State-Sanctioned Housing Coming to Small California Towns

Epoch Times ^ | 8/7/2023 | Rudy Blalock

[cgbg]

In the Northeast small towns have figured out the “secret”.

They refuse to fund town water and sewer.

Development of multi-family becomes economically impossible.

At this point the towns and the states are broke so they cannot even dream of funding such infrastructure.

[XRdsRev]

In New Jersey big developers sue small towns that have not achieved their affordable housing quotas. The remedy often allows the developer to build the affordable housing along with a significant number of market rate housing. It is a way that developers strong arm small towns into allowing large housing developments that they never wanted in the first place.

[Eva]

There is nothing in the new housing laws that requires the new residents to be currently living and working in the county. The new residents don’t even need to be citizens or have employment on a farm or Vinyard. They could be non-citizens, who wou;d like to work on a Vinyard and be a new member of the SEIU.

[Myrddin]

The occupants for this low income housing are streaming across the border and being shipped at taxpayer expense all over the US. My area of SE Idaho has an explosion of apartments being built. There was no demand for this growth and nowhere for the potential occupants to be gainfully employed. The occupants will be either independently wealthy retirees or government subsidized (think Section 8). I anticipate an explosion of layabouts to populate this unnecessary apartment infrastructure and to find "employment" in the form of property theft.

[Myrddin]

Around here it’s 5 or 6 cars per single family home in some *ahem* neighborhoods.

The house across the street from mine in San Diego was owned by a Vietnamese immigrant. He had a PhD in optics and was summoned to work in the Los Angeles area. That started a serial set of renters. At one point there were Vietnamese students renting the place with 17 cars parked all over the streets and front yard. They stopped paying rent and an eviction notice was issued. One morning they all moved out, then just after sunset I heard a massive crash of broken glass and a car speeding away. Every window was broken. The bathroom sinks were stoppered and water turned on to flood the house. Hammers were applied to bash holes in drywall of every room. The whole hit job was done in just under 5 minutes. Almost $30,000 in damage.

I sold my house in that neighborhood after 18 years. I had purchased it for $108k in 1983. It sold for $246k in Feb 2001. It has recently been on the market for $1.2M. While the upgrades are nice, they don't comport with the neighborhood. I wouldn't move back to the house for the original $108k today.

[Seaplaner]

Or Monterey or Pebble Beach?

[Grampa Dave]

There is nothing in the new housing laws that requires the new residents to be currently living and working in the county. The new residents don’t even need to be citizens or have employment on a farm or Vineyard. They could be non-citizens, who would like to work on a Vineyard.

Besides that reality, there was one where 10-20+ homes/families on a restricted cul de sac re: had no new housing units homes on that street for decades.

Now, anyone can build one to two so called mother in law units, ADU’s, usually behind the original homes with minimal B$, in about 6 months.

We have 2 recently newly built ADU’s on the end of our cul de sac with at least 4 young women living in the 2 units and at least 4 small vehicles.

[Eva]

There is a new stipulation to the units built for the homeless, though, one that is hidden in the fine print. The homeless units must remain in the care of the city to be used only for homeless, even if the property is sold.

I don’t get this, but people must get a credit toward their property taxes for building a homeless unit in their back yard.

[Eva]

I don’t sympathize with these idiots at all. They vote for this when they vote Democrat and they think that it is never going to affect them. Besides, I thought that most of the wineries in CA, had been converted to marijuana farms.

[TMD]

Gavin’s goal is to turn the state into an HOA, same for the country if he ever makes it to president. He’s a sleazy, slimy, champagne liberal.

[TMD]

We left the Bay Area because it’s turning into LA. Tearing down affordable 2 story apartment buildings and putting in multi-story, high density, mixed use buildings with no improvments to infrastructure. One hidden gem in these bills is that, if you can say you have a certain (small) % as affordable housing, you can bypass the local building/planning departments....also most of these places are getting built with only 1 parking space allocated per unit, the other slobs in your unit can just take public transportation! Har-de-har...

[tomkat]

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