I am gutted that all my heroic efforts to buy a house in Ridgewood are heading to waste. Affordable housing is never affordable and in the end when landlords are incapable of filling their units they will ask the courts to change laws in favor of section 8 and that’s the end of the town and start of the eternal sh!thole living. Speechless as to how powerless current residents are and nobody raises a voice about us. The whole NJ but especially Bergen County is the Fair Share Housing (FSH) playground. They can play with our lives as they wish.
I too was vocal against Valley but now I totally regret it. Valley would have been much better than what’s coming. I live near N Maple Valley property and I get chills down my spine when I picture what that area can become. Valley facilities would have been a miracle but now only God (FSH + Murphy) knows what it can turn into. Depressing.
The worst part is that majority of residents have no idea about this stuff. They still live like they did in their previous places e.g. NYC, Hoboken etc. where they only read Daily News and never cared about what was happening in their vicinity thinking that the people in charge will take care of things. If people wake up and raise their voice and protest then politicians will pay attention. But this is just wishful thinking. It won’t happen.
The low income housing is spreading even in tiny remote villages of NJ. How does this make sense? This smells communism.