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.
I mean what's to object to? The increased property and violent crime? The garbage on the streets? The noise? The drivers without licenses or insurance?
Just make sure the first "affordable" housing units are next to the mayor's residence.
“Affordable Housing” is the new word for ‘SLUM’................
I have an idea Connecticut, vote for more dems!
Liberals gonna be liberals. We voted in the people who pimp this stuff, but we don’t want it near us.
Woketards are going to wring their hands for affordable housing until they realize that the affordable housing is coming to their backyards and then they go NIMBY.
Hypocrites!
To the people who live there, the housing IS affordable. They don’t want to be invaded by hood rats and meth labs. “Affordable housing” is woketard for slums.
As Rush used to say, “bringing da hood to you.”.
Pro tip for liberal Connecticut voters -
If you don’t want the low rent housing built in your neighborhood, don’t (continually) vote liberal.
Democrats don’t care about citizens or votes or petitions. You’d think these idiots in Connecticut would know that by now.
Connecticut has an “affordable housing” law that effectively overrules all zoning and other land use restrictions for housing developments that reserve a certain percentage of their units for “affordable housing”. The law kicks in whenever a town’s housing stock is not sufficiently affordable, a measurement set such that is impossible for any reasonably prosperous suburb to achieve. So developers are rushing to build large developments in absurdly inappropriate locations. As I understand it, only safety is a grounds for stopping these developments but even safety is written so as to not include traffic. The ruling Marxists in Hartford love this law so it will never change. It is doing what it is intended to.
The town went berserk! "Think of the children" was the cry. Bumper stickers and yard signs everywhere you looked. Turns out...the thing was never built.
And more recently a similar project was proposed in Weston,Massachusetts...a Boston suburb that's listed as the richest,and one of the most "progressive,in the state. Again,driving through today there are yard signs everywhere "No To The Weston Whopper!"
Leftists are phonies...and rich leftists are the worst.
It’s a tough question what to do with the homeless, or for that matter anyone that’s making less than a statistically based, one size fits all, minimum income needed to keep the rest of us from feeling guilty.
On the other hand, the rest of us don’t like to see our money thrown away because we don’t any resultant improvement.
I live in an upscale, suburban, sleepy and yes, mostly white suburb in No. California. 3-4 years ago, all of the various do-gooder lib gov’t mandates as to affordable housing gradually engendered a low-income project here and there sprinkled throughout the town.
The local crime reporting used to be a very short column in the local rag. Never was there any physical violence, talking maybe a bicycle theft once in a while. Since then, we have had multiple carjackings, home invasions, and nobody can receive a package delivery without the item being stolen from their front porch. Any loose bicycle is immediately stolen, and garden tools while the homeowner leaves their garage door open for mere minutes and traipses around the back of the house to get a rake.
typical NIMBY reaction....
Oh yeah, rent-restricted housing.
That should really improve the quality of life in some bucolic Connecticut suburb.
Kinda like the forced ‘diversity’ in some neighborhoods & schools did back in the 1960s & 1970s.
Many years ago, I lived in the Gold Rush Foothills of N Calif in a small burg-—with Roseville near enough to do big box shopping.
I got told to attend a meeting about a developer who wanted to build ‘affordable housing’ in this “ONE STOP SIGN AT THE T” burg.
There weren’t enough school facilities—and only grade school at that. NO ‘middle school’. High school got bussed to “town”. 3 STORY units-—taller than even most of nearby “town”—9 miles away. Not sure local VOLUNTEER fire dept could even fight a 3 story fire....or that water to do so as available.
There was NO bus service other than the school busses. We had our own cars/trucks, etc. Rural-—horses everywhere, etc.
The developer was making a speech about the young mothers (no mention of fathers) and their kids being able to move here for ‘fresh air & safer conditions’. Those certainly were BUZZ words.
Sacramento was close by & that town already had a severe gang /black/illegals problem-—THEN...and it WAS spilling over into the foothills of the Sierra Nevada.
The rents were supposed to be about 2/3 of local values-—but there also were NO playgrounds for these kids-—or ANY facilities for the “moms’ either. Never got a straight answer about laundry facilities.
Grocery store? Less inventory than a city 7-11.
Post office? Part of another building.
Bank? LOCAL STATE bank—very friendly & knew their customers BY NAME.
Small engine/chain saw repair shop —
A thrift store run by local Hospice.
A small restaurant filled with locals.
2 Feed stores—family operations.
Quite rural.
NO local police-—dependent on County Sheriff’s for law enforcement....AND MOST people in the area were armed.
Bottom line??? NO JOBS of any kind for any of the Moms or teens. NO transportation to get to any job they might find. Most residents had jobs away from the burg-—so their properties would be UNATTENDED every work day.
This guy was trying to sell us a fancy cake with cold lemonade-—but all I saw was LEMONS.
I finally asked him: “Who is going to be renting these units? We already have open rental units in 10 mile radius.”
I then asked him: “ARE THESE UNITS SECTION 8 UNITS”??? I made SURE everyone HEARD MY VOICE.
NO ONE in the audience even knew what I was talking about...they had never heard of Section 8. I explained what Section 8 was. That got them riled up!!!
MR Developer tried to skirt the question-—I refused to let him dodge my question. I kept asking-—louder & LOUDER—over the din of the others in the room.
He finally said “YES”-—but they will be no problem because they will be so GRATEFUL to be out of their current bad conditions”. TOTAL LIE....
He got a chorus of BOOOS-—and the crowd was plenty unhappy about his ‘end run’ with the ‘affordable housing’ story.
I got thanked over & over for getting the “Section 8 “ question out into the open.
He packed up his fancy drawings & BOLTED-—and it all died very quickly at the County Supervisors level. I am pretty sure some financial incentives were in play there-—but NOW the spotlight was on them.
Sorry this is so long-—but it did happen.
Not buying it.
On an interstate?
He'd have to average just 19 mph to cover 14 miles, 9 mph for 90 minutes.
In this same area, Project Veritas just busted an ultra-leftist school administrator.
“” Jeremy Boland, assistant principal at Cos Cob School, a public elementary school in Greenwich, Connecticut, described how he hires “the right teachers.”