By: spurwing Plover

spurwing Plover — Fri, 11 Sep 2015 14:07:27 +0000

HUD is just another buracracy run by idiots and brain-dead buricrats I mean make you sign a moutian everent of paperwork just to set up some bird feeders or a birdhouse

By: Ulysses Uhaul

Ulysses Uhaul — Fri, 11 Sep 2015 05:07:03 +0000

HUD wants affordable housing in tony neighborhoods, so the poor can go to good schools, buy organic veggies, have upwardly mobile teachers and coaches..

SO WALLA…..get some Republicans to vote for condemning ,whatever, in the tony neighborhoods…poof ….. Controversial affordable housing….no worries Poodle and Donky about Adelanto or Sunset Beach being included!

By: bob

bob — Thu, 10 Sep 2015 22:19:02 +0000

These politicians are nothing but thieves. When will people realize that?

By: Just Another Disgruntled Citizen

Just Another Disgruntled Citizen — Thu, 10 Sep 2015 21:43:24 +0000

Well, this is really bad news but not unexpected.
The thing is, however, that if we are going to fight this ignorant and stupid action of the California Legislature, we’d better get our facts straight.
First, when Gov. Brown and the Democrats shut down the state’s 400-odd community-wrecking corporate-welfare eminent-domain-abuse machines, that stopped local officials from exercising those powers but it didn’t get rid of Redevelopment because the state and federal law that makes it possible are still on the books.
In order to get rid of Redevelopment, to abolish it altogether so it can’t come back ever again will ultimately require an amendment to the Constitution of the United States banning public money and eminent domain for private use, period.
Other aggregious powers exercised by Redevelopment Agencies that need to be banned include creating Project Areas by making findings of blight (property that isn’t generating as much revenue as local government officials think it should) which simultaneously suspended the Constitutional Rights of the people who live and work and pay taxes in the Project Area (try the First, Fourth, Fifth and Fourteenth amendments for a start), receive tax increment revenue from Project Area property owners without their knowledge or consent, propose Redevelopment Projects without knowledge or consent of affected property owners or their tenants, issue bonds and incur other debt to finance private ventures, pledge as Collateral on the bonds all the private property within a Project Area without knowledge or consent of affected owners, amend Project Area Plans to extend the life of the Project Areas, raise debt and revenue limits, and/ore expand Project Area boundaries through annexations or merging two or more Project Areas.
I am not making this up.
Take a look at The Housing Act of 1949 (U.S. Congress), California Community Redevelopment Law (Health & Safety Code Section 33000 et seq., 1952), Taxation of Redevelopment Projects (Article XVI, Sec. 16: Constitution of the State of California, 1951, amended 1988), “Section Two-and-One Half” from Prop. 22 (Article XIII, Sec. 24: Constitution of the State of California, 2010)
After you read all of these in their entirety, then read the court documents related to the Kelo-decision. Redevelopment was not mentioned, except perhaps once in some obscure brief. That is because the public officials responsible for the eminent-domain abuse in Kelo didn’t want to bring redevelopment law to anyone’s attention (there is an army of state and national redevelopment associations) and the attorneys for the defendents did not realize that was what they dealing with (they do now, God bless’em).
Then re-read the legislation that shut down the California CRA’s. You will immediately see how inadequate it was. There were local and statewide citizens’ groups that helped make this happen, all of which are disbanded. The people that lead those groups had been in the fight for ten, twenty, thirty years and were exhausted by 2011. Some of the earlier champions had passed on. But the public record includes their names and a chronicle of their successes and failures in the Cause of Liberty.
One of the worst things that happened back in 2011 was that only one or two Republicans voted for Jerry Brown’s legislation. The leaders of the statewide Republican Party went around telling people that the Kelo Decision was a bad thing and Redevelopment is a good thing. They would not listen to the facts back then.
I find it amusing that they are against this resurrection of Redevelopment now. If anyone is skeptical about the existence of partisan politics in California, this should set them straight.
Redevelopment is bad law because it violates the Ten Commandments, the Golden Rule, the Rule of Law Tradition, the fundamental principles of American government, and the U.S. Constitution.
In this way it is just like the Dred Scott Decision that upheld slavery because it was in the Constitution. Remember that the Abolition Movement emphasized the immorality and unconstitutionality (according to basic principles) of slavery. Bear in mind that the arguments against slavery on the grounds it was an unworkable economic system and unfair to farmers in the North were valid. But it wasn’t immoral and unconstitutional because it didn’t work or was unfair. It didn’t work and it wasn’t fair because it was immoral and unconstitutional.

By: EnoughAlready

EnoughAlready — Thu, 10 Sep 2015 20:52:37 +0000

Geez, more affordable housing developments. The non-profit developers are celebrating tonight. The cash cow that just keeps on giving. Can’t wait to see their cost per units in rural areas of $350k per unit. I know whereof I speak….I work with them daily….HCD….CalHFA….SHRA….Bridge…MidPen Housing….

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