Stephen Curry Pushes To Block 'Low-Income Housing' From Being Constructed Behind His $30 Million Mansion

Low income means more crime.

Aren't people like this Stephen Curry and other colored people already living in their own neighborhoods?

Is it Stephen doing this or his wife? There’s just something about her that comes off very negative.

Why would you immediately jump to the conclusion that it's not him, it's his wife? What a weird thing to assume.

Never heard of him.

His wife looks like a fatter browner Miley Cyrus.

NIMBY

I probably would too. Nobody wants to live near a concentration of poor people. No one.

r3 I dont like his wife either and she seems to wear the pants in that relationship. If I had that much money, Id just buy a second home or move.

R9, They probably already have a second home.

Uppity Blacks

I don't want a $30 million mansion being built behind my low-income housing!

Bye, bitch!

If can spend $30 million on a home, why doesn't he just buy the vacant lot?

[quote]“We hesitate to add to the 'not in our backyard' (literally) rhetoric, but we wanted to send a note before today's meeting,” the couple continued. “Safety and privacy for us and our kids continues to be our top priority and one of the biggest reasons we chose Atherton as home.”

Then you should have moved into a gated community instead of living in a neighborhood with vacant lots.

I cannot imagine Atherton, the #1 most expensive ZIP Code in the country, having low-income housing.

He should encourage it to be moved to West Hollywood.

If any white celebrity said that, they'd immediately be branded a racist.

[quote]I cannot imagine Atherton, the #1 most expensive ZIP Code in the country, having low-income housing.

You are correct-ish.

The person building it says that it's not low-income housing.

Either way the local government is required to comply with the state's requirement but ...

Low income there = the person making six figures or more

.... because what is classified as low income is based upon what everything else costs there.

[quote]Affordable housing in California is defined by area median income, meaning "low-income" earners in Atherton's county of San Mateo still make more than six figures of income. Despite only being on the hook for 348 units of housing, many of which could still qualify as "market-rate" in a ridiculously expensive area, Tuesday's meeting featured lots of Atherton residents protesting about how even bare-bones development projects would cause unforgiving traffic and fundamentally ruin the fabric of the town.

Low income means a six figure salary in this town? Lol, fuck the Currys. There’s no threat to you or your kids’ safety, bitches.

They’ll move, regardless.

Stank heifers

[quote]“Safety and privacy for us and our kids continues to be our top priority

I don’t think I could conceive of a more arrogant statement.

1 - why didn't he buy the surrounding lots of land/properties?

2 - if there is a price cap on the homes to make them affordable, how long will it last? Does it have to be a primary residence? I ask because anybody that buys a home there and can flip it will make huge amounts of money. Especially if it is behind the Curry home.

People are truly dumber than a box of rocks and do not live even remotely in the land of reality.

I get that no one wants to have "the projects" near them. But there's so much resistance now to even median income housing and rentals that are affordable in any way.

I live in a touristy area and the eldergays and elderdeplorables here complain all day every day online about how they cannot get anyone to help them at the grocery, pharmacy, et al.....that there's a huge doctor/nurse/healthcare shortage, etc.

It never fucking occurs to them for one second that none of those workers want to come to our area, because you can't find a rental within a 30 mile radius that isn't 3K or more a month for 600 sqf.

Housing has really fallen into a vat of extreme capitalism, because if someone can't make money off a house over and over, the world would prefer you just as well not exist.....

It’s a 1.52 acre property that I am guessing originally held a single family home.

I can understand his objections. He paid up to live in a neighborhood where he and his family would be almost inconsequential (because everyone else is just as rich), and that affords them an element of privacy. And now they want to build this not just in his neighborhood, but literally in his backyard. They know it looks bad to object, so it’s important to them.

Also, by pursuing this use, the seller is inflating the value of his property and diminishing Curry’s. So if there is any ambiguity wrt what is allowed, Curry would be a fool not to try and avoid this.

Low-income in Atherton would be a starting price of $2 million.

If the project in question would fulfill state requirements for low income housing, I’m guessing that it’s low income housing. Not “low for Atherton” income housing.

But I’m guessing.

- R24

How much money does Curry have? Would buying the adjacent lot be chump change for him? I’m a little surprised he owns a $30 million dollar house, but I don’t follow sports.

If things get that bad for Curry, perhaps he can donate his property to the city so they can use it as the new community center for the low-income housing project.

It would be nice if these low-income types had a pool area, basketball-volleyball courts, arts & crafts center, etc, - perhaps even a library and child care center. along with a variety multi-purpose rooms for events. There could also be a large community garden established, since they more than likely won't have any kind of backyard.

Then Curry could take that charitable donation off his taxes over the next five years. It's said he recently signed a $215 million contact for four years, so he could probably use a deduction.

I'd totally NIMBY this as well

[quote] I dont like his wife either and she seems to wear the pants in that relationship.

What century is this?

[quote] Housing has really fallen into a vat of extreme capitalism

Now tell us about Neoliberals, Boris.

Have they considered Mountebank? It's RESTRICTED, you know.

R30 Boris? Ooof, someone doesn't have ANY idea of the meaning of the words she's using......

AND we have a Costco. Big mistake. Huge!

He's lucky he's not living in an Low income housing.

Please, even people in the most mundane middle class areas of a city don't want low-income housing. And if they willingly moved into a mixed-income area and accepted some already in place low-income housing, they certainly don't want more.

Your right to be a difficult bitch ends at the property line. This guy has a bad case of trashy entitlement.

That’s a good general rule, R36 but it’s simplistic. If you buy a home in a block that is zoned single family residential and your neighbor illegally converts his house to a strip club, completely with blinking lights and the front lawn paved over for parking are you going to complain that your municipality isn’t enforcing the codes? Of course you are. That’s an extreme example with the other end of the spectrum being that you don’t like the color your neighbor painted her house. But in between clearly illegal and none of your business there are sometimes gray areas.

R37 I don't think it's simplistic at all. You and this guy seem to think that if you spend enough money, you have the right to dictate who your neighbors are and what they do with their property. You used an extreme example of white trash gone wild but you're still wrong. This guy and people like him need to live in a gated community, buy up all the land around his house or STFU.