Posted on 06/15/2015 11:16:52 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
The California Supreme Court decided unanimously Monday that cities and counties may require developers to provide below-market-rate housing as a condition of a building permit......
Monday's decision stemmed from a constitutional challenge of an affordable housing ordinance passed in San Jose five years ago.....
The law requires developers building 20 or more housing units to offer 15% at below-market rates or pay into a city fund.
.........“The community as a whole should bear the burden of furthering this interest, not merely some segment of the community.”
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
California deserves to go broke.
...or pay into a city fund.
Socialism, now mandated by law...
California remains nucking futz.
“or pay into a city fund.”
Back in the old days we used to call that EXTORTION.
The more I see the way the American Liberal Welfare State works, the more I realize that Communists had it all wrong. Allow the rich and productive to work and, technically, earn more than the poor and middle class, just take everything from them and force them to do government’s bidding on their own dime. Keep the scheme going until the last productive person collapses under the weight of the burden.
No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.
The article says that 15% of the units must be offered at a lower than market rate (or a compensating payment to the city must be made). What it doesn’t say is how much lower than market rate—20% is significant, 50% is humongous, anything more is a nearly complete giveaway.
Easy enough...build 19 housing units or do the smart thing and get out of California.
So then build in multiples of 19..............
I wonder about these justices opinions about providing free legal assistance as a condition of their elevation to the Supreme bench.
The developers will have to put this cost into the price of their other units...middle class gets hit again. Limo-libs still untouched.
OK, split the land into multiple 15-unit parcels, sell each to different corporate entities, and develop 15 units at a time.
Hey, wasn’t that phrase written by old white, slave-owning men? That means it doesn’t really have any weight in today’s society.
Servant quarters.
Then they'll call that structuring.
-PJ
every mansion in Hollyweird is required to take in a few ghetto families...
“California deserves to go broke.”
Those of us conservatives who live here keep hoping it will because there is no way back to stability without California going under.
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