Posted on 03/02/2019 7:20:49 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist
Lololol. Liberal fools.
Human Rights Haiku: If You Have a Right / To the Labor I Provide / I Must Be Your Slave
I take it Oregon has stopped all increases in property tax, right? Wait, they haven’t? Nope, didn’t think so.
Of course, then people leave the state to find a house, they’ll be invading red states. Hmm, that’s one way of changing the voter base.
And the buildings go into foreclosure because the owners can’t pay the bills as taxes increase on property and maintenance costs.
“It’s my understanding the individual states had a system very much like the national Electoral College until it was struck down by SCOTUS in the 1960s. In that way the large cities couldn’t dominate the rural counties.”
They actually almost all had bicameral legislatures modeled after the US Congress. Then the SCOTUS said it was illegal to have a State Senate that was apportioned on the basis of territory, and not population. So here in California, we now have a State Assembly with 80 members and a state Senate with 40 members and each Senate seat encompasses two Assembly seats. The net effect of the ruling “one man, one vote” was to further concentrate political power in the major population centers. And here, with the Census not differentiating between citizens and non-citizens the districts were further skewed in favor of places like Los Angeles where one third to one half of the residents are illegals, who were, nonetheless, counted as citizens for the purpose of redistricting. Statistics show if Los Angeles County was apportioned legislative seats based solely on citizens, it would loose as many as 6 US House seats. Ditto for the State Assembly and Senate. The RATS and their $hitball Leftist judges have really done a job on our Republic, and we can only hope that the “new,” Constitutional SCOTUS will “allow” Trump to spit the Census next year, so that the 2020 redistricting will eliminate the illegal from the process. What they have done to our Legislative system, is probably the most damaging effect of their being here. California, if you look at is on a land area basis is Conservative, but with 10 million illegals living in Los Angeles and the surrounding counties, there is such a concentration of RAT power, that they cannot be overcome by the people who live elsewhere in the state. Even the SF Bay Area, doesn’t have enough illegals to have the kind of effect that SoCal does.
The state of Oregon apparently has more fools per capita than previously known. Ignorance of basic economics and the law of supply and demand is now the standard for being a liberal democrat. That, and opposing life in the womb.
As has already been said in this thread, this will not end well for anyone in Oregon.
.…...when Marxist/Leninist/socialists in Oregon gather at their corner Starbucks, CONTROLLING the RENT that Leftists pay is a thrilling and even orgasmic conversation for the little self loathing waifs to have. Has been for a long time.
And then one day, one of them happened to get elected governor.
We are talking about a wall on the southern border can we just fence in the west coast and be done with them
Stalinesque housing.
An old shopping center near me was razed and after 3 years of waiting and construction dust and noise the places are now uniform green painted cinder block looking “condos and apartments”. A local newspaper online comment said “they look like Eastern European communist housing in the 1950s.”
You are onto something, I fear.
P.S. Your homepage is one of the best on FR. Superb.
What a great year 1946 must have been: you, me and Donald J. Trump born then.
AOC to Alcatraz. Ok. As long as we all pay her the trade mark fee we’re ok. You are paid up, aren’t you? She takes most credit cards unless you have had a purchase on your hacked spending involving the NRA or a licensed gun dealer. Then no dice.
I like “Ocasio” but I never got it to catch on.
Would much prefer this scenario-— “You remember her? No. She was the loudmouth young one with the bugged out eyes and big front teeth who tried to get us to go socialist. Oh, yeah. The History channel mentioned her recently. Forgot all about her.”
Very insightful.
You have a lot more facts than I to back you up.
When I said “no one needs to debate this” I should have said “AOC,Pelosi,Schumer and Bernie will not permit us to debate this.” Racist sounding debate, you know.
**AOC to Alcatraz. Ok. As long as we all pay her the trade mark fee we’re ok.**
Ok, I’ll add an ‘o’: Alocatraz
Ok. We don’t owe the little hag a cent. Good work.
To all who missed your homepage, your screen name (which is Tzuri’el (transliterated) in Hebrew means
“God is my rock” means this person turns to God as their sanctuary or stronghold or foundation. Someone who bears this name is someone who depends or leans on God.
This is something we all need to do at this moment in American history.
He was chief of the family of the Merarites ( Numbers 3:35 ) at the time of the Exodus.
“The homelessness is caused by NIMBYism from elites, subsidization from housing vouchers, and local/state zoning laws that prohibit where builders can build or what specifications they have to meet.”
Um, not exactly. You’re obviously not familiar with Oregon’s horrible land-use problems.
Homelessness on the left coast is a complex problem driven mostly by a combination of sanctuary BS and accommodating cities (Portland is but one example). High rents are another major contributing factor due to the cost of real estate (there’s not much profit in a rental in this state), in part caused by the high cost of development, but driven largely by the urban growth boundaries (UGB) which have artificially driven up prices.
The other major factor is the push for high density housing to squeeze more tax base in a city (Portland, now Eugene as well) with no more open land. This is accomplished by a combination of demolition of older houses with replacement by limited parking apartment buildings and splitting of large residential lots. On the latter they are building these ridiculous 15 foot wide “narrow” (skinny) houses with a garage making up most of the first floor. In short, 1,500 square feet, 2-bedroom homes on 1/16th-acre lots with market value of $220-250k. Add $100k for the “Living Smart” label (look it up).
ADUs (auxiliary dwelling units) are another creation to expand the tax base, permitting homeowners to take on tenants (and relatives) and later be sold as separate properties.
Another factor is the huge increase in home size over the last 50 years, now contributing to a lack of affordability in a city where an 800 sq foot remodeled older home can fetch nearly a half million on the market.
Calculate rent for that one based on mortgage payments and you see the problem.
Don’t get me started on the real estate market and other related factors (they all contribute).
Most people not from this region fail to understand that Washington & Oregon have been overrun by Californians. Seattle first adopts BS California policies, then Portland, then smaller cities.
Furthermore, the condominium process varies greatly by state. In Oregon, it’s controlled at the state level. In San Francisco, condo conversions are strictly-controlled. In Portland - at a minimum - the proffered benefit of condos creating more affordable homes has proven to be fantasy due to market conditions which, ironically, circle back to the UGB problem.
For example, in 2008 median home values had ballooned by 89% in merely 8 years while median income only grew 22%; the problem is rather obvious. The so-called “Living Smart Program” was an abysmal failure to provide affordable homes and now “tiny home communities” are being considered not for the homeless or those on public assistance, but for the working poor. New high-density apartment buildings have no accommodation for all tenants to own cars and have a parking place. Most people haven’t a clue how bad it is in Portland and it’s spreading to other cities.
Shit runs downhill; given that Oregon has a dem supermajority in the legislature and Portland runs the state, Portland emulates the disaster in Seattle and Salem just votes “yes.” I’m surprised that rent control came first to Oregon, but Oregon’s major cities (Portland, mostly) created this problem and common sense on anything whatsoever in this state is out the window.
IOW, IMHO you ain’t seen nothin’ yet.
Note: The link is a “skinny houses” reference. The “tiny homes” are much, much smaller.
https://ti.org/antiplanner/?p=1194
Yep. Dittos from a fellow resident. See my other comment in this thread.
That’s what happened in Newark NJ; the city ended up as the owner of run-down homes, and couldn’t maintain them. Detroit must have had the same issue.
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