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that's nothing new...I lived in east side San Jose in the '80s.. I was the only person on my street that hadn't turned the garage into living quarters for more family.......
Uh yeah...because real estate is extremely expensive. Rents are astronomical.
That only happens if a place is highly desirable.
You're defending 12 families to a house, and ignoring the fact that the area is overrun with illegals? Believe me, I see it in a neighboring county. The illegals invade a neighborhood, and because none of the adults even has a high school diploma, they need to bunch up with all their kids. The results are pretty bad.
that's nothing new...I lived in east side San Jose in the '80s.. I was the only person on my street that hadn't turned the garage into living quarters for more family.......
Exactly, this has been going on since the 80s.
Same thing in Long Beach people took a 2 floor house then rented out the top and garage so there were 3 families living in the property. Isn't this called "multi-family housing" now?
Just looked at the old house we had and it is now listed for 1.3M I think my parents bought it for 50k in 1972.
You're defending 12 families to a house, and ignoring the fact that the area is overrun with illegals? Believe me, I see it in a neighboring county. The illegals invade a neighborhood, and because none of the adults even has a high school diploma, they need to bunch up with all their kids. The results are pretty bad.
If they have several adults working in the house they pool their money so they can afford to pay rent. Unscrupulous landlords don't care just as long as the rent is paid.
Same thing in Long Beach people took a 2 floor house then rented out the top and garage so there were 3 families living in the property. Isn't this called "multi-family housing" now?
Just looked at the old house we had and it is now listed for 1.3M I think my parents bought it for 50k in 1972.
Most citizens don't live that way though unless they are from a culture who likes several generations living under one roof and/or to save money that way in the case of illegal aliens.
If they have several adults working in the house they pool their money so they can afford to pay rent. Unscrupulous landlords don't care just as long as the rent is paid.
Yup. That's exactly what's happening. And you know who it hurts the most? The older people, living in the house they bought decades ago, as they watch landlords swoop in and buy up homes and then rent them out to illegal aliens, 15 or more to a house. The county not only looks the other way, because the county is liberal and a sanctuary (thus, the illegals are encouraged to come in), now they - the liberal county council - has OK'd Additional Dwelling Units to be built in the back yard.
You're defending 12 families to a house, and ignoring the fact that the area is overrun with illegals? Believe me, I see it in a neighboring county. The illegals invade a neighborhood, and because none of the adults even has a high school diploma, they need to bunch up with all their kids. The results are pretty bad.
Illegals are not living in nice areas like Belmont Shores or Silverlake and there are plenty of multi-family houses there.
I can't believe you two are having this discussion without mentioning the liberal/socialist/communist structure of laws that have fostered high housing costs in those metro areas.
$289K for 448 sq ft. Really?? $645 per sq ft
Heck - you have to stuff five households into one just to make the cost comparable to most of the country.
The unrealistic rise in housing began in the late 70s and early 80s in CA. . . speculators saw the Gold Coast as the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. They started buying up property and quickly selling for a profit, that practice grew and grew until residents also jumped on board. Eventually one could buy and sell within a few days and reap a landfall.
Eventually the mortgage rates were so high that many could no longer afford them and tried to quickly sell, but it was too late by then and buyers didn't bite, and the speculators had already moved on.
At one point homeowners were walking into loan companies, dropping their house keys on the counter and just walking out without saying a word.
Many just wanted out of CA but they found that the wait list to rent a moving truck was 6 weeks or longer.
I lived there during that fiasco and saw it firsthand.
And now 40 years later you have it so completely out of whack that it will never return to the sanity it used to be.
Multiple families sharing an apartment is how most people settled in the US.
My husband’s parents legally immigrated to the US as a part of the Displaced Persons thing in Europe post WW2
They rented a room in an apartment, like most immigrants do. The single bath and kitchen was shared by all the families. Some split rooms to pack in even more people.
They saved until they were able to buy their own 3 flat. They lived in the basement with dirt floors while renting rooms in the 3 above grade units to immigrants.
Immigrants from all over the world have never had money and been doing this for hundreds of years. Only thing that has changed is that immigrant skin color tends to be a tad darker than European immigrants. And for some, this obviously matters.
Rooming houses persist in more rural areas. Barns and stables are often used to house unauthorized workers in agriculture areas.
Local zoning laws were eventually enacted in most places. This tended to create opportunities for payoffs more so than eliminating the practice of shared housing.
Well, you won't find this appalling situation in North Dakota.
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I think my parents bought it for 50k in 1972.
