I do applaud the intellectual honesty. When you say “our neighborhood is full” you are saying, “I don’t care where other people end up.” - ThreadSky

hpechan.bsky.social • 5 days ago

I do applaud the intellectual honesty. When you say “our neighborhood is full” you are saying, “I don’t care where other people end up.”

Reposted from Gaurav Kulkarni

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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mjb1959.bsky.social•5 days ago

No, when you insist on the "missing middle" over the unhoused & the working-class, then you are saying "My needs are more important than those of poor people, Black people, and Latin-American people."

The bigots are those who could live on Gallatin Pike but insist on ending R zoning on Shelton Ave.

hpechan.bsky.social•5 days ago

And again, Mr Bond, no one is saying missing middle over our unhoused neighbors. They’re saying missing middle over more McMansions. Please stop using our unhoused neighbors as a cudgel. I can assure you that rezonings for supportive housing are not met with open arms.

hpechan.bsky.social•5 days ago

You live on Gallatin?

mjb1959.bsky.social•5 days ago

No, I live on Golf. Many years ago, though, I lived on Dickerson. In other cities, I lived on pikes, in low-income housing, in my car, in warehouses, etc.

Your turn.

hpechan.bsky.social•5 days ago

I’ve also lived in my car? But this isn’t the sympathy Olympics. I didn’t suggest where other people should be forced to live. You did. I suggested what we who are stably housed should be willing to accept on property that we do not own.

mjb1959.bsky.social•5 days ago

"Forced to live"? Who has said that? People will live where they can afford to live. They will buy the food that they can afford to buy: beans & rice for some; Turnip Truck for others. That's capitalism. I don't like it, and, thus,...

mjb1959.bsky.social•5 days ago

...clearing out regulations to make capitalism stronger is not a way to solve the problems that capitalism has created.

What we agree on is that no one should be unhoused and that we need more housing for the working class. Bulldozing houses in Black neighborhoods isn't the way to make that happen.

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