BOYS!

Queeg must be rollover over in Davy Jone’s Locker!

Yeah……even ole Uly has felt the painful economic sting of redevelopment…miserable memories of the worst of the worst local leadership in OC reminding one of modern day Mussolini’s in their full regalia……and unrelenting pocket lining.

Forced Uly and Queeg to salvage a few bucks, whatever, off a couple “ten year frozen in value” …..by redevelopment designation….former fast appreciating in value trailer rental lots and relocate to a vile desert hell to start again.

Jeez, Uly…for once we fully agree!
Now i’m feeling faint….Jeeves, quickly…my smelling salts..

Before California’s CRA’s were shut down in 2011, an action that shut their doors without repealing the laws that made them possible and created Successor Agencies to receive the property tax increments and pay off the humongous debt.

Second of all, government housing projects are not the way to provide “affordable” housing for anybody, with or without redevelopment. Government housing projects come under the Federal Housing & Urban Development Department which actually has a set of laws governing them.

Would you believe that to make it possible for developers to build low-cost housing without going bust, HUD says their building standards, which may be lower than the lowest in the nation, take precedence over State and local standards?

Third, affordable housing is really substandard housing. Which is one of the things that qualifies as “blight” in Redevelopment Law. Even so, many of these junky buildings end up being sold as regular housing. Local officials don’t care, all they are looking for is more tax revenue.

Progressives think this is the only way to get it, but it ends up being a series of boondoggles. Redevelopment is not good for the economy. It is not good for the public treasury. It is not good for business. It is not good for communities. It is not good for public officials. It is not good for the people they represent.

Fourth, Redevelopment is a very bad thing. If anyone who says they believe in individual rights, limited government, economic liberty and the Rule of Law says they think Redevelopment is swell, please refer them to the State Controller’s Office and tell them to check out the SCO’s annual reports on Community Redevelopment Agencies. They are an education.

In the past sixty years since America established Redevelopment as we know it today, state and local government officials have been indoctrinated by Progressive consultants, gurus of economics and public policy, into thinking that the American people are no longer the country’s greatest asset. Now they believe that real estate developers are our country’s greatest asset and we are its greatest liability.

In a nutshell….redevelopment or infill projects are known for massive abuse, spot designation for chronies’ desires, blatant graft, corruption, lots of losers for neighborhoods like traffic, noise, security nightmares while politicians, slimy attorneys and greedy developers and government workers to line their greasy pockets.

And this homeless housing or treatment issue ain’t going away without lots of courageous autocratic leadership…these child mayors we have don’t have any guts, no military chain of command leadership skills, just penny loafers and sterling silver adorned leather belts and are sadly California public school semi- educated! And they are already asking/begging/sobbing to anyone/everyone for money to spend the way out.

These articles really suck, but we gotta read them over and over before we are compelled to bend over-

Billions and billions rivaling the bullet train will soon be wasted.