George Lucas Building Low-Income Housing Next Door To Millionaires

Posted by samzenpus on Monday April 20, 2015 @05:13AM from the rich-and-poor dept.

BarbaraHudson writes His neighbors wouldn't let him build a film studio on his land, so George Lucas is retaliating in a way that only the cream of Hollywood could — by building the largest affordable housing development in the area — and footing the entire $200 million bill, no government subsidies or grants. The complex of affordable housing, funded and designed by Lucas, would sit on 52 acres of land and provide homes to 224 low-income families, and there's very little his fellow Bay Area residents can do about it, because the land is zoned residential.

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Cue the 'government isn't needed to fix this'... by Anonymous Coward · 2015-04-20 05:27 · Score: 0, Troll

I'm sure it's only a matter of time before the Red/Blue dumbasses swarm this forum and start screaming about how this is proof, PROOF that the free market will solve the program of where to house low-income people, then "No it's not!", then "Yes it is!", etc.