(Or the wake-up call guy, for that matter).
Posted on 08/29/2014 11:24:01 AM PDT by Olog-hai
A plan for a luxury skyscraper with a so-called “poor door” is changing to extend more of a welcome to residents of its cluster of affordable apartments, officials and the developers said Friday.
The retooled plan for 1 West End Ave. still involves separate entrances, but all residents will now have access to such building amenities as a courtyard and river-view roof deck, and the affordable segment’s lobby will be stylishly appointed and set facing a park. […]
… (S)ome residents and officials see the divisions as discriminatory, and Mayor Bill de Blasio’s administration has said it aims to bar separate-door schemes. …
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Ayn Rand’s estate can sue for plagiarism.
Discernment is not discrimination.
When I buy property or stay in an overpriced hotel I do so for the neighbors and the other guests.
I would not, for example but a mansion in Obamaland when I could buy a nice house in a nice republican neighborhood.
People purchase where they feel safe.
Open those area of the complex to people in the lower income scale, and you’ll open it to more crime along with it.
Perhaps the whole building can be converted to serve the poor, because any person wealthy enough to purchase a higher income suite now, should reconsider whether it’s wise or not.
NOT!
I love how this housing, designed for the wealthy but required to accept their allotment of gibsmedats, will bring the war to the NIMBYs. Remember the dark people looking for white children to play in their local playground (so the city would fix it)? Gibsmedats don’t understand the concept that whites often pay for things, and they don;t want to accept that nobody wants to pay for somebody else’s things (especially when that “somebody else” contributes nothing to their own upkeep, but instead leeches off productive people).
When a classless society is the goal, everyone slows down to the lowest common denominator. It happened in the USSR; there was no reason to worker harder or longer if at the end of the day you had the same sh!tty life as the crappiest, laziest worker...
An expensive building with a poor door for the riff-raff totally honors the spirit of Manhattan's West Side. They're a bunch of Limousine Liberals who are all for supporting the poor in concept as long as they don't have to look at them.
Force them to all use the same door and give them access to everything.
When the elites are forced to live with their ideas of social justice we will finally get rid of section 8.
I can understand your urge to find humor on the NIMBY issue. It’s a rational thought.
I think it is a mistake none the less, and on the things I’ll mention, I’m sure you agree.
What developer is going to expend the costs of buildings like this, if the government is going to slice into their profits like this. Soon there will be no development in areas that pull this routine.
I agree with your take on the USSR. That’s exactly right. Why work harder if we’re all going to get the same pay?
No some blacks don’t get it. And no, some whites don’t either. Wealthy people won’t send their kids to those parks, because there is a treat to their safety.
The folks who frequent those parks are a treat to those children. Drugs, their own children who aren’t under control, what person in their right mind would expose their kids let alone themselves to that danger?
Good points. There should be no development in those areas; the government obviously is discouraging it by forcing an allotment of gibsmedats onto the property buyer.
The number of whites with gibsmdat mentalities and ignorance has skyrocketed over the past few decades; welfare reform was pushed in 1996 because whites started seeing the welfare gravy train as a viable lifestyle (they learned well from the unassimilated urban underclass, and spread that mentality to the suburbs/rural areas).
Wealthy people don’t use those parks because they don’t live there; if they were living there they’d be taxed to pay for the park whether they use it or not (like the public school system or anything else provided by the municipality). We are watching a whole urban infrastructure crumble because the “makers” (individuals and companies) are fleeing the costs of the “takers”; here in NJ we already have high taxes, and the public sector is trying to keep the huge bureaucracy running full steam while the paying “clients” are dwindling (we lost an electoral vote, and have had a decline in our American population go on for years). When Newark NJ laid off 160+ cops a few years back (during a period of record crime/murders), it had simply run out of money for them and the outstretched palms to the state and federal governments were met with turned-out, empty pockets. The people of Newark NJ could no longer afford its law enforcement, and there were no more white people to shake down for the money...
The whole premise of these government-mandated “affordable” apartments built within luxury buildings is criminal to start with.
All meant to play into the “life is a lottery”, the wealthy are wealthy by sheer luck, so let the government balance the scales kind of thinking.
(Or the wake-up call guy, for that matter).
“When a classless society is the goal, everyone slows down to the lowest common denominator.”
Very well stated. I’ve often had this idea, but you expressed what I was thinking.
Happened with employees, too.
Thanks; I remember reading about that happening in the Soviet Union (it may have been relayed by the MiG pilot who defected with his jet to Japan about 30 years ago). There was absolutely no incentive to produce more, or motivation to improvise or improve on anything...
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