I’m going through old photos, walking down memory lane I spot this bunch of 403 R St NW.
I’ve researched the history with Black Home Owner- Lewis Griffin. And I’ve looked at it as a long vacant house on the 400 block of R Street with cinder block windows.
Those permits in the window seemed just for show. Nothing happened to this house for years and years.
Fast forward to today, and Redfin claims the renovated house is worth well over a million dollars. The key word here is “renovated”.
I’m going to resist going on a tangent about the worth of housing. I’m very sorry that housing has gotten so ‘flippin’ expensive. But that’s the cost of all the things we want out of housing. The cheapest housing in the world is a tent or a crappy hut with some random materials thrown together on land you can’t claim. We want walls that are strong and will keep out the bad weather. We want A/C and heat. We want to keep out rodents (good luck). We want plumbing and electrical systems that work. And we want the local municipality to approve it. All this adds costs. It doesn’t explain all of the costs.
Anyway, this went from being an abandoned vacant house to a home.