Housing issues key in city race

Journal-World ^ | March 13, 2003 | Chad Lawhorn

[starfish923]

"affordable housing." is housing whose cost has been shifted to other people to pay.

I didn't write this, but it's true.

Property values have gone through the roof in the desirable places to live. That is, California, for example. Prices are still relatively cheap in the less desirable places....COLD weather places.....to live.
Those who LIVE in cold places can't afford them because their wages are low, but the California folks have their PICK of cold places to buy in. Retired folks (as low as 55 years old) CAN buy homes......if they are willing to leave California and move to less friendly climates.

[hedgetrimmer]

I went to a planning department meeting in my county. The county was about to approve a cost shifted housing development on county owned land given to an NGO to manage. There were people from a pressure group giving testimony about cost shifted housing. Several were retirees from Texas who wanted to move to California and live on the coast, therefore they wanted the government to provide them with low cost(to them) housing. They got it.

So the people working in this county, especially the younger people starting families get hosed because they cannot afford to compete with the government when it comes to housing purchases,and they end up subsidizing these retirees homes through taxes and cost shifint,jeopardizing their own ability to purchase themselves.

[starfish923]

I went to a planning department meeting in my county. The county was about to approve a cost shifted housing development on county owned land given to an NGO to manage. There were people from a pressure group giving testimony about cost shifted housing. Several were retirees from Texas who wanted to move to California and live on the coast, therefore they wanted the government to provide them with low cost(to them) housing. They got it.

So the people working in this county, especially the younger people starting families get hosed because they cannot afford to compete with the government when it comes to housing purchases,and they end up subsidizing these retirees homes through taxes and cost shifint,jeopardizing their own ability to purchase themselves

Well, that sucks big time.

[hedgetrimmer]

This action is an unconstitutional usurpation of rights by the government. The government must grant equal rights, not special rights to seniors or anyone else. This also shows how the government intereference in the free market hurts everybody, because it violates the right to equal protection, and also sets up a sort of command economy in the housing market. The government commands cost shifted housing be built, then the next thing you know thats the only kind of housing they will permit to be built.

Its just wrong and very unAmerican.