This is the thing that bothers me the most about all the commenters who are taking the bait from The Root’s zombified corpse and jumping on Chappelle the way they did with the trans material from his Netflix specials. Based purely on his comedy (his writing, his perspective, etc.), I’ve always believed Dave to be an…

Why do you keep insisting that he “put on that performance”? He walked up, said about four sentences and walked off to applause. You sound like you’re either concern trolling or you’re a Russian bot.

Hmmm, maybe.  I don’t think that’s true of old school Dave Chappelle.  

As someone with extensive experience in real estate investment and development, your last statement could not be further from the truth. If what cdwag14 posted is true, the developer changed more than half of their initial housing unit - just imagine if you ordered surf and turf at a restaurant and they brought out…

The Hill covered this too and actually covered the full story. Shame on The Root, they’d rather call Chappelle an Uncle Tom rather than dig deeper into what is really happening, rich white developers giving what amounts to lip service to communities that things like “affordable housing” were meant to help.

It only makes sense when you consider that the G/O sites are losing money and management needed to drive the click count.

Nope. If you care to do some research (you obviously don’t) you could easily find that the original proposal was for 143 single-family only homes with starting prices in the mid $300k’s. The City Council wanted to change it to 64 single-family homes, 52 duplexes and 24 townhomes with prices starting in the mid…

You’re both wrong. 1.75 acres is more than one large house, but it’s not 9 to 10 houses. You could get five or six two bedroom houses in that amount of space. More if you built up. You could certainly put a couple of decent sized apartment buildings on a lot that size. But, cdwag is essentially correct - this is a…

Affordable housing how? The houses in town are $215,000 on average...but the new houses being built for affordable housing is like $300,000 a pop. How does that make sense?

I’m sure you’ve given millions of dollars toward development in your town, right? You’ve helped build countless affordable housing projects, right? So you have a lot of right to judge Chappelle, eh? 

This story is far more complex than the general take away that’s being spoon fed by headlines. It’s a lot of town politics involving re-zoning, developers posing as affordable housing angels when that was a microscopic part of their overall plans, and a rush to get everything approved well before it got any serious…

One man is not a whole town despite his inflated ego.

The affordable housing part of the project also includes the 52 duplexes and 24 townhomes (more than half of the total units) that they were proposing.

Honest question, and I promise it’s not a trap: Do you know anything at all about Yellow Springs, or Greene County, at all?

Lol, these comments are hilarious. They can play you chumps like a fiddle.

Um... but we hate Chapelle now so all of your facts and objective reality do not count.

I’ve learned with Mr Chapelle there is usually a greater good. He is willing to appear like an asshole, but once he fully explains himself there is usually a much broader and deeper reason for his decisions. Building affordable housing may appear like building slums to this DC native. Dave knows the human and economic…

I know there’s a lot of talk about the difference between being rich and having wealth, especially in the context of how systemic racism and privilege negatively impacts black people in America.

Are the same “water management and traffic concerns” brought up by these same people when something that doesn’t concern affordable housing is going to be built?

So, he’s wrong? Is that what I’m supposed to take from this half of an article?