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Beverly Hills in Crisis as Judge Mandates New Affordable Housing: "People Are Furious"
MSN ^ | 02/15/2024 | Kevin Dolak

Posted on 02/16/2024 11:37:56 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27

For inhabitants of the country's most sought-after ZIP code, the unwelcome news came in December: In a move to pressure the city to zone for more affordable housing, a restrictive ruling by a Superior Court judge put a moratorium on Beverly Hills' right to approve any new home additions or project proposals by residents pending the approval of new homes for lower-income locals. In this ultra-exclusive community, where home remodeling is practically a sport, the notion that all renovations - from simple kitchen remodels to multimillion-dollar grotto installations - would require the ushering in of outsiders, or be delayed indefinitely, brought a particular unease.

That unease has turned to outrage for many living in the 5.71 square miles that make up the famed city, where rents and mortgages are more than double the national average. Following Superior Court Judge Curtis A. Kin's Dec. 23 ruling, the city now finds itself fully entrenched in a battle over what's become an urgent issue across many U.S. cities: the demand for significant and meaningful affordable housing projects. Many residents - already wary of the added foot traffic that will follow the opening of the Wilshire/Rodeo Metro station - just want the status quo to remain in Beverly Hills. Some argue that Beverly Hills simply does not have the space to accommodate any new housing at all - affordable or not.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: affordable; beverlyhill; california; californication; furious; housing
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Bahahahahahaha here come the tribes lol have fun with that


41 posted on 02/16/2024 1:01:13 PM PST by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Superior Court judges Soros own hundreds of them cheap and easy.


42 posted on 02/16/2024 1:06:40 PM PST by Vaduz
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To: DeplorablePaul
No space? No problem. The city should condemn several blocks of Hollywood mansions and take the land under eminent domain.

Good start. What the authorities could do is institute a maximun lot size so no one has more land than anyone else (after all, that would be fair). Then take seized parcels whcih are contiguous and build public housing, and for the smaller parcels allow mini-houses, RVs, tents, or a mix. We must have housing that reflects the community.

43 posted on 02/16/2024 1:12:53 PM PST by Robwin ( )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

This is what happens when fashionable, purely literary communisim becomes communism for real.

The Beautiful People had better watch out, because the next step will be confiscating living space for all those poor downtrodden criminals crossing the borders North and South.


44 posted on 02/16/2024 1:20:54 PM PST by OpusatFR
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To: Vaduz
Kin is a registered Republican

He's likely not MAGA, but maybe he's implementing Mencken's axiom

45 posted on 02/16/2024 1:20:58 PM PST by Sgt_Schultze (When your business model depends on slave labor, you're always going to need more slaves)
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To: Sgt_Schultze

Indeed


46 posted on 02/16/2024 1:26:59 PM PST by Vaduz
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To: 1of10

Judge just pull this outta his nether region?


47 posted on 02/16/2024 1:29:34 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Red Badger; Mark17

Is that the Bat Signal in the sky??


48 posted on 02/16/2024 1:31:05 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Sgt_Schultze

My favorite Mencken quote—and there are so many great ones:

“As democracy is perfected, the office [of president] represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people.

We move towards a lofty ideal.

On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”


49 posted on 02/16/2024 1:31:55 PM PST by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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To: cgbg

All together now...

That day was-—?


50 posted on 02/16/2024 1:35:28 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Red Badger
Come and listen to a story about man named Juan,
A poor Mexican, barely kept his family warm....................

Swimming pools, movie stars???

51 posted on 02/16/2024 1:42:17 PM PST by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF Captain & pilot. Both bitten by the aviation bug)
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To: DownInFlames

Reminds me of the Leftists in Martha’s Vinyard who used the National Guard to shoo away the illegal immigrants who wanted to stay there. Rich elites view them all as lesser humans.


52 posted on 02/16/2024 1:59:29 PM PST by MTBobcat (The “rank-and-file” are as corrupted as their leadership.)
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To: Elsie
Preperaion H

For those times when you just HAVE to be Democrat.

53 posted on 02/16/2024 2:01:49 PM PST by 1of10 (be vigilant , be strong, be safe, be 1 of 10 .)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Some argue that Beverly Hills simply does not have the space to accommodate any new housing at all - affordable or not.

Wroooong. Trailers, yes, trailers. You can put them on little bitty lots, on side yards, in alleys, behind the big houses, or even row upon row in parking lots or parks.


54 posted on 02/16/2024 2:25:14 PM PST by RetiredTexasVet (We used to be a Republic, we are now a Fascist Klepto-Thugocracy.)
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To: RetiredTexasVet

Every mansion could fit two illegal invaders per bedroom—no excuses.

If the mansion has ten bedrooms just think of it as a small village.

Lol.


55 posted on 02/16/2024 2:27:01 PM PST by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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To: Responsibility2nd
Job well done, LA!

(If you check the image, you won't see even one plastic straw.)

56 posted on 02/16/2024 3:22:26 PM PST by Seaplaner (Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never...in nothing, great or small...Winston ChurchIill)
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To: cgbg

If the illegals voted republican the Dems would’ve had troops on the border with shoot to kill orders.


57 posted on 02/16/2024 3:24:32 PM PST by Keyhopper (Indians had bad immigration laws)
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To: gov_bean_ counter

I remember the Marine Corps blankets too, my sister and I had them on our beds when we lived in California! We didn’t live far from Camp Pendleton Marine base. My dad was still in the Marines then, and he worked there!


58 posted on 02/16/2024 3:27:19 PM PST by dsutah
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To: ChicagoConservative27

embrace the suck you hollywierd twatwaffles !


59 posted on 02/16/2024 3:28:53 PM PST by redcatcherb412
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To: ChicagoConservative27

They love illegal aliens in Beverly Hills...All of the wealthy have house and yard servants...They love the cheap labor...Now they can live next door to them!!!

A win win.


60 posted on 02/16/2024 3:30:33 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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