I see there was a ribbon cutting of a large apartment complex at the old Morning Call site. Apartments for everyone. You know all the bigwigs were there.
Here are the prices.
$1290 for a studio.
$2015 for a 2 bedroom
You have to pay for parking and a $60 amenities fee.
So the medium income in Allentown is roughly $55,000.
After taxes like $43,000.
Or $1650 bi-weekly.
So in order for someone to live in a one bedroom apartment which I will assume is roughly $1600-$1750 a month, your 1st check of each month covers just the rent.
I dont see a water or electric bill included so add another say $150 a month. Add parking, car insurance, cable, food, maybe 1 grub hub a month and what is left?
How is this affordable housing as Mayor Tuerk always claims he is working on? Getting investors to build these buildings knowing that no one around there can afford them isn't right.
The medium income probably isn't the same for the people that live center city. That is probably closer to like $35,000 if your lucky.
I mean who is renting these places? There arent really many businesses downtown that people can walk too from there. I personally would never spend that type of money to live there. Downtown is dead after 5pm. Even after the PPL center events it dies quickly.
Sure the building is nice, but is it necessary? Will it actually fill up? I feel the city wants all these unaffordable apartments downtown to push the poor people out of the city. I mean this is how you do it. Buy up all the land and build unaffordable apartments that the natives cant afford.
Don't preach about building affordable housing, when you clearly aren’t and can't even figure out a solution for the homeless people.
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This is not about providing affordable housing. It’s about slick, private individuals taking advantage of loose and free Pennsylvania taxpayer dollars.
What’s happening with that outrageous NIZ should have been thoroughly examined a decade ago. It’s a legal scam, but a true scam on Pennsylvania taxpayer dollars for sure. The Pennsylvania legislature failed all of us who actually work and pay taxes here.
I wish I was a fly on the wall with some of these meetings to build housing. See who is getting what kickbacks
Molovinsky on Allentown: Anonymous comment January 26, 2024: " A reporter from any newspaper could easily win a Pulitzer Prize by presenting a detailed investigative report on the failed Neighborhood Improvement Zone."
A thorough one sentence summary of the work of JB Reilly, Pat Browne with the full support of Joe Topper, Lee Butz, Mike Schlossberg, Josh Siegel et al !
"The Morning Call's 2-year fight to uncover Allentow NIZ tax money ends after Senator Pat Browne crafts change in law". Commentary from Morning Call reporter Fred Turner On February 6, 2022.
How do you think Tuerk got that new gold tooth paid for? 🤔
I'm convinced at a certain point, City Center sells everything (at a huge profit) to the public for use as subsidized public housing, what other outcome is even conceivable?
Fully agree. Too bad the original NIZ legislation didn’t include any partial equity position for taxpayers. Now, if those failed buildings are sold for public housing, or whatever, the developer has essentially been paid twice for each building’s construction.
This could have been avoided if our State Legislature (and the Morning Call) would have been more responsible to we taxpayers at the start.
The very sound fear is that when the NIZ benefits expire many of these building will end up as government subsidize low income housing. The acknowledged failures of concentrated low income housing of the past will then be repeated in our downtown. Always remember, its Allentown, the epicenter of failures to lead, self service and rampant stupidy. Expect the worst to happen, then when it does at least you won't be surprised.
Agree, Scott. Let us not forget the city is fomenting it's own demise by not enforcing the most basic quality of life infractions. It's true, Allentown is truly a city without limits!!!
The assKloWnZ are overjoyed with there failure as it has personal gain written all over.
Dour BuTTinSkyz once upon a time owned many hovelz for low income plebianz what happened to this once mightee portfolio did curmudgeon horde away his sheckelz in the land of flowerz?
Word on the street was he donated his vast inheritance to #DJT'S 2020 campaign and developed severe #TDS in the aftermath of that decision
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