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Old 05-24-2016, 02:16 PM
 
Location: Yankee loves Dallas
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Even If It Can, Should Dallas Tell the 'Burbs How to De-Segregate? | Dallas Observer
Dallas Better at Helping 'Burbs Desegregate Than Helping Itself | Dallas Observer

According to these enthusiastic articles by Jim Schutze, the Inclusive Community Project, supported by the federal HUD, with the blessing of the federal courts, has been very successful at using a pool of taxpayer money to pay its lawyer friends top dollar to sue local cities to compel them to build more low-income housing and accept more low-income housing vouchers.

How is this working out? I assume it is a smashing success...
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Old 05-24-2016, 03:10 PM
 
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I know Sunnyvale fought it for years before building it's first apartment complex within the city limits.
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Old 05-24-2016, 06:14 PM
 
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Didn't work in Flower Mound
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Old 05-24-2016, 09:13 PM
 
Location: Wylie, Texas
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Frisco has at least one section 8 housing project that I know off, I think McKinney does too. I heard one may be built in Wylie. I remember a huge amount of teeth gnashing and sky is falling rhetoric when the one in Frisco was approved. I read predictions on how Frisco was going to descend into south central hellishness. Yet fast forward to the present time, and Frisco is booming even with the section 8 housing so perhaps it's much ado about nothing.
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Old 05-26-2016, 09:19 PM
 
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Even If It Can, Should Dallas Tell the 'Burbs How to De-Segregate? | Dallas Observer
Dallas Better at Helping 'Burbs Desegregate Than Helping Itself | Dallas Observer

According to these enthusiastic articles by Jim Schutze, the Inclusive Community Project, supported by the federal HUD, with the blessing of the federal courts, has been very successful at using a pool of taxpayer money to pay its lawyer friends top dollar to sue local cities to compel them to build more low-income housing and accept more low-income housing vouchers.

How is this working out? I assume it is a smashing success...
It's certainly a smashing success from the central government's perspective, but it's not doing anything good for the people who are moving or for their new neighbors.
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Old 05-27-2016, 03:50 PM
 
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I don't get it, government wants to play Robinhood with our property taxes and give it to disadvantaged schools and on top of that, they want to pay people from those areas to move into our neighborhoods and attend area schools. Our kids work hard, take loans to pay high tuition and still don't get into colleges of their choice. URM kids with lower scores are welcomed into colleges on full ride financial aid. Are they trying to punish middle class for working hard?
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Old 05-27-2016, 04:34 PM
 
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I don't get it, government wants to play Robinhood with our property taxes and give it to disadvantaged schools and on top of that, they want to pay people from those areas to move into our neighborhoods and attend area schools. Our kids work hard, take loans to pay high tuition and still don't get into colleges of their choice. URM kids with lower scores are welcomed into colleges on full ride financial aid. Are they trying to punish middle class for working hard?
No one is being punished.
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Old 05-27-2016, 08:40 PM
 
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No one is being punished.
I'm pretty sure you don't really believe that.
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Old 06-01-2016, 08:19 AM
 
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I know Sunnyvale fought it for years before building it's first apartment complex within the city limits.
That was BS! Sunnyvale should have fought that battle longer and harder! So what if the minimum required residential yard is 1 or 2 acres. If someone wants to live in an area like that, they can work to afford such!



This whole thing is hogwash! Move people with government subsidies out to the far burbs where there is no public transit, no medical care that is easy walking distance, less jobs, etc and think it will be okay and that the ones on government assistance can "rise up" to those levels. HA! How? When there are no jobs in those areas!
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Old 06-01-2016, 11:15 AM
 
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That was BS! Sunnyvale should have fought that battle longer and harder! So what if the minimum required residential yard is 1 or 2 acres. If someone wants to live in an area like that, they can work to afford such!

Surely you are not implying that low income families don't work hard?

The entitlement within this thread is astounding.
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