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Clearly not enough and it’s tougher than winning the lottery to get in to one or the choice developments. There are some creative solutions like shared housing and habitat.
It's more about overcrowding, reduced quality of life, and higher property taxes than about people obsessing about the income of the tenants. These giant developments being forced onto towns have a very small percentage of "affordable" units. I don't think it will tank real estate entirely, but it will lower values and raise taxes in all but the richest of towns.
I used to love driving through areas that had open farm land, now all I see is future row houses and apartment buildings that will one day rise in their place. I'd like to move from our town, but I will be very cautious about moving and will research every town's AH mandates and open spaces when looking for a new place.
Look at towns that buy land and designate it as “protected land” to curb over-development. I believe Kinnelon is one example doing this. Research it.
Look at towns that buy land and designate it as “protected land” to curb over-development.
In Franklin Township (Somerset County) almost 1/3 of that 47 square mile township is now "protected" as either farmland, parkland, grasslands, or nature preserves.
If they do away with affordable housing and Section 8, then where am I going to live?
Does my life not matter?
My brother lives in a low income senior building, and he worked as an auto mechanic full time for almost 50 years. He lost a lot of ground when his wife left him and he had to support 2 households on a mechanic's salary for 15 years. People sometimes do their best but still need help. I think he deserves to be in a halfway decent area rather than restricted to a ghetto because no one wants low income housing in their town.
If they do away with affordable housing and Section 8, then where am I going to live?
Does my life not matter?
Move somewhere Cheaper. You make it sound like you need Section 8. These programs are meant to help families struggling to get back on their feet. Not a permanent solution. I just talked to an Uber driver who makes 6 figures driving. He said he only took 3 months off due to the virus and business is good now. If he can work and afford to live in NJ. You should be able to as well.
What if we just made the areas that are already "affordable" safe places to live with decent schools? You have neighborhoods in Jersey City with very short commutes to Manhattan full of abandoned properties (often once attractive homes) and vacant lots. It is pathetic. We should be doing literally WHATEVER it takes to make every community in the state legitimately habitable, but the political will and imagination required to do that don't exist and probably never will. Cities in the Northeast made some strides in that direction for the last few decades but we're rapidly backsliding.
If they do away with affordable housing and Section 8, then where am I going to live?
Does my life not matter?
Wherever your income and talent will allow you. You have no business making other people pay for any part of your housing bill. You either pay for it 100% on your own steam, or you move away to a cheaper area. It it immoral for you to force other people to pay for your housing. It's really that simple.
The State should get out of the housing business altogether. Paying for your own housing is a basic expense that any adult should be easily able to handle if they make good rational decisions instead of bad ones.
people love group homes and low income housing until they do it in your neighborhood.
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