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re: I don’t want affordable housing near where I live
Posted on 4/28/26 at 1:17 pm to Bigdawgb
Posted on 4/28/26 at 1:17 pm to Bigdawgb
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It doesn't help low income folks, it just ruins the nicer neighborhoods. Everyone is equally shitty
Well, you just described all of liberalism/leftism in two short sentences.
Well done.
This post was edited on 4/28/26 at 1:17 pm
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Posted on 4/28/26 at 1:19 pm to Bigdawgb
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It doesn't help low income folks, it just ruins the nicer neighborhoods. Everyone is equally shitty
Exactly.
You can't help people who don't want to be helped. It will only drag everyone else down.
Posted on 4/28/26 at 1:19 pm to weagle1999
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I don’t want affordable housing near where I live
No affordable housing.
No section 8.
No apartments.
Apartments evolve into section 8 unless banned by city councils and ruin communities.
Biden got a ton of bad stuff done by helping get "mixed use" apartments approved and financed with the aim of shipping degens to the suburbs and we have yet to see all the negative ramifications in nicer cities but they're coming even to extremely nice areas because the financial incentives were too good for developers.
Posted on 4/28/26 at 1:20 pm to PsychTiger
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Well of course it isn't going to go in their neighborhoods, and despite voting for it they will sue you if you try.
Just as there is no offshore wind near Martha’s Vineyard.
Posted on 4/28/26 at 1:25 pm to kingbob
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I want housing to be more affordable. I don’t want “affordable housing”. That’s just a government housing project by another name.
This x 1 million
Affordable housing is a euphemism for govt subsidized housing. And when the govt subsidizes housing in a neighborhood, all sorts of undesirable outcomes inevitably follow
This post was edited on 4/28/26 at 1:32 pm
Posted on 4/28/26 at 1:38 pm to kingbob
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I want housing to be more affordable.
Why?
I want less people being able to afford houses near me.
It is my dream.
Posted on 4/28/26 at 1:43 pm to weagle1999
Correct ... "affordable housing" is code for Section 8 or supplemented low income first time buyer BS with the sole purpose to integrate people you really don't want to be around.
Posted on 4/28/26 at 1:48 pm to weagle1999
Because I’m not an old rich f!&k who already got mine and wants to pull the ladder up after me.
I want my friends and people younger than me to be able to afford homes, have kids, and get decent healthcare on an honest full time salary. Every couple I know both have to work (sometimes multiple jobs each) just to afford a place to live and kids, which they rarely see because they work so much.
I’m fortunate enough to have a very modest mortgage, but most people I know are paying much higher rents to live in much crappier accommodations. The high costs of living combined with the stagnant wages and cold job market are absolutely throttling the standards of living for generations y and z.
I want my friends and people younger than me to be able to afford homes, have kids, and get decent healthcare on an honest full time salary. Every couple I know both have to work (sometimes multiple jobs each) just to afford a place to live and kids, which they rarely see because they work so much.
I’m fortunate enough to have a very modest mortgage, but most people I know are paying much higher rents to live in much crappier accommodations. The high costs of living combined with the stagnant wages and cold job market are absolutely throttling the standards of living for generations y and z.
This post was edited on 4/28/26 at 1:51 pm
Posted on 4/28/26 at 1:50 pm to MemphisGuy
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I'm not even a fan of apartments being built... but if you are hell bent on it, then make them in the $2,500-$3,000 per month rent variety. Tends to attract the right kind of folks as opposed to the riff raff. Sorry if that's unpopular, but that's just the way it is.
Believe it or not, there are section 8 units in many of those complexes, too. Obama made it so that just about any multi-family complex over x number of units is required to set aside x percent to get low interest HUD loans or other subsidized funding streams that all of the big developers use.
Posted on 4/28/26 at 2:20 pm to weagle1999
Right on the other side of the park from where I live, there's a low-income apartment complex. Thankfully it's back off the main road a ways and on its own little cul de sac, because if you're not living there or buying meth, no one wants to even admit the place exists. An absolute hovel.
Posted on 4/28/26 at 2:49 pm to kingbob
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Because I’m not an old rich f!&k who already got mine and wants to pull the ladder up after me.
Who is pulling up the ladder?
Do you want to live in an area of mostly starter homes, or a wealthier area of affluent people?
Posted on 4/28/26 at 2:50 pm to TigerAxeOK
Thankfully those people are probably having children.
Sarcasm
Sarcasm
This post was edited on 4/28/26 at 2:51 pm
Posted on 4/28/26 at 2:56 pm to weagle1999
Building a nice house in a rural setting in a low population density area is my american dream that I am living.
Living in a dirty crowded city next to people that want to rob/kill me is not something that interests me.
Living in a dirty crowded city next to people that want to rob/kill me is not something that interests me.
Posted on 4/28/26 at 3:34 pm to weagle1999
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Do you want to live in an area of mostly starter homes
I am extremely fortunate that I can afford to live in a neighborhood of starter homes that’s relatively close to my job and reasonably safe. I have no need to live anywhere else.
This post was edited on 4/28/26 at 3:35 pm
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