[RJL]

"I will guarantee you that if there was any effort to provide affordable housing, through higher density, there would be a (housing) rush like you wouldn't believe," he (Perata) said.

What a guy!

He could invest his own money in high density affordable housing and become rich overnight, but instead he continues to plug away for all of California for a salary.

/sarcasm

[goldstategop]

I'll propose a deal with Perata: the libs in the Bay Area can have state-controlled housing if we get a spending limit cap constitutional amendment. In other words, the libs get they want and we get what we want. Since he's a wheeler-dealer, it should save us a bloody fight in the State Legislature over spending reform.

[hedgetrimmer]

"I will guarantee you that if there was any effort to provide affordable housing cost shifted is the correct term, through higher density, there would be a (housing) rush like you wouldn't believe," he (Perata) said.

Every one of the smart growth affordable homes require that someone else buying into the development pay more that than their home is worth to shift the cost from the so called low invome buyer to someone else "who can afford it". It is classic wealth redistribution, soviet style, from each according to his ability, to each according to his need.

The smart growth planners and politicians talk about housing needs all the time, and they mean to each according to his need when they say it.