Originally Posted by
royce
This development will probably be an "affordable" housing project since the sight was once the sight of one-story senior citizen 'subsidized" housing. Very few of us on this forum will have an opportunity to live there because our incomes will be too high. That's unfortunate. Lafayette Park already has a large chunk of affordable/subsidized housing.
Something of note, I have noticed that many HUD developments lack a commercial or retail component. Woodbridge Estates was supposed to have one on the corner of MLK and the Lodge service drive. Nothing there but vacant land. The former Herman Gardens now called Gardenview Estates is supposed to have a retail component at the corner of Joy and the Southfield Freeway. That has yet to materialize as well. Also, when completed, Gardenview Estates is supposed to have this two to three block pond along the Southfield service drive. Wouldn't this be a great spot for a strip mall for the tenants of the complex? My point here is that HUD is willing to subsidize housing for low-income folks, but it doesn't offer them opportunities through owning businesses or managing the retail component so that they can better themselves financially. I guess that would mean that folks who did that would make too much money and would technically not qualify to live there anymore. However, I've always thought that public housing is supposed to be only a temporary situation, is it not?