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Me I love the country and having acres between me and my closest neighbor. I love having neighbors I know well and trust and aren't so hurting for cash that they will rob me if I go out of town. My neighbor actually has the keys to my house for when I am away. We all know each other and look out for one another. Better still, no smog, no smell of sewage or old garbage or any other foul smells you find in your typical city.
I like San Francisco. Very beautiful. I love beaches and the ocean as well. 4 more years and I will live where it never gets cold and uncrowded beaches are everywhere. LOL also in the country so I get the best of both worlds.
Low income housing unfortunately is a magnet for not only the poor, but the dishonest poor as well.
Sherman Hills Wilkes-barre Pa for example.... Every week another shooting, mugging, fight, drug raid,or name the crime. Property values surrounding the area have plummeted. I wish it were unique. I wish people living in low income projects appreciated the gift they are given. No doubt many do, unfortunately many don't.
If you treat people like people, you have better outcomes in low income areas than if you treat them like future thugs and criminals. We do a lot of the latter with our policies and systemic problems.
Landlords have taken 30k or nearly 10% of San Francisco's rental stock off market in order no to deal with the hassle of rent law. There's your progressivism at work folks.
Which of course increases the cost of rentals making it harmful to the poor..
Typical left wing policies and the results..
Well the problem is that SF refuses to get more housing built. That landlord feels unlucky because he isn't in one of those areas where the rent for a 2 bedroom increased from $2k in 2003 to $6k now.
The "affordable" moniker does not mean they are all studio apartments. In fact they can be any apartment on the property so long as the resident meets area median income standards for the size of the apartment. Local restrictions may go further.
So in my area a 3 bedroom 1669 sq ft apartment that rents for $1600/month at market rate rents for $980/month at an affordable rate to qualifying individuals and families. The maximum you can increase rent each renewal is 4%.
I am fine with that, I was just pointing out that in the article the developer wanted to be able to build efficiency apartments, which I am kind of against.
You did not realize where I was coming from. I was in now way insinuating Government wants to control my life (sans NSA). The insinuation was exactly what you are stating; Government wants control so those who hold office enjoy the little perks that come with setting up projects such as this.
There is absolutely no reason Government should take over this venture unless they enjoy the benefits of corruption.
This is always what it is about.
Where is the kickbacks for the politicians and the crony contracts for the builders in this?
There isn't any question and never has been. Liberals are about control, and nothing else.
Both Parties are for more control if it means more money in their pockets for their crony friends.
I notice how many on the "right" support Agenda 21 and don't even know it.
Agenda 21 is about Population Control, Sustainable Development and Resource Control.
You do all three of the above through monetary means via Foreign and Domestic Economic Policies.
The majority of American's have had their wages stagnant due to these policies which means less consumption of resources, and population control where they want them and many on the right are fine with less for the majority of American's.
Thing is, these policies will trickle up and effect them to unless you are in bed with the government or one of the top .5% calling the shots.
Leave it to clueless government goons in Portland, down here in LA and elsewhere to be the biggest impediment to the existence of REAL affordable housing.
Could be worse. Look how the liberty bonds got used for this in NY.
Goldman's Tax-Free Building Loan Makes LibertyBonds ...
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His company, Silverstein Properties Inc., received almost $3 billion through the Liberty Bond program to help redevelop the World Trade Center site. Goldman financed construction of its headquarters at 200 West St. with about $1.5 billion in Liberty Bond financing. Bank of America’s tower across from Bryant Park was financed with $650 million in Liberty Bonds.
Yes classic redevelopment at work.
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A decade after creation of the Liberty Bonds, there is still debate about what they were intended to accomplish. Richard Froehlich, the chief operating officer of the New York City Housing Development Corp., an agency created by the state legislature to fund affordable housing, says the bonds have helped foster residential life downtown.
“It’s becoming an interesting neighborhood,” he said.
The New York City Housing Development Corp. issued Liberty Bonds that helped create 3,396 residential units. Almost all of that housing is in high-end apartment buildings.
Two-bedroom apartments at 63 Wall Street and 90 West Street, financed with Liberty Bonds, are renting for $4,200 a month. Another building financed with the bonds, at 2 Gold Street, is renting three-bedroom units for $5,400 a month.
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“It was not a low-income community before and it’s not now,” he said. “When you think about it at the time when there was concern about just keeping life downtown, focusing on affordability wasn’t the right issue.”
Actually being on the left, I am all for monitoring and policing government to prevent corruption and to punish those that are being caught in corruption.
And who shall do this policing of government?
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