Why California Can't Build Affordable Housing
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- Опубликовано: 25 июл 2021
- The NBC Bay Area Investigative Unit found hundreds of vacant lots and empty sites meant to provide affordable housing to thousands of Bay Area residents, currently being used for nothing. Investigative Reporter Candice Nguyen reports.
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As an X-Californian, I love how the politicians always say they've allocated X amount of $ to address this issue, yet the majority of residents never ask where did the money go? Here's a hint it turns into pixie dust. Even with this there was no mention on how much was allocated in the past? How many projects were funded? Like where is the $1.2Bil in LA for the homeless? What about the billions for high speed rail? Hey where does that "E-waste" fee actually go? How was the increase in gas tax spent? Pixie dust
Back to their own pocket, that’s where.
Stop voting for career Democrats.
@@undeaddave9671 You don't know much about California, we have term limits here which is why everyone is so incompetent, they are in office for only a few years and then leave.
@Vernon Anderson Oh... so now the capitalists are against capitalism and want people to work for free now.... right.
@@erikanders3343 So why then do they keep suckering voters for more money year after year?
Did you know the typical cost for a building permit in So Cal is $50,000 for building fees, planning fees, school impact fees, water impact fees, library impact fees... the list goes on and on. And plan on another $50,000 for environmental studies, archeological studies, noise studies, water runoff studies, soils engineering studies, seismic studies, percolation tests, etc. So you have dropped $100,000 before you have even paid for the land or hired an architect, civil engineer, or structural engineer, let alone poured one yard of concrete or put up a single stick of lumber. It is out of control.
Yeah wtf like we need to build housing desperately but there’s too many unnecessary slow downs & expensive costs
Uhgggg. I live in Santa Clarita in a condo. Just wish I could get some land in like sand canyon to a have a workshop built so I can get things done there with work and privacy but the way you describe it I don’t know if that’s possible. I even have a great savings account. Kinda stuck with family cause they need taking care of but is it really that bad? Expensive?
The housing crisis in CA was created by Gov't. Current home owners like it because it hyperinflates the value of their homes. The last thing they want is anything close to market equilibrium. That would cause a substantial downward market correction.
In New York we have Brookfield Properties and Breaking Ground NYCHA-HUD to name a few were doing it
I agree .. home owners are loving this but the housing market will crash soon
@@sendtherockets6196 I hope to God it does ASAP
No they just don’t want to create so much urban density. My making supply limited you push out enough people to keep the population in control
@@BRBallin1 isn't it against Americans ideas to enforce population control on it's citizens?
In Southern California, they're only building "luxury apartments" these days. Out of curiosity, I was checking the rental prices of 1 - 2 bedroom units. I was under the impression that a 1BR was 1,300 - 1,800, and a 2 BR 2,200 - 3,200 depending on the age of the building, amenities, and zip code. I was very wrong. The units in a new building start at 3,600+ for a 1BR and over $6,000 for a 2BR. So, if you are one of the hundreds of thousands of minimum wage workers that support the economy, you are absolutely priced out of those neighborhoods. And, it is probably worse for seniors and the disabled. The rent prices were not a lot better for them either because there is a lack of affordable units. That is one of the reasons that there are so many people sleeping on the streets.
400-600 should be minimum low income..... i make 45k in management which is not too high nor low, living in CA by now would obliterate my paychecks
@@saintseer8214 - You would have to make 3x the price of a studio or 1 BR($1600) and have really, really good credit to be able to rent.
Years ago I was looking for an apartment. I found one, but the only problem was that I was #11 in line to get it. I thought I'll never get it. But, soon enough the management company called and said, "It's yours. The other 10 people had bad credit." Go figure.
The problem is they don't build enough housing period. You don't need affordable housing if you build enough. If you build tons of units then ALL housing becomes more affordable due to basic supply and demand. In Texas they don't focus very much on building "affordable units" - they just build a ton of units and voila! prices stay low. California makes housing pointlessly complicated when it's actually very simple - allow lots of housing to be built by upzoning, making the permitting process faster, and eliminating the ability for neighborhoods to veto projects that are within the zoning guidelines. You would immediately have tons of housing getting built all over the state and prices would come down
@@joni1405 That's not true! Texas has high property tax and is adjustable based on market. It's literally Props 13 which is not even Government's fault. It is people's votes.
It's also a misconception that Texas has no zoning law. In fact, Texas zoning law is pretty strict especially with hurricane. More importantly, Texas is flat where as California is not. California also has water crisis.
The real solution is actually more people need to leave California. California shouldn't be handling this many populations in the first place. We simply don't have the recourses to build on hills that can catch on fire or water resources to support expanding populations.
California government is at fault, It's expensive to build here with all the crazy environmental impact studies, countless of expensive and time consuming permits, a builders homeless tax...NO builder will want to build "Affordable housing" at a loss. Even when L.A wanted to build a bunch of homeless housing they were met with so much of their own red tape the mayor had to lift most of the BS so not to delay their overpriced $700k per homeless unit... but that's another scam for later.
