Last few posts have been really good. Glad to see some new views.
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Originally Posted by MarkDaMan
The Pearl, South Waterfront and several other neighborhoods have been subsidized to the tune of hundreds of millions of taxpayer money. I see nothing wrong with requiring a developer to include affordable housing since the city has made possible the ability to develop prime real estate. Developers are making bucket loads of cash from their condo and apartment and creative office buildings. Most affordable housing is also subsidized with additional money, on top of the infrastructure already provided, from public sources. Developers are still profiting from the affordable housing they are building too.
With the incredible investment already made by the city, why should the housing be exclusively for the wealthy?
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As much as I disagree with public subsidizes for private investment at all, if the city hands out money for developers to build rich people stuff, then it's fair to require some balance for them to build a mix of housing options.
That seems like a reasonable position for the city to take. I'm still unclear how putting people in parts of town they could never afford to live in, benefits them or the people who paid good honest money to own homes there.
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soleri: 'wealth redistribution' I don't think means what you think it means.
If you put a gun to a rich person's head and take their money and give it to people with less money, that's a *very* short term fix. What do you think happens to the motivation for the rich person to keep making money?
There is already a lot of wealth redistribution. It just goes to the people who create value and more profit in our economy. Which I assume is the opposite of how you wished it flowed?
I'm for removing barriers so everyone can do better. Opportunities for people to start their own businesses. Get educated, have good jobs.
I'm not about just spreading money around randomly thinking that fixes the entire reasons that make people poor.
I guess, perhaps, this is the heart of my comment. I'd rather see barriers removed, than artificially forcing rich people to tolerate living with poor people in the same neighborhood all in the name of equality and social progress.
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It's curious to me, under what pretense, subsidized housing trumps the housing that people have paid for?
Where's the line?
In fancy SW condos, everyone seems to think those rich bastards should have to have poor housing across the street. Damn straight people say!
Yet, what about a normal Single Family Home type neighborhood. NE Simpson and 57th? Does everyone have the same furor that we MUST put in poor housing right in the middle of that neighborhood as well!
Make those working class snobs deal with the Section 8 neighbors just like the SWaterfront people!
I'm still unclear if people think the homeless have more rights than people who bought and paid for their homes in whatever neighborhood they chose.
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2oh1 - The world is full of different opinions, calling someone 'mean' doesn't advance your supposedly more enlightened viewpoint.