This happened in Boulder, Colorado, several years ago. City land-use policies had literally halted the construction of new housing. Poor (and middle class) people could no longer afford to live there. So the city government decided to build a bunch of low-income “affordable” housing units in an attempt to lure poor people back to Boulder, at the expense of Boulder taxpayers. A classic lose-lose scenario, brought to you by squish-head liberals running a college town.
“City land-use policies had literally halted the construction of new housing.”
- That seems to be the case in many parts of the industrialized world.
Over here in Gothenburg, Sweden’s second largest city, local politicians have been extremely successful in preventing construction of new housing despite the fact that young people (not only from Somalia) are desperate to come here as we boast a very healthy business life and two large universities.
According to the local government, the construction of new houses threaten to increase global warming and so on.
Every nation deserves to feel pride, but none over its politicians.