Affordable housing survey response
County: Allegheny County
Area type: Suburb
Age group: 50+
Education: Some college or 2 year college
2024 presidential vote: Donald Trump
Proposed building floors: 4
Position: Strongly oppose
Best aspects (respondent's words): This town has been deemed low income neighborhood for 30+ years. It's a place where we all treat each other as one. There's no putting other families down because we all live here. If you start adding condo's for rich people, it's going to cause a major issue. They'll start complaining that our houses need to look like their valued at over $200,000 and up. When I first bought my house and I started renovating each room when I had money and a sheet of drywall was $2.99 a sheet on regular price. Now it's over $13 a sheet and up. Most of us can afford to get new siding on their homes. They'd create so many issues for the low income families. As a matter of fact, one individual that has a rich daddy came down to our town to see the property his dad owns down here and I hadn't been able to cut my grass yet, he put a note on my car threatening to kill my family if it wasn't cut next time he came through. Needless to say, I'm not sitting back with this threat. My point is, people with money would do the same, with less drastic threats.
Worst aspects (respondent's words): I would tell them that  we get along just well in this neighborhood and understand we're not all rich. We would pitch in to help these people in any ways that we can. We've already gotten 2 low income buildings in our area. We're down here in our own happy town. Once money starts coming into play, we'll be having to find a new place to live.