In this day and age, did this guy think he’d actually be able to say what he wants and have free speech and go unscathed? In a public hearing in ALEXANDRIA of all places? I’d fire him just for being so naive.

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Anonymous wrote:It sounds like the concern on this forum is that he was being racist toward white people? But I read his comments as being racist toward Black people. The comments were soooooo patronizing. And the language about not grabbing into the opportunity to full participate in the economy? That shows a lot of ignorance.

Of course it was racist against black people. The responses on this thread suggesting otherwise are either trolls or idiots.

His plea that the housing go to black was rascist against black people how? It benefitted them.

OMFG. It wasn’t a plea for housing to go to black people, it was complaining that current housing is going to what he considers to be “undeserving” black people.

NYC just started paying homeowners up to $280,000 to build ADUs

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Anonymous wrote:God Forbid the people who built DC can afford a home in DC

Nothing in the proposal he was opposing would address this. It will not create dedicated affordable housing.

To add, it will not create workforce housing. The proposals to end single family zoning will mostly liking initially impact older ramblers that are currently reasonably affordable and will involve flipping them into luxury duplexes.

In the most basic educational understanding of Alexandria’s city council, more houses (supply) will ease demand. But they also treat the City of Alexandria as a vaccum, not a small but already dense city in a much larger suburban metro area. The City of Alexandria does this over and over with so many proposals and constantly discounts how the existence of suburb outside Beltway impact decisions made within our very small geographic footprint.

Well that, and our Mayor is using this to jumpstart a bid for Congress, hence why he wanted to package the proposal and rush it through the approval process.

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Anonymous wrote:It sounds like the concern on this forum is that he was being racist toward white people? But I read his comments as being racist toward Black people. The comments were soooooo patronizing. And the language about not grabbing into the opportunity to full participate in the economy? That shows a lot of ignorance.

Of course it was racist against black people. The responses on this thread suggesting otherwise are either trolls or idiots.

His plea that the housing go to black was rascist against black people how? It benefitted them.

Do you really need “deserving blacks” trope explained to you?

Maybe we DO need CRT in our schools.

Anonymous wrote:What is wrong with the message? Really? There are huge numbers in Alexandria of blacks in AH that shouldn't be there. Working age males routinely involved in violent gun battles. Something like 30 calls for gunshots in the last 18 months. That is who he is talking about and everyone in this city knows this. Had he said "deserving whites" we wouldn't even be talking.

Nothing in the proposal he was speaking about impacts current dedicated affordable housing units or who is able to live in them. The existence of generational affordable housing, which seems to impact Black families more than other racial groups, should be addressed but the upzoning proposals are not a place for that discussion. Rather, joint programs between ARHA, the schools, and other departments focused on jobs need to identify and address cases where any family of any race struggles to have the means to leave affordable housing over the course of years or generations.

Anonymous wrote:God Forbid the people who built DC can afford a home in DC

Nothing in the proposal he was opposing would address this. It will not create dedicated affordable housing.