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Are the poor from the community currently working at, eating quality food from or benefitting from taxes collected from the "empty two-acre lot on which it was
by ultrasaurus 13y ago
Are the poor from the community currently working at, eating quality food from or benefitting from taxes collected from the "empty two-acre lot on which it was to be built"?
"This isn't the best way to help poor people" is a very different argument from "this will hurt poor people".
- scotch_drinker 13y agoAs I mention below, the empty lot isn't the floor. It is easy to imagine a scenario where a development provides negative impact to those who live near by. If the development has the impact of hiring people from other areas, increasing traffic to the community and eventually causing further development which leads to a loss of affordable housing, then yes, they are benefiting from that empty lot. Having nothing there isn't the bottom of the scale, it's only a measuring point.