700 S Juniper

[radiocolin]

Anyone familiar with this area? I don't think I ever set foot there in my 2 years living in Philly. I see these pop up on Naked Philly's real estate listings a lot. Whenever I see suburb-style housing like this in CC my first thought is "Section 8".

[unionspaghetti]

The area is Hawthorne and is quite nice with occasional seediness and smatterings of ugly 1950-1990s housing. They aren't section 8, they are PHA built housing. The larger project, MLK Plaza, is a mix of rentals and homes for "low income" folks (income range is $46,680-$77,800). I'm guess you're referring to the bunch that have come up listed at $285,000?

[SmurfyJones]

They're not really suburban-style, just the way too big parking access road.

[OffenseTaken]

Up close they actually look like pretty nice houses (for now), but why do the PHA love these dinky mini-yards in front of the houses they build? On a city street, particularly in neighborhoods where PHA housing tends to be, they just function as little trash-traps. And what are you going to do with a 6-foot-wide patch of grass, play badminton?

[MariusPontmercy]

They look better than the faux-suburban crap in North Philly.

It's one of those new fangled "mixed income" communities where they keep a portion of the older renters from the development's previous incarnation as the MLK projects, then sell the rest at different price points.

[loveisnoise]

Up close they actually look like pretty nice houses (for now), but why do the PHA love these dinky mini-yards in front of the houses they build? On a city street, particularly in neighborhoods where PHA housing tends to be, they just function as little trash-traps. And what are you going to do with a 6-foot-wide patch of grass, play badminton?

The yards allow the random placement of direct tv satellites, and the random yard sale at the 3rd of the month when they just can't wait for their check. Don't hate.