett’n them repaired to help those n need they prefer to just leave all those home abandoned. It’s insane dsn’t make sense at all.
No trees in the yards so sad
What video are you watching? They're all over the freaking place
It has 'set' completely abandoned. Not 'sat'. Things 'set'. People 'sit' or have 'sat'. "Set the table so people can sit down to dinner".
How I wrote it is 100% grammatically correct lol…
Jake do rolling acres mall in Akron Ohio
Yea I'm from Cleveland in Albuquerque now I remember that mall summit racing was founded in Tallmadge
I'm from Akron. I remember when Rolling Acres Mall opened. Like other malls gangs took over, legitimate shoppers quit going, anchor stores move out and they close. Randall Park mall, Chapel Hill mall. Same thing.
tonyherdina9142 yeah rolling acres brother chapel hill and I watched the history of Randall Park Mall too.
Think how many tiny houses could be built on that land for homeless people. There is so much that could be done to help.
Shows the intelligence of the government to use some resources to help homeless and veterans who fought to keep us free. Pathetic!! WOW 😢
I grew up playing in this neighborhood, my grandma lived in woodclif . It was nice when i was a kid , nice playground , lots of squirrels especially all white ones , bowling alley across the street . Everything went down hill quick when the military families started moving out .
Oprah Winfrey Will have her cheque book out!
So, who purchased this blighted neighborhood? There are developers that will take advantage of this real estate.
Had they built walls or fences, the neighborhood might have thrived.
They have to be bulletproof to survive the gangs that moved in there. 😁
And plant more trees
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I don't think the gangs cared...
The quality of the homes were terrible in the first place. That wouldn't fix the deteriorating and the bad plumbing issues.
I did some work here in 2017, we went through several of these places, it looked as if people left in the middle of the night.
Should be fixed for both male and female veterans and homeless!
Nah... They were made cheap and horribly maintained. Would cost more to fix it up and fix all the problems, be easier and cheaper to make a whole new housing development
Unbelievable! Why can't we house some homeless people there. There jobs could be fixing up the place.
Are you thinking what I’m thinking? Send a few thousand homeless there. It’s better than sleeping on the streets.
I just Google map it. They must be vacant, not one house has a car in the driveway. BUT, who cuts the grass?
The city
The houses aren't even there anymore.
They were all razed as per the last sentence of this post.
Im still confused as to why it was abandoned?
Section 8 people destroyed them.
The owner didn't want to maintain them and they were cheaply built.
It’s full of rats and roaches that’s why it’s condemned I’m from Columbus Ohio it’s terrible
Where is this in Cbus? I'm a lifetime resident. I will call 6 on your side
It's called the American dream because you have to be asleep to believe it.
The American dream isn't a gift.
You have to go earn it.
@@georgeglass3680QUIET BOOMER
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There are two types of people. Boomers, and people who wish they had the great life of boomers.
@@georgeglass3680GO BACK TO BED...YOU RETIRED WHEN SHOP MOVED TO CHINA OLD MAN
@@georgeglass3680true
Talk about a " GHOST TOWN " 🙀👻👻 LOL !!
The homeless have to stop using drugs and work for theres
Those houses look like that one house in salty springs in fortnite
Still doesn’t explained what happened and why….
Everyone knows what happened..... they just can't write it....
#GetOnGab
The management company let it go to hell.
African Americans moved in. That is what I understood!
It was turned into section 8 housing and the "homeless" turned into a drug infested shithole.
The property wasn't maintained and it was cheaply built with lots of issues like bad plumbing. Residents moved out and it was sold to a new owner that didn't maintain the property and let it continue to deteriorate. The homes just weren't good quality at all. It was meant to be military housing.
Looks like a military base… or a futuristic colony on mats!!!!
OK, so what they’re saying is that Black people moved in.
My 1st thought
No Ukrainians and Zionist
@@hughfields5354 Ha Ha!
