California governor: We're not spending more on low-income housing because it's too expensive to build

Posted by $ nickursis 8 years, 3 months ago to Government
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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."

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  • Posted by $ Abaco 8 years, 2 months ago
    I'll refrain from making any political comments about the main actor here. But, let me tell you that the homeless population is exploding out here. All over this region near the state's capitol - if there is room to put up a hobo encampment it's been done. There are boxes and tents behind every freeway fence, under almost every overpass...it's everywhere. Some are living in their vehicles. Some have those mini sleeper trailers behind them. Those have obviously scraped together their last dimes to acquire such housing. Last time it was like this around here was about 2008. It looks worse now, actually.

    Looks like my business will be sold shortly. That money will be going to Nevada.
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  • Posted by $ nickursis 8 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I can understand specific safeguards for the environment, as mining is very messy. Set those rules in place, get one permit when ready to start, and go. But no, they have turned environmental protection into a cottage industry and revenue stream...
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  • Posted by Lucky 8 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    'Corruption costs are way up.' -ffa

    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...
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  • Posted by $ nickursis 8 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Exactly, also illustrates why Northern California wants to break from the rest of Kalifornia...
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  • Posted by $ nickursis 8 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    It does seem Kaliformnia is a magnet for it, and I think it is why the "state" continues it's total grip on the people.. they want more peasants to boost voting...
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  • Posted by $ nickursis 8 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Indeed, he is almost saying that... anyone who hold Kalifornia up as an example of "what we want" could just go to Columbia..
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  • Posted by $ nickursis 8 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    This is the same state that is wanting to secede,and cannot afford to house all the people who flock to the socialist mecca. It also is pretty damning for the fact it clearly shows how their socialist state has created and continues to create a rich class and a huge poor class, because of their overwhelming control and corruption. Scary example of why AR was so very, very right.
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  • Posted by $ CBJ 8 years, 3 months ago
    I kind of tuned out after reading "The state is building . . . "
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  • Posted by Seer 8 years, 3 months ago
    Didn't Rand write something similar in The Fountainhead? I always felt she based that project Roark designed on Soviet housing. And now it is just "too expensive".

    Modular and pre-manufactured housing is now too expensive? What happened?
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  • Posted by freedomforall 8 years, 3 months ago
    With that level of population growth, it sounds like there are a lot of statists that want to be told how to live. Perhaps it's the influx of illegal aliens who have never enjoyed liberty who are so willing.
    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?.
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  • Posted by Lucky 8 years, 3 months ago
    It is exactly the same here:
    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.
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