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The developer wants to build the densest housing in four counties with little parking, and nobody has asked the real question: is this planned as Section 8/affo

The developer wants to build the densest housing in four counties with little parking, and nobody has asked the real question: is this planned as Section 8/affordable housing? It sounds like it. Section 8 is guaranteed income for the landlord and probably a headache for the neighbors, especially if they had no poverty in the area before. A very similar situation happened in my rural village, where a developer decided some commercial property would make a great spot for dense, low-income housing; the village fought it and got called racist by the courts, who forced the village to rezone and the village council to undergo racial sensitivity training.

michaelmrose 5y ago
Where do you expect poor people to live exactly?
- dragonwriter 5y ago
  The standard answer has a convenient acronym: NIMBY.
- ipaddr 5y ago
  In places that can support additional social services not available in remote communities. The poor are being kicked out of cities.
- Telemakhos 5y ago
  In the big city where they currently live. The rural village I'm in now has a 7% poverty rate, while the nearest big city has a 21% poverty rate. The big city would like to redistribute its poor to suburbs and rural areas and redevelop ("gentrify") the land the poor used to occupy. Poor people don't suddenly come into existence ex nihilo: they exist and live somewhere now. They just need to move into the countryside because the urban real estate is worth too much for them to live on it.
amanaplanacanal 5y ago
I guess the other option is that poor people should just be homeless?
- ipaddr 5y ago
  The social services costs will be higher than the tax base. City planning involves carefully balancing priorities. If the community is made up of 100 rural homes introducing 100 townhomes used for section 8 property incomes creates chaos.
- urbankris 5y ago
  The developers building the complex are going to be insulated from having low-income housing in their vicinity.
ipaddr 5y ago
I hope they appealed that ruling. Elected or appointed judge?
nradov 5y ago
I don't believe you. Civil court judges don't have the authority to order elected politicians to undergo racial sensitivity training. Citation needed

michaelmrose 5y ago

Where do you expect poor people to live exactly?

dragonwriter 5y ago
The standard answer has a convenient acronym: NIMBY.
ipaddr 5y ago
In places that can support additional social services not available in remote communities. The poor are being kicked out of cities.
Telemakhos 5y ago
In the big city where they currently live. The rural village I'm in now has a 7% poverty rate, while the nearest big city has a 21% poverty rate. The big city would like to redistribute its poor to suburbs and rural areas and redevelop ("gentrify") the land the poor used to occupy. Poor people don't suddenly come into existence ex nihilo: they exist and live somewhere now. They just need to move into the countryside because the urban real estate is worth too much for them to live on it.

amanaplanacanal 5y ago

I guess the other option is that poor people should just be homeless?

ipaddr 5y ago
The social services costs will be higher than the tax base. City planning involves carefully balancing priorities. If the community is made up of 100 rural homes introducing 100 townhomes used for section 8 property incomes creates chaos.
urbankris 5y ago
The developers building the complex are going to be insulated from having low-income housing in their vicinity.

ipaddr 5y ago

I hope they appealed that ruling. Elected or appointed judge?

nradov 5y ago

I don't believe you. Civil court judges don't have the authority to order elected politicians to undergo racial sensitivity training. Citation needed