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Town After Town, Residents Are Fighting Affordable Housing in Connecticut
New York Times via Yahoo ^ | September 6, 2022 | Lisa Prevost

Posted on 09/06/2022 9:37:06 AM PDT by grundle

In the town of Fairfield, Connecticut, nearly 2,400 residents have signed a petition opposing a project proposed for downtown that could bring 19 units of affordable housing.

In nearby New Canaan, homeowners have raised about $84,000 for a legal fund to fight a proposed apartment complex downtown on Weed Street that would include 31 rent-restricted units for households with moderate incomes.

And in Greenwich, a developer recently withdrew an application to build a project that would include 58 apartments priced below market rate, after residents living in nearby luxury condominiums objected

Throughout Fairfield County, Connecticut, local residents and elected officials are seeking to block large housing projects that include units affordable to low- and moderate-income households

The restrictive zoning “disparately harms Black and Latino households, and deepens economic and racial segregation in the area,”

That sort of suburban antipathy to density has contributed to a severe housing shortage in Connecticut, especially at the low- to moderate-income range

many people who work in the towns cannot afford to live

Affordability is a major deterrent to the many teachers in Greenwich who would like to live in town, said Aaron Hull, a longtime educator in town. Hull, who lives in Norwalk, said he and his wife had periodically contemplated moving their family to Greenwich, which he views as a “phenomenal community,” but couldn’t find anything within their price range.

His daily commute on Interstate 95, while only 14 miles, “can take anywhere from 45 to 90 minutes,” he said. “That seat time takes its toll.”

(Excerpt) Read more at finance.yahoo.com ...


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KEYWORDS: connecticut; ghetto; housind; housing; rentals
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To: grundle

There is also the problem of ad valorem taxation.

Towns filled with large houses want to keep smaller housing units out, to ensure fairer school funding among various towns.

Large Houseville might have an average housing unit size of 2,000 square feet and a mil rate of .013.

Small Houseville might have an average housing unit size of 1,000 square feet and a mil rate of .020.

Large Houseville homeowners might be paying 30% more than Small Houseville homeowners on average.

If many smaller housing units get built, existing Large Houseville homeowners might pay 70% and eventually even 200% more than Small Houseville homeowners on average.

Not every household that lives in a large house has a good income. In fact a very large percentage don’t. Joe Biden’s inflation has hit many old folks hard.


61 posted on 09/06/2022 12:49:20 PM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: grundle

I should add that in the US suburbs and widespread ‘free’ public schooling came about at about the same time, the 1840s.

There were suburbs (Islington, Cheswick, etc.) in London way before then.


62 posted on 09/06/2022 12:53:56 PM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: IYAS9YAS

Dems will just load them with illegals.


63 posted on 09/06/2022 12:54:04 PM PDT by GailA (Constitution vs evil Treasonous political Apparatchiks, Constitutional Conservative.)
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To: grundle

I think Texas should send a few busloads of “migrants” to each of those nimbyvilles.


64 posted on 09/06/2022 12:59:39 PM PDT by Fresh Wind (Fox News is CNN-Lite.)
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To: cgbg

“it cannot be built with its own septic and well system”

The French use microstations d’epuration rather than septic tanks.


65 posted on 09/06/2022 1:03:03 PM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: grundle

“Affordability is a major deterrent to the many teachers in Greenwich who would like to live in town”

People have commuted into NYC from its suburbs in very large numbers since about 1920s, when the top-end suburbs were largely built. If a CEO can commute, so can a teacher.


66 posted on 09/06/2022 1:07:31 PM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: grundle

What people think are close-in suburbs were in fact built out in what was the sticks.

Chevy Chase, Maryland comes to mind.

Workers commuted into DC using the trolley.

Developers around 1900 would buy a comparatively cheap piece of land and run trolley tracks to it.


67 posted on 09/06/2022 1:11:46 PM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: grundle

Might succeed if the complex is surrounded by a 15 foot barbwire fence with gate guards and towers.


68 posted on 09/06/2022 1:17:48 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (Biden not only suffers fools and criminals, he appoints them to positions of responsibility. )
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To: ridesthemiles
AND NO money for such accommodations

I’m sure that is not correct. The homeless guests would present a voucher from the city. I don’t know the value of the proposed voucher.

69 posted on 09/06/2022 1:25:07 PM PDT by FoxInSocks ("Hope is not a course of action." — M. O'Neal, USMC)
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To: Gay State Conservative

I have a lefty relative that lives in this town:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamilton,_Massachusetts

94% white
4%+ asian
0.5% black

George Wallace would have been proud!


70 posted on 09/06/2022 1:37:29 PM PDT by cgbg (Claiming that laws and regs that limit “hate speech” stop freedom of speech is “hate speech”.)
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To: Chode

Don’t forget “Terraces.”


71 posted on 09/06/2022 2:08:24 PM PDT by Repeat Offender (While the wicked stand confounded, call me with Thy saints surrounded.)
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To: Repeat Offender

100%


72 posted on 09/06/2022 2:11:33 PM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: ridesthemiles

The big problem with Section 8 is that the moms might want to move away from the “trouble” — but then the trouble comes visiting. Nephews from “the hood”. Their kids get friends from “the hood” to “keep it real”.

So now “the hood” has a base of operations surrounded by soft suburban targets who are not used to guarding against crime...


73 posted on 09/06/2022 3:34:32 PM PDT by PapaBear3625 (We live in a time where intelligent people are being silenced so stupid people won’t be offended)
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To: IYAS9YAS

Suburban antipathy to density is why suburbia exists. Morons. Not everyone likes high-density areas. Every moron out there who pushes for high-density affordable housing needs to be forced to live in high-density affordable housing for a minimum of five years before they can start to shill for it again.
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I don’t disagree with any part of your post. However the fact is those who are pushing for what we want no part of could care less about what we like or don’t like. Their goal is to cram everyone into Soviet-style ghettos where they can be controlled like animals in a zoo. As the fascist Klaus Schwab has said, the goal is to eliminate all property rights and have every person on the planet under the absolute control of world government, i.e., the World Economic Forum (WEF).


74 posted on 09/06/2022 5:22:07 PM PDT by fortes fortuna juvat (Democrat politicians and voters are dangerous psychopaths. They confirm it everyday.)
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To: bankwalker; CodeJockey

Happens every day, unless there’s weather or an accident or car trouble.


75 posted on 09/07/2022 1:30:26 PM PDT by Tymesup
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