Why We Need Affordable Housing, Even Though We Live In A Free Market Society
WHY WE NEED AFFORDABLE HOUSING EVEN THOUGH WE LIVE IN A FREE MARKET SOCIETY
by Zuma Dogg
You can say "screw em...it's called restoration and cleaning up the neighborhood and raising property values and profits for owners." And ZD used to engage the Mayor Sam philosphy on this matter, as well. (Why does the Charter mandate affordable housing requirements on City projects (even though they unlawfully ignore it), and why should the City even get involved, after all, we live in a free market society -- and those bums can go get a better, higher-paying job?!?!
Here's why. We need people to "clean out toilets" as the mayor brought to our attention. Plus, we need teachers, and police, and trash collectors, and cooks, and office workers, and assistants, bus drivers, and baggage handlers, and a lot of other lower paying jobs that the community needs to continue to tick.
Ashwani Vasishth (Department of Urban Studies and Planning, California State University, Northridge, who I interviewed for my SCAG article is the guy who really drove it home for me, during our phone conversations. He says, "You just can't have the rich living downtown in expensive lofts and the poor people living further and further out. You can only have a successful downtown if you have rich and poor living in the same area."
The commute is killing the community. Today's Daily Breeze says, "Jammed roads are people's top concern -- gangs number two among a survey of 1400 Angelinos." And jammed roads are what occurs when you have a downtown metropolis where you remember to apporve the high density project, but forget to remember the number of required affordable housing unit to be factored into the project.
Then you have that "The Downtown Destroyer"CM Jan Perry call me off topic for mentioning that the City is ignoring affordable housing requirements as mandated by the City Charter, during my public comment on an agenda item about an "affordable housing" program. The dispicable bitch, who will now be having the privilidge of prving me off topic in Federal Court, missed the point because she was too busy being pompus and ignorant and accepting campaign contributions.
IF YOU STOPPED IGNORNING THE CITY CHARTER, AND HAD THE DEVELOPERS BUILD THE DAMN 20% AFFORDABLE HOUSING LIKE THEY ARE SUPPOSED TO -- YOU WOULDN"T HAVE TO SPEND AS MUCH MONEY ON ALL THESE SOCIAL PROGRAMS, AFTER THE FACT. And here's the point, you lethargic bitch...ALL THE OTHER COMMITTEE MEMEBERS WERE NODDING THEIR HEADS UP AND DOWN IN AGREEMENT WITH THE BIG ZD...SO HOW CAN THAT BE OFF TOPIC....AND PEOPLE THANKED ME FOR SAYING IT, AFTERWARD...NO WONDER YOU DIDN'T WANT ME TO SAY IT YOU GENTRIFYING INCOMPETENT TRADER, COUNCILMEMBER JAN PERRY. Now we can let a judge decide if ZD was off topic...Meanwhile -- YOU'RE STILL GONNA BUIILD THE AFFORDABLE HOUSING NOW, ANYWAY --- SO NEXT TIME YOU KEEP YOUR MOUTH SHUT, JAN PERRY, WHILE MINE IS OPEN -- IT'LL ALL BE OVER IN TWO MINUTES - AND YOU WON'T BE HIRING OUTSIDE COUNCIL LIKE ED REYES. Now go build the damn housing. You can't run a city without workers. And we can't keep pushing them further and further out, cause the commute is killing us, you greedy discgrace to elected office.
by Zuma Dogg
You can say "screw em...it's called restoration and cleaning up the neighborhood and raising property values and profits for owners." And ZD used to engage the Mayor Sam philosphy on this matter, as well. (Why does the Charter mandate affordable housing requirements on City projects (even though they unlawfully ignore it), and why should the City even get involved, after all, we live in a free market society -- and those bums can go get a better, higher-paying job?!?!
Here's why. We need people to "clean out toilets" as the mayor brought to our attention. Plus, we need teachers, and police, and trash collectors, and cooks, and office workers, and assistants, bus drivers, and baggage handlers, and a lot of other lower paying jobs that the community needs to continue to tick.
Ashwani Vasishth (Department of Urban Studies and Planning, California State University, Northridge, who I interviewed for my SCAG article is the guy who really drove it home for me, during our phone conversations. He says, "You just can't have the rich living downtown in expensive lofts and the poor people living further and further out. You can only have a successful downtown if you have rich and poor living in the same area."
The commute is killing the community. Today's Daily Breeze says, "Jammed roads are people's top concern -- gangs number two among a survey of 1400 Angelinos." And jammed roads are what occurs when you have a downtown metropolis where you remember to apporve the high density project, but forget to remember the number of required affordable housing unit to be factored into the project.
