Posted on 03/26/2024 12:05:31 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
You’ve probably heard of the “Not In My Backyard” — or NIMBY — movement, but you might not be familiar with “Yes In My Backyard,” an approach that embraces affordable housing development in every community. We face a national housing crisis, and Americans cannot afford to turn a blind eye to the needs of our neighbors, ignore the problem or hope someone else will solve it. We need more YIMBYs.
As chair of the New Democrat Coalition’s Affordable Housing Task Force, I’m proud to lead our group of YIMBY Democrats in the House, and unveil the New Dems’ comprehensive Housing Action Plan to combat the growing inequity in the housing crisis.
The stakes are clear. We are short around 3 million homes across the country — a shortage that disproportionately affects lower-income families. In the working-class, suburban district I represent, we face a shortage of at least 55,000 homes, and almost 80,000 people in my district live on the brink of homelessness and in extreme poverty. But even the homes and apartments that are available are out of reach for most Americans; there is no state or county in the country where a renter working full-time at minimum wage can afford a two-bedroom apartment.
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Wait, are you saying 90 million illegals have housing problems?
Ya Don’t Say.
20,000,000+ illegal aliens need a place to live, and they will bid up the price of housing until the poor are out of a house and on the streets.
Minimum Wage is a starting point, not a lifestyle
Pluswhich, this is the rallying cry to bring Section 8 slums into your uoper middle class suburb.
Equity is a slum next door.
Here’s a better idea: deport every single illegal alien 👽 starting with Gyorgy Schwartz.
NJ is passing a law that will require EVERY neighborhood to allow garages, attics, basements and back yard structures to be used as apartments.
Rather than create new homeowners they cannot wait to destroy the middle class and all single family neighborhoods.
And of course these states are loaded with many millions of illegals.
Torres is only interested in More Mexicans in the USA.
It’s all they think about...more and more of Mi Raza, to take over the land which was OURS, Greengo! Say it loudly.
They have Los Angeles now, most of San Diego, Phoenix, Tucson, El Paso, San Antonio and Houston. Workin’ on Oakland, San Jose, Denver and even Salt Lake.
The great Brown Tide, comin’ to you...so open up Caspers. Let us build Favellas in your backyards.
Invite illegals into your home, and you can eat bugs together, in the cold and dark.
You do know it extends well beyond minimum wage right?
Depending on location, a renter of a 2BR likely needs to pull 100K.
“New Dems” = old commies
we now have the feds trying to do zoning. In Cal we already have the move to do away with racist suburbs by allowing up to four-plexes in single family neighborhoods. The state in Cal is taking over zoning from local government. If you live in a development with maybe a house on 1/4 acre Look down your street and imagine four-plexes on every other lot.
I think an excellent green solution would be to send every illegal around 100 miles south of Prudhoe Bay.
They could live off the land.
There used to be a Men’s clothing store(s) called Robert Taylor by us in Michigan.
Perhaps a small, regional chain?
Are the Robert Taylor homes nice too?
Robert Taylor homes were high rise scums in Chicago. All knocked down
From the article:
“there is no state or county in the country where a renter working full-time at minimum wage can afford a two-bedroom apartment.”
Government needs to butt out and let the marketplace work.
>>In the working-class, suburban district I represent, we face a shortage of at least 55,000 homes, and almost 80,000 people in my district live on the brink of homelessness
And how many of those 80,000 people has Rep. Torres personally taken in to her own homes?
Yup- that's pretty much the plan: move to get away from the ghetto and the government will bring the ghetto to you!
Or tax you out of your home and car and force you back into high-density tenements like your great-grandparents, all under Dem control and for the good of the children/planet/environment/social justice/pandemic preparation, whatever the current "emergency" or moral panic happens to be.
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