Miro Weinberger discuses affordable housing
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Burlington Mayor Miro Weinberger discusses housing crisis.
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| 00:00 - 00:05 | The progressives say housing in Burlington is unaffordable |
| 00:05 - 00:07 | They complain about gentrification. |
| 00:07 - 00:10 | So we scheduled housing forum when progressives are at work |
| 00:11 - 00:16 | We hired a consultant for $150k to say housing market is fine. |
| 00:17 - 00:21 | The residents believed it. |
| 00:21 - 00:24 | They re elected me. |
| 00:29 - 00:31 | BIPOC Equality |
| 00:31 - 00:34 | Solving Homelesness Crisis |
| 00:38 - 00:40 | The Pit |
| 00:41 - 00:47 | I called up the Handy's, Redstone, and Boves. |
| 00:47 - 00:50 | I said we are going to make so much money |
| 00:50 - 00:56 | turning Burlington into overpriced sub par student housing. |
| 00:58 - 00:59 | Code Enforcement |
| 00:59 - 01:01 | We will keep them off your back |
| 01:04 - 01:06 | We will have BPD evict the poor |
| 01:06 - 01:08 | We don't wan them scaring way |
| 01:13 - 01:14 | the rich college kids |
| 01:14 - 01:16 | and young urban professionals |
| 01:16 - 01:20 | with trust funds, and 6 figure incomes. |
| 01:21 - 01:27 | Grocery stockers making $13 an hour |
| 01:35 - 01:36 | Section 8 Voucher Holders, The Disabled. |
| 01:36 - 01:39 | Send them to live in Saint Albans |
| 01:41 - 01:44 | Burlington is going to be an extension of UVM campus |
| 01:44 - 01:47 | And the for rich conservative kids at Champlain College. |
| 01:47 - 01:49 | Techies from upper class families |
| 01:50 - 01:53 | and doctors working at the hospital. |
| 01:54 - 01:56 | How else are we going |
| 01:56 - 01:58 | to make money |
| 01:58 - 02:02 | for high paid consultants to tell us what to do with the pit |
| 02:05 - 02:07 | And pay to convert the Moran plant |
| 02:10 - 02:11 | into "modern art" |
| 02:11 - 02:13 | next to the malfunctioning sewage plant. |
| 02:15 - 02:17 | We dumped sewage into the lake |
| 02:17 - 02:20 | Closed the beaches but told everyone it was fine |
| 02:21 - 02:28 | We tell them Burlington is a Green City. |
| 02:29 - 02:30 | City Hall Park |
| 02:30 - 02:32 | Sears Lane encampment |
| 02:36 - 02:39 | We Tried to put the homeless in overpriced shipping |
| 02:40 - 02:42 | containers, but the state wouldn't fund it. |
| 02:50 - 02:55 | So I called up Joe, Gabe Handy, and Joe Larkin. I said the state has this COVID money |
| 02:56 - 02:58 | We are going to pay Millions |
| 02:58 - 03:04 | To house the homeless in your run down motels with state voucher money. |
| 03:04 - 03:09 | The people you wont develop affordable housing for, and probably evicted onto the streets. |
| 03:09 - 03:11 | We could have just built affordable housing. |
| 03:16 - 03:20 | We are going to pay you to get richer exploiting the situation. |
| 03:23 - 03:26 | Instead of providing cost effective permanent housing solutions. |
| 03:31 - 03:36 | Instead we will funnel millions for temporary fixes, that will leave us back at square one. |