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Jul 1
2012

Graffiti on New Construction Homes in Point Breeze

The affordable housing homeownership development on the 1700 block of Federal Street, which we’ve told you about in the past, is nearing the finish line. Built by Community Ventures and funded with NSP2 dollars, these homes, like many affordable housing developments started in this neighborhood in the past year, look more like private development than strereotypical affordable housing.

The homes

Unfortunately, these new construction homes are not immune to the acts of vandals. Check out these photos:

Through the driveway

Closer look

Wall of the driveway

Sure, we see graffiti on buildings all over town, but not usually on homes that were just built. Hopefully, the developers will deal with this soon. Broken window theory, ya know?

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Posted in Point Breeze | Tagged , , , , , , , | 7 Comments
  • _dan

    They should have a finger chopped off for each tag…sounds fair to me.  On a different note, are they going to coat that beam or trim it out?  That rust is an eye sore as much as the spray paint.

  • guest

    shocking

  • _dan

    One of the greatest things this city offers…

    http://www.phila.gov/antigraffiti/removalform.html

    Free Graffiti Removal…I have filled out this form at least 20 times and within 2 weeks the graffiti is gone.  If it is stucco they send somone out to paint it; if it is Brick then it is usually power washed and/or scrubbed (thats what I have seen thus far).  Hope this helps.

  • funny

    thanks Dan the man!

  • Cinquecento

    I just saw a Kryptos tag at 21 and Chestnut. Kid gets around.

  • http://twitter.com/F1rstCitizen First Citizen

    That’s a shame.  Is this new?  The backs of all of those houses were hit back in May I think.  I can remember only a few other new construction houses being tagged in the neighborhood, I guess that courtyard with nobody watching over it is just too tempting of a target.

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    [...] affordable housing developer Community Ventures, now winding down a couple of projects in Point Breeze, will be constructing ten new single-family homes on this vacant lot. These homes will be available [...]

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