{"id":6473,"date":"2016-07-20T22:01:58","date_gmt":"2016-07-21T05:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/?p=6473"},"modified":"2016-07-20T22:01:58","modified_gmt":"2016-07-21T05:01:58","slug":"resident-enthusiastic-about-affordable-homes-until-realizing-they-will-be-in-his-neighborhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/?p=6473","title":{"rendered":"Resident Enthusiastic About Affordable Homes Until Realizing They Will Be in His Neighborhood"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t\"affordable<\/a>Conservatory Green resident Chris Rundall has always been supportive of Stapleton figuring out a way to build affordable housing within the community. \u201cWe chose to live in the city,\u201d said Rundall. \u201cAnd a good city has diversity. Not just racial diversity, but socioeconomic diversity as well. Forest City and Stapleton are well behind their affordable homes plan, and something needs to be done. We didn\u2019t move here to live in a private country club. We moved here to be part of the city, with a diverse range of people and backgrounds.\u201d To Rundall\u2019s pleasure, it was recently announced <\/a> that 165 affordable homes are going to be built by Thrive Homebuilders<\/a> in the Stapleton community. The homes will be for sale for between $172,000 and $199,900 and will have income qualified standards. \u201cJust great news,\u201d said Rundall. \u201cI\u2019m really looking forward to this project, and hope it is the beginning of many more of these projects. Not only is this good for the community, but it will hopefully start to change outsiders\u2019 opinions of Stapleton.\u201d\n\nNew residents of the affordable homes could be moving in as soon as the first of the year. \u201cGreat to hear,\u201d said an ecstatic Rundall upon hearing the news. \u201cThe sooner the better. These residents will show that affordable housing does work in Stapleton, and should pave the way for more of these exciting projects.\u201d The homes will be built in the Willow Park East, Wicker Park, and Conservatory Green neighborhoods. \u201cI\u2019m sorry, what was that?\u201d asked Rundall upon hearing the location of the affordable homes. \u201cSome are going to be built in Conservatory Green, my neighborhood? I\u2019m all for this project, and meeting goals, but I\u2019m not sure Conservatory Green is the best place to be building affordable housing. It simply doesn\u2019t make a lot of sense in regards to the current layout. Shouldn\u2019t they all be in one of these new neighborhoods, you know, just to test it.\u201d Rundall plans on working with Forest City and the MCA to see if the construction sites are final, or if they are still finalizing them. \u201cI really don\u2019t like how quickly they are moving on this,\u201d said Rundall. \u201cThis is something the current community members should have a say in, right? Where exactly are they going to be? Will this affect my property values? How are the local schools going to be affected? I really hope Forest City thought this through. Seems like this whole thing was done pretty hastily.\u201d Yep, thrown together in just about 20 years.\n]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6473","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-issue-132","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}