Colorado Springs Housing Authority 2009 - Shawank! Not your father's "Housing Projects"

Self ^ | 16 Oct 2009 | William Burke

[LomanBill]

The Projects - Colorado Springs style

The Colorado Springs Housing Authority owns more than 350+ properties.

Observe the City wants to TRIPLE the property taxes of private property owners; while these City-owed rental properties are Tax-Exempt.

16-OCT-2009

El Paso County Parcel 6311110002

From the comments on this story [facade] propped up by the Colorado Springs Gazette

http://www.gazette.com/articles/city-63798-government-story.html

valueappraiser wrote:
wm25burke....
You mentioned multi-family community development....

Here is an example of just one of the city owned residential properties...7220 Austin Bluffs Parkway...80 units in 8 buildings on 4.08 acres. These units were constructed in the year 2000 and purchased new by the city housing authority. Purchase price is not indicated by the assessors record, nor does it say who constructed them. The assessor has the 2009 market value at over 5 million dollars, but, of course, no taxes are paid on this land or the improvements.

You can check this out for yourself on the El Paso County Assessor web site -

http://asr.elpasoco.com/

then click on "parcel record search" and enter schedule # 6311110002 in the appropriate box.

[LomanBill]

Sorry for the excerpt. Still trying to come up with a better way to publish a photo-blog.

Anyways, the Colorado Springs "government" wants to tripple our property taxes; using extortion and threats of Police and Fire cuts - while City Owned rental properties are tax exempt.

Tell the Mayor and City Council, if they want our Firemen and Policemen, to COME AND TAKE THEM, if they can!

NO on 2c !!

ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ!

[Paladin2]

Time to go Galt on the CS gov’t.

[LomanBill]

>>Time to go Galt on the CS gov’t.

“It is incumbent upon the honorable craftsman
to be aware of whether or not his services are being used
as a means to accomplish evil ends -
and to ACT accordingly.”

[dynachrome]

"Someone who owns a house worth $200,000 in downtown Colorado Springs pays about $945 annually in property taxes. Just $79 of the property tax bill goes to the city government, while $674 goes to Colorado Springs School District 11."

And I'll bet the schools are top notch!/sarc

[LomanBill]

>>And I'll bet the schools are top notch!/sarc

NOT.
Observe the work-product, of the world-view taught in those schools:



The writing on the sidewalk?
The names of American Soldiers who died in Afghanistan; scribbled in chalk on a sidewalk by "anti-war" protesters, and left to be pissed upon by dogs - with their "teacher's" approval.

Overnight someone came along and added "WIN THE WAR".

[LomanBill]

Pretty nice for public housing ehh?

[hinckley buzzard]

I had the pleasure of visiting Colorado Springs several times, the last being over thrity years ago. I remember the cog railway up Pike's Peak, and the Garden of the Gods, and the BROaDMOORE Hotel, a classy place to stay. I recall peaceful prosperous neighborhoods in the shadow of God's sand castles.It is a F*ing obscenity for this once fine American community to degenerate into liberal filth.

[dynachrome]

Guess I better quit working and get “disabled”.

Gubment cheese is good.

[dynachrome]

The Obozo/joker sticker shows up around town once in awhile.

[GeronL]

yep, the more they give to government... the more they have to take from others to pay for what they want and to replace the taxes from what they took.

Crazy people are in charge.

[LomanBill]

>>It is a F*ing obscenity for this once fine
>>American community to degenerate into liberal filth.

Yep. Down is up and up is down.

Our carpet-bagging mayor, like several on the city council, were all former “Military” officers.

Seems to me, given their craftsmanship, they’d be equally at home suckling from the tit of the Soviet Union.

No need for a Red-Dawn invasion. It’s an inside job...

...and the Fabians cover of fleece is thinning.

[Paladin2]

Almost as nice as the White House and the Naval Observatory VP Cheney House. ;-)

[LomanBill]

>>The Obozo/joker sticker shows up around town once in awhile.

Not enough.

Not a single “Yes on 2c” sign on that city housing authority property.

No signs at all, in fact; or flags.

Such expression is not allowed by the resident subjects/comrade citizens, I suppose.

Besides, the 1st amendment is “just a distraction”/s

[LomanBill]

>>Naval Observatory VP Cheney House.

Comrade Biden’s House, now.

[LomanBill]

Colorado Ping

[LomanBill]

>>Crazy people are in charge.

...and they’ve built their pyramid upside down.

When 51% of the population figures out they can vote themselves “Free Pie”...

SPLAT.

[r9etb]

Sorry, Bill ... but Mr. Bruce's little experiment has left the city in a serious fiscal crisis. When you have a city that's grown as fast as ours has, and revenues are not keeping pace, you're bound to end up in real trouble.

You seem to be suggesting that the city should pay taxes on its own property.... whose money would they use to pay those taxes? Yours and mine. Rather silly, when you think about it.

[r9etb]

Observe the work-product, of the world-view taught in those schools:

SO, Bill. Are you going to tell the fellow that that picture is of Acacia Park, and that the names were not actually written by the students of nearby Palmer HS? Or are you just going to keep lying about it?

[LomanBill]

>>When you have a city that’s grown as fast as ours has

Building empty properties to be rented by a government slum-lord does not constitute “Growing”.

>>You seem to be suggesting that the city
>>should pay taxes on its own property....

No, what I’m suggesting, comrade r9etb, is the city shouldn’t be in the rental property bidness... or any of the other “enterprise” monopolies it has its tentacles around.

Such mingling of mercantilism and government is beyond the specified scope of purpose for American government.

Perhaps you’re enjoying the Sovietization of Colorado Springs, comrade r9etb?

[LomanBill]

That it is Acacia Park should be self-evident to any Colorado Springs resident... and especially to any C.S. Tea Partier.

As to the student’s present or former enrollment in Palmer HS, I can’t say one way or the other.

Do you have special knowledge in this regard; chalk on your fingers, perhaps? Or are you just wine-ing again?