Scott Adams was right! Stay as far away as you can

But! The communist democrats will destroy this desert just like they have finished off the destruction of California. Those politicians are quintessential communist democrats with not one creative idea but a whole lot of criminal energy.😊

East Cleveland essentially used to be Rockefeller's home with a golf course, stables and lakes. Look at it now. John D liked the land because it was on a small bluff and caught breezes off the lake in summer. Now it just stinks

2024: they still building freeways 🤦‍♂️

They get a 15 year tax abatement, but then you have to try and not get murdered. Not a trade off I’d be willing to make.

HCV needs to be an entitlement as SNAP is and Social Security are. Shelterforce has an article out that mentions the deteriorating conditions in existing low-income multiunit buildings Another thing that does not help any of this is that people on HCV have a bad rep due to high crime in some high-poverty majority-minority neighborhoods. Folks need to try to keep their neighborhoods safe, or else gentrification will win.

This was back when grass was the cool style and rocks were ugly

The indigenous peoples living there left it easy for my colonizer brothers and sisters. may yall have kindness, hope, and love in your temple!

It’s gotten better lol

The Skyway was a public service, not an asset. It wasn't built to make a profit but to provide transportation into and out of the city. The worst thing that can happen is for public assets to be monetized and sold to a private company in it for profit. At that point the public (that's us folks, our taxes built the Skyway) begins to lose all around. Subject to prices increase without anyway to debate them in a public forum, service cutbacks at the whim of the owners, reduced access in order to increase profits and so on. Eventually the private owners will run the Skyway into the ground and end up demanding public money to keep it in operation. They have no incentive to keep the road maintained at a high level unless that is specified in their contract, which I understand wasn't specified. I think the state should step in and build a subway line like on the Ryan down the middle of the Skyway and offer cheaper fares than the tolls.

Deep❤ and well done❤

People would rather cheat another individual by barely paying them, so they could buy more stuff they don't need, More luxury more vehicles bigger house, burn an individual and his life so you could have more. Greed. Insecurities. People need to think about people more I'm sick of it

Beautifully shot video of my hometown and region. Your storytelling here tells the plight of what the valley is having to deal with right now and of the best ones I've seen on this as of late!

"The local control" is the one that allowed the out of state big farmers and the huge cow farms move to Sulphur Spring Valley . Local control has no power over the use and abuse of the underground water by these big farms.

I live here and need to make some comments to round out the story. 1. Ed Curry's farm is organic and a beautiful example of what should be grown in an arid environment. Plants requiring little water. 2. Our rain takes 12 years to reach the aquafer. 3. Subsidence is reducing places underground water can collect. 4. The AMA is not a solution. In over 40 years they have yet to reach their recharge goals and have not put a stop to large ag. 5. Water here is free, land is cheap. To reduce the big commercial ag start charging them for water. 6. Develop a fund large ag must pay into to redrill residential wells that have gone dry due to big ag's huge water consumption. 7. Any water management groups need to include some residential folks not involved in ag.

agora é so invadir "ocupar" e tudo certo, e depois joga no colo do governo.

Yes,I agree.

Educative. Thanks. But the bigger question is who benefits more? The Landowners or the developers? What if the land itself is not sold and the value accrued to the beneficiaries can be notional. e.g. a poor man living in a 5-million-dollar home with no source of income. Let's say he doesn't want to sell or lease. Isn't property tax subsuming all this?

12:45 on 5-3-2024. I'm so glad that we finally have people coming together to try to solve a huge problem that I started working on 17 years ago. With all the effort some of us put into getting petitions signed to try to stop the large corporate farms and deep wells being drilled. Time and time again we were shot down with the idea that we didn't know what we were talking about even though we had experts and their testimony backing us. I had lost hope last summer that we would ever accomplish anything so now I believe we are headed in the right direction and all the hard work over the years has finally made the right people listen and understand and I can't be happier that everyone's energy and ideas will make it happen.

“I aint gonna play Sun City” 🎵

I remember kiki she was crazy she lay down with lot of men - she give gifts out her pants - her gifts bad

The problem is, people are like a virtual cancer. They collect in an area, spread and consume every resource. And when people have drained its host, they move to another area and the process starts all over again.

