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The Washington Plaza has been a low-income public housing development for 28 years. Then, it was determined by city officials
that the units had no firewalls. The city officials lied. There are firewalls everywhere at the Washington Plaza, exactly
the same as in every other low-income public housing development in Lackawanna County. The Washington Plaza is different than
other low-income units. Someone politically affluent wants it. With the help of the lies and deception of city officials,
the Scranton Housing Authority threw the residents out, all 55 families, and right before the Christmas holidays last year.
Now, there is construction related activity at the Washington Plaza in the form of drilling into the ground beneath
the units to determine its stability. The units have been sitting in this same spot for 28 years with hardly a crack bigger
in any unit that's thicker than a checker due to any severe ground settlement. The SHA claims there are serious mine subsidence
problems at the Washington Plaza, which is as big of a lie as the missing firewalls. In the pictures below, you will see the
crews doing the core sampling. In a discussion with one of the workers, he said they're checking into the location of any
mines because the units are going to be torn down and a new building put up. Perhaps only one building is going to be put
up, a Medical School. The school is a good idea, but not at the cost of putting 55 close knit families to the curb, as they
harshly did here.
The fate of the Washington Plaza nears, because this kind of work is typically done in anticipation
of building a large and very heavy building, like a Medical school. I've taken many other pictures of Washington Plaza for
other reasons, but I'll post them when the reasons surface. For now, let's all sit back, and watch and listen to how the corrupt
politicians like Mayor Doherty and Senator Mellow plan on converting this perfectly good public housing unit into a private
use for some crony or another, perhaps LJC. This should be good, because Dave Baker, Exec. Director of SHA, has already stated
there's too much mine subsidence to consider fixing the units (liar). To make it even more ominous, there's been all that
talk of putting the Medical school downtown, but low and behold, the option to buy the Holiday Manor ran out. What a coincidence.
The city of Scranton just happens to have a condemned public housing development sitting around doing nothing at the moment,
and it's one with a huge public trust problem attached to it.......me, because I got educated on public trusts by Atty. Carl
Greco, and a good teacher he was.
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