Dear Editor,
Re: “Developer eyes luxury condos...for cars,” News, Sept. 20.
I guess if the super wealthy need boathouses for their yachts and hangers for their private aircraft, it stands to reason that they would also want places to house their luxury cars.
The new Hungerford Properties Trove development in Richmond will evidently provide what luxury car owners seem to desperately need, and why shouldn’t they be accommodated? After all, in a community where the growing disparity between the haves and the-have-nots is clearly evident in every neighbourhood and hard-working families are having an increasingly hard time finding, never mind affording, decent housing, we must ensure that every Lamborghini, Bugatti, and Ferrari has a warm and safe place to live.
Councillors Carol Day and Harold Steves, and Justin Fung of Housing Action for Local Taxpayers are correct in their critical analyses of the situation, particularly as they relate to the fact that we do not just see a disparity in levels of wealth and influence in this community but also in both basic values and concerns about how such disparities will eventually affect the character of our community.
Homeless people? Parents forced to raise families in rented 600 sq. ft. apartments (if they can find one)?
Not to worry — that poor Bugatti will soon have a very large, safe, and warm place to live. Comforting to know that our society has its priorities in correct order, isn’t it?
Ray Arnold
Richmond
