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“NBA superstar Stephen Curry, who publicly endorsed Joe Biden for president in 2020, is opposing a "low-income" housing development near his $30 million mansion, according to a local news report.
"We hesitate to add to the 'not in our backyard' (literally) rhetoric, but we wanted to send a note before today's meeting. Safety and privacy for us and our kids continues to be our top priority and one of the biggest reasons we chose Atherton as home," Steph and his wife, Ayesha Curry, wrote in a letter to officials in Atherton.
It was an attempt by Steph Curry, who was the fifth highest-paid athlete in the world last year, according to Forbes, to prevent undesirables from crowding the area around his home in Atherton, California.
The Curry family also petitioned the local government to build fencing and shrubbery around their home to protect the family from watchful eyes if they couldn’t block the new families from joining the neighborhood entirely. “
They literally said not in our back yard. You can’t make it up
“NBA superstar Stephen Curry, who publicly endorsed Joe Biden for president in 2020, is opposing a "low-income" housing development near his $30 million mansion, according to a local news report.
"We hesitate to add to the 'not in our backyard' (literally) rhetoric, but we wanted to send a note before today's meeting. Safety and privacy for us and our kids continues to be our top priority and one of the biggest reasons we chose Atherton as home," Steph and his wife, Ayesha Curry, wrote in a letter to officials in Atherton.
It was an attempt by Steph Curry, who was the fifth highest-paid athlete in the world last year, according to Forbes, to prevent undesirables from crowding the area around his home in Atherton, California.
The Curry family also petitioned the local government to build fencing and shrubbery around their home to protect the family from watchful eyes if they couldn’t block the new families from joining the neighborhood entirely. “
They literally said not in our back yard. You can’t make it up
I for one don't. But even if I did, I wouldn't advocate doing it by cramming multi-family dwellings into existing locations. If we need more housing, why not take some initiative to re-develop troubled areas like Hempstead, Wyandanch, etc. to make them safer and more livable so that working class families can realistically move in. I'll tell you why - those areas already vote blue, there's nothing to be gained by Democrats in trying to change the demographic balance or punish Republican voters.
It also follows a long-standing pet project of the left, which is to force "integration", based on the mystical belief that by putting rich people next to poor people, black people next to white people, etc., both sides will benefit. 100+ years of social experiments in this department haven't yielded any positive results, but they love to keep trying!
It looks like Wyandanch has been developing housing, which has been mentioned many times on here. I think the thing is that there is an issue of concentration of housing in certain communities and in turn, take on the burden of multi family housing.
Quote from the Newsday Editorial board today. Completely shocking as I thought they’d be cheering this to the heavens.
“Hochul said Wednesday her housing plans are "all about liberating Long Island to be the best it can be," but the governor shouldn't be trying to "liberate" Long Island. We are under siege only by those making irrational demands to change suburban life. She should instead be willing to work with Long Island leaders to find solutions to the housing crisis that will help the region, without doing unintended harm.“
It looks like Wyandanch has been developing housing, which has been mentioned many times on here. I think the thing is that there is an issue of concentration of housing in certain communities and in turn, take on the burden of multi family housing.
Yes, that is an issue for the leftist utopians. It certainly isn't an issue for the residents, who, if they had valued such things as nearby multi-family housing, would not have moved into low-density areas. But who cares what they think, right? It doesn't matter that the city has spent the last decade allowing developers to build billions of dollars worth of ultra-luxury apartment buildings with over 100 floors and only 200 units, half of which are vacant because they're owned by an LLC of Chinese nationals speculating in real estate. No, we need to cram more people into working/middle class suburbs.
While on this soapbox, I'll toss another assertion into the mix: This has nothing to do with "sharing the burden" as an issue of fairness per se, it's a way of punishing suburbanites, who have long been a thorn in the side of the leftist agenda. Either you get on board with voting blue in perpetuity, or you get a nice six-family house filled 10-to-the unit with illegal aliens next door. Which one is it, Trumper? I simply have no faith that the decision makers on the left are doing things like this out of anything other than sheer animosity. They think people not on their team are evil, and don't really care what happens to them.
Yes, that is an issue for the leftist utopians. It certainly isn't an issue for the residents, who, if they had valued such things as nearby multi-family housing, would not have moved into low-density areas. But who cares what they think, right? It doesn't matter that the city has spent the last decade allowing developers to build billions of dollars worth of ultra-luxury apartment buildings with over 100 floors and only 200 units, half of which are vacant because they're owned by an LLC of Chinese nationals speculating in real estate. No, we need to cram more people into working/middle class suburbs.
While on this soapbox, I'll toss another assertion into the mix: This has nothing to do with "sharing the burden" as an issue of fairness per se, it's a way of punishing suburbanites, who have long been a thorn in the side of the leftist agenda. Either you get on board with voting blue in perpetuity, or you get a nice six-family house filled 10-to-the unit with illegal aliens next door. Which one is it, Trumper? I simply have no faith that the decision makers on the left are doing things like this out of anything other than sheer animosity. They think people not on their team are evil, and don't really care what happens to them.
This interview actually gets into aspects that doesn't have anything to do with "leftists" or any political leaning, but other factors that come into play: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HtSaPr6BKo
Again, I think this will be a thing for select communities that have the space and rail access in terms of Long Island and wouldn't be a thing in all communities.
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