Posted on 12/23/2007 12:43:58 AM PST by bruinbirdman
"Many Vietnamese Americans from California ... have flocked to Houston, lured by cheap real estate, a lower cost of living, bountiful business opportunities and a thriving, growing Vietnamese community," The Los Angeles Times reports. "Houston offers a slice of the American Dream to Vietnamese Americans who couldn't find it in California. In San Jose and Orange County, home to the country's largest Vietnamese enclaves, skyrocketing rents and staggering housing prices -- even in a down market -- have become too much for some."
In the policy analysis "The Planning Tax: The Case Against Regional Growth-Management Planning," Cato senior fellow Randal O'Toole writes: "As the heart of the nation's booming high-tech industry, San Jose could have grown much faster than it has in the last three, but its growth was inhibited by a growth-management plan approved in 1974. During the 1970s and 1980s it grew by only 20,000 people per year. Growth contracted to 10,000 people per year in the 1990s and less than 8,000 people per year to date since 2000.
"Georgia and Texas show that homebuilders can readily meet just about any demand for housing without driving up prices, provided they can find land for development. ... The effects of denying homebuilders access to such developable land appears to be an almost relentless upward push of housing prices."
There are zillions of federal acres of DESERT in Nevada and the feds sell a few piddly acres a year for millions.
Can you define quality? Quality Affordable Housing (public housing) must have free cable and be near free schools and free clinics...
Cool! Let Katrinaville continue to be a parasite magnet.
Houston PING
I’m glad to see that the study mentions Atlanta and Texas in the same breath. I’m a life-long Atlantan, and I’ve only visited Houston briefly a couple times, but in that brief exposure no city reminds me of Atlanta more than Houston does. Both are sprawling Southern cities. Both have a downtown skyline mostly built since the 1970s. Both have low housing costs supported by cheap real estate in the surrounding area — if land gets too expensive, you can always move farther out.
On what basis do you call Vietnamese immigrants "parasites?" There are, of course, exceptions, but I can't think of a harder-working immigrant community in the country. The core of the Vietnamese-American community is formed by folks who supported the United States thirty-plus years ago, and who fled their country fearing reprisals.
Don't lump all immigrants into the same category. That's just playing into the hands of the La Raza types who claim conservatives are latter-day Know-Nothings.
There's a large population of Vietnamese people in Cockeysville, MD. They are among the hardest working people I've ever met.
Their children are very well disciplined and they excel in school. Many are valedictorians. Many I knew got into the best universities with academic scholarships.
They sure will take care of any stray dog problems in a hurry.
I’ll take a few cheap acres on a Corps of Engineers lake in SW Virginia—any lake will do as long as it has good fishing.
You can buy your own mini-ranch for what I see people paying in other parts of the country for less than a 1000 sq ft.
May I politely suggest - go soak your ignorant head
There kids seem to do very well in school and some are tutors. Not all. This seems to be the general impression I have from being in a neighborhood that had Vietnamese in it.
They’ll have to compete with all the Katrina “victims” for low cost housing.
We don't hear much about the Katrina victims here in Houston anymore. My take is that they ceased to be a problem around about the same time the federal money ran out.
Hard working intelligent people are leaving California.
Amazing.
They’ll have to compete with all the Katrina “victims” for low cost housing.
$65/sq ft.
One can find many 4-5 br 2000+ sq ft homes for just <$120.
I think those New Orleans gangsters ceased to be a problem immediately upon entering jail for their many offenses against civilized society into which Texas forbids they ever reemerge.
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