California governor: We're not spending more on low-income housing because it's too expensive to build
Wait a minute, this is the same state that has huge taxes, and is a mecca of "enlightened living", a model of "eco sensitivity" and "kindness to all" yet it has the highest number of homeless? Wow, I thought they had all migrated north to the Peoples Republic of Portland. Proof of the fact, government intrusion does not bring anything but more government, and then collapse...
"The state is building at least 100,000 fewer units a year than it needs to to keep pace with population growth, according to a Brown-administration report released last week , and the lowest-income residents are the most squeezed. One-third of the California renters spend more than half their income on housing, and the state’s homeless population is dramatically higher than the rest of the country."
"The state is building at least 100,000 fewer units a year than it needs to to keep pace with population growth, according to a Brown-administration report released last week , and the lowest-income residents are the most squeezed. One-third of the California renters spend more than half their income on housing, and the state’s homeless population is dramatically higher than the rest of the country."
Looks like my business will be sold shortly. That money will be going to Nevada.
Nonetheless, I saw a perfect plan last week while "at home" in Minnesota. The next generation of ice fishing structures - they used to be junky plywood shanties designed to be pulled out on the ice with a snowmobile on skids. No more! Now they use a cargo trailer frame and build what kind of looks like a "little house" on TV, with a propane system, toilet, cooking facilities, a single cot/bed, etc. The trap doors (for fishing rod & gear) could even be omitted or maybe kept as a place to dump the stash in a hurry. These things go for about $8,000, and are obviously winterized. I saw we line them up. Much cheaper than the $150,000 a unit in some high rise that will give them no incentive to move-up in life.
Even the luxury models would be 1/6 of what Moonbeam thinks we have to spend (for probably the same square footage).
http://iceforts.com/fish-houses/for-s...
Modular and pre-manufactured housing is now too expensive? What happened?
Many a true word spoken in jest. -old proverb
The Roy Hill monster iron-ore mine in Australia's north
had to get 4000 approvals, permits and licenses
before construction could start.
$10B project, 55 MT per year, 2000 full time people, estimated $17B+ in taxes and royalties over a 30-year life, but the bureaucrats dictate that this extraordinary amount of regulation must be met upfront.
www.andev-project.org/northern-develo...
Clearly an example of the gov's deranged mind. How can he provide incentives when he has none to give? A little too much THC perhaps?
More environmental health gender minority safety .. regulations.
Therefore more paperwork which only the big construction companies can handle.
These companies have close agreements with the big militant unions.
When work starts there is the routine industrial action (as it is called here, elsewhere called strikes).
No one benefits, except the union leaders, but it shows who is boss.
When a few of those homes eventually get built the occupants are typical representatives,
not of the low-income, but of the groups currently in fashion for getting favors.
Could it be that lost jobs are causing more people to be classified as "low income" and the governor is a Galt Damned lying looter?.