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Originally Posted by Policy Wonk
...says the man who just bought a condo.
I think this is another shining example of what I called the "white collar gaze" a number of years ago. It isn't antipathy, it is just sheer obliviousness to how a significant number of people live their lives.
If that trailer is the only security you have in your life, a years worth of rent and a whole lot of warning isn't much of a trade if your income potential is on the wrong end of the median.
Maybe this was not deliberately intended to be affordable housing, but Centre Street wasn't intended to be a major arterial road either. But it is what it is and the city is responsible for it.
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Jeez, Bubbles. Where were you, Ricky and Julian over the past decade when
over 7000 rental apartments were turned into condominiums, all with City approval? Especially since most of them involved less than 3 years notice and $20,000 compensation. But now 173 trailers have to move, that's the real catastrophe. It's unfortunate for the residents, no doubt. But they're better off than thousands of other low-income households forced out of their homes over the years.
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