We need some billionaires to build some of these tiny, private homes, on a minimum of 1 acre pieces, for Vets.
- For those that, by some miracle, have managed to get their benefits started, they could pay back ownership with a very low % mortgage rate. They would be empowered - a great step to rebuilding their lives. For those who are still being strung out for their benefits by the VA - let them live in the house while also funding a good attorney for them to go after the VA.
Once they get their benefits, they could also buy towards ownership...some could buy outright with back benefits award. .................
Our vets are committing suicide at the rate of 22-23 a DAY, FOLKS! And it isn't just from PTSD from horrors they experienced on the battlefield - BUT FROM THE TREATMENT OF THE VA.
The benefits are supposed to be ready when they separate from service. (the separation process goes on the last 6 months of a soldiers active service.) - then they would not end up homeless - and jobless (try to get a job when you have no address, no phone) -
They live from couch to couch, sleeping in cars, under overpasses, a shelter now and then.
Added to everything else, they fall into deep despondence with increasing lack of self worth. ... The gov't wouldn't let this happen to illegals or 'refugees'.
The gov't's excuse? "They have the VA"........ BUT NO ONE is making the VA step up. Vets are often waiting for their benefits after 3 years..............Picture where YOU would be with 3 years of NO INCOME. Be honest. with yourself. (Have you, at the least, called YOUR reps and demanded action for our vets?)
Not that this would do any good for years to come. ....the vets need help NOW - NOW, understand?
I have to say a big War Eagle to that.
Moved back to rural America. Bought one Victorian house for 12k, my mom bought the one next door for 20k (everyone thought she paid too much), bought a third across the street for 10k and a 3 story brick school for 10k. All in fine shape and fairly large and in good condition, low crime area, but its small town America.
1 acre is a lot of land to take care of, trust me if u come from row house philly it’s big, real big.
I’m a vet, if disabled and housing was what I needed I’d want condo type with no outside responsibilities
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The article contained a lot of words but none that couldn’t have been said in one paragraph. It never did explain why the houses were unique or show pictures. A whole lot of nothing.
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Good article.
Too bad it doesn’t include info on how to obtain a set of plans.
Ping.
ut are they to CODE?
Did you see the thing at the bottom about micro-apartments?
A grand a month, for “affordable” lower income units (which in NYC is $48K apparently) with 250-350 square foot.
Back in the 90s I was paying about $300 for maybe 600-700 square feet, a lawn with trees and detached garage in Abilene, Texas.
I don’t care if I won the lottery: you couldn’t pay me to live in a big city. The suburbs are bad enough: I’m actually kinda upset that the last local feed store is being gentrified into a feed store themed eatery.
Don’t try to build this in any city, you will never get a building permit.
Anywhere there is earthquake laws or storm damage laws, forget it.
Goofy.
Our vets are committing suicide at the rate of 22-23 a DAY, FOLKS! And it isn’t just from PTSD from horrors they experienced on the battlefield - BUT FROM THE TREATMENT OF THE VA.
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Most of the vets who make up that stat are not recent vets. Instead they are men who make up the largest cohort of suicides : Men over age 55. Vet or not, this is the largest suicide cohort. And many of those men from those generations were military.
$1 billion would build 50,000 of these things. At that scale you could probably build more.
This isn’t a $20k home. It’s a $20k house.
Building materials: $14k. That means the other $6k was labor costs, permits, and other misc expenses. Little bit of profit.
So now we just have the cost of the land. Which is going to be quite a bit more than just $20k, especially an entire acre in a neighborhood full of millionaires. There aren’t going to be $20k anything being sold in most nicer places, unless you go way out in the middle of nowhere. Land is generally the most expensive part of decent housing.
Instead of building a new home, they ended up "remodeling" the old home in order to avoid about $50k in impact fees.
The fees supposedly represent the costs to the county of building roads, building schools, building waste treatment plants, etc. If a person "remodels" an existing house, it is evidently presumed that the owner already contributed to the creation of these services.
Even while "remodeling", he was required to install a fire sprinkler system. I doubt that the $20k beauties described in this article have such a system.
The progressives running my county are convinced that every household must be able to afford a fire sprinkler system. These same people admire the efforts described in the article to create more affordable housing. This nonsense never ends and the hypocrisy of their position is never admitted.