BIRMINGHAM ALABAMA WORST HOODS

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You can see some houses who still have pride and try and make the best of a bad situation by maintaining their homes and gardens. Love that!

No matter where life takes me I will never forget my City (205) Birmingham Al. I still call it the city of hope we gone get there one day🙏🏽 RIP Larry Langford🙏🏽

Funny thing is, I can take a video of white neighborhoods in West Virginia and Pennsylvania and they look exactly the same. This is not a "black" problem. Poor people all over have this blight problem. No hope, no future, no interest in making it better.

If you look for it, you'll find it... What one calls hood, another calls home...

I’m about to tell you what happened to Birmingham, Alabama from my own view and some from research. I was born in B’ham in 1981. During the ‘80’s and early 2000’s, those neighborhoods you seen was beautiful and well-kept because the older blacks and some whites who lived in the neighborhood kept their homes and the street clean and tidy.  Birmingham is a blue collar city and at that time you had good factory jobs around like, McWayne, US steel Fairfield works, and stockham. My cousin use to work for stockham for over 33 years. My cousin lived an upper middle class life in Pratt City and many of his colleagues lived in Ensley, Fairfield, Powderly and other parts of the area that was filmed. Once the factory closed a lot of them seen their income cut in half and had to live off retirement, pensions, or savings. One of the major employers in the city is UAB. If you had a background in nursing you was good. When the recession hit in early 1990-s those jobs started to slowly phase out, the city of Birmingham was starting to slide,you couldn’t really see it but it was barely becoming noticeable, so a lot of educated black residence left the city and moved to Atlanta, Ga, Houston, Dallas, and other major cities. As you can, a lot of brain drain took place and the elite blacks moved to Shelby County along highway 280. On the west side of town where CharlieBoi shot the scenes, there are no major employers on that side of town, mostly fast-food restaurants, wings joints, etc. During the late 1990’s a lot of the older black residence was starting to die out and left their houses to younger generation and that where the decline came in. There was an increase in single motherhood, drugs and alcohol came into place. A lot of people on social security, those older people who have passed and left their homes to the children, never got the deeds or title updated and by the house still in their parents’ name, the city is missing out on a lot of tax base revenue. Everybody know that you can’t operate with tax, you need some kind of revenue to come in. during the early 2000’s recession – dot com bubble, Birmingham didn’t really hit that hard from what I could see,  but it was the beginning to an spiral downfall for the city. The great recession came and finish it out and the city by being a blue collar city began to lose major jobs 64,000 jobs has been loss in 2007 according to Roy L. Williams -- The Birmingham News   According to AL.com article 19,000 was lost last year.  As you can see the city was not only cripple but laid flat, smashed. What you see is what going on really across America. Shrinkage. A lot of white collar jobs left there was two major call centers, Teletech (use to work there 2004-2008) and SITEL. Both provided good jobs and both moved overseas. Left a lot of young people unemployed. Wells Fargo home mortgage where I used to work- moved to Charlotte, NC. Alabama is one of the poorest states in the USA and Birmingham is known as fast-food capital. So there are not a lot of opportunity to succeed in the city, AT&T building downtown Birmingham is vacant. The city only have 1 major indoor mall, Riverchase Galleria which is starting fade. Western Hills Mall and Brookwood Mall are basically vacant. Century Plaza and Eastwood Mall are distant memories. Those apartment at the end, Central Gardens, when I stayed there the units were 90% occupied, what happened was the owner of the property Hubbard reality, sold the units to the guy from Mississippi, then they went down fast, first he got rid of the trash pickup from 2 times a week to 1 time a week, and then he started to hire the tenants to due to lawn care. Birmingham is in bad shape from what I can see and I wish it the best. Birmingham will always be in my heart. Again this is my personal opinion of the city, please comment with yours. the Birmingham News on February 28, 2010 at 5:30 AM, updated February 28, 2010 at 6:11 AM. According to AL.com article 19,000 was lost last year.  As you can see the city was not only cripple but laid flat, smashed. What you see is what going on really across America. Shrinkage. A lot of white collar jobs left there was two major call centers, Teletech (use to work there 2004-2008) and SITEL. Both provided good jobs and both moved overseas. Left a lot of young people unemployed. Wells Fargo home mortgage where I used to work- moved to Charlotte, NC. Alabama is one of the poorest states in the USA and Birmingham is known as fast-food capital. So there are not a lot of opportunity to succeed in the city, AT&T building downtown Birmingham is vacant. The city only have 1 major indoor mall, Riverchase Galleria which is starting fade. Western Hills Mall and Brookwood Mall are basically vacant. Century Plaza and Eastwood Mall are distant memories. Those apartment at the end, Central Gardens, when I stayed there the units were 90% occupied, what happened was the owner of the property Hubbard reality, sold the units to the guy from Mississippi, then they went down fast, first he got rid of the trash pickup from 2 times a week to 1 time a week, and then he started to hire the tenants to due to lawn care. Birmingham is in bad shape from what I can see and I wish it the best. Birmingham will always be in my heart. Again this is my personal opinion of the city, please comment with your

Can wait to get outta here😔😔😔but I’ll never forget where I came from

It doesn’t matter if you are poor we can still cut our grass, wash the windows.

Individuals need to come together and start rebuilding.

Birmingham Alabama in the house👋🏽👋🏽👋🏽

Our communities use to not be so bad. I grew up in most of these areas and it’s so sad how things have changed. I saw Powderly, Titusville, loveman village, westend, and many more ran down communities. Our communities are not going to take care of themselves. The people living in them must do so.

The grandeur of what was, and the condition of what is; so sad.

The one I have been waiting for! Birmingham my home town.

Damn there's no way you can go to the store without a car in some of those areas. Walking don't seem like a good idea. Imagine at night!!

Damn, looks like a third world country. Even though I've seen it many times, it still amazes me there are people living like this in our country.

Hi Charlie! Do you always use the same car or do you exchange it? every place you go is far.👍

This is a great example to show how easy it would be for the government to spy on black neighborhoods without any suspicion, just use a black driver in a regular vehicle

Yooooo ! You just passed by my grandma house ! I got to show her this the next time I'm in the Ham

Nice video CharlieBo313. This video reveals the lack of City involvement in enforcing codes!

I visited Birmingham back in 2015, this city is hood asf