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Would YOU let a homeless person live in your backyard? Portland offers residents free tiny homes...
Daily Mail UK ^ | 03/19/2017 | By Associated Press and Jordan Gass-Poore

Posted on 03/19/2017 9:22:14 AM PDT by nhwingut

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To: Freedom_Is_Not_Free

no. I would not .. the government will mandate $hit just like they do with the “section8” housing. eff them.


41 posted on 03/19/2017 9:58:13 AM PDT by davidb56
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To: nhwingut

No forward thinking.
Law of unintended consequences.
NIMBY
Follow the money.
No good deed will go unpunished.
I feel soooo good about somebody else doing this.


42 posted on 03/19/2017 9:58:13 AM PDT by super7man (Madam Defarge, knitting, knitting, always knitting)
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To: nhwingut

Wait until the county starts these “homes” at fair market value. How much, you ask? Another Freeper reconed it up to be about $91,000 per hooch. Aside from some crony libtards getting a purse full from the government for building these places, the government will get the money back from the taxpayer while the homeless are free to roam the backyards and raid the big house when the taxpayers are away. I l;ove it when these bums are playing with other leftists money.


43 posted on 03/19/2017 9:58:46 AM PDT by Lion Den Dan
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To: nhwingut

aw they won’t be homeless for long..how long does it take someone to trip and fall on your property and sue?


44 posted on 03/19/2017 10:01:00 AM PDT by camle (keep an open mind and someone will fill it full of something for you)
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To: nhwingut

BUMS


45 posted on 03/19/2017 10:01:34 AM PDT by onedoug
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To: jsanders2001
It's called "greed".

Oh really? Tell us more.

46 posted on 03/19/2017 10:02:54 AM PDT by gogeo (When your life is based on a false premise...you are indeed insane.)
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To: nhwingut

$90,000 for what amounts to a tool shed. Only government can find a way to waste so much money so quickly.


47 posted on 03/19/2017 10:03:03 AM PDT by Flick Lives (Depth charge the Deep State)
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To: StAntKnee

But many people would offer such a place to a family member in need, a temporary shelter for someone referred from their church, a pregnant teenager who needs a temporary place to stay, a family member who a place to recuperate after surgery or illness, a recent widow or widower who wants time away from their home for a few days or weeks.

Families and communities used to provide these things and they didn’t need to be legislated.


48 posted on 03/19/2017 10:04:16 AM PDT by Lorianne
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To: Joe 6-pack

If the homeless person is a “tenant” in a city that makes it darn near impossible to evict them, once in, they’ll never have to leave.


49 posted on 03/19/2017 10:04:46 AM PDT by tbw2
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To: StAntKnee; Joe 6-pack; Organic Panic

Actually, Organic Panic nailed it in Post 27.

Read the post, but this is the money quote: >>They aren’t going to put in the drug addicts. They will be hand selected model “homeless.” <<

The last people on Earth to be helped by this are the dayin, dayout homeless.


50 posted on 03/19/2017 10:05:24 AM PDT by freedumb2003 (Not tired of winning yet!)
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To: nhwingut
About 200 homeowners have signed up to learn more after Multnomah County's project was first made public this week by the city's alternative weekly paper.

I wonder how the neighbors of these 200 homeowners will feel about this if they decide to participate in this program.

51 posted on 03/19/2017 10:06:20 AM PDT by GreenHornet
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To: Flick Lives

Found a listing on Zillow for a 3 br, 2 bath, 2 car garage rambler for $95,000.


52 posted on 03/19/2017 10:10:05 AM PDT by catman67 (14 gauge?)
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To: gogeo

I question the greed thing. If you look at the most expensive places to live in America, such as Manhattan, San Francisco, housing prices are what they are based on supply and demand. With some zoning laws and limited land to build in such places thrown in. Yet the wealthiest in places such as the Bay Area or New York want to live in the most exclusive areas, and their behavior pushes prices up.

And then, comparing housing prices to what someone earning minimum wage earns, then, you see that imbalance. However, it’s not really due to greed that lower income people can’t afford the nice parts of SF or Manhattan, is it??

Or look at a different way, we all compete in housing markets wherever we live.

My house is worth over $500K. I bought it for $169K years ago. Am I greedy to sell it for $520K and make a big profit on paper, if I choose to sell now? After all, if I sell and need to buy another place to live, I will need the equity out of my current property to afford the next one.


53 posted on 03/19/2017 10:12:02 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Organic Panic
...If the city were going to give me 70k property upgrades and a guaranteed renter with zoning exemption I would be on it in seconds...

I think you would come to regret this within weeks. All these freebies from the city come with a non-evictable lunatic. With no job and no prospects for one. The stuff that homeless think is perfectly acceptable is horrifying to most homeowners. And they are homeless for a reason. Put them in a tiny house in your backyard and they will develop a new hobby -- watching you. Want to have dinner on the back porch on a nice summer night? Hungry eyes will follow your every bite. If you buy anything new, they will root through your garbage and see the box, giving them an incentive to come in and "borrow" it.

That "$70k upgrade" comes with an automatic 50% degradation of your property value.

And, what happens if your job is transferred to another city and you want to move with it? Most buyers are not looking for a place that has a shed with a bum in the backyard.

54 posted on 03/19/2017 10:12:25 AM PDT by CurlyDave
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To: TheNext

Our home is on 1/3 of an acre. We have RV parking in front of and behind fencing. When our parents started getting older we were going to move a self contained travel trailer into the rv parking for them to live in. A nice used one was $8-10k. A Tuff Shed is a heckuva lot cheaper than $72k and can be outfitted as a tiny home.
Leave it to politicians to waste a ton of money.


55 posted on 03/19/2017 10:13:44 AM PDT by sheana
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To: catman67

“Found a listing on Zillow for a 3 br, 2 bath, 2 car garage rambler for $95,000.”


Where ?

I haven’t seen anything like that for 20 years.


56 posted on 03/19/2017 10:13:48 AM PDT by Mears
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To: Lorianne

Try again, if your build per the IBC or IRC.

I forget what the minimal sized Single Family Residence SFR requirements mandate, but it is close to 1075 SF with all utilities (Elec, HVAC, Plumbing, Sewer). Figure a min of $40k-$66k on permits alone plus utility hookups.

Least expensive solution is generally on an over 40 Acre parcel where zoning is relaxed, but distances to run utilities creep up on you.

Codes and regulations force everybody to live like 3rd world kings.


57 posted on 03/19/2017 10:14:22 AM PDT by Cvengr ( Adversity in life & death is inevitable; Stress is optional through faith in Christ.)
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To: Cvengr

It does not have to be that big. It’s not a single family residence. And by the way people used to raise families in 800 sf homes. These, however have a different purpose. They are auxillary spaces to the main home.

You can build one to code for a lot less than that. Yes, regulations and fees cost a lot, which is part of the homelessness problem in the first place.


58 posted on 03/19/2017 10:17:43 AM PDT by Lorianne
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To: TribalPrincess2U

Yes...oregonE


59 posted on 03/19/2017 10:19:56 AM PDT by goodnesswins (Say hello to President Trump)
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To: TribalPrincess2U

Yes...oregonE


60 posted on 03/19/2017 10:20:07 AM PDT by goodnesswins (Say hello to President Trump)
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