wow...when have YOU ever lived near section 8 housing? there's ppl on section 8 who work and pay their taxes too, AND live in HOUSES. Plenty of ppl on section 8 living in apartments, maintaining their homes, plenty of ppl living in low income housing DOING THE SAME.

What is this I see it everywhere...and don't reply with a link istg

some of the empty lots are contaminated from factories,etc.

I use a lighter

Dang chill out Karen I don’t put fake plates on my car I keep the plates I already got on it, I’m done wasting time talking to you Karen because I don’t have time for it and you are the only person here that has made an effort to reply to every little comment someone has made on this thread and to me that screams I have no life

I know everyone is talking shit about CT here but honestly I miss it a lot sometimes. I moved out to UT and while there are many things I like, the rising real estate costs IMO has not been worth it. Might as well pay a little more and live near NYC like I did when I grew up in Stamford. Yeah, the higher taxes in CT suck but my goodness does UT politics suck.

I'm glad we agree.

You get what you pay for from Walmart dot com. And this was still the best one I could find!

They after your tupperware!! 👀

So put the poor people in the middle of the woods next to a highway? How will they get anywhere without a car? Who's paying to run sewer, water, etc out there?

Makes much more sense to build affordable housing in areas with existing infrastructure and public transportation. Plenty of vacant commercial property and abandoned industrial sites that would fit the purpose as long as the site isn't contaminated.

From what I'm reading, the CT Legislators should probably have one of these. Was a car flipped over near the Capitol?? DWI?

I live in the woods. I bought the house bc of the privacy. If I wanted to live in a city with no property or privacy I would have bought a house there.

Just because YOU want more "affordable" housing doesn't mean everyone else does.

Look at all the section 8 housing, projects, "low income" housing, and apartments. Anyone who says they want any of that near them is insane. Garbage, dirty, loud, high crime. No one in their right mind would want that in a quiet town.

First thing that should happen is fix the crime/illegal activities in the cities. Second, Get people to actually take care of their houses/buildings/apartment. Then, just then maybe more people will want to build multi family buildings.

I guess I'm part of the "problem" for wanting a nice house and neighborhood rather than a run down drug house and crime ridden neighborhood.

Yes the south is sooo terrible 🤣🤣

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A wide eyed donkey would be a better reminder of Connecticut.

Wow! I like to get a bottle-opener like this one! 😮🙂

I always thought this was a fish. No idea it's VEO.

You essentially made the same comment I was going to. Property (especially vacant property) already exists in a lot of our cities where it wouldn’t cost millions to run utilities to because they’re already there.

Any room in your backyard for me and my family?

Take up BJJ. You will get a great work out, learn how to defend yourself and meet a bunch of people that will become a second family.

Wait.. you want housing with direct access to major highways?

Its not even a question of capacity, CT zoning requirements have a lust for McMansions rather than starter homes. The burbs are specifically blueprinted to not solve the housing problem.

The NIMBY problem in CT is far more extensive than merely concern about poor people - even developments for well-off people are routinely attacked and blocked in CT.

A solution I would like to see implemented in CT is a law preventing people from suing to stop or hold-up town-approved or supported developments.

You would have poor people living beside a highway as a show of compassion?

Massive swaths of vacant/underused property exist in cities and you have all the other infrastructure in place.

Stop trying to export urban problems to the burbs as a magical fix. We dont have the capacity to deal with this. I see the Hartford planners going uh look 17 children per class in little school they can absorb nearly half again as many students without needing much more that the existing teacher and aid. Sure 26 kids could fit but you quickly look like urban schools and start having urban problems.

I hear talk about spending billions to reroute highways in Hartford and put in parks. How about some low income detached homes or even condo like setups seems a lot more critical than OMG you can not easily walk from this neighborhood to the other.