Originally Posted by
betts
I don't know of too many cities that worry about having affordable downtown housing. Again, the risk is what is done to make it affordable. Do we give them a pass on making the structure entirely brick, despite it being in Bricktown? Or, do they cut corners elsewhere? Do we end up with a shoddy apartment complex that even those who want affordable housing won't want to live in 10 years from now? Does our 4.5 million in tax monies allow them to build affordable housing that doesn't look or act affordable? Or, do they still build poor quality housing despite the subsidy and pocket the profits? It's tricky to oversee to make sure that doesn't happen. Again, I like to see new projects downtown, but I want them to stand the test of time, and sometimes that doesn't go along with the affordable concept. What's affordable in Manhattan, downtown Chicago or San Francisco? When I was a young adult, my affordable near downtown housing in Denver was an aged townhouse that had fallen into disrepair, in a neighborhood that was barely gentrified. I didn't think it was my birthright to have the local taxpayers subsidize a new building with all the amenities.
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