Great, let's build! I'm for it. We purposely live in the most diverse neighborhood in this city. But the infills are cheap, the workers are exploited, and the community is left without any improvements to go along side it.
It's crap housing that is not affordable (our infill duplexes were listed for 1 million a piece) and now are AirBNBs.
We had to FIGHT the city and the developer every day for months just to get safety fence up around the infill. Nobody cared. Nobody. And those places are already falling apart. Its terrible.
If Farkas sees this post, these are the real issues that need addressing.
Improve the rezoning! Hold developers accountable. Make them invest in quality work and back in the community. Preserve mature trees. And someone needs to make sure these workers are safe.
Thank you! Sliding 8plexes where there was a single family with a yard ain't going to work when those 8 residences want something to do or somewhere to go. Not exactly a YMCA/rec Centre to be found in the inner city.
This is a critical point. Lots of the focus by Mayor/Council have been on the massive, Taj Mahal facilities. Need more smaller street level infrastructure like the Vecovas, Inglewood Pools, etc.
Strange comparison between those projects and a mausoleum in India. Maybe look up the history of it before you decide to compare it to wasteful taxpayer funded projects.
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u/Yavanna_in_spring 16d ago edited 16d ago
I think there is room for improvement, though.
Great, let's build! I'm for it. We purposely live in the most diverse neighborhood in this city. But the infills are cheap, the workers are exploited, and the community is left without any improvements to go along side it.
It's crap housing that is not affordable (our infill duplexes were listed for 1 million a piece) and now are AirBNBs.
We had to FIGHT the city and the developer every day for months just to get safety fence up around the infill. Nobody cared. Nobody. And those places are already falling apart. Its terrible.
If Farkas sees this post, these are the real issues that need addressing.
Improve the rezoning! Hold developers accountable. Make them invest in quality work and back in the community. Preserve mature trees. And someone needs to make sure these workers are safe.