Rural areas usually have few jobs and no public transportation. Not a great fit for poor city people.
I don’t think there’s a reason to jump on the outrage bandwagon here. Development plans that involve building millions of dollars of low income housing often cater to government contracts and are managed by absentee landlords (probably even moreso now that real estate has become the hedge against a falling stock market by major hedgies). They bring people into areas they weren’t already living in because there is housing, and the people who live there end up seeing negative consequences.
Chappelle could have embraced the project, and walked around the low income housing place like a king if that’s the way he wanted to play it, but it would have damaged the larger community.
Poor people need to live somewhere, and safe affordable housing, particularly in urban areas, is something that needs to be addressed. In Chappelle’s section of relatively rural Ohio, it’s probably just a way of a no-name corporate vulture glomming on to a celebrity-linked investment.
“Legendary?” Now Chappelle is funny, but he’s nowhere near the league of Murphy, Pryor, and Foxx. Or Dangerfield, Seinfeld, and Carlin.
Just to point this out....the houses were in the $250k to $600k range....planned in an area where the vast majority of homes are in the $100k to $200k range.
I was watching one of his shows and it simply wasn’t funny. It included a white guy getting ‘shivved’ just for being nice and trying to understand.
Everybody is a conservative when it comes to their self-interest.
The lunatic Antioch College used to be in Yellow Springs, before it went bankrupt in 2005.
I suppose there might still be some alumni in the area who are boosting this project as a last gasp to show off their social responsibility bonafides.
The complex Chappell is planning is really needed and it’s nice.
I remember one such area on Detroit's east side that started out as affordable housing for white Europeans immigrating to Detroit prior to and during WW-II and getting jobs in the auto industry.
Over the years, they eventually migrated to better homes in the city and outside and that area became low income housing or "projects" and eventually fell into such disrepair that they were all torn down.
I haven't been thru that area in a number of years but I believe they were rebuilding again for the same purpose. And the cycle will repeat itself.....
Sounds like the Twitter mob is really a bunch of RACISTS for attacking him. After all, what landowner actually wants low-income housing next door? And, although unreported here, there are also white ranchers complaining - but why isn’t the Twitter mob also attacking them? Can only be one answer - RACISM.
While he didn’t give the reasons for his opposition to the project, a friend of his told The Daily Mail that the comedian opposed the project because the housing would not really serve those with low incomes.
He used threat of pulling his projects out instead of stating his reason at the meeting.
Maybe they’ll build a Subway there.
Subway......SANDWICHES!?!?!?!
The development was neither all lower income housing, nor is it all upscale single homes, it was to be a combination of both:
https://www.daytondailynews.com/local/video-yellow-springs-votes-no-on-housing-plan-after-chappelle-others-speak-up/WFSD7UXAYVECLOFCZPWU4IV4FE/
As a side note, Yellow Springs is not rural by a long shot, and Greene county does have transportation available in the form of a small bus line.