re: Very large apartment complexes being built in or near suburban/rural areas

Single family housing isn’t affordable for a lot of folks and multi family inside the city limits has also become expensive.

Developers are building work force housing on the outskirts as that is where land is affordable and a lot of the industrial work and warehouses are in close proximity.

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I would guess most of the apartments in the core of KC are $1500 for a studio ( 600-700 sq ft) and over $2k for a two bedroom, two bath. I would think the typical income in the KC downtown area working for a decent company would be $75k-$125k for entry level positions.

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Right. Not exactly ghetto.

Trump called this.

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Being that local municipality’s regulate thru zoning what can be built this 100% a local issue.

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And shifty local GOP Rinos on city council or county commisioner boards get their palms greased to allow these complexes.

They’re finishing up a #cf monstrosity in the heart of Travelers Rest SC right now. This is part of the reason we’re about to move even farther into the sticks.

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Kindergarten class had 11 different dialects.

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But I heard that meant it was a great school

LINK then they end up looking like this. This is the end of the apartment life cycle.

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We moved to a suburb and picked a home specifically for the great elementary school, but our kid was an infant. By the time he was ready for Kindergarten, the school had been re-zoned and "multi family" housing had surged. Kindergarten class had 11 different dialects. It was now the most transient school in the entire system. Thank allah for open enrollment, we moved the kid to a better school.

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Did all the administrators and teachers move in those 4-5 years? You didn’t mention any metric or quantification of “great elementary school”, so it’s hard to understand why you left the school. I know all the new school “ranking” sites use graduation rate and test scores as qualitative metrics but those are laughably bad measures of quality. All test scores and graduation rates predict is the income of the parents of the schools. What you need to look at is the difference in graduation rate and test scores for your child’s base test score and your income bracket. That is where you find the value in schools. Too often parents blindly look at a school’s mean graduation rate and test scores and write off a school. They then enroll their child in a school, while having higher mean values for those metrics, actually performs worse at improving test scores and graduation rate for your child.

"Come for all your Federal funding". Exactly.He had been in business for so long, as noted in a small town, that with his reputation for quality work he has been in high demand, for decades. Specifically for non spec-like homes. He's folding his business at the end of the year, tired of fighting HUD's liberal paper pushers threatening him over & over again.

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Section 8.

Brings the ghetto to you.

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Eveyrone in this thread is overstating all of this. I live in an affluent suburb - and have been likewise surprised at some of the apartment construction. I checked the 2 most recent developments - they are luxury and have nothing to do with Section 8.

Looking at one of the websites now, a 2 bed 2 bath ranges from $3200 - 3900 (sq ft ranges from 1200 - 1600). This is clearly designed for earlier career - but still high-earning couples and young families. It's not nefarious at all (other than the damned traffic )