Cleveland is just like any other American city. Most white families fled the city neighborhoods for the suburbs hence the term "white flight". This was a true phenomenon from the 1950s - 1970s in most major American cities. With the invention of the highways and the larger American automobile, it became more attractive to live in the suburbs. Less overcrowding issues, better schools, safer neighborhoods, etc. This shift, however, left a lot of cities in decline. Cleveland, Detroit, St. Louis, etc are fine examples. Compounded with issues of neighborhood red lining, jobs that moved out of Cleveland over the decades, poverty and rising street gang violence has festered. However, it won't remain that way forever. Every city goes through cycles and changes. Look at NYC, DC, Miami, Cincinnati, LA, Oakland... cities once rife with crime and blight have underwent gentrification to clean up their cities. Some have excelled and some have failed.

Weak men like Norman Krumholz sold out future generations for short term gain

TOO MANY PEOPLE HERE...

Cleveland is dead

That stupid lady saying "oh I had to move twice since both times I wanted to be surrounded by desert and not houses". Well lady maybe if you weren't such a FAKE desert lover you'd know like I do there's plenty of desert in AZ far away from Phx you don't have to worry about being surrounded by houses! I swear most of these fruitloops who move to Phx are the biggest morons on the planet! As someone from a small town in the midwest and moved to Phx for work I even know there's towns like Dateland, AZ that aren't growing, surrounded by desert, and aren't being built with cookie cutters like crazy. Most people who move to Phx want their cake and to eat it too, they're very shallow and entitled to the tee. This documentary shows all of that perfectly!

Basing all these decisions around property values is probably why a lot of these town meetings result in NIMBY policies that end up bankrupting cities

AAAAAULAAAA !!!!

I disagree with presenting infrastructure investment and land use changes like they are similar in any way. Infrastructure investments almost indisputably create value for society and private property owners through public action (unless it's an urban highway destroying urban fabric or other similarly destructive projects). In contrast, land use regulations artificially restrict value in the first place. Governments rezoning properties to allow more density, when the infrastructure could already support it, are not creating value, they are giving it back. Imagine if you were a farmer and had to get a government permit to plant your wheat. Is the government creating any value by letting you plant your crop? I don't think most people would think the government created any value in that situation.. Finally, it seems preferable, from many perspectives, to simply tax land more generally, rather than on a project-by-project basis. If you have reasonable land taxes, all value increases resulting from infrastructure investments and land use changes will be captured (partly or fully) AUTOMATICALLY, including those value increases falling to regular homeowners and landlords who aren't developing housing or other useful things at any particular moment. There's no reason having a "general fund" into which land/property taxes go and out of which infrastructure and service spending is drawn is a inherently a bad thing.

Sonhei q caía isso no CNU kkkk

The Old North End sucks!!!

And now anthem is touching the north valley. One giant city. There's really only a few minutes of nothing, between here and Tucson. North Tucson is so close to Marena and that to Phoenix. ONE. GIANT. CITY. There's houses from west of Palo Verde nuke plant, to Gold Canyon out east.....

I've been here since 81. I was 10yo.... I've been from Seattle to Boston since, but my forever home is in Ahwatukee. I LOVE the desert and all that Phoenix and AZ have to offer. ❤

We moved to Phoenix in 1972 when I was 6. Sad to see the conservative Barry Goldwater state I grew up in turn into a leftist shithole...

A nation NEVER prospered, by RASING taxes. Askk Biden, to LOWER everybody's taxes.

We should, ALL of us, do everything we can, to maintain our houses, and apartments, and our schools, and places of worship. Instead of asking for hand-outs, from our neighbors, and the government? Hand out blue-prints, hand out toolbelts. Have everybody watch smart-phone videos, of how to fix, and maintain properties. Keep up believing. Don't stop!🙂.

Doesn’t the government already collect these land value increases with higher property taxes?

You need jobs. The reason people came to Cleveland from all over world was to work in steel industry. When steel industry died residents left for work. Can city find a company to headquarter there?? It tears me apart to see cities like Cleveland, Detroit, Gary, and some of Chicago die.

Sad what has happened to our industrial cities.

Interesting to watch 20 years later

The Fact That the CEO of Cleveland public schools is there talking about racial segregation systems priorities..that woman stole millions of public funds in Cleveland and Chicago! So right there is the Key that makes cities Fail CORRUPTION! and these people never paid all they received is a little bit of shame .

10:30 so who owns the land then? the city ?

Why is the government waving around a cigarette? to make things happen?

prices hikes. Not cool. This project in reality is by now way paid off cmon now

If taxing in general is theft, property tax is like large scale robbery. People cannot and shall not be forced to be continuously taxed on their assets they accumulated in the past and already taxed (via income tax)

these white men fine asf

CLEVELAND! THIS IS FOR YOU!

How times change

I remember visiting my Aunt in Cleveland in 1962. She said very sadly "This town has lost its touch".