When I finish this batch of abandoned homes I'll switch for a while to Industry On Parade. We found a place bristling with security cameras, ribbon wire, and its own water tower for fire suppression. Makes you wonder what might be stored there. My guess, and it's only a guess, is enough ammonium nitrate to blow half of Lubbock sky high. Good luck finding out for sure.
Lubbock has a lot of abandoned homes. Lubbock has a substantial homeless population. But there is no effective mechanism in place to patch up those homes and put homeless people into them. Some local churches are doing what they can, however. And there are Habitat homes in various places. The need is great.
These structures probably can't be salvaged...
Although if oil prices keep plunging Midland and Odessa will be FULL of abandoned homes. Some of Lubbock's most ritzy and exclusive neighborhoods, where the houses are more like castles, will probably be vacant and decaying. Oil money comes and oil money goes. And I can't say that I have any sympathy whatsoever for oil business types.
My wife and I looked yesterday at a house for lease that was in such awful shape, only crackheads or fratrats would consider living there. Somebody actually expected to make money out of that derelict! Where there is greed, there is hope. You've got to admire the ambitious dreams of aspiring slumlords. Probably, his daddy and his daddy before him were all slumlords. Tradition!
I'm getting too negative! So let's look at more abandoned homes, and remember that one person's horrible personal loss is always another person's investment opportunity!
No surprise, these are all in East Lubbock. No development there. No investment there. Lubbock is a white city, and the money is all white, and the bankers and the developers are all white, and as you go east in Lubbock the color changes from white to darker shades. Wrong color, wrong race, no money, no investment.
These houses are near this nice park. The park is nice enough but it's on the "wrong" side of University Ave.
