Luke Ford

Just as most landlords don’t want to rent to people with young children (because they raise havoc), so too most landlords don’t want to rent to groups with high crime rates, low credit scores, and anti-social behavior. Most landlords would rather rent to women than to men because women commit less crime and wreak less destruction.

Steve Sailer writes:

As part of the big push behind Hillary’s Alt-Right speech, the NYT is rolling out breaking news articles about how nearly a half century ago Trump’s dad, with the young Donald’s assistance, tried to prevent white flight from his apartment complexes in places like Coney Island, Brighton Beach, and Forest Hills. As Hillary said on Thursday:

When he was getting his start in business, he was sued by the Justice Department for refusing to rent apartments to black and Latino tenants. Their applications would be marked with a ‘C’ – ‘C’ for ‘colored’ – and then rejected. Three years later, the Justice Department took Trump back to court because he hadn’t changed.

This subject has been gone over repeatedly over the years, but one little explored question about this old story however is: Who exactly were these white racist tenants who were renting in Trump properties in Coney, Island, Brighton Beach, and Forest Hills but who would have white-flighted out to Long Island if too many blacks had flooded in to the Trump buildings? The young Jared Taylor? The unborn Richard Spencer? Haven Monahan’s grandpa?

COMMENTS:

* Another point here is that essentially Hillary is pointing out that Donald Trump’s actually done something *useful* with his life, building stuff. Engagement with reality and being successful\productive inevitably gets you into trouble with the rent-seekers (or you pay shake down money of some sort).

Hillary has never done anything useful in her entire life, so she doesn’t have this sort of thing on her resume. Yet somehow she nonetheless manages to have actually dubious and evil “discriminatory” behavior on her resume–basically going around to various women Bill molested and telling them to shut the f*** up or else.

* This is further proof that the Trumps have always been good to Jews. Unfortunately, we won’t hear about this in the NYT, since you’re not supposed to know that Jews are also guiltily of white flight and having bad thoughts about blacks.

* In a building my friend lives in, he said when he first moved there, it was at a fairly reasonable rent. Not cheap, but not outrageous. Somewhat upscale. The rents there, since 10 years ago, has almost tripled, owing to it’s location.

When he first moved there, there were a number of… “personalities.” Something silly went on there monthly. Usually a neurotic tenant angered by some perceived slight, that usually wasn’t, calling for a tenants meeting to organize strategies to annoy the landlord. Often times, it was trustifarians, but also a few black wannabe rappers who got an advance check from whomever. They were easily the most dysfunctional. Almost non-existent coping skills. The notion of consequences was like a silly rumor to them.

Since the rents went up, my friend says his building is like a library. No “personalities” spicing up the place. They had to move. Could no longer afford it. Even trustifarians are no longer landing there. The building used to have quite a few of the little shitheads.

It seems the higher the rent, the more tenants you have with better things to do. It seems the coping skills needed to keep a regular job needed to acquire the rent tends to be a big plus in being a functional tenant.

When you bring in a tenant on Section 8, it’s the same as bringing in a trustifarian. The reason both are thus classified is because both are de facto socially dysfunctional.

If you inject the socially dysfunctional in a community without governing the numbers, you blow up communities.

People who work in jobs that demand personal responsibility–yes, even middle-class Jews–don’t appreciate everything they’ve invested in as a community member blow up in their faces, thanks to somebody living miles away in a gated community decreeing that it should be so. Even if they mean well, they’re evil.

They are bad people.

They should be collectively shamed at every opportunity as such. If you hear anyone trying to make a case for Section 8 housing, such as it is, take off your gloves and tell him/her to go fuck themselves to his/her face. Cast aspersions on their ancestry. Take a shit in their soup. Whatever it takes to make them at least take pause.

* The cosmological constant of sociology is that blacks bring down property values, test scores and academic, social and economic attainment while increasing social pathology and the general decline of households, neighborhoods and communities.

Who knows why this is but the how of it, how it happens, is very well established.

If this offset is acceptable to you then the decline and fall of your civilization is inevitable since you accept its decline.

If it is not acceptable, and you are prepared to adopt policies that treat unacceptable people as unacceptable, you may retain your society–your civilization–but this will occur with a very large imposition of social disability upon those unacceptable persons–and you will not have an equal society.

Social equality is likely to destroy Western Civilization.

* Hillary’s attack and the NYT response is effective because it is not about logic, it is about raw emotion among Nice White Ladies and those supplicate them.

Blacks are sacred objects ala the late Lawrence Auster, because they are useful for Nice White Ladies to distinguish just WHO is truly Upper Class, “dahling,” and who is just White Trash.

Hillary and the NYT are effectively labeling Trump and his father as BadWhites who were Bad Thinkers and did not sufficiently pay obeisance to Sacred Blacks the way a TRUE Upper Class person would.

Most of America’s conflicts around race and everything else are centered on carefully sublimated Class conflicts, driven by its Nice White Ladies, the more powerful emotionally because it is not based on logic, reason, or anything but a raw and visceral resentment by the Nice White Ladies that they are Upper Class, but not running everything.

Think a wealthy, powerful writer/producer/show-runner railing against “the Man” when they are in fact, the Man. The real beef being they are not running a studio and making all their pet projects no one wants to see or fund.

* This Irish lad in the mid 1980s once drove home a young lady to her apartment in Trump Village after an evening of a Doors cover band and several adult beverages. She was Jewish.

In law school worked for an attorney that did many coop closings there. Even met Fred Trump. My boss and all his clients buying and selling there were Jewish.

Have since had occasion to represent a retired cop selling his Trump Village coop. He and the buyer were Jewish.

To their credit, the Trump Village buildings are spotless, clean and well-maintained, unlike the nearby NYCHA buildings, which are crime-infested shitholes.

Fred Trump only cared about making a buck. When the City of New York stopped subsidizing middle class housing, he and his son moved on to high end Manhattan.

* “On the other hand, judging from The Warriors, even the street gangs from Coney Island are delightfully multicultural.”

None of the street gangs in 1970s New York City were Multicultural. The Italians had The Golden Guineas, Puerto Ricans had The Savage Nomads, African Americans had The Black Disciples, etc. That’s the only unrealistic part about The Warriors.

* I am Jewish and grew up in a large co-op apartment complex in Queens. The percentage of blacks in our nearly all-Jewish development was considerably less than that of Chappaqua. It was decent, affordable housing for the lower-middle class, and surely blacks could have qualified, but the word was that the board of directors wouldn’t have it. This was the ’50s and ’60s, and, having grown up in a very liberal family, I was shocked at how many of my neighbors used racial slurs. There were a lonely few who suggested the discriminatory policy of our development was wrong, but I never heard of anyone bringing that to the next level, as it was clear that most of the neighbors were content with things as they were.

* Fred Trump was Woody Guthrie’s landlord. Woody wrote songs about Fred being a racist but of course Woody could have moved or could have lived in Harlem instead of Besch Haven. Woody’s dad supposedly took part in a lynching. So I guess Trump is guilty of inherited racism just like Woody.

* That sounds like a more entertaining version of “Inside Lewyn Davis:” Okie Communist folk singer moves to New York, gets cheap apartment, can’t understand why his Jewish neighbors are happy that Donald Trump’s dad keeps blacks out of their building.

* There are a number of towns in West/Central MA that have been torched (sometimes literally) by Section 8 Housing. Ware, MA, comes to mind. These were not upscale suburbs, mind you, but modest, mostly blue collar towns, where people kept up their property and cared about the value of their homes and the town. Not any more.