deport the illegals and like magic, no more housing shortage
Posted on 03/06/2016 9:18:16 AM PST by artichokegrower
The Sentinel has offered to let me publicly take responsibility for my recent building code violation. I appreciate that.
Until very recently, I have had a tenant in a small room behind my house. Renting out this unit was not permitted under the city’s Building Code. As someone making rules about housing, I should not have been breaking the rules. This was a mistake. I am sorry.
(Excerpt) Read more at santacruzsentinel.com ...
The housing crises is self imposed through overregulation.
It would be solved by the market if it were allowed.
“In my opinion, we have already lost enough housing to the rental inspection ordinance and a culture in which people commonly use anonymous complaints to free up on-street parking or “bring up the neighborhood.” Under the legitimate goal of providing “safe housing” we have created our local version of Bernie Sanders’ famous class divide. There are the homeless whose basic existence is not legal. There are the unpermitted tenants and their landlords whose activities are “not permitted.” And then there the “legal residents” of Santa Cruz, some of whom are a paycheck away from couch surfing while others are working two jobs and having to put their kids in day care. While I have taken leadership for some incremental changes to city housing ordinances that are positive, I very much doubt we have replaced a significant portion of the housing lost because of code enforcement.”
Apparently he agrees that these laws are abused to favor the wealthy in the guise of health and safety.
Some animals are more equal than others.
I thought the left didn’t want to know what goes on in our bedrooms
Santa Cruz City Councilman censured for illegal secondary residence
“I knew that a residence has to have a bathroom in it, but I felt like, I’m trying to live simply and I’m young enough to be able to walk outside when I have to go to the bathroom or use a jar,
Hate to be a neighbor
deport the illegals and like magic, no more housing shortage
I have been saying the same thing. If millions leave, rents are going down and prices will go down. It will also lead to more foreclosures. That is the downside.
bidness is bidness
May their houses rot.
Nooooo. That would be too logical.
not to mention racisss
Dam! I have lots of room in my backyard for a bunch of garden sheds. I should ask him how many will fit on 1/3 acre.
You could even go him one better and install a Port-a-Potty.You could probably charge another $100.00 a month.
Good idea! Lol
They have the same idiot mentality that infests most cities. If people can’t earn enough money to live somewhere they don’t go somewhere cheaper or figure out how to make more money. They make the government force a “living” wage. Of course the rules don’t apply to the people that make a city so expensive so they are free to rent out chicken coops and closet space to their Mexican servants.
Idiots. The lot of them.
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