Poor people! In my neighborhood! Not!
Friday, November 20th, 2009 06:32 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rolanniMan, I shouldn't read the paper before coffee.
A buncha people would rather have an abandoned building in their neighborhood, with all the problems attendant to that, than have said building turned into housing for poor people, by which they mean people who earn $20,000 to $30,000 per year
Erm, folks? The day-job doesn't pay that much over twenty grand, though writers of course pull down Fabulous Amounts of Money(tm), and I kinda really resent the. . .monied prejudice (detailed in comments) that those who don't make swaths of dough are inevitably a nexus of violence, crime, drug use, and all other social ills. I wonder, frankly, how I'd afford recreational drugs, which had always seemed to me to a luxury of the wealthy -- speaking of class prejudice.
Yeah, there probably will be Section 8 (housing vouchers) involved. I think there's a law or something. . .
Sigh. I'm really, really tired of the conversation about putting this building to use, which has been going on 'way, 'way too long. First, a new force in the neighborhood, who had moved up from New York City, I believe, to retire, found out that the city was going to make the old school into "affordable" apartments and went ballistic, citing poor people, crime and his property values. Apparently there aren't any poor people in New York. Or perhaps he moved here thinking that wouldn't be any poor people in Maine.
Coffee now, I think. . .
A buncha people would rather have an abandoned building in their neighborhood, with all the problems attendant to that, than have said building turned into housing for poor people, by which they mean people who earn $20,000 to $30,000 per year
Erm, folks? The day-job doesn't pay that much over twenty grand, though writers of course pull down Fabulous Amounts of Money(tm), and I kinda really resent the. . .monied prejudice (detailed in comments) that those who don't make swaths of dough are inevitably a nexus of violence, crime, drug use, and all other social ills. I wonder, frankly, how I'd afford recreational drugs, which had always seemed to me to a luxury of the wealthy -- speaking of class prejudice.
Yeah, there probably will be Section 8 (housing vouchers) involved. I think there's a law or something. . .
Sigh. I'm really, really tired of the conversation about putting this building to use, which has been going on 'way, 'way too long. First, a new force in the neighborhood, who had moved up from New York City, I believe, to retire, found out that the city was going to make the old school into "affordable" apartments and went ballistic, citing poor people, crime and his property values. Apparently there aren't any poor people in New York. Or perhaps he moved here thinking that wouldn't be any poor people in Maine.
Coffee now, I think. . .
Poor people in my neighbourhood! Not!
Date: 2009-11-20 01:30 pm (UTC)Re: Poor people in my neighbourhood! Not!
Date: 2009-11-20 02:09 pm (UTC)