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.
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.
Then you move them into your neighborhood. I live in one of those places they “needed a place to live”, and it has turned into a crap hole.
Rundown streets, infrastructure falling apart. Over-crowded schools, Garbage everywhere.
Gubmint probably wanting to build there for illegal aliens or Somalis.
The community needs damaged.
It’s full of communist hippies.
I don’t even drive through that deal hole.
They need to taste the section 8 they support.
“Poor people need to live somewhere, and safe affordable housing, particularly in urban areas, is something that needs to be addressed.”
The problem at its root is that the costs they bring with them chase out the tax base - so the place falls apart. Concentrating “takers” has been disastrous for areas, as it prevents any revitalization/rebound.