Black people moved in after it was allowed to be run down, because that is one of the few places they could afford. You racists are dumb and disgusting
My first thought was it would be some white trash meth heads. That's the first thing that comes to mind when I think of Ohio.
You could write a book about that story. The owner was in years long fights with the county and state over unpaid taxes, lack of maintenance a whole host of issues. And it may have been seven miles outside Columbus when first built but I’m fairly certain it had been annexed to Columbus by the time it was torn down.
Looks like a perfect place for everybody that lives on the streets. Let Mr. Nuisance propose his thoughts to that state
The neighborhood underwent a “cultural” shift in the 80s and crime and drugs made it unlivable. We all know what happened but cannot say it because it is politically incorrect
That’s why it looked familiar. I’ve passed that place for decades. I even picked up Uber/Lyft riders from there in 2016-17.
Went and checked this out recently. All of the houses are torn down now. Disappointing road trip.
There should only be 10 homes on 36 acres max.
Yes. Each homeless person deserves a house on 3.6 acres. 😊
A year or two ago, all the homes and remaining trees were painted, pink, purple, blue, & green. Then they tore them all down.
I did pest control at a few of these was wild 😮
Good ole Columbus GA.
Why is this happening when we have people living in tents and boxes on the street? Maddening!!
Uh who is supposed to pay for it??? Oh yeah the people that work their asses off😮NOT!!
Why was Woodcliff condominiums abandoned?
Streets were crumbling, homes had problems with roaches, sewer backups, mold and various structural issues.
They were in fact really nice...what they didn't mention is there were two sections the ones shown sat empty for a few years then an artist offered to paint them all...which looked crazy solid blues purples pinks etc before being torn down...the other section is still up and maintained...they've still not made any attempt at building anything new on that site
They are now.
After 40 years you wouldn't expect any upkeep necessary for those homes. They should never need repairs.
Nope making no sense as to which state it’s in? There’s a Columbus in Texas snd I’m sure lots of other states have a Columbus. Where is it?
damn, never knew minecraft was real
I lived there in late 60s. We had so much fun playing hide and seek, all those fun games. Always a bunch of kids to play with. Good times! I cant believe it looks like that!
The question is who bought the property.
Not sure who owns it, but construction on what I believe to be a new housing development is underway.
We used to call this ticky tack garbage homes. Stop building this crap and they won’t go abandoned. Same thing happened in CA and AZ in the. 90s and 00s. Nobody wants to live in these identicle poorly built ticky tack housing developments.
Noooo... Nobody wants gangs, drugs, prostitution and violence in their neighborhood.
The cost of living continues to rise, and the homeless remain on the streets.
this is literally 10 miles from my house and i never knew this existed! thanks imma go check it out soon
such a great planned community i wish my town had it planned out like that
Woodcliff looking like a low key Privet Drive 🦉
Pretty clean for an abandoned neighborhood
What happened to all the garages? Something strange.
There were no garages.
Translation: the blacks moved in and the Whites moved out.
Could have been the film set for an apocalypse movie
I used to pass by these, a couple houses had lights on the last time i passed there, then moved away.
And its even more peaceful now. Reports say there's been zero disputes between neighbors for 4 years in a row
This doesn't actually explain why these closed down, and it's not quite correct that it's "7 miles from Columbus." This is roughly 7 miles from the center of Downtown, in a city/suburb of Columbus called Whitehall. Columbus dominates the entire county, for reference.
Water didn't process correctly in this area, and after awhile sewage would back up in numerous homes that were on the lower end of the incline. Neighborhood management/property owners also failed to pay for trash, and so they'd get contractors to toss it in a makeshift dump that was made from a community pool.
Due to an unwilingness to fix it on managements' part, they were told to fix it or sell. It got to a point where the land itself was too contaminated to live on, and both this property and a golf dome down the road were shut down because of it. City of Whitehall bought it, and is trying to make an outdoor concert venue in the same place- all a part of the mass "beautification" project that's just gentrification given better paint.
This is located in a city named Whitehall, Ohio. The neighborhood is demolished and as of right now, a new one is being built.