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For months people had been asking me if I’m still living in Victorville and if so, why I stopped writing about it. Some dumbshit even accused me of running back to live the big city life, as if I was too embarrassed to tell people “da trufe.” Well, I’m still here, still proud, still shooting and perfecting my aim. And I figure it’s about time for me to crack my knuckles and see if I still got what it takes to do a proper Victorville update. (more…)

June 5th, 2010 | Comments (33)

How To Solve The Housing Glut: Ship Poor People Into Abandoned Suburbs and Privatize Inner-city Projects

How about this for a plan for sprucing up our nation’s crumbling housing projects: ship lazy black folks out to the subprime suburbs, privatize their apartment buildings and hand them over to real estate developers. That’s what T.A. Frank, a…

November 17th, 2009 | Comments (24)

eXiled TV: Ghetto Bird Watching with Yasha Levine

High desert living in Victorville offers outstanding opportunities for plentiful, secure employment, home ownership, higher education, safe neighborhoods and nearby desert, lake and mountain recreation. Victorville has 20 parks, two municipal golf courses, highly rated schools, truly affordable housing and…

August 10th, 2009 | Comments (6)

DESERT DISPATCH: METH, MORONS, AND MURDER IN VICTORVILLE

Living in an abandoned neighborhood in an exurb way out on the edge of the California desert has its perks. There isn’t much in the way of nightlife in Victorville, California, and food options are limited, but it has one…

June 23rd, 2009 | Comments (19)

Depression Porn: The New Taxpayer-funded Subprime Market No One Wants You To Know About

Everything the real estate industry tells you is a hustle. No industry is more geared toward pumping up the positive and burying anything remotely negative, leaving you — and truth — out in the cold. The crash has not made…

June 16th, 2009 | Comments (17)

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