Why doesnt the city enforce minimum habitation standard codes with apartment owners in the Segundo Barrio?
This has been the million dollar question for decades. The city has refused to enforce housing codes in South El Paso. Now, developers are finding it more profitable to simply level buildings than to bring them up to code. B After decades of city neglect, city officials now point to the deteriorated conditions in this part of town as a justification to demolish it. Yet we believe that you do not have to destroy the barrio to save it. But what is even more unjust is that the city will use the existence of a few tenements that have been allowed to deteriorate to justify the demolition of scores of properties that are in perfectly good condition in order to create a “critical mass” for their private commercial projects.
