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If you had millions to spend on positive change in your local community / area, what would you spend it on? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
submitted 7 months ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
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[–] 6 points 7 months ago* (1 child)

That's not alot of money anymore.

Around me, the biggest issues are homelessness and drug use. Millions won't solve either but could put a bigger dent, long term, in the housing issue.

I think I'd build a bunch of low cost houses, in the sub $100k range if possible. They wouldn't be mansions by any stretch but it might put a dent in the housing market.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago*

    Yeah, to a modern urban government, millions are a pet project, it's when you start saying what portion of a billion it is that it's a real line item

    That said, to a rural government the mayor can break the finances of a town for years by buying new fire trucks before the old ones need replaced. At least according to a rural mayor I spoke to at a party years ago.

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