Every single building across the street from this lot is boarded up. Meanwhile, one foundation has been laid on this otherwise empty block, which undoubtably was already developed and demolished.

Farther up the street. The matress stuck out among all the trash and filth in between the abandoned houses.

A lady who lived in the house in the left of this photo came out to talk to me. She held up hopes that all the houses around here would be fixed up, and mentioned some of the very meager actions towards this recently. She agreed that the housing stock in Richmond is criminally old, crumbling, and unaffordable.