Sep 22, 2012 8:56 PM
There were smiles of joy and some tears of disappointment, and dreams were simultaneously fulfilled and dashed in Hampton Bays last week when the Southampton Town Housing Authority held just the second lottery in recent memory—and only its third since 1993—for the sale of soon-to-be built subsidized homes.
When her son Robert’s name was the first drawn out of the brass tumbling cylinder on Thursday evening, September 13, Diane Carpenter leapt up in joy and rushed to hug the 30-something-year-old, who blushed but smiled with obvious relief.
“We have a newborn and things are tight, so owning a house is not something we could have ever hoped for if not for this,” said Tony White, a Riverhead native whose name also was among the first drawn in the lottery.
“We would have had... more
When her son Robert’s name was the first drawn out of the brass tumbling cylinder on Thursday evening, September 13, Diane Carpenter leapt up in joy and rushed to hug the 30-something-year-old, who blushed but smiled with obvious relief.
“We have a newborn and things are tight, so owning a house is not something we could have ever hoped for if not for this,” said Tony White, a Riverhead native whose name also was among the first drawn in the lottery.
“We would have had... more
As long as the "elite's" fortunes, and "wealth" are financed by the equivalent of "monopoly money" there will be NO correction. Of any sort.
Please explain how it is "good" (aside from it being good for those who were chosen) for the town government (the people of the town) to subsidize home ownership.
The reason these programs exist is BECAUSE of all the massive money printing. The reason our home has been overdeveloped, and ...more our farms destroyed for the goals and dreams of avarice are BECAUSE of massive money printing. The reason there is enough "wealth" in offshore tax havens to pay the national debt off at least TWICE, is because of, well you should get the picture.
If not for the ridiculous amount of faux "wealth" pumped into our economy, billionaires would not exist.
no one will care about the 'Walts of the World'. If you get in the house before christmas may it be the best you and your family will ever have!
This IS the american dream. And yes, we do help each other.
Good luck, twenty years is a long road...
Just remember you can't man a ship with only a captain.
On a sidenote: Congratulations to those who now have a place to call home for their families. And for those who have nothing nice to say; try to have some humility and be happy for your fellow primates.