MOMMA

I was introduced to drugs and alcohol by friends in Briargrove, many of whom are now CEOs and executives.

You illustrate my point exactly. Your perception is not based in reality. The swine flu has killed many many less than the regular flu. In fact, I think the number is currently 100 worldwide, as compared to 30,000 in the US alone annually. I know you feel passionately about what you say, but you don't even see where your own argument is working against you. I know you are sincere in wanting what is best for your family, but in so doing you are trying to deny that to other hard working families.

I pray for you to get everything you need and want in life as I pray for those to whom you protest so heartily.

I am not denying anything to anyone. That is the problem with our society. Everyone is entitled to something. I worked hard to get what I have and will do my best to perserve it. You should do the same. No one gave me anything in this world. I worked at low paying jobs and saved to have something for the future and my children's future. We, as a society, have our hand out for the government to provide everything to us because we deserve it. Thanks for your prayers. I will pray for you also.

ROTF!!

thank you Red.

PS-I've recently heard there is a large section of land that has become available for section 8 housing.

Yes and good news since "My neighborhood is free of things. We have plenty of low income all around us in every direction, and the houses are worth well more than 300,000." it will be built in your neighborhood!!! There should be no opposition and should pass rather quickly. What's one more low income project right??

And I think the "wine thirty" started here a few hours ago..."I have it my neighborhood. You should too!"

I'm out on the streets and no you cannot change my perception. I would rather have a toilet seat cover any day rather than sitting on a well used toilet seat at a gas station!

Because you can take the girl out of the city, but you can't take the city out of the girl. We want out of the city and that mentality!

Great! Now, you can spend your time and money planting some trees on that barren golf course!

That's a great idea...I will do that!!!

AWESOME NEWS!!! NEVER MIND...THEY PULLED THE PERMIT AND THEY ARE NOT BUILDING HERE!!

I GUESS I DO HAVE A VOICE AND CAN DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT!!!!!

I'm not comparing them. I don't live downtown, I live outside Beltway 8, at Dairy-Ashford, in the suburbs. That also happen to have low-income apartments. We go out at night, to the grocery story, to the restaurants around us, for walks in our neighborhood. We don't live in paranoid histrionic fear.

I don't either...just an informed home-owner who cares and who is going to speak her mind!! That's awesome for you!!!

They need to change their perception. It's like a girl who perceives there are germs on the toilet seat in the women's room so they squat over the toilet thereby leaving germs on the toilet seat. Just sit down already!

It's just like a flu..THE SWINE FLU..panic and perception closes schools for weeks. Why?? Because the best predictor of future events is the past. People died in Mexico...causes pandemic scares in the USA. Low income homes tend to bring more crime/gangs/drugs/graffiti. Any of the areas mentioned that have these projects in their backyards cannot say that their community is free of these things. Why is it so bad to not want that in our area as well?? Is it the "misery loves company" theory. "I have it you can too!!"

I am not expecting everyone to be white and middle class. My parents grew up inside the loop and wanted a better life for us. I am just wanting the same for my children. Schools with less than 30 kids in a classroom and the ability to be in local establishments late at night.

You cannot compare HISTORIC downtown to the suburbs. When you purchase a home for $300,000 downtown you are paying for location...proximity to everything downtown has to offer. But I would bet that you don't wander around the streets past 10pm, even to go grocery shopping.

You only have legitimate domain over your own property. If you want to control what is built on neighboring property, buy up the land and build whatever you want.

NO I have a voice and I have State Representatives and I have neighbors that all have voices. These projects have to have approval to use our tax dollars.

I grew up in the area. My parents and 2 brothers live right down the street from there still. I am not upset by it.

Well great..but I noticed you didn't say YOU live here. Maybe that's why you are not upset...it's your parents property value not yours.

I live in a townhouse in the Third Ward. If I can live in an entire community populated mostly by low-income people I think you can afford to live near one single development. These developments are all over and I'd wager that I live within 5 miles of many more such projects than you.

And I bet that I pay more in property taxes and for my home than you did. You chose where you wanted to live as did I. Those developments were there when you chose your home so you knew what you were buying. This is a developer wanting to use MY tax dollars to build a community of socially dependant people. Move them in next to you...what's one more in your area?

Unless you live in this area, you have no right to comment about where would be a "fine place" for "low income" housing. This is not a "vacant" area. There are several communities with a 1-mile radius of the proposed site. One in particular is diagonal and homes start in the $300,000. This would drastically change the property values for this area as well as the marketability of the surrounding neighborhoods. You cannot rely on GoogleEarth to show you all of the development. (They still have not updated GoogleEarth with all of the devastation of Hurricane Ike more than 8 months ago.) MY MAJOR PROBLEM WITH THIS DEVELOPMENT IS THAT WE ARE USING TAX DOLLARS TO MOVE LOW INCOME FAMILIES INTO OUR SUBURBS. We moved out of downtown to get away from "low income" housing and now they are proposing to use my tax dollars to move them right in; not to mention the impact this would have on our schools. Klein ISD is having to build elementary school just about every year to keep up with the development in this area. FM2920 and Spring Stuebner are parking lots at 5pm and we should be using our tax dollars to expand these roads rather than bringing in more people.

And most of the developers do not care about the maintenance of the development. Look at the Greenspoint area for example. Cityview spent so much money fixing up that area and marketing it as a good place to live. Now they are renting to anyone with a pulse just to get the rent check. It's all about the $$.

Is it the "low-income" part that you're unhappy about? YES!! I don't want people walking their shopping carts down 2920 to get to the low income housing project from their shopping trip to the local Wal-Mart or grocery store.

If you think it's a "fine" project, move them in next to your neighborhood. Oh yeah--NIMBY!!