Wild that a public commenter at the planning commission meeting said people who can’t afford it can just live outside Ann Arbor. He really said the quiet part out loud #a2council - ThreadSky

Wild that a public commenter at the planning commission meeting said people who can’t afford it can just live outside Ann Arbor. He really said the quiet part out loud #a2council

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chunkysalsa8008.bsky.social•2 days ago

Reminds me of Anne Bannister talking about “Regional Solutions” i.e. ‘the help can live inYpsi’

cami4change.bsky.social•7 days ago

Whoa... no care for their fellow man or woman. #GoldenRule #Shame

santa-guy.bsky.social•7 days ago

Wow!

decmusicology.bsky.social•7 days ago

IOW "Don't touch my constantly escalating property values. Make someone else's life difficult instead."

stellamagdalen.bsky.social•5 days ago

And that's why I'm moving to Ypsi. A2 has become the ugly 'Muricans.

notsurprised24.bsky.social•7 days ago

Sounds like yet another privileged Trump supporter who just wants "the blacks" to get outta town.

aviankillian.bsky.social•7 days ago

Nah, Ann Arborites put up Black Lives Matter signs in their front yards, they just would quietly prefer if the Black Lives were in Ypsilanti or Willow Run or Dearborn.

a2parkbot.bsky.social•8 days ago

I like the one who said "people aren't lining up to live here" followed by "that's why people want to live here"

trubble.bsky.social•7 days ago

yogi berra came to the meeting??

a2parkbot.bsky.social•7 days ago

Also encountered "developers are buying properties over asking" followed by "and property values are falling"

gmatthews.bsky.social•7 days ago

Thanks for your excellent comment.

above45.bsky.social•7 days ago

We learn, we should not have developed farm land, look at this mess/no green space left- do not let developers do this again. 2nd lesson = Supply/demand curve - will a person pay a higher price for something because of demand is high-the higher the price some people will drop out /can't pay to play.

aviankillian.bsky.social•7 days ago

Ann Arborites all believe that development should have stopped exactly when their neighborhood was built.

becksoda.bsky.social•7 days ago

It is ridiculous to have to listen to everyone that was able to buy a house built on farmland 50 years ago, tell us that all open space has to be conserved. This is in every town across the nation…not only are they not selling, they are buying up every house as a rental.
#TheMeGeneration #DoorSlam

aviankillian.bsky.social•3 days ago

The incentive cycle between housing scarcity and housing equity needs to be completely dismantled.

puffpufffixer.bsky.social•7 days ago

It’s time to depopulate cities & relocate ppl out to the country.

We need state funded redistribution of land to ensure all have a piece of the pie.

Trumps wealthy socialism has forced my hand, & now I’m all-in on disregarding the wealth & assets of those who’ve spent generations stealing from us.

chunkysalsa8008.bsky.social•2 days ago

Uhm, absolutely not.

puffpufffixer.bsky.social•1 day ago

Too fucking bad.

plowandstars.bsky.social•7 days ago

Putting folks away from populated areas makes them easier to either ignore, or disenfranchise, or kill. Research South Africa’s bantustans.

puffpufffixer.bsky.social•6 days ago

That happens because rural area are ghost towns and too far removed from cities.

We won’t have ghost towns when land is redistributed.

mjb1959.bsky.social•7 days ago

Is that the quiet part? After all, if you can't afford a BMW, then you buy a used Toyota, right? Now if people can't afford any housing at all, then it is incumbent on our part to ensure that they are housed, but are we talking about the unhoused or just those who can't get what they want?

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