Dave seems to be trying to preserve a certain quality of life while maintaining a level of power and influence in a community he has millions invested in. Further, this shit only effects white folk.
Dave Chappelle said he's 'not bluffing' as he threatens to pull investments from the city if a affordable housing development is built
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Like I said I am all for affordable housing, but I am going off of MY EXPERIENCE.
My neighborhood in DC (not fucking MD or VA) has townhouse that start at $700,000 and the city built an apartment complex where vouchers were suppose to be 10% of the residents, but they allowed it to go to 25% in this community. Prior to that shit, you never heard or seen the police. Now, I have heard gun shots, motherfuckers fighting, hell I had a dumb bitch set her baby father's car on fire in front of my crib last year....
Not blaming poor people and no shit like that but I am stating a FACT that I am living through....DC is an outlier because the value of your home will not be affected, but I can see where he is coming from....
Just like in Waldorf, MD where they pushed alot of the black residents in DC that were on home vouchers....Anybody that had a little bit of money and didn't mind being 45 minutes from the city moved there...Now I have co workers that complain about all the violence, gun shot, robberies that are occurring
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Hating poor people isn't a race issue it's a class issue and it doesn't make it any better
Not mad at Dave. If I was planning on investing that much in an area, you damned right I would want my investments protected.
Money talks, and for a municipality they are going to almost always side with business development and investment because it promotes job creation and growth.
Affordable housing doesn't, outside of the initial building of homes.
Waits for folks trying to cancel business man Dave Chappelle, months after they tried to cancel Comedian Dave Chappelle.
Money talks, and for a municipality they are going to almost always side with business development and investment because it promotes job creation and growth.
Affordable housing doesn't, outside of the initial building of homes.
Waits for folks trying to cancel business man Dave Chappelle, months after they tried to cancel Comedian Dave Chappelle.
You guys really need to stop saying knee jerk uninformed bullshit because you think it makes you sound charitable. Affordable housing carries more than one designation. It also comes with impact to the community and environment. And if that impact doesnt coincide with his investment or business strategy, or he doesnt think it benefits the existing residents, then sobeit. Easy for you to finger wag as you sit on your ass with no skin in the game tho.
Curious to know how far away the low income people have to travel to come and work at the establishments Dave is building.
I doubt Dave’s business ventures plan on paying people a living wage with union benefits.
If this is a high value, affluent area, somebody has to cook the food, mop the floors, clean the bathrooms and take out the garbage.
So you need low income folks to live close by. They can’t afford a long commute working for minimum wage.
I doubt Dave’s business ventures plan on paying people a living wage with union benefits.
If this is a high value, affluent area, somebody has to cook the food, mop the floors, clean the bathrooms and take out the garbage.
So you need low income folks to live close by. They can’t afford a long commute working for minimum wage.
If I could guess , Dave isn’t pissed about low housing people receiving housing, he’s pissed because he believes they could have put it anywhere and they just decided to put it right next to his multimillion dollar investment (daring him to say shit). He cut to the chase. Fuck the argument and having someone act like are just trying to help people. Here is my ultimatum. Take it or leave it. Fuck the narrative.
You're talking real stupid. Do you own a home?
The "poor whites" aka "modern hillbillies" are mad.... 
“Not in my fucking backyard”
Not "hillbillies". These are modern "rednecks". You should know the difference.The "poor whites" aka "modern hillbillies" are mad....
Who's to say black people would be the ones filling up the affordable housing?
He will have to explain himself given his image and the enemies he has out there...otherwise somebody else is going to explain it and that explanation won't be kind to Chappelle.
Well not everyone with a voucher has be given the opportunity. It's up to whoever decides who gets in to run background checks, etc..... vs just letting anyone in and just because they let them it. Doesn't mean they should let them stay if they start acting up.
Have we met? Do you know me? I didn't think so.
LOL, I was just going to type he starting to look like a grumpy old man evey time I see him now.
I still don't get why Dave would want affordable housing off the table and why he is so adamant about it.Dave Chappelle said he's 'not bluffing' as he threatens to pull investments from the city if an affordable housing development is built
An angry Dave Chappelle told his hometown council meeting Monday that he would not build two planned businesses in the area if they approved an ordinance that included dozens of affordable houing units.
The meeting, held Monday in Yellow Springs, Ohio, saw the ordinance defeated. Earlier, Chappelle called the village council “clowns” and said his ventures would be “off the table.”
Chappelle reportedly is planning to develop a restaurant, the Firehouse Eatery, and comedy club, Live from YS. Both are under development in an old village firehouse, the Cincinnati Enquirer reported last year. The venues will sell food and alcohol and have indoor and outdoor seating, with separate seating for performances.
Documents posted by the Yellow Springs council showed that the proposal that angered Chappelle was pitched as a way to reduce the cost of housing and allow workers for village services to live near their jobs.
Chappelle’s company, Iron Table Holdings LLC, bought the former Miami Twp. Fire Station in December 2020 as the site for the ventures.
Yellow Springs is located near Dayton, Ohio, just north of Cincinnati. Chappelle previously said he envisioned the restaurant and club as intimate settings that will attract top and local talent
Chappelle did not say at the Monday meeting why he opposed the new development plan by the zoning committee. However, an architect who has worked with him said that the planned development would serve those outside the village more than its residents.
However, at a December meeting, the Dayton Daily News reported that Chappelle said he was “adamantly opposed” to the planned housing project and has “invested millions of dollars in town. If you push this thing through, what I’m investing in is no longer applicable.”
