The Virginian-Pilot
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PORTSMOUTH
Sen. Mark Warner and HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan are scheduled to join city officials in the dedication of Seaboard Square at 10:30 a.m. today.
Seaboard Square is the redeveloped Jeffry Wilson public housing neighborhood. The first phase boasts subsidized townhouse-style homes. A second phase of apartments is under construction.
The ceremony will take place at the Seaboard Square Community Center, 2847 Berkley Ave., a release from the Portsmouth Redevelopment and Housing Authority says. It will include a question-and-answer session moderated by Warner and a tour of five of the homes.
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What! No sign!
I noticed there was no blue sign on Fredrick Blvd at the bottom of the interstate exit coming from the tunnel. With so many intersections having two signs within half a block of each other perhaps one more could be erected with the arrow directing Norfolk's non-tax payers to the Social Services building. The City has to bring in more voters from somewhere to occupy those new homes. No wonder this country is broke!
One of the main entrances
One of the main entrances into Portsmouth they build subsidized homes, welcome to the city of entitlement programs. We will see more people going to walmart to purchase a flat screen TV and then buying groceries with the EBT card. Wait a few years seaboard square will be run down, J-dub was built out of bricks and concrete blocks and look what happened, there are homes in my neighborhood built before 1950 using bricks and they still look great.
If Portsmouth was smart they would of relocated city hall to the midtown area and sold the water front property (granted it's not the greatest view) and build condos to sell to tax paying citizens, instead of rebuilding subsided housing.
Nothing new here!
The old Ida Barbour and Howard Homes projects are exactly the same thing. Thanks for spending boatloads of money helping those that don't give anything back!
why is this being celebrated?
"...subsidized townhouse-style homes". There is absolutely nothig to be celebrated when it coes to public housing outside of pursuading the "projects" folks to remain Democratic voters. Keys to a house and free taxpayer money in the form of welfare checks. Let'em get labor jobs and rent homes. There are plenty out there. If they're gonna have these "projects" they need to be built next door to the prisons and away from the civally well-behaved.
thanks for the right winged
thanks for the right winged selfish post...you know there are ACTUALLY people out there trying who just need a lift up , and this may be what makes it or puts the fire back in some folks...
Im an independent type who leans democrat but I also believe in fiscal responsibility....my problem is we give BIG BUSINESS IN Portsmouth huge breaks and incentives so whats wrong with matching our love for business and jobs with our responsibility to take care of our brother and sister citizens down on their luck but trying?
I take serious offense at people who CLAIM Portsmouth is such a welfare haven....I sat on the social services board and newsflash...more and more of the needy are lower middle class scraping by. Teachers,cops,firefighters etc.
Just for the record, ALL
Just for the record, ALL residents have to be either elderly, disabled or employed. Employment is not just getting a job today and stop working tomorrow. Come on people! Do you think for one minute that an agency will spend millions of dollars to go backwards?
Government Housing
You never take pride in anything you don't have to work for. Portsmouth's biggest industry is welfare.
A modern slum
Well, those bright, shiny new buildings look great now. It will just be a matter of time and they will look tattered and un-kept, and the crime rate will rival that of Jeffery Wilson. When will Portsmouth learn that subsidized housing is not what's needed to boost its image and attract decent,viable businesses to the city. It seems to me that the near-sighted city fathers want to perpetuate the ghetto image that Portsmouth has in Hampton Roads. Portsmouth is a fine city and deserves better.
Wonder how Long??
I wonder how long it will be before the crime rate goes up in this new project????
The buildings so far look
The buildings so far look great, and previous articles had mentioned stringent background checks as part of the application process for being allowed to live in this development. As a resident of Portsmouth, consistently watching my taxes go up and my property value go down, I am hopeful this project will be a success. The odds are certainly stacked against success though. The projects may have been razed, but the surrounding neighborhoods still harbor trouble. FWIW, Seaboard Square is a hell of a lot nicer to look at than the old Wilson projects when you get off the interstate at Frederick Blvd. With a little luck, they'll stay that way for a while.