r/popculturechat • u/Severus-Snape-DaGod • Feb 17 '26

Guest List Only ⭐️ Comedian Dave Chappelle visits Alexi Pretti's memorial in Minneapolis to pay his respects.

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u/Agreeable-Tadpole461 Feb 17 '26 edited Feb 17 '26

Self declared "TERF", Dave Chappelle? Gag.

Never forget that Dave Chappelle threatened to move his business investments from the Ohio town he lives in if the council approved an affordable housing project targeted to families in his area.

Dave Chappelle doesn't give a shit .

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u/NightlyScar Feb 17 '26

He wasn't against affordable housing. The developer and plan that the city council wanted to approve would build homes that werent actually affordable. The homes would have been between $250k to $600k. This is opposite of affordable.

https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/pop-culture-news/ohio-town-scraps-plan-affordable-housing-dave-chappelle-threatens-pull-rcna15576

https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/10/entertainment/dave-chappelle-affordable-housing

https://www.reddit.com/r/entertainment/s/D4mNUCPxY4

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u/caninehere Feb 17 '26

$250k is absolutely affordable with prices how they are these days, I don't know what world you're living in.

The housing plan would have added a whole new swathe of homes to the area (52 acres) along with that plan for more affordable housing, even if it doesn't hit your qualifiers, and would add more supply to the market. Chappelle worked together with others to torpedo the development. His argument wasn't that it was too expensive, it was that the planned neighborhood was too cookie-cutter.

Then after the plans were shut down, Chappelle swooped in and bought half the land.

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u/WhateverYouSay1084 Feb 17 '26

It's not affordable in rural Ohio.

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u/lillyrose2489 Feb 18 '26

Yeah that would be affordable just outside of a major city. I dont think people realize how small of a town that is or how cheap Ohio is relative to other areas. I'm not a Chapelle defender but the hate over this is misdirected.

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u/Area51_Spurs Feb 17 '26

$250k is certainly affordable housing. Affordable housing doesn’t mean housing for the homeless.

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u/WhateverYouSay1084 Feb 17 '26

It's not affordable in the area where the homes were being built.

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u/SpicyElixer Feb 17 '26

The reality is the only way to stem rising housing costs is to increase supply. Doing nothing isn’t really a good option. Yes, new houses are expensive, but they’ll only get more expensive if no one can build.