and not a single white person will be allowed in... but expected to pay for it
Posted on 06/04/2021 8:26:47 AM PDT by Jacquerie
Last week, U.S. Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Sec. Marcia Fudge announced that five communities, including one in the Sunshine State, have received a combined $160 million to redevelop severely distressed housing and spur comprehensive revitalization under the federal Choice Neighborhoods Initiative.
The Choice Neighborhoods initiative supports the revitalization of communities through an emphasis on linking housing improvements with comprehensive social services and physical neighborhood improvements. Local leaders, residents, and stakeholders, such as public housing authorities, cities, schools, police, business owners, nonprofits, and private developers, come together to create and implement a plan that revitalizes distressed HUD-assisted housing and addresses the challenges in the surrounding neighborhood. This year’s awardees were selected from a pool of 20 applications.
Choice Neighborhoods is focused on three core goals:
Housing: Replace distressed public and assisted housing with high-quality mixed-income housing that is well-managed and responsive to the needs of the surrounding neighborhood;
People: Improve outcomes of households living in the target housing related to employment and income, health, and children’s education; and
Neighborhood: Create the conditions necessary for public and private reinvestment in distressed neighborhoods to offer the kinds of amenities and assets, including safety, good schools, and commercial activity, that are important to families’ choices about their community.
The five awardees will create nearly 2,700 new mixed-income housing units as part of their efforts to revitalize their neighborhoods. Based on information provided in each community’s application, for every $1 in Choice Neighborhoods funding, the awardees will leverage an additional $10.60 in public and private resources for their project proposals.
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Get ready for section 8 housing in your gated community
Building tomorrow’s slums today?
BS, section 8 slums will attract welfare folks to Ft. Myers, not productive.
Ft. Myers is very purple. There are going to be people on both sides advocating and/or fighting this, but Ft. Myers is also an upper class area. I’d be curious to see how this shakes out. Undesirables will drag down this burgeoning area.
Another example of leftist social engineering funded by our printed, fiat, manipulated federal reserve monetary system
and not a single white person will be allowed in... but expected to pay for it
Detroit, Cleveland, Camden, and ... Fort Myers?
Yup, here is the tell: “mixed-income housing”
Fort Myers wants to be lumped in with Detroit, Cleveland, and Camden???
I don’t know much about Ft. Myers other than where it is located. Do they have the same kind of problems or would this be a different type of experiment?
These HUD programs have decades of proven success in revitalizing neighborhoods....until a decade or so passes and the neighborhoods turn to trash.
The County has the authority to reject the Federal Funds and their Fascist rules.
Not if your County refuses the Federal Funds like we did.
HGTV has a new series, “Bargain Block”, where two gay guys remodel small sq ft falling down houses in Detroit in depressed/diversified neighborhoods. They usually buy the houses from the Land Bank for almost nothing. The after remodeled homes sell fully furnished for $70k to $90k (not a typo). You know those houses will be trashed in no time.
Ft. Myers is very purple.
Ft. Myers is also an upper class area
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1. How do you know that it is purple? Lee County is about 60% Republican. As with most cities FM probably has a more liberal tilt than the county its in but I’d like to see the data that shows it being purple.
2. FM is not really an affluent city. Median household income in Fort Myers, FL in 2019 was just $53,246. Naples is a far more affluent area. I would say Bonita Springs as well.
3. Some areas in Lee County are quite affluent (e.g., Boca Grande, Sanibel).
We are only a few more trillion dollars away from creating utopia in this country. Its right around the corner. /sarc
“..Bad idea to accept these funds. HUD will control zoning...”
Yep. There’s always free cheese in a mousetrap.
Funny how the government champions the housing projects and their profligate grants but not the rapid decline and collapse of these utopian socialist failures.
Rarest wife and I vacation down there several times a year. Ft. Myers is expanding very quickly, like much of Florida, and they have a lot of very high end communities, shopping, and access to beaches.
Lee county is Republican by voter registration, but a lot of that is around Ft. Myers proper. Ft. Myers itself is much like St. Petersburg where Democrats just flood into the gated communities and bring their crap politics. The rural parts of Lee (everything east of 75) is where the Republicans live. Don’t pay attention to median income numbers. They’re lagging indicators.
Fort Myers - Slums on the canals in 5 years... 😀
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