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Why do they want to build low-income housing in Sunnyvale, Texas?
The housing authority accuses Sunnyvale of being racist against minorities because they do not provide low income or multi-unit housing. Seems to me that the housing authority is implying that only minorities use low income housing and are incapable of mortgaging a home. Unless the town of Sunnyvale has a rule not allowing minorities to move there, or takes actions to make minorities who do live there uncomfortable than there is nothing racist about it.
It just bugs me.. why do they want to ruin a nice town? And Sunnyvale is a small town, too, with large lots and low density housing. They aren't discriminating against anyone because of race! And if they did build multi-unit housing there, the DART line is nowhere close to Sunnyvale, and there is no industry there for these people to get jobs. What a joke!
My family is buying a house in Sunnyvale, cause we can afford it. If we couldn't afford to move there we'd just go someplace else! And we are minorities, contradicting what the housing people think. Its not like there isn't low-income housing in other places. Sunnyvale is like 88% white, but its a growing town with lots of new homes.. so that number will probably change by next year.
But I guess the poor people don't want to go to bad towns so are just trying to leech into good towns which are good cause there's none or a lot of low income housing. Just cuz they didnt do well in school doesn't mean they have to ruin it for the people who did (or people who had parents that did, like moi)
there's low crime rates in sunnyvale too. imagine if we got low-income houses? that would definitely change.
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why are you demonising low income housing? its helpful for people who aren't lucky enough to have lots of money (or "people who did bad in school" as you like to call them).
Also, your idea of segregating poorer people, and richer people is not a good idea..it creates class divisions which were maybe not there before, or even worsens class wars'.
I personally dont agree with what you are saying, but i can definitely see where you are coming from, and you put some interesting points across.
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There are millions of reasons why low-income housing isn't evil, and certainly isn't racist. Low-income housing isn't based on race, it's based on income. The fact that viability minorities make up so many of the low income citizens of the US is not the point.
It's not the point for the same reason that you are right to say that the town is not discriminating against people based on race. Technically they aren't.
The town is discriminating against people based on income, and using unfair and illegal zoning practices to deny companies (both profit and non-for-profits) from building, selling and operating other kinds of homes. I've read the newspapers articles I could find about Sunnyvale and looked into some of the companies that have been denied the planning and zoning they need to build. Most of these companies don't even build 'low-income' or subsidized housing. I only found one that actually builds 'low-income' government housing. The rest just build less expensive homes, not for people in poverty, just for people who aren't quite as wealthy as you'd currently have to be to buy a house in Sunnyvale.
More affordable housing in your town will benefit you! The more affluent neighbors in a town will now have cheep labor to the more menial tasks. You'll pay less for groceries, for dry cleaning, and at many other stores because the people who work there will not expect to be paid as well, and will not be spending money on travel to work, giving them an opportunity to begin to contribute to the economy in more substantial ways as well. Jobs are often created in public sectors as well: A larger population, even a mixed one, requires more teachers, more health care, more public transit and more stores.
I can't promise you that an affordable housing plan in this town will be a good idea, or will be done in a sensible way. But, your ideological issues with it (about race and the benefits to the community) aren't really reasonable: Inclusive communities can provide huge economic benefits to everyone involved, and for a town to using zoning regulations improperly to unfairly limit what people may build on that land, is not legal or right. Perhaps the way to look at this that will make more sense to you, is that it's not that the town is discriminating against people with a lower income (which would still be bad) but it's that they are using unfair means and reasons to stop companies who have fairly bought land, from building what they want to sell.
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