At the Monday meeting, according to video posted to the Yellow Springs Community Access YouTube page, Chapelle asked why the council would pursue the housing plan “while it kicks out a $65 million-a-year company.”
“I cannot believe you would make me audition for you, you look like clowns,” Chappelle said Monday. “I am not bluffing. I will take it all off the table.”
The vote on the matter deadlocked at 2-2, ensuring the new housing development cannot proceed, the Dayton Daily News reported.
Dave Chappelle Gets Chapped Over Ohio Affordable Housing Plan
Dave Chappelle Gets Chapped Over Ohio Affordable Housing Plandeadline.com
He told you. He doesn’t want the character of the town to change.
So the interesting think is that a lot of these leftist / progressive organizations are OVERWHELMINGLY white. On Twitter this Black dude that was part of the LA DSA was ranting about the white people in the DSA saying how since LA doesn't have a large Black population issues specific to Black people should be moved down the list of importance.
this... they always stick the affordable housing as far from affluent white people as possible and preferably right next to nice black neighborhoods. Carte blanche.
Exactly. The devil is in the details. If they approve that provision there is no telling what actually gets built there, very near his project. The developers' sole concern will be their own profits, not the long term viability of Dave's investment. Why wouldn't he use this leverage while he still has it. Fortune 500 corps do it all the time. If they're considering a project and some significant aspect of it is brought up for reconsideration, that could negatively impact future result, they tell the other constituents if "this" happens, I'm out. As far as how it looks, Dave can say, just ask any other business how they'd handle it.
This is the same thing liberals and leftist do to people in California. Approve affordable housing projects then turn around and switch up saying they don’t want it built.
Not really mad at him. Have you ever lived in a neighborhood where they came in and built "affordable housing" and actually stayed around to see how it turns out in most cases? I'm good. The affordable usually turns to cheap and crime eventually just like apartment complexes. Ask black folks in ANY high dollar area if they want affordable housing and you'll likely get the same response. It's cool and cute until the problems start.
Read somewhere that the population there is
82% white
10% Black
etc.
Maybe that nigga Dave don't want no white trash expanding their numbers around him while he contributes to the local economy.
He did warn of the Opioid-addicted Whites slithering to his town in one of his specials. Dave prob doesn't want that shit to spike exponentially. His investment, his choice. Major eye sore.
The "poor whites" aka "modern hillbillies" are mad....
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I do affordable housing development. All depends on the quality of your developer and the state and investor requirements. Plus, are you rebuilding public housing (all affordable) or are you doing mixed income housing (market rate and affordable).
Not trying to talk a lot of jargon. I deal with NIMBY-ism all the time. A lot of affordable housing, people still have to pay a fairly substantial amount of rent (teachers,government employees often qualify).
Comes down to a developer reputation. Some folks build shit. Some folks build quality so that it looks good and hopefully will have lower operational costs.
I’m not mad at him. I understand the sentiments.
the headlines in of itself sounds fucked up on the surface.. and apparently he's objected before and NO ONE cared until he said some shit about lgbt and now EVERYTHING dude does is questioned and side eyed....look at the responses here...
Broke niggas mad that they can't come and move in next to rich niggas. Dave Chappelle ain't got time to be listening to your demos or finding your audition tapes in his mailbox.
Nah, seriously...this is an investment issue. Its true that the term "affordable" is relative but still, every homeowner in the area would be concerned about investment depreciation and potential and current investors (like Dave) would worry that it might cause them to lose money. An investment is not a charity. People invest to make money, not to lose it. If there is data that similar losses have occurred in the area post the introduction of "affordable" housing, then any investor should be concerned about profit loss.
I know people are thinking "what about the people that need housing?" which is understandable. The blame needs to be placed on the committee or persons choosing the zoning.
Nah, seriously...this is an investment issue. Its true that the term "affordable" is relative but still, every homeowner in the area would be concerned about investment depreciation and potential and current investors (like Dave) would worry that it might cause them to lose money. An investment is not a charity. People invest to make money, not to lose it. If there is data that similar losses have occurred in the area post the introduction of "affordable" housing, then any investor should be concerned about profit loss.
I know people are thinking "what about the people that need housing?" which is understandable. The blame needs to be placed on the committee or persons choosing the zoning.
Im still in disbelief how fucked up Waldorf has become.
Yep. developers get paid once the cement sets and move on to the next deal. Leaving the residents to deal with whatever shit storm comes after. Fuck that. If i have a 8 figure investment with projections based on certain set of facts, i will be dam if you gonna shift those demographics with a X factor of housing and residents and environmental/economic impact.
Some affordable housing developers are different. Depends on if this is what they do or a one off. Usually has restrictions but it’s deal by deal.
Once again. I understand Dave’s sentiments. Fuck the explanation. Put that shit somewhere else. Should have had an economic and land use planner mapping out development areas and see how all this could work out before simply dropping it on him. Should have been handled before the community meeting. That’s what he was saying. Why did it take me having to come up here and perform?
Piss poor planning on the City’s point.
Y'all hate thinking. You better trust Dave is all I can say. Any explanation will probably go over the heads of people who don't already understand
Nah i'm with him on this one. My parents aren't even rich like that but they lived in a pretty nice black area. Affordable housing came in... first time I ever suggested to my pops that buying a gun was a good idea. It's shit you hate to say but it is what it is.
Yes, it's the same idea but think in reverse. Rich black guy in an all white town. Affordable housing where he is means poor whites moving in.
People hear 'affordable housing' on this board and assumed black people... WtH???
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