[simpson96]

[EEGator]

Maybe “Black Power” can figure it out. I doubt it though.

I’m going to go be white. Eat some cottage cheese out of a cantaloupe half, and drink apple juice while watching 90210 reruns...

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

Your government at work. Fill the coffers under the guise of solving the very problem they are exacerbateing.

[TigersEye]

Kickbacks and bribes are not optional in a city run by criminals. Sorry!

[Governor Dinwiddie]

Here are some black people building apartments for their own family, on their own land, adding four units to the housing pool. They aren't using welfare or government "programs". It's an innovative private family project to create more affordable housing in a traditionally black neighborhood.

Instead of winning an award, the government is penalizing them so that the government can build more "affordable" housing.

The government is disincenivizing the creation of new affordable housing because … Karl Marx.

[BitWielder1]

Affordable means affordable to live in (maybe), not affordable to build.
Developers and the state are assumed to have limitless money.

[Albion Wilde]

I’m glad she is publicizing it, and it may do no good, but maybe if she has a decent congressperson, she should enlist their help.

[NonValueAdded]

“You voted [asked] for it, you got it ... your government”

You would have been better off with a Toyota

[NorthMountain]

Is she a democRAT? Does she vote for democRATs?

If yes to either, STFU and embrace the suck.

[llevrok]

Maybe the city and county government would rather pay muli-millions for a dilapidated 15 room motel? The cost per unit would cover this family's building.

[Michael.SF.]

When I’ve done my projects City fees are rolled into the total cost before I seek financing. Sounds like she did not know what she was getting into.

betcsldd sad I she voted for the people who passed these regulations.

[Organic Panic]

She is a government employee. I wonder how many people she has jammed up through her bureaucracy.

[Chode]

That cost was created by a local rule to create and fund affordable housing *** that they ALL VOTED FOR!!!

[CurlyDave]

I guarantee that if she adds 4 units of 550 sq ft each to the lot with her existing single family house they will all be substandard. Where are they going to park their cars?

A few years after they are built she will complain about being forced to live in a racist slum.

[alternatives?]

I wonder if the extra $77,000 is for the share of infrastructure spending. Increasing congestions by adding three units increases the demand on schools, roads, sewage, electricity, and water. I am assuming there are not any zoning variances.

[Bikkuri]

No one should have to pay unnecessary costs (especially to any level of government) for anything on their own property (including property taxes).

[pepsionice]

Simple, move beyond the city limits and get beyond gov’t regulation.

[Robert357]

The unintended consequences of laws that are passed without thinking them through and getting input from all sides.

[Lean-Right]

Easy solution. Dig a 2200 sq ft basement.
Nothing to show but a huge pile of dirt
in your yard. If you’re a savy
enough builder to make things safe and
meet code, no one would be the wiser.
Except, maybe for the number of cars
in your driveway.

[joma89]

Theft by government.

[trebb]

“Adams has two options: Add two extra affordable units to her project and rent them at below-market rates to income-restricted tenants for 75 years, or pay a fee.”

When a socialist government owns what you have paid for...