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So check this out. You can live here where its affordable however. Should you choose to have a car or want to buy one no matter what the condition. YOURE OUT. I cant be the only one to see how ridiculous this is. Sounds like a duscrimatory practice.

Makes me hate my hometown.

Brake check: Charlotte to get city’s first car-free housing development

https://www.wsoctv.com/news/local/c...ousing-development/424NGD3NSVFPVIPOKFIEBFM7BM


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Really wish I could say I was surprised. I can't wait to move of out the Queen $h!++ y... it won't be soon enough...
 
BloodRunsThicker said:
So check this out. You can live here where its affordable however. Should you choose to have a car or want to buy one no matter what the condition. YOURE OUT. I cant be the only one to see how ridiculous this is. Sounds like a duscrimatory practice.

Makes me hate my hometown.

Brake check: Charlotte to get city’s first car-free housing development

https://www.wsoctv.com/news/local/c...ousing-development/424NGD3NSVFPVIPOKFIEBFM7BM


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Sadly, owning a car is not a protected class. What it sounds like to me is these houses are affordable because tax money or private transportation companies subsidize the rent in return the tenants use public transportation.
 
Tailhunter said:
It’s ok.
That place will be trashed and not worth living there in under 2 years.
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Spot on. The community and homes will be trashed in only a couple years. The value of the properties will far under-index others and will drag down surrounding property values. Who is going to want to live in a community with 50% “affordable housing”? This whole thing makes little sense and I’m not even focusing on the no cars restriction.
 
No muffler motorcycles ok?
 
But WHY?
What is the motivation here?

Yeah, Jerz is right - this place will be trash soon. Put trash in, expect trash out
 
They should make the developers that are building high end apartments downtown and in South End set aside 10% or so of the units for affordable housing. After all, the people renting them are lefty libs mostly anyway. But I'm sure they don't want them in their backyard.
 
SPST said:
They should make the developers that are building high end apartments downtown and in South End set aside 10% or so of the units for affordable housing. After all, the people renting them are lefty libs mostly anyway. But I'm sure they don't want them in their backyard.
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That's just more left wing BS though.
 
Did I miss something or maybe I don’t get it. 52 units of a 104 unit bldg will be affordable housing. So those in the 52 units can’t have a car. What about the other half? Can they have a car?!
 
It’s a green/integration experiment/development, hoping to pair low and middle class people using only public transportation together. The 52 non-low price units are supposedly going to make up for the affordable units and create a union of classes. The only good sections in Charlotte to visit are those where gentrification has taken hold. This is not going to work, even a good part of the council knows it.
 
Most of the tenants will have a car, parked on the street, and it's probably in somebody else's name already anyway, and there won't be anything done about it, because, ya know, discrimination, but everyone will feel good about everything.

Get with the program or you'll be top of the new "Truth and Reconciliation Commission" list .
 
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So, housing for people that don't work? Or arrogant watermelons that take pleasure in walking through a downpour to bus a mile away, taking 2 hours each way to work than take 20 minutes by car.
Or they'll use other people's cars, UBER, food delivery, etc. But if the have the money for that they are not low income.

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amnesia said:
Sadly, owning a car is not a protected class. What it sounds like to me is these houses are affordable because tax money or private transportation companies subsidize the rent in return the tenants use public transportation.
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UBER, Walmart food delivery, pizza delivery.

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cchioda3 said:
Did I miss something or maybe I don’t get it. 52 units of a 104 unit bldg will be affordable housing. So those in the 52 units can’t have a car. What about the other half? Can they have a car?!
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The other 52 get two parking spots. :D
 
HMP said:
But WHY?
What is the motivation here?
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The motivation is for the "Enlightened Leaders of CLT" to build a city where citizens are dependent on the City for transport. Because, why be independent? It wrecks the environment, too many cars, too much traffic... besides... we can't and haven't planned CLT properly over 30 years... we have a two lane interstate leading into the biggest city in NC... for over 30 years...

And poor people don't need cars anyway.... they need CLT, to take care of them.
 
cchioda3 said:
Did I miss something or maybe I don’t get it. 52 units of a 104 unit bldg will be affordable housing. So those in the 52 units can’t have a car. What about the other half? Can they have a car?!
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From what I understand, they have been demoing the ghettos and building back $2K a month apartments, but a percentage of the apartments have to be section 8 or low income or whatever. So, yeah........
 
Public transport works great in some cities - Boston, for example. But in Charlotte? Not so much, there's not enough there (and Im not suggesting for more, either!)
 
They're gonna make you use the light rail / street car one way or another, whether you like it or not.

The original light rail line idea was sold to us citizens with an estimated cost of a little over $200m. Final cost $462m.

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HMP said:
But WHY?
What is the motivation here?

Yeah, Jerz is right - this place will be trash soon. Put trash in, expect trash out
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It's already hood that is being slowly gentrified (I do a good bit of work here), so nothing is really changing.

