Affordable Housing in Albany

While some of my opponents claim to want to ostensibly improve the issue of affordable housing in Albany, I intend to go in the opposite direction. I will not do so out of bigotry or exclusion, but I will do so out of a concern for the good, decent people of Albany.

Let’s face it: affordable housing always brings with it a certain low-brow element of society and we don’t need any more than we already have, thanks to already-existing affordable housing that generates an excessive amount of calls for service for our police department.

If my opponents want to make affordable housing even more accessible, then they want to contribute to Albany’s downfall.  Here are the problems with affordable housing:

  • Crime heavily increases in neighborhoods with affordable housing, or, if you will, “the projects.”
  • The minority count increases, and with that comes even higher levels of crime.  We can’t let that happen in Albany anymore than it already is happening.
  • Affordable housing is rife with eyesores.  It would just make Albany look bad for visitors, businesses and residents.
  • With affordable housing comes bodegas, and with that, undesirable foot traffic and undesirable people loitering about.  This too makes Albany unattractive.

No, I absolutely do not support affordable housing.  I care about my city and one of the ways to show that is to take a stand against affordable housing.  When people move into a neighborhood with jobs and into homes and apartments that require a certain level of rent, it only serves to bring in the desirable element.  In affordable housing neighborhoods, you have people who don’t work and don’t want to work.  The government pays for their…everything.

I find people who work and who pay their own rent and purchase their own food without assistance to be much more desirable than ghetto trash who has no incentive to make their neighborhoods look great.  Those people don’t want to make Albany great again.  They want to tear it apart street by street.

So, no, unlike my unworthy opponents, I do not support in any way the notion of affordable housing.  In fact, I want to see rents increase so that we can attract a higher class of people and the lower level of crime that comes part and parcel.

We don’t need more affordable housing.  We need less.