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Post by Michael Coello on Jul 22, 2014 12:28:42 GMT -5
You know, morality aside, it really makes no business sense to get half of your possible customers mad at the injustice and paint a target on the other half for possibly getting a spot in this.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 22, 2014 19:14:32 GMT -5
I like how the developers just go complete douche and make the affordable housing face the street while the higher rent ones get a river view. Way to go out if your way to be dicks. Sure, we'll include affordable housing but were gonna be as shitty as possible about it. Well to be fair rooms with better views or on higher floors are always more expensive. It's the same thing with high rise luxury condo's. Well this one room is bigger and has more bedrooms but it's way cheaper then the one smaller apartment unit with one less bedroom but it has a way bigger balcony and a way better view and 11 floors above.
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Post by Doctor Of Style on Jul 22, 2014 19:28:19 GMT -5
I like how the developers just go complete douche and make the affordable housing face the street while the higher rent ones get a river view. Way to go out if your way to be dicks. Sure, we'll include affordable housing but were gonna be as shitty as possible about it. That's how real estate works, better locations cost more.
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Post by Blindkarevik on Jul 22, 2014 19:30:31 GMT -5
That's cool, cuz while the rich people are all galavanting around in their posh rich doorway, drinking wine, pretending to be conscious of geopolitical events of the world, wearing their monacles and sipping wine. The poor doorway will have rockin' parties nightly, and one day...lure one of their own to our party, engage in a wild, once in a lifetime romance.... not sure what happens in the middle, but at the end... the apartment sinks for some reason.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 22, 2014 19:50:35 GMT -5
I "like" how more and more our world is beginning to resemble those dystopian societies I used to read about when I was a kid.
...assuming they aren't like that already in some places.
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Post by Kevin Hamilton on Jul 22, 2014 20:00:04 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Jul 22, 2014 20:03:05 GMT -5
I'm seriously starting to believe that in the next 10 years there will be some kind of violent uprising by poor people and we are just waiting for the spark at this point
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Post by Savage Gambino on Jul 22, 2014 20:31:40 GMT -5
I guess nobility and peasantry really do exist in the US. We have debtor prisons, too.I don't even get angry about this shit anymore. Just disappointed.
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Post by Digital Witness on Jul 22, 2014 20:36:38 GMT -5
I'm seriously starting to believe that in the next 10 years there will be some kind of violent uprising by poor people and we are just waiting for the spark at this point What's the over/under on an even more violent Stalin-esque police state at that point? I bet the wealthy hire contractors like we have over in the middle east to try to squash any sort of uprising. That sort of thing will be legendarily bloody should it take place.
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Post by Rolent Tex on Jul 22, 2014 22:06:59 GMT -5
I like how the developers just go complete douche and make the affordable housing face the street while the higher rent ones get a river view. Way to go out if your way to be dicks. Sure, we'll include affordable housing but were gonna be as shitty as possible about it. That's how real estate works, better locations cost more. Oh, I know. I think it was the way it was worded that made me chuckle though. I'd fully expect the better view to have the higher prices. I just thought it was funny they included it there. I'm just curious what this building looks like if only 55 of the apartments face the street.
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Post by Doctor Of Style on Jul 22, 2014 22:11:07 GMT -5
That's how real estate works, better locations cost more. Oh, I know. I think it was the way it was worded that made me chuckle though. I'd fully expect the better view to have the higher prices. I just thought it was funny they included it there. That part is totally legit, having to come through the pauper entrance is another discussion entirely.
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Post by Mozenrath on Jul 22, 2014 22:12:52 GMT -5
I bet a lot of people who think this is a great idea think "going Galt" doesn't make them sound like a knob.
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Post by Mozenrath on Jul 22, 2014 22:15:00 GMT -5
I "like" how more and more our world is beginning to resemble those dystopian societies I used to read about when I was a kid. ...assuming they aren't like that already in some places. It never truly stopped. Only major difference other than draconian executions from many of these stories is scale. It's not 1984-bad, but it's sort of Friday by Heinlein bad sometimes.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 22, 2014 22:24:51 GMT -5
I can't stop laughing at this. This is some Mr. Burns shit right here.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 22, 2014 22:29:46 GMT -5
Also there is affordable housing in NYC? By the Hudson River? In a good neighborhood? On a luxury high rise? What qualifies as low income affordable housing in NYC? I'm just curious because I keep hearing on how NYC is the most expensive in America and the most expensive in renting
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Post by Doctor Of Style on Jul 22, 2014 22:32:17 GMT -5
I can't stop laughing at this. This is some Mr. Burns shit right here. Do they have to crawl through a doggie door?
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Post by Hit Girl on Jul 22, 2014 22:34:47 GMT -5
Entrance for The Low-Income -myfoxny What year is this again It's 2014, but the ultimate goal is to take society back to what was called "the Gilded Age" in the early 20th century, of rights only for the elite, low wages, no labour protection, minimal social safety nets, and very little regulation.
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Jul 22, 2014 22:42:21 GMT -5
Also there is affordable housing in NYC? By the Hudson River? In a good neighborhood? On a luxury high rise? What qualifies as low income affordable housing in NYC? I'm just curious because I keep hearing on how NYC is the most expensive in America and the most expensive in renting It is. I am wondering on the price for the "poor" entrance apartments... because uh... Manhattan is expensive as f***. Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island less so but are still pretty damned expensive compared to what most people in the country pay.
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Post by Surfer Sandman on Jul 22, 2014 22:59:03 GMT -5
It's all coming to a head.
The more you kick the common people, the harder they kick back.
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Post by Hit Girl on Jul 22, 2014 23:03:53 GMT -5
I'm seriously starting to believe that in the next 10 years there will be some kind of violent uprising by poor people and we are just waiting for the spark at this point They give people just enough hope to think if they work harder and tighten their belts and pull themselves up by their bootstraps, then by golly they can be rich too! They can't. The odds against it are astronomical. Even people who think of themselves as being comfortably middle class are just one crisis away from major problems, especially in America, where one serious illness could wipe people out financially.
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