Comments on: California’s Legislative Analyst claims NIMBYism driving state’s housing crisis

By: gate io reviews

gate io reviews — Wed, 04 Jan 2023 19:02:17 +0000

Kathy thank you for this post, how timely it is! I’m currently reading your book ‘Faith Shift’ …you articulate perfectly much of what I’m currently walking through. In your above writing I particularly appreciate point 4: Each of us playing our individual part and ‘EVERY’ contribution matters however big or small! Thank you for reminding me of that . Lexy

By: Sam

Sam — Sat, 11 Mar 2017 07:52:29 +0000

No one who is being hinets wants low income housing in their neighborhood, not even liberals who say otherwise. California has few enough decent public schools these days, and they are found in affluent areas. Good schools support stable property values, and stable property values and affluent neighborhoods support good public schools, Mandating low income housing in more areas will only further consolidate wealth and public schools will be completely abandoned by the upper middle class. This social engineering is never going to work as there will always be those who are willing to do whatever it takes to put their kids in excellent and safe schools. Pelosi and her ilk should be the first to require that their own neighborhoods have 50% low income housing, Same goes for Mark zuckerberg with the wall around his house. Then we can talk about what the rest of us, the peasants, must do.

By: Richard

Richard — Fri, 10 Mar 2017 22:45:18 +0000

Terrific article.

Fundamentally, we Californians no longer believe in property rights. We’ve given nearly unlimited “covenant and restriction” control of your property to your neighbors through “planning groups.” The first people to live in a neighborhood (and those that buy these original properties) have the DE FACTO right to ban or severely restrict housing or improvements in their area. And they do — feeling good about their ability to wisely control everyone else’s real estate — banning “the wrong kind of people” and businesses from their neighborhood.

In my semi-tony Scripps Ranch, these busybodies are intensely proud of this veto ability. They banned a small Walmart from our industrial park because the wrong people would come here to shop. We are a white enclave with just the proper sprinkling of Asians and blacks — and a few well-to-do Hispanics. And we are raking in the big bucks when we (or our beneficiaries) sell our restricted properties. Life is good for us neighborhood oppressors.