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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: bijou on July 27, 2011, 01:40:53 PM
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In recent years, homeowners have been made to feel a bit like villains rather than the victims of hard times, Wall Street shenanigans and inept regulators. Instead of being praised for braving the elements, suburban homeowners have been made to feel responsible for everything from the Great Recession to obesity to global warming.
In California, the assault on the house has gained official sanction. Once the heartland of the American dream, the Golden State has begun implementing new planning laws designed to combat global warming. These draconian measures could lead to a ban on the construction of private residences, particularly on the suburban fringe. The new legislation’s goal is to cram future generations of Californians into multi-family apartment buildings, turning them from car-driving suburbanites into strap-hanging urbanistas.
That’s not what Californians want: Some 71% of adults in the state cite a preference for single-family houses. Furthermore, the vast majority of growth over the past decade has taken place not in high-density urban centers but in lower-density peripheral areas such as Riverside-San Bernardino. Yet popular preferences mean little in a state where environmental zealotry increasingly dictates how people should live their lives.
Some advocates do cite market forces to justify their policies. Economists on the left and right have cited the recent housing bust as proof that homes are not great investments, suggesting people would be better off leaving their money to the tender mercies of Wall Street speculators. Some demographers also suggest that young people will choose to live in high-density regions throughout their lives and that as boomers age they too will opt out of suburbs for urban apartment living. ...
http://blogs.forbes.com/joelkotkin/2011/07/26/california-wages-war-on-single-family-homes/
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Buh-bye Kalifornia. :sosad: :loser2: :thumbs:
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Homes are great investments. ....when you have a sane government that isn't overreaching their damn bounds.
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Yes, stuff everyone into apartments where they can pay twice as much per month on rent then they would on a mortgage. That makes so much sense. ::)
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Yes, stuff everyone into apartments where they can pay twice as much per month on rent then they would on a mortgage. That makes so much sense. ::)
But it will stop global warming, how could you object to that? :whatever:
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Will this benefit the illegals that are already living in overcrowded places?
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Will this benefit the illegals that are already living in overcrowded places?
But of course! They won't have to move!
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Yes, stuff everyone into apartments where they can pay twice as much per month on rent then they would on a mortgage. That makes so much sense. ::)
Works pretty well in the projects.
....oh.....wait.....
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How much of this new rental property will Obamas' Chicago real estate buddies own? You know, the ones that don't keep up there property but get government money for it anyway.
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Yes, stuff everyone into apartments where they can pay twice as much per month on rent then they would on a mortgage. That makes so much sense. ::)
But Comrade Jess, they will be beautiful, State-approved apartments, with only a three-year waiting list ('Slightly' longer for non-Party members, of course)!
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lower-density peripheral areas such as Riverside-San Bernardino.
This is a joke, right? :whatever:
You want lower density? Move to where I am.