Dave Chappelle Blackmailed Small Town into Cancelling Plans for Affordable Housing

The small village of Yellow Springs, Ohio recognized a need in their community. As inflation climbs each month, rental costs are spiking and that often leaves families working minimum wage jobs on the brink of homelessness. The cost of living has also disproportionately effected the disabled communities, most who can’t work, and families of color who experience discrimination across the board, especially when it comes to being hired for higher paying executive positions. Unfortunately, opportunities for growth and those elusive executive positions paying a livable wage aren’t very prominent in Yellow Springs, situated about 10 miles outside Dayton with a population of less than 4,000 citizens.

The village council drew up a 24 million dollar deal with a firm in order to build a 1.7 acre complex of affordable housing for the village’s more underprivileged communities. These townhouse apartments provide a much needed security net for people whose finances are extremely limited; In these spaces, you will find the elderly still capable of independent living, single mothers or fathers and their children, veterans of war who suffered injuries and can’t afford the ever-increasing rental costs of the most basic studio apartment, newly married couples who are experiencing financial difficulty and need a starter home… good people in need of something we all deserve. Stability.

However, Chappelle attended a local village council meeting this week and made a threat so profound that the Council immediately withdrew their plans to construct the affordable housing development. In the most pompous fashion possible, Chappelle took to the microphone and made only one brief, arrogant statement:

“I don’t know why the village council would be afraid of litigation from a 24 Million dollar a year company, while it kicks out a 65 million dollar a year company. I can’t believe you would make me audition for you. You look like clowns. I am not…