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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The article is flat. It talks about families living together and there are too many cars on a street.

Somebody who is a little off the rails thinks it will bring rats.  :roll:

The fact is affordable housing is an issue.

20-somethings live at home to get a foothold/save money.

When they are hispanic, people act like it's a ghetto, if they are white - they are being judicious in their spending or the occassional rant... that white males fail to launch.

There will never be a change without some opposition. This seems to be small beans. [/quote]

Don’t bring race into this.  This has nothing to do with race.

In MoCo, at least, we have people of all races overcrowded into illegal apartments.  It’s not just Latino families.  We have Jews and Asians alike in this situation.  Based on the NYC video, I’d bet some of those residents were Jews.  Maybe they were ‘white’ Jews?  There is no reason to assume they were any particular race.

So this is NOT a race issue.  It is a quality of life issue.

And this is different from 20-somethings living at home.  A homeowner who has his two kids move back in is way different than a slum landlord who rents to four different families.  You know that.

The four different families have several kids that will attend my kids’ already overcrowded school.  The landlord who lives elsewhere doesn’t care about the neighborhood at all and just wants to make as much money as possible.  Whereas an owner-occupied home still has some interest in the neighborhood.[/quote]

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