Posted on 03/25/2022 9:19:50 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
BOSTON (AP) — After her home flooded five times in the past year, Tilicia Owens was on edge with every impending storm and ready to leave her Detroit neighborhood behind.
But then the 40-year-old quality engineer heard the city had a program that could prevent heavy rains from inundating her basement and damaging her furniture, photos and exercise equipment. The city is tapping $2.5 million in federal stimulus money as part of a $15 million effort to provide pumps and other equipment to help prevent flooding in 11 neighborhoods.
Detroit has turned to the $350 billion in Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds to partly finance the project. Part of the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan approved last year, the money is meant to help communities recover from the pandemic and can be used for everything from job creation to child care to housing.
With President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better bill floundering and federal Emergency Rental Assistance running out in some places, the funds have become a critical source of money to address a shortage of affordable housing and a growing homelessness crisis. Prioritizing housing is also a reminder that the long-running shortage of affordable housing, especially in communities of color, has worsened during the pandemic, a time when a looming eviction crisis and rising housing prices threatened millions of families.
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This is not a Federal issue.
Everything government touches becomes astronomically expensive.
Where the heck does it say that politicians are required to steal money from those Americans who work hard for a living and use that money to provide homes, food, Walmart money and healthcare for freeloaders who do nothing but ride in the wagon for free?
‘Affordable housing’ QUICKLY BECOMES un-affordable housing AS SOON AS THE NEW OWNERS FIGURE OUT THEY CAN SELL THE NEW HOUSE FOR A HUGE PROFIT........................
I’m so sick of the government being the answer to these problems. It’s your home - fix the problem yourself!
We had a similar issue with our basement, flooded every time there was heavy rain. We had a sump pump and foundation drainage system installed. Has kept the basement dry for 20 years now.
They may ride in the wagon pulled by the hard-working taxpayers but they still vote. Democrats are totally against middle-class hard-working Americans.
The city is tapping $2.5 million in federal stimulus money as part of a $15 million effort to provide pumps ...
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I’m sure a good $10k of that $2.5M will go toward sump-pumps. The rest of the sucking sound with be the rest of the cash being siphoned into the pockets of politically connected NGOs.
” long-running shortage of affordable housing, especially in communities of color”
They are contradicting their own narrative of yesterday—supposedly the minority community has houses that are valued too low!
“Affordable” housing means that some people are forced to pay for other peoples’ housing, further raising the price.
Yep. I know people who live in “affordable housing” that is in better shape and fancier than mine.
I do have the satisfaction of knowing I worked hard to pay for it, though.
Taxation is theft.
had a program that could prevent heavy rains from inundating her basement and damaging her furniture, photos and exercise equipment.
Affordable? That must mean free ...
I thought the Feds were doing things to get people to move out of flood zones, like moving entire towns out of flood zones and increasing costs for flood insurance.
Maybe that’s only for people in small, politically-weak communities.
Biden's next fun stunt is food shortages.
This sounds like the lady lives in a BASEMENT apartment in the city of Detroit.
So, when it rains the water runs down into the ground. She LIVES underground.
I always thought the biggest waste of money was when the government rebuilt the houses in the 9th ward of New Orleans after Katrina.
They paid to rebuild houses in an area that was/is below sea level. Below the elevation of the Mississippi River.
Then stupid people like Brad Pitt got involved and now is being sued by several homeowners because the homes were not built correctly.
They should have condemned the whole 9th ward and paid the people to move somewhere else. Turn the whole area into a city park. That way when it floods again, and it will, nobody cares.
That is why the highest-taxed states are dying; workers AND employers (they pay taxes too) are tired of providing everything for our idle permanent underclass. When Amazon offered jobs-in-lieu-of-taxes in NYC, the idle permanent underclass turned them down.
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