CA: Fourteen months later, housing bond barely dents housing crisis (Prop 46)

Sac Bee ^ | 1/25/04 | Jim Wasserman - AP

[NormsRevenge]

SACRAMENTO (AP) - When voters backed Proposition 46 in 2002, supporters told them it would boost an ailing economy, build an abundance of subsidized housing without raising taxes, keep children in school, senior citizens out of nursing homes and stop battered women from being turned away at domestic violence shelters.

[NormsRevenge]

Prop 46

[FormerACLUmember]

Socialized housing = expensive, dangerous slums of the worst sort.

[templar]

Affordable housing doesn't need more government to produce it, it needs less. Get rid of, or waiver, some of the ridiculously high fees, permits, taxes, etc on new housing and lower priced housing becomes viable. No one is going to spend 40,000+ dollars just to get a house permitted and then build a 100,000 dollar house. Tack the lost fees on upper end housing if the revenue is truly needed (someone building a $10,000,000 house won't be particularly hurt by an additional 200,000 in assorted fees), but shifting the costs of 'public' housing to home owners, of the lower priced housing (getting rid of many of the costs, both in money and social problems), would probably offset any lost revenue.

IMO and FWIW.

[CurlyDave]

Socialized housing = expensive, dangerous slums of the worst sort.

Amen to that!

And in the view of the bureaucrats, only more bureaucracy will solve any problem.

[Vigilanteman]

Ship in Sheriff Joe from Arizona. Give him the funds to put up one of his tent cities across the full length of the southern border. Give him the cops or guardsman to patrol and shut off the spigot of illegal aliens flowing in. Reduced demand for housing will give prices a chance to stabalize and supplies a chance to catch up. Every southern border county needs a Sheriff Joe.

[verity]

the nation's worst housing shortage

..or the nation's most excessive population....

[Axenolith]

Another excellent argument in favor of the maxim "If the proposition asks for, requires, or will borrow money vote NO on it"...

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Ship in Sheriff Joe from Arizona. Give him the funds to put up one of his tent cities across the full length of the southern border. Give him the cops or guardsman to patrol and shut off the spigot of illegal aliens flowing in. Reduced demand for housing will give prices a chance to stabalize and supplies a chance to catch up. Every southern border county needs a Sheriff Joe.

I like the idea!