Then you have that "The Downtown Destroyer"CM Jan Perry call me off topic for mentioning that the City is ignoring affordable housing requirements as mandated by the City Charter, during my public comment on an agenda item about an "affordable housing" program. The dispicable bitch, who will now be having the privilidge of prving me off topic in Federal Court, missed the point because she was too busy being pompus and ignorant and accepting campaign contributions.
IF YOU STOPPED IGNORNING THE CITY CHARTER, AND HAD THE DEVELOPERS BUILD THE DAMN 20% AFFORDABLE HOUSING LIKE THEY ARE SUPPOSED TO -- YOU WOULDN"T HAVE TO SPEND AS MUCH MONEY ON ALL THESE SOCIAL PROGRAMS, AFTER THE FACT. And here's the point, you lethargic bitch...ALL THE OTHER COMMITTEE MEMEBERS WERE NODDING THEIR HEADS UP AND DOWN IN AGREEMENT WITH THE BIG ZD...SO HOW CAN THAT BE OFF TOPIC....AND PEOPLE THANKED ME FOR SAYING IT, AFTERWARD...NO WONDER YOU DIDN'T WANT ME TO SAY IT YOU GENTRIFYING INCOMPETENT TRADER, COUNCILMEMBER JAN PERRY. Now we can let a judge decide if ZD was off topic...Meanwhile -- YOU'RE STILL GONNA BUIILD THE AFFORDABLE HOUSING NOW, ANYWAY --- SO NEXT TIME YOU KEEP YOUR MOUTH SHUT, JAN PERRY, WHILE MINE IS OPEN -- IT'LL ALL BE OVER IN TWO MINUTES - AND YOU WON'T BE HIRING OUTSIDE COUNCIL LIKE ED REYES. Now go build the damn housing. You can't run a city without workers. And we can't keep pushing them further and further out, cause the commute is killing us, you greedy discgrace to elected office.
Posted by Zuma Dogg @ 4/28/2007 07:05:00 AM
15 Comments:
Was that at committee or city council ?
I missed all the excitement.
You are saying the city charter mandates this? If so the city council is in deep doo doo
that's why that rancid bitch jan perry will do anything, including violate federal law/1st amendment to shut me up....it's all on record, and now you can sue em, bro. that's what some are preparing for.
well , which item was it on at and what time etc?
We have them....sharing downtown, the rich artists in the lofts....and the people in skid row...its the people in the middle who cant afford to leave in LA, never mind downtown. Remember, it was the middle class who revolted in the French Revolution....
Beverly Hills is all rich people and it seems to function just fine.
Bel Aire and Malibu and the Palisades do fine as well.
Somebody, grab ZD's keyboard for a while; he's got diarrhea of the blog...
ZUMA DOGG IS GAY?????
ok
now yo got me weighing in . The poor artists have fouind a way to also live downtown. They are subletting to poor artists in the huge artist lofts .
So don't say that the poor artists are living downtown etc. IT is the middle , the people who aren't extremely poor who can't afford to live anywhere in LA . These , I agree will be those who storm the bastille.- I mean City HAll.
1:37p.m.=s ATTENTION WHORE!!!!
affordable housing is right under your nose but the reason you can't see it is because the gonvernment doesnt want to see it. you see, all of the over crowded half million dollar homes in the lower income communities where hard working folks are doing body work in the driveway while illegally converting the garage to rent out as well as renting beds to make some money to pay the sub prime american dream. until some innocent person dies in one of these death traps the polititions could care less. other problems by allowing this to continue only have to do with quality of life which only sounds good to sound bite. basically, if the government would enfore laws already on the books the 1/2 million dollar homes in the hood will continue to be out of reach as well as all the slummy apartments that are overcrowded. the economy depends on this illegal equity to bottom up the real estate market. try renting your garage or beds in the palisades and paint a few cars in the driveway, maybe you can even sell raspados if necessary to make ends meet. our housing crisis was created by not following the rules already on the books.
5:29pm
ZUMA DOGG IS GAY????
HE LIKES THEM BIG & SMALL!
Zummmmmmma Dog!
You are my hero!
Keep doing what you are doing...make people hear the truth and really think about the discrepancies in what Perry is "saying" and actually "doing."
As for the censoring...she would like to shut everybody up and do what she pleases without a fuss...
She likes to shut people up whenever what they are saying could get her into trouble...
Shame on her...
By the way, did anything continue to happen with challenging the new censorship they have placed on public testimony? Just wondering.
Peace!
An alternative approach to the problem is to NOT drive down wages for service and trades jobs by allowing millions of illegal aliens to come here to do them. That way, you won't need to have "poor" people doing those jobs. They'll be done by decently-paid citizens and legal residents.
If the free market is left to itself, and illegal labor is kept out of it, a lot of this problem will go away on its own.
ZUMA DOGG IS GAY????
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