Developers can be required to include affordable housing, California high court rules

Los Angeles Times ^ | June 15, 2015 | Maura Dolan, reporting from San Francisco

[SaxxonWoods]

“...or pay [blackmail] into a city fund.”

Edited for clarity.

[laker_dad]

Mayor Carmine De Pasto: Look, these parades you throw are very expensive. You using my police, my sanitation people, and my Oldsmobiles free of charge. So, if you mention extortion again, I’ll have your legs broken.

[notdownwidems]

I wonder about these justices opinions about providing free legal assistance as a condition of their elevation to the Supreme bench.

Great point! If we must have 'health-care' reform in America, I would say we also really need 'legal' reform...why is it that only the rich can afford the high-powered lawyers, while the poor get subsidized with free legal help? That leaves the middle class,as always, having to scrimp and save and do without in order to afford adequate legal representation when it is necessary. If I was king I would set an upper limit, say $50/hr, on what ambula-, uh, I mean lawyers, can charge their clients. Come on, fair is fair, right? Eff the 1%! /sarc (if necessary, you aren't really paying attention)

[circlecity]

I lived in a decent middle class housing addition that had some “affordable housing” doubles a few blocks down. You had to keep your car in the garage every single night. Any vehicle left in the driveway would be broken into and you stereo would be gone.

[Jewbacca]

This is pushed by elites who live in established rich neighborhoods. By making any new neighborhoods crappy, the price of their homes is artificially inflated.

[tbw2]

Mother in law suites become common, and an affordable housing for elderly people.

Servant’s quarters become affordable housing for working people, and even get added on to get the exemption for affordable housing.

Live-in nannies become a lower income resident.

More neighborhoods start authorizing the conversion of a four bedroom house into a mini-nursing home, three bedrooms for three to six old people, with another bedroom for the rotating turnover of staff.

Co-housing for older women sharing a residence becomes “affordable housing for old people”.

Son, girlfriend and their kid are turned into homeless people who are now tenants. (Don’t laugh, there are school districts classifying kids who live with Mom and grandparents as homeless, to get more revenue for high need populations.)

[V_TWIN]

HA! A movie that stands the test of time.

“My name’s Marion. People call me Mrs. Wormer.
Eric ‘Otter’ Stratton: Oh, we have a Dean Wormer at Faber.
Marion Wormer: How interesting. I have a husband named Dean Wormer at Faber. Still want to show me your cucumber?”

LOL

[glorgau]

This is a 3rd Ammendment issue.

Developers shouldn’t be required to house soldiers that are on the opposite side of the class war.

[CyberAnt]

THIS IS AGENDA 21.

IF YOU DON’T KNOW WHAT IT IS .. YOU BETTER FIND OUT BECAUSE IT’S COMING TO A NEIGHBORHOOD NEAR YOU.

THOSE WHO HAVE SCRIMPED AND SAVED TO PURCHASE THEIR DREAM HOME WILL BE VISITED BY A NEW APT BLDG - HOUSING THE DRUG DEALERS FROM THE NEIGHBORHOOD.

YOUR HOME’S VALUE WILL PLUMMET TO THE CELLER; YOU WILL HAVE TO STAY HIDDEN INSIDE YOUR HOUSE - UNLESS THEY START SHOOTING UP THE NEIGHBORHOOD - LIKE BALTIMORE - AND NOBODY WILL BE SAFE.

SOUNDS LOVELY ..!!!!

[Amendment10]

I don’t know the details of this issue. When people cannot afford a house anyway, there is seemingly nothing to stop wealthy people from buying the “discounted” homes.

[Real Cynic No More]

Is this the reason that I saw in the Seattle area so many developments of only 10 or so houses?

[zeugma]

Property rights. That's, like, so nineteenth century!

[Scrambler Bob]

affordable housing —

Sounds like Micro aggression.

Today, I am viewing everything through my MA (Micro....) lenses.

/s/s/s/s/s/s/s/s/ because you just can’t have too much /s

[Sgt_Schultze]

There is more an argument to be made for legal assistance than for medicine. The entire legal system is a creation of government. Government administrates and maintains it. To expect an individual American to pay big bucks to a private company to swim in government’s legal pond is preposterous.

[TexasFreeper2009]

quote “The law requires developers building 20 or more housing units to offer 15% at below-market rates or pay into a city fund.”

I predict a lot of builders who now build exactly 19 homes before changing the businesses name.

[dfwgator]

Back in the old days we used to call that EXTORTION.

"If you mention extortion again, I'll have your legs broken."

[dfwgator]

"There was living space for 13 families in this one house. "

[notdownwidems]

I totally agree!

[blackdog]

How odd?

If a home seller sells or rents a home to someone at a below market value, the IRS defines the spread as "imputed income" and you still owe the taxes on the difference. If I sell my house to Latricia for $200,000 and it's comparables value in at $300,000, I still owe gains taxes on the additional $100,000.

The same applies to rents. If I rent a property I own to my friend Bill for $500 per month but comparables go for $850, I have additional imputed income of the $350 spread.

The only exception is if you sell to your kids. The rent rule still applies even to your kids.

[setha]

The question is if they’ll:
* Follow the lead of New York City and partition it off in the same building.
* Make a separated affordable division that’s only part of it “on paper”.
* Mix the affordable and market housing with each other at random.
* Do something completely different.