[quote=SK in CV][quote=bearishgurl] And I’d like to add that Donald Trump was raised in Jamaica (Queens), NY. One of the first “real jobs” his father gave him was “managing” his many multi-story, brick behemoth, low-income rent-controlled apt buildings in Queens and Brooklyn (this was prior to the “Section 8” progam). He had to deal with this crowd as well as late rent-payers and even evictions. Even though Trump grew up in privilege and was sent to a military boarding school for HS, he has had plenty of experience in his life successfully interacting with Joe and Suzy 6p and that’s why he understands them so well.[/quote]His father made his fortune as a slum-lord. Donald learned how to be a slum-lord. He very well may have learned how to wield power in this position. Your characterization of his navigation of the slum-lord/tenant relationship as “successfully interacting with Joe and Suzy 6p” as well as your disdain for the poor is duly noted. That you consider this good presidential experience is truly abhorrent.[/quote]
sk, I don’t have any “disdain” for the “poor.” I actually live amonsgt the “Joe and Suzy 6p’s” of the world and consider myself one :=D That “colloquialism” has been oft-used by many on this board to describe everyday “real people,” representative of the masses in their locality and NOT a “celebrity” or member of the “5% club.”
Those former “low-income” buildings that used to belong to the Trumps are among the nicest buildings in town today! These older bldgs have much larger units in them than the newer-built buildings do and still have plenty of “rent-controlled” units. For example, a unit costing $220 monthly rent in 1977 costs only $630 month today for the same longtime tenant!
…“Fred Trump built for people like me,” says Sol Cooperman, 70, now a retired accountant who’s been in Trump Village since renting a $220 a month, two-bedroom apartment there in 1977. Today he pays just $630 a month for it. “I can afford a little decent housing. But Trump Place — who can afford that type of square footage paying $300,000, $400,000?”…
I CAN tell you that the (circa 1917) Banker’s Hill (SD) apartment I rented in 1978 for $225 month now rents for $1770 month … go figure :=0 Of course, it’s likely been “remodeled” a few times since then, lol …
In short, the large “Trump Village” complex appears in the photos to be well-built, well-located and well-landscaped and far from ever being considered a “slum.”
