Posted on 02/09/2023 3:09:43 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
On Jan. 30, the affluent town of Hillsborough held a city council meeting to discuss its floundering housing element plan. The plan, which lays out how towns and neighborhoods will meet state-mandated housing targets within eight years, was supposed to be submitted to California’s Department of Housing and Community Development by Feb. 1.
It wasn’t. And it remains in limbo more than a week later. More troublingly, a Hillsborough resident proposed a loophole that’s been popping up in other affluent Bay Area towns trying to meet their housing requirements: build a segregated development specifically for developmentally disabled adults, thus preventing a potential influx of other unwanted “low-income” neighbors.
Hillsborough is required to zone for 554 units of additional housing by 2031, a portion of which must be “affordable” based on the area’s median income. As is the case with many ultra-wealthy neighborhoods, Hillsborough residents and local politicians have expressed skittishness at city council meetings about absorbing residents whose income levels are categorized as “very low” for the area. (In Hillsborough’s case, “very low” is considered $87,000 a year for a family of four.)
“It is frustrating to see public entities use housing for people with certain types of disabilities as a way to circumvent housing element objectives and oppress other populations they perceive to be less desirable for their community,” Michelle Uzeta, senior counsel at Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund, wrote in an email to SFGATE. “These types of affluent communities routinely oppose housing for people with mental health disabilities and people recovering from addiction.”
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Do the longterm math. If low income is $87,000 today... Once you let them in now the number goes down so tomorrow it’s $85,000...rinse and repeat until the city is nothing but poor people.
72% of Hillsborough residents voted for Joe Biden in 2020. But limousine liberals don’t want the unwashed rabble moving into their ‘hoods.
“meet their housing requirements”
State Communists beavering away to make sure nobody can live in a nice neighborhood. They already got a law passed you can demolish your nice little 1950s or 1960s ranch house on a quarter acre, put up TWO HUGE houses in its place, AND put one mother-in-law unit behind each new house. So you go from one family on a quarter acre lot to FOUR families there. The developers are salivating over this.
Our little town on the peninsula has been wrecked by these “fair share housing requirements.” The sleepy little First Street with its post-war single story buildings is now a Grand Canyon of huge buildings pushed right up to the sidewalk.
Liberals love to CRAM as many people as possible into areas, make sure nobody can have anything nice, and totally ruin the quality of life for people who have been living there for decades.
Fricken lefists. Want to force responsible, normal working citizens to ruin their own neighborhoods with gangs, drugs and homeless down everyone’s throat right up to the moment it might, possibly affect them.
It’s a clever though cynical angle. At least developmentally disabled people would live is good areas.
Gentlemen... For that reason alone don’t you think we should be advocates for higher taxes on the rich? Use your heads. Ou leadership doesn’t.
I’m coming around to that way of thinking.
But here’s the problem. The rich will always have loopholes to get out of it, so who gets soaked? The middle class, as always.
Well, A**hole, in the old days you could just move to a better neighborhood. Now they want bring the bad hood to you!
Let’s see... John Kerry(who served in Viet Nam) parked his $million yacht in RI. Then there’s Bono. Something about taxes. Let’s just continue being chumps. MTG and the forehead model in Florida will do the job. No need for help. Robert in Co. is on measured time.
A classic case of cognitive dissonance. They would vote for a dog turd as long as it was a Democrat.
Don’t give a crap. I hope they drown in drugs and sidewalk poop.
Just declare every Democrats personal residence to be a sanctuary home for the homeless. Problem solved!
It’s Bobert in Colorado. We can’t afford to lose her. Came close. Who’s up for the fight? She’s worth it.
The rich suburbs of Westchester and North Jersey are all liberal and woke until it comes to redrawing school districts or building low income housing. Then they turn into a more genteel version of George Wallace. 😂
Yep, classic white liberal NIMBY reaction.
No, what's frustrating is collectivist state legislators who thing Soviet central planning is not only allowed, but a good thing. However, I'll bet Hillsborough residents vote overwhelmingly for Dem state legislators, so my objection is principled and not out of sympathy for their plight.
OKAY! Now put that high speed rail down the center of that city.
Illegal alien buses on the way?
The communists and idiots who promote these ridiculous schemes usually don’t plan to be hurt by them. Moving a few thousand drug addicted “homeless” in will be their perfect karma.
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