Is it a dumbass liberal policy? Sure. Does it keep down the ghetto flight that made North Charlotte into what it currently is? Maybe.

SimpleMan said:
From what I understand, they have been demoing the ghettos and building back $2K a month apartments, but a percentage of the apartments have to be section 8 or low income or whatever. So, yeah........
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Ding, ding, ding.

Aardvark said:
Most of the tenants will have a car, parked on the street, and it's probably in somebody else's name already anyway, and there won't be anything done about it, because, ya know, discrimination, but everyone will feel good about everything.

Get with the program or you'll be top of the new "Truth and Reconciliation Commission" list .
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Also, ding, ding, ding.
 
Yeah it was just odd wording that got me. Seems like it’s setting up for half the units to be mad/envious of the other half that get to have cars. The ones that can’t will prolly feel discriminated. :rolleyes:
 
Eventually they’ll sue for a civil rights violation, the man is making them a permanent underclass by preventing them from parking their rusty purple 1972 cutlass with 30” chrome rims at their crib.

Be great if discounts, or at least priorities, were based on lawful cohabitation with a spouse, negative drug tests, and kids staying in school and meeting a target gpa. Give them 1 year leases and boot them if they aren’t maintaining the property and meeting other program obligations. I’m sorry, but we gotta get to where these folks care more about being poor and/or homeless than the rest of us care about them being poor and/or homeless...that means we gotta care less and they gotta earn the roof over their head.

Heck, terms of the lease include eviction if the police have to visit more than twice in any 12 month period.
 
fishgutzy said:
Or they'll use other people's cars, UBER, food delivery, etc. But if the have the money for that they are not low income.
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Hahahaha. You'd be AMAZED at the number of people at work I see driving nice cars and ordering food delivered every day at work and complaining about how they don't make enough money. Meanwhile, I come in with my little lunch box stuffed with frozen soups or sandwiches that cost me less than $1, driving my 13yr old car that is finally approaching end of life.
I say "hey, if you hadn't ordered that lunch you would have pretty much given yourself a $2/hr bonus for today. It would be $3 if you didn't roll in with that starbucks this morning" but they roll their eyes because they're sooooo busy. You'll frequently see me making my sandwich in the break room... I don't actually take breaks and I'm salaried so i'm expected to work overtime every day.
I don't know how busy they are in their free time, but I know we don't allow overtime for hourly staff, so that's a solid 7.5 hours if they get 8hrs of sleep. They can't drop fixings in a shopping bag on their way out the door like I do?
There are some interesting economic theories out there that even if you evenly distributed wealth, within a couple years most people would be broke and some people would be rich again. I believe those theories.
 
JimB said:
Be great if discounts, or at least priorities, were based on lawful cohabitation with a spouse, negative drug tests, and kids staying in school and meeting a target gpa.
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They have that - It's called a credit rating. Sometimes the uneducated folks who make poor financial decisions confuse it with "privilege".
 
SPST said:
They should be outlawed on public roads period, along with the loud thumping music that some people blast out of their cars. We don't want to hear your s*#t.
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And:
leaf blowers
Barking dogs
Children
Guns without cans

I need a life free from loud noises.
 
Bingo.
I bring leftovers for lunch when I go to the office. That saves $300/ month.
At my current employer the free office coffee is good. Doesn't have the institutional coffee taste of typical office coffee.
DrScaryGuy said:
Hahahaha. You'd be AMAZED at the number of people at work I see driving nice cars and ordering food delivered every day at work and complaining about how they don't make enough money. Meanwhile, I come in with my little lunch box stuffed with frozen soups or sandwiches that cost me less than $1, driving my 13yr old car that is finally approaching end of life.
I say "hey, if you hadn't ordered that lunch you would have pretty much given yourself a $2/hr bonus for today. It would be $3 if you didn't roll in with that starbucks this morning" but they roll their eyes because they're sooooo busy. You'll frequently see me making my sandwich in the break room... I don't actually take breaks and I'm salaried so i'm expected to work overtime every day.
I don't know how busy they are in their free time, but I know we don't allow overtime for hourly staff, so that's a solid 7.5 hours if they get 8hrs of sleep. They can't drop fixings in a shopping bag on their way out the door like I do?
There are some interesting economic theories out there that even if you evenly distributed wealth, within a couple years most people would be broke and some people would be rich again. I believe those theories.
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SPST said:
They should make the developers that are building high end apartments downtown and in South End set aside 10% or so of the units for affordable housing. After all, the people renting them are lefty libs mostly anyway. But I'm sure they don't want them in their backyard.
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I’ve seen this idea in other US cities and it seems to work. There are some genuine benefits to distributing “affordable housing” in this way.

Free market capitalism in the development game is a pipe dream and in my 25 yr career has not happened yet. The government is going to get their say. Every time. With that reality established, lets do stuff that works.


ETA: this 50% concentration with no cars BS is destined to fail hard IMO, but if it works...
 
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