They described the city's Neighborhood Stabilization Program as "in shambles" after problems with contractors and the DNR forced rehab work on 18 homes to shut down.
Dickert recently announced the NSP created hundreds of jobs in the city. But sources said those jobs are at least on hold pending review of the program.
More as it develops ...
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Of course, we all could see this coming from a mile away. This has got to be the worst idea. Dickert, Helding, Spangenberg all clueless idiots! Seriously, who do you really think would be buying these homes? Everything Dickert touches turns to complete crap, people are tired of his arrogance and shady ways, Racine you deserve much better!
ReplyDeleteAnytime you mention Dickert, there isn't a happy ending only more problems
ReplyDeleteWTF? Is Dickert Cursed? Everything he touches goes up in smoke.
ReplyDeleteThanks for printing this, the J-T I think will not
ReplyDeleteIs this going to be another failure for Dickert. Everyone this guy touches crumbles to dust. What does he do all day? Has he ever heard of follow up?
ReplyDeleteDickert + Taxpayer Money = Complete Failure
ReplyDeleteJust wait until the details are released and the shady dealings of Dickert are exposed! Racine should really be ashamed. Shame on you John Dickert Shame!
ReplyDeleteI finally figured out how Dickert plans on employing all of Racine's unemployed. He will create a Department called "City Paper Shredding". It will employ 2000-3000 and be running 7 days a week and going 3 shifts. Problem solved!!!!
ReplyDeleteFolks, It's right before you're eyes. Treasures Media=Dickert Failure, American Tire Recycling=Dickert Failure, 10 Year Plan=Dickert Failure, Hiring Friends & Family to 100k a year jobs=Dickert Failure, Tousis Development= Dickert Failure, City Development NSP Plan= DICKERT FAILURE! Please people pay attention, look around you and use your brain! Business's are coming to Kenosha and surrounding communities, It is Racine they are not coming to due to poor leadership and arrogant attitudes of those in City Hall. Dickert has been a disaster for Racine, plain and simple.
ReplyDeleteGeez, could you possibly write a "story" with fewer details and absolutely no supporting evidence referenced? Racine Post = No journalistic integrity. How do you live with yourselves?
ReplyDeleteI think anonymous needs a job.
ReplyDeleteWhat does the DNR have to do with the program?
ReplyDeleteI have driven by some of the project thinking the contractors might want to have the I-9's on hand
Could the "problems" with contractors be that the city discovered the workers were not in this country legally? I can't wait for updates!
ReplyDeleteI don't understand the DNR involvment either. I have heard LOTS of illegals and contractors from way outside the city though.
ReplyDeleteIf its true not be good for the Mayor. Someone will go down for this scandal
ReplyDeleteDNR typically gets involved when there are environmental hazards (lead, asbestos, etc). These are old houses. The powers that be should have known this long before diving in head first. The city needs to get out of home sales.
ReplyDeleteWould not Lead Abatement be part of the repairs?
ReplyDeleteI am far more worried about the Illegals/Lack of I-9's and contractors outside Racine getting the work
No Jobs=No Buying A House In The Ghetto. This Mayor has his head so far up his as-s and we will be the ones to pay for it! What an idiot!
ReplyDeleteWe should be bulldozing excess housing in our city, and put a freeze on any new low income, or subsidized housing. Until we get to the correct size for our city. Rehabbing and competing with "slum Lords", doesn't help improve the housing for those "Lords". Filling their homes with renters allows them to keep improving their properties and collecting additional homes to be revamped.
ReplyDeleteDNR = non conformance with lead and asbestos regulations.
ReplyDelete10:51 is this something The City should have planed for?
ReplyDeleteThe rules dealing with lead and asbestos are pretty clear. How Dickert did not make sure contractors follow them I do not know. It might be the fact that he is using fly by night contractors rather than legitimate businesses. That would explain the lack of I9s.
ReplyDeleteA similar program bankrupt the old Spanish Center of Racine - that program funded via UMOS. Unfortunately government programs - or those quasi programs underwritten by government – turn out as absolute, if not total failures.
ReplyDeleteIn a time of failing real estate markets, it's good to have someone with real estate experience in office... Who else is going to put any energy into these blighted homes with foreclosures going so cheaply... the hope is to begin fixing up neighborhoods... give the Mayor some time to work this out. This is his field.
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ReplyDeleteIf this is his field God save us.
A city government has no business in the real estate business. They buy houses for thousands, rehab them, and then sell them for $1. And they use our money. Get someone with some common sense in there - and I don't just mean the mayor!
ReplyDeleteFor what it's worth everyone should be thanking City Goverment for doing something\anything with the money. It's a federal program and if not spent here will just go elsewhere. I suppose if anyone here won the lottery they all would give the money to the runner up as well instead of accepting the payout. Good job Racine!
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http://www.commerce.state.wi.us/cd/docs/cd-boh-nsp-awards.pdf
The comment above is the EXACT reason this country and city is in the mess we are in. Complete ignorance.
ReplyDeleteFocus on creating jobs not adding more houses to an already glutted market. Shows how out of touch our mayor is.
ReplyDelete11:38AM- So we should allow Dickert to poorly run a program and wasted taxdollars because some other city is going to get the grant? How about Dickert not consistently screw up.
ReplyDelete11:38 AM - You understand that this money just doesn't appear out of thin air, right? This country is going to be paying off our deepening debt for a long, long, long time to come.
ReplyDeleteYou can thank Bush for tanking the economy and leaving the country in financial ruin. Still looking for those WMDs... Doubt you can blame a City Mayor (regardless who it is) for a bill passed in 2008 but the crazies will try.
ReplyDeleteH.R. 3221, the Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008
Note: On July 26, 2008, the Senate is expected to vote on a motion to concur with the House version of H.R. 3221. This legislation was amended by the House on July 23, 2008, to include temporary emergency authority for the Department of Treasury intended to restore market confidence in the housing-related government-sponsored enterprises.
That's right what ever we do not look into how a few Chicago businessmen and politicians used Neighborhood rebuilding programs to enrich themselves and gentrify mixed neighborhoods.
ReplyDeleteAnd of course Bush is making Dickert run yet another program into the ground