In a first of its kind effort, Frisco is helping developers build affordable housing with money from a nonprofit in Dallas. The catch: The partnership with Inclusive Communities Project Inc. requires some of the low-income apartments be available first to certain Dallas Housing Authority clients with Section 8 vouchers. That has some people in this affluent suburb concerned. "How does this help residents of Frisco?" asked Mark Walsh, who raised concerns in an e-mail to his neighbors. "It's helping Dallas Housing Authority people to move to Frisco." Betsy Julian, president of the nonprofit, said Dallas residents want what everyone wants: attractive communities with amenities, good schools and low crime rates. Frisco fits that bill. "Our mission is to promote healthy inclusive communities, and if there's no affordable housing, it's not an inclusive community," she said. |
Whenever you see this sort of reasoning you know its based on liberals feeling good about themselves than actually solving a problem. If Dallas residents wants good schools, areas and low crime then how about fixing those problems in Dallas instead of outsourcing the problems to other areas in a bout of social engineering. All of it funded by taxpayer dollars.
The other issue which is not being addressed, this area median income is $100,000 but you are going to subsidies working class and poor families averaging around $30000. They have rent covered but what about other living expenses?
As always, the liberal set can't understand why people would object.
| Tod Robberson/Editorial Writer : Sounds logical, but I was amazed at the angry comments from more than 100 Frisco residents at a Frisco City Council meeting Tuesday who flat-out didn't want any semblance of affordable housing in their community. There's a threat of a lawsuit to stop the City Council from proceeding after a vote yesterday to approve new affordable housing, which would include some Section 8 housing. "If Dallas can't handle its own problem, it shouldn't become Frisco's," resident Dody Brigadier said Tuesday. Amazing. The message here is: We love the cheap labor you send our way, but hey, we don't want those people actually living among us. Isn't that how the entire problem of the north-south divide got started in Dallas? Good for the Frisco City Council that they didn't let the protesters sway the council's better judgment. The fact is, all communities need to be balanced economically, racially and even politically. If you want to know where the "island unto ourselves" mentality leads, just look at the north-south problem in Dallas. When you concentrate poverty in one area and wealth in another, you create enormous problems that endure for generations. Social segregation doesn't work. Never did, never will. |
I never saw that in the Constitution that all areas must be balanced in three social aspects. Unless there are Jim Crow laws in Frisco, anyone can move there is they have the means to do so, this is just spreading problems around which will depress whatever areas ends up with more of this forced housing problem.
I have said it before and will keep asking it. I have never seen an area where section 8 housing has improved it and can anyone disproved that observation?
I'm about 10 miles away from Frisco. Where I am (just south of Addison) would be very tough on 30K a year. Frisco would be a nightmare on that budget. I'm not sure why someone would WANT to make that move, unless they have an unhealthy attachment to Frisco schools (which aren't exactly top notch) or there is some significant "unreported" income, which is exactly what the people of Frisco are worried about.
ReplyDeleteThe idea that all communities should be economically equal is obsurd. People work hard to their whole lives to be able to afford to live in a place like Frisco. Thats how my parents did it. People live here to get away from the problems of Dallas. And now the city council wants to bring those problems here. And to top it off they want to put the section 8 housing a few miles from million dollar homes. This is the most obsurd thing I have ever heard in my 12 yrs of living in frisco. Hopefully something is done..Quickly
ReplyDeleteICP's goal is to desegregate low income households by relocating them to neighborhoods that are already established and have low crime rates and better schools. News flash, Miss Julian from ICP, the area where the proposed Section 8 housing will be built already has two apartment communities with Section 8 residents and many individual households that are under Section 8 as well. The elementary school where these Section 8's would be routed to already has the highest percentage of low income students in the district. If ICP's goal is to desegregate low income people and give them an opportunity to live in a better area, why come and re-segregate them in the Frisco area that is already home to other Section 8 residents?
ReplyDeleteI really cannot believe this is being discussed as an option in Frisco. Plain and simple who would want a low income crack house in their community? This is where hard working individuals value a higher society to raise our family. Frisco is clearly not a well managed, PROUD community as Mckinney and Flower Mound evidently are for fighting this ICP effort. I am glad to hear Flower Mound and Mckinney are fighiting this much harder then Frisco apparently did. I will absolutely be moving and traveling to Frisco for work purposes only.
ReplyDeleteI, like other people, do not understand why my husband and I have gone to years of college and post graduate education in order to live someplace like Flower Mound so that our son can have better opportunities and better schools only to have to now worry about people with little work ethic but a great deal of hand-outs moving into our town. It is an evident fact that once Section 8 housing is available there then the community will begin a downslide. TAKS scores will decline, school attendance will fall and crime will rise. ICP is, in fact, a racist organization. They want to take what people have worked very hard for and give it to people who do not work hard. They want to take the safety and low crime rates and make them higher. My question is, do the board of directors live in the housing they want to put in other people's towns? Do they live in fear? There will be a mass exodus of people moving from Flower Mound and it will turn into another run-down Dallas suburb. I just pray that the housing is not complete until my child graduates. I will run as fast as I can once that happens.
ReplyDeleteNews flash for some of Frisco residents their are people out there that deserve to live in Frisco with a Section 8 voucher. I a mother who has 3 different college degrees and I fell down on hard times due to an ex husband who left me with the kids (who does not pay child support and works under the table to void paying, the state has done nothing to help), I gave birth to a disable son and I soon developed a rare lung disease (due to no fault of my own). I did all the right things in life to make a good living for myself and my children but GOD had other plans for me. With all that has happened my kids and I still deserve to live in a decent place with low crime. By looking at me you would never think that I live on a limited income due to my disability. So for those of you who want to discriminate against low income people, you got it all wrong especially for someone like me. Yes some low income people are lazy and uneducated. But not ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And by the way all my children who are over 18 years old are in college getting an education. So don't judge cause you very well could be in my shoes if GOD wants you to be! If you are a christian and believe in GOD, he would not like your behavior at ALL! You just never know what someone is going through in life! I move to Frisco area about 3 years ago from another state and I loved it but I noticed that some people here think that they are better than others. I wrote this to enlighten some not offend.
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