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  Ask Gov DeSantis, Abbott or Polis to help relocate them...they seem to be pretty good at such things!
context: At what point does a city get declared officially uninhabitable and its inhabitants provided relocation? >
  
  that was a fascinating read! I was raised pretty close to there but I’ve never heard about it. >
  
  That's by design.  The catastrophe was covered up by government officials for well over a decade, until the fires started affecting too many residents for it to be plausibly denied any longer.  By then the company responsible had long been dissolved leaving residents with no means of recourse.
  At which point the government started forcing people to leave, offering them pennies on the dollar to their home's actual value (offering just $50,000 for a property valued at over $400,000 for example) >
  
  At least Southern Miss volleyball got new facilities >
  
  Ah yes, the important things. >
  
  Yet 5 miles away in Madison things are fine >
  
  At what point is it just straight-up racism that the state government (controlled by white republicans) won’t fix the infrastructure in the largest black community, which also happens to mostly vote democrat? >
  
  State republicans haven't helped. It's well established that the responsibility for water is the city though. It's on them. They've have shrinking tax take for years due to shrinking population. Jackson is not in a healthy way as a city. Hospitals are closing too. The economic activity just isn't enough to sustain the infrastructure they need as a city. Tax needs to be higher, but the residents can't afford that.
  The federal government is putting in 600 million to try and fix it. The city fundamentally isn't looking financially viable in the long term though - if there isn't the tax based to sustain the water supply, you can be sure other issues will follow. >
  
  I think what you said is correct I live in Indiana we get a lot of transplants from Kentucky which when I was younger I couldnt understand why anybody would come here of all places but like there is absolutely nothing and no way to live in some parts of KY (this isnt me shitting on KY I love your state and Indiana and KY will always be like cousins) >
  
  Really close cousins that spent all summer together but nothing ever got weird you promise? >
  
  OK ok besides that handjob at the state fair but that was a long time ago ago >
  
  Handies don't count anyway. >
  
  Just so long as Brett Farve's daughter has a new volleyball court to play on... >
  
  Let's keep electing the same people and expecting a different result! >
  
  And just what can the city do?  They don't have the tax base to fund the water system. Why would anyone with money set up a home or business with taxable assets when they can go nearby with good water?  Offer a tax break when taxes are needed to fund services? >
  
  If only there were some kind of bills they could have voted for regarding infrastructure... >
  
  When you keep electing the same stupid people.