Does the City of Columbia need a new department for affordable housing?

Asked by ABC 17 News

330 Votes

Does the City of Columbia need a new department for affordable housing?

41%

Yes Yes

59%

No No

41%

Yes

5 Comments

Jeremy Yelvington

As someone on disability finding affordable housing is one of the most difficult things I face in columbia.

Christopher Watson

I hear you, if the rent raises again I might find myself homeless, it;s pretty dumb now for a 6+ decades old 2/br trailor.

Robert Cone

If one drives virtually anywhere in Columbia you will see numerous people at intersections with signs requesting help. My wife works in mental health and she is inundated with people coming in for assistance. Ask anyone working in the mental health field & they will tell you the same thing.

Max DeYoung

Beggars have existed in human society since the dawn of recorded history. It's not climate change.

Pam Lee

Rent has increased exponentially and wages have not kept up.

Connie Ordway

We need a task force that's going to address affordable housing in Columbia.

Shane H

Rent is out of control. Without local common sense legislation and regulation-- more people will become homeless

Max DeYoung

NYC, is in the process, of doing away with rent control. It destroys cities.

59%

No

4 Comments

Will Mason

Government is what is making housing expensive. Want less expensive housing? Get Government out of the way.

Max DeYoung

The property owners, are being inundated with tax increases, and higher costs, to maintain the properties, too. The government, is doing nothing to help them.

Toasty

If you want to see what happens when government decides to help the homeless with your tax money, take a look at California. Disguise it with 'affordable housing', and steal billions of tax dollars. Then keep raising taxes to 'help' those who have no desire to help themselves.

Doug Royal

If you want houses to be cheaper, build more houses (make it easier for developers to build houses).

Should the U.S. military step up operations in Venezuela or pull back?

Asked by ABC 17 News

283 Votes

Should the U.S. military step up operations in Venezuela or pull back?

35%

Step it up Step it up

65%

We should stop We should stop

35%

Step it up

2 Comments

Eric Smith

What the do on their soil, is their business, but once their drugs are out on boats in the big beautiful Gulf of America, blow them out of the water.

Max

We have plenty of drugs as it is.

65%

We should stop

1 Comment

Toasty

We're not the world's police and we executed those people in cold blood. If Venezuela wants to kill its citizens without proof and without a trial, then leave the US out of it.

Max

Venezuela is helping the companies that make Narcan.

What do you think of demolishing part of the White House to build a ballroom?

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471 Votes

What do you think of demolishing part of the White House to build a ballroom?

40%

It doesn't bother me It doesn't bother me

60%

I don't like it I don't like it

40%

It doesn't bother me

4 Comments

Carol Backe

I think if it were Obama, nothing would be said about it. I think just because it’s President Trump there is the hate that some have for him. Not this much controversy when all the other changes were done by other presidents. None of this is costing taxpayers as it has in the past.

Fred

Please provide an example of such an expansive change ... this ballroom is likely to turn out to be larger than the White House itself! I don't doubt we'll see a TRUMP sign on it before it is finished!

Max

Trump is improving the White House, and he is using private funding to do that.

Fred

Right ... "private funding" in exchange for pardons and other favors. The more accurate description is BRIBES.

Kenneth Young

Separation of the rich and poor is getting wider. I was never invited to watch a movie in the movie room just like I'll never be invited to any dances.....I think we'd be better off if they tore down the west wing

Eric Smith

Big Beautiful White House

60%

I don't like it

2 Comments

Chris Macy

STOP THIS MANIAC!!!

Kelly Branstetter

It's history, it's respect and honor, the ballroom was never approved and the drawings show it overshadowing the White House itself. Awful

ABC 17 News

Does the City of Columbia need a new department for affordable housing?

41% Yes Yes

59% No No

41% Yes

59% No

Should the U.S. military step up operations in Venezuela or pull back?

35% Step it up Step it up

65% We should stop We should stop

35% Step it up

65% We should stop

What do you think of demolishing part of the White House to build a ballroom?

40% It doesn't bother me It doesn't bother me

60% I don't like it I don't like it

40% It doesn't bother me

60% I don't like it

41%

Yes Yes

59%

No No

41%

Yes

59%

No

35%

Step it up Step it up

65%

We should stop We should stop

35%

Step it up

65%

We should stop

40%

It doesn't bother me It doesn't bother me

60%

I don't like it I don't like it

40%

It doesn't bother me

60%

I don't like it