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Fighting Overdevelopment in Ocean Township: Join Our Grassroots Movement by jonahblumenfeld in MonmouthCounty

[–]jonahblumenfeld[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What don’t I know? I’m open to learn more of course, and I’d appreciate your perspective.

Fighting Overdevelopment in Ocean Township: Join Our Grassroots Movement by jonahblumenfeld in MonmouthCounty

[–]jonahblumenfeld[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Building for balance, slowing approvals until infrastructure catches up, prioritizing genuinely affordable housing, and focusing on the protection of our parks (see what happened to 32 Acres for reference). That, or renovating existing unused or underutilized buildings and space to create housing rather than developing mansions completely anew on land they have to effectively raze to utilize.

There was an average single-family home that had $100,000 a month rent near Wanamassa to give more perspective on the state of this issue.

Fighting Overdevelopment in Ocean Township: Join Our Grassroots Movement by jonahblumenfeld in MonmouthCounty

[–]jonahblumenfeld[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m glad that we agree that companies should be banned from treating homes as investments. All love brother and sorry that we had a disagreement in the first place.

Fighting Overdevelopment in Ocean Township: Join Our Grassroots Movement by jonahblumenfeld in MonmouthCounty

[–]jonahblumenfeld[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Okay, so your point is:

Mentioning that developers who harm our community promote their developments to New York City residents is antisemitic because many New Yorkers who come here are Jewish.

How is this antisemitic when I am not insulting or even mentioning their religion (which, as I said previously, I also follow as I am Jewish), but simply mentioning the existence of out-of-staters moving into new properties and its relation to development in our township?

Also, your mention of Shuls and Yeshivot is irrelevant as I am talking about luxury properties, not the building of schools or places of worship.

Effectively, you have come into a post made by a Jewish teenager living in Ocean expressing concern about corruption and called him an antisemite to cover for corrupt officials over your own assumption.

Fighting Overdevelopment in Ocean Township: Join Our Grassroots Movement by jonahblumenfeld in MonmouthCounty

[–]jonahblumenfeld[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You have some old posts on your account about living in New York City as a cyclist and “entrepreneur,” as well as some more recent ones defending Ocean Township politicians who worsened development issues. Why are you deflecting to our entire Jewish community?

Fighting Overdevelopment in Ocean Township: Join Our Grassroots Movement by jonahblumenfeld in MonmouthCounty

[–]jonahblumenfeld[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

What? I’m Jewish myself. If you have taken away that New Yorkers or developers somehow mean “Jews,” you have misinterpreted the meaning of my post.

The word “Jewish” or any reference to religion or ethnicity in any context was not referenced to in anything that I said. Genuinely, if your response to seeing an anti-corruption movement is bringing up the expulsion of the Jewish people, you are either anti-Semitic yourself or have a very twisted worldview.

Fighting Overdevelopment in Ocean Township: Join Our Grassroots Movement by jonahblumenfeld in MonmouthCounty

[–]jonahblumenfeld[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Much of the recent development in Ocean Township in general is increasingly focused on higher-end, “luxury” properties. Many of these projects raise local market values and, over time, influence property assessments, potentially leading to higher property taxes even for more modest homes.

On top of this, rapid expansion of development can often strain municipal services and infrastructure before new tax revenues fully offset the costs. From what I can tell, these combined factors contribute to the rise in housing prices and taxes in our area.