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Message: <blockquote data-quote="wayfaringstranger" data-source="post: 1361410" data-attributes="member: 17578"><p>Happened in New York City in the 60s and 70s, and one 'solution' actually poured gasoline on the fire - since the properties were red lined (no insurer would insure it) the government guaranteed to insure the properties.   Most of the slum lords were and still are, of a 'certain' ethnicity so a terrible antisemitic slur was born, "jewish lighting' to describe the hundreds of accidental/random/spontaneous  combustion  fires burned down the buildings.  I mean, imagine inferring that landlords would burn down their own unprofitable buildings to collect insurance that could be easily padded since it was a government agency and no one cared. How hateful to imagine such a thing!</p></blockquote><p></p>