Forget the idiotic tabloid NB Today spin. This is a defeat for smart growth and affordable housing, and a victory for NIMBYs and slum lords that want to gouge students and the working poor.
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These apartment complexes that are being built for students are over 50% more expensive per bedroom than the bedrooms in regular houses. Not every landlord in that town is a slumlord. I know some darn good ones actually and no one is gouging anyone, people pay what the market in that area dictates. Furthermore, Mine St has a decent amount of local homeowners who didn't want the atheistic's of their street altered and lastly the parking around there is a nightmare already. I'm sure the developer can figure out a way to account for every parking spot by probably downsizing the size of the building, make the design look more like the other homes on the street and resubmit it...or just play the waiting game for several years.
Actually, the "slum lords" lost.
No, they won in their attempts to stop new development and keep Rutgers students over a barrel in what they charge for rent.
Forget the idiotic tabloid NB Today spin. This is a defeat for smart growth and affordable housing, and a victory for NIMBYs and slum lords that want to gouge students and the working poor.
I have to clear this up. The people who fought this are HOMEOWNERS ON MINE STREET. As in, they live on the street. The developers who are buying these houses from the "slumlords" in other areas of Ward 6 had no fight because no "slumlords" lived there. When they build these new apartment complexes they are charging 50-100% more per month for rent for these newer apartment complexes than the houses are charging. So I am failing to see how the students are getting railroaded here.
You're largely agreeing with me. The slumlords are the absentee landlords who want to rent out single family homes to students and are terrified of apartment complexes going up. They're the opposition.