This government red tape makes me sick. We’ve been in business for 41 year’s and trust me if we ran it like this California Government we’d be out of business!! Get the bureaucrats Out! #recall
Need Government. Just need better people in Government. Have recalls that cost taxpayers $250M doesn’t help either. I’ve been in business over 26 years and have made over $100M over those years. I also work with Government on a lot of development projects.
@@b.l.8611 That's how you made all those millions. Over charging taxpayers
@@b.l.8611 you are part of the cabal keeping out competition and keeping prices inflated.
@@bestvidsdottk No actually getting an education, working hard, treating employees with respect and growing a business. NOT COMPLAINING about Government. You need Government for Order and to develop Policies that protect all Society.
@@anthonyca Big words for a little man. No one is keeping competition our of CA. Prices are being inflated by the feds, hedge funds and the Pandemic. Get a clue - or are you just that stupid. Need to keep up with the financial pages of the WSJ.
What on earth are they doing with all the taxpayer's money, then?
French Laundry...
Pocketing
Putting it in their own pockets
@@ndorobei4391AMEN
Spending it at Starbucks ☕️
Sounds like audits to be done on Enterprise and the government.
75 Billion dollar surplus they said.. Where is the tax payer dollar going? Start with Gavin.. show him the door and go down the line!
To get a "surplus" they removed unfunded obligations (pensions) from the budget. That's the same as you removing your credit card debt from your budget to make it look better.
Robert I hope it's a patriot party
One of the most amusing tactics is requesting ongoing impact studies. It's all simple economics. Follow up the money. Building more housing lowers the value of existing housing. Those who already own property fight the expansion to preserve their high property values.
That's partially true, and definitely not true in this context. Reason being is because we're talking about "affordable" housing being built which in turn actually makes housing more expensive.
Sorry Hector....it’s called NIMBY (not in my back yard). It is very real and causes huge problems for developers. Just as many problems as government red tape if not far worse.
@@dccs6009 Yes, I'm familiar with the NIMBY movement, but my point is that NIMBY is okay with "affordable housing" but not okay with "new" development in general. For instance NIMBY is okay with rent control in their neighborhoods for SF elders, low income, and HIV community, but this in turn actually makes housing for the general public more expensive. In other words NIMBY is okay with a new building built in SF, or Venice, or West LA if it means that older residents from those communities will have access (this decreases the supply) but is totally against new development of houses (which would increase the supply).
The wealthy who influence politicians benefit from it.
You sure?
Dark Money...
So true
@@jasonlarsen3515 Yes
@@jackbraddell1150 explain
Public housing is affordable and excellent in Singapore. We need to learn from them.
It is expensive.
@@ndorobei4391 Singapore public housing is heavily subsidized for citizens. When compared to the US public housing it is many times better, safe, clean and well-maintained. The current generation of public housing is almost as good as private condos.
@@GKP999 pffft everybody there is making above 100k..... look at this fucking shithole $15hr is a joke
@Mastodon1976 Of course like any countries, there are pros and cons. But specifically on the subject of public housing, theirs is definitely superior to ones in California or anywhere else in the US.
@@saintseer8214 Not everyone in Singapore makes above 100K. That is why the Singapore government does its best to ensure that everyone has a roof over their head.
bureaucracy at its finest
It is actually doable but people in power will never do it
I give this face 🙄😠😤 when I hear about this
Here is the problem. I saw a video where in LA they built a one bedroom condo for a homeless woman. It cost $600K to build, That's more than some going rates for new condos, that's the problem too much red tape and no one wants to help the homeless.
If it was privately funded, than under the 5th amendment they had every right to do so. More importantly, addressing homelessness requires individualized plans for resolving each person's situation. It's not something we can just throw money at and make it all go away
62% of Americans say a 3rd Party is needed.
Source: Gallup
How many of that 62% wonder how much the other two parties spend to make sure that doesn't happen? I live in Canada, and cry for my American friends held hostage by the two party monopoly. There is no party for the people, only for the two elite sides of the same gold coin.
We have multiple parties. We have libertarians, we have the Green Party, we have independent, Republican and the democrats (which includes the socialist and communist). So see we already have multiple parties. Learn about the socialist in Cuba, Nazi Germany and Venezuela.
The problem with 3rd parties in the US is they peal off votes from primarily one the two major parties allowing the other to win. The US system of winner take all also makes multiple parties impractical.
@@robertmoore6149 You are correct. That's why I'm registered as "No Party Affiliation." I simply vote for the lesser of all the evils.
@@zookeeper69 I'm an advocate of a third party. An I'm aware of all those other parties. I was a card holding member of the Libertarian party until the Republicans went anti-immigrant. That's when I registered as a Democrat, just to combat the Republican party. I knew that if I didn't join the Democrats the Republicans would surely have things their way. And their way wasn't my way.
And now the Democrats are becoming a great evil with their attacks on our 2nd Amendment. So Now I'm registered as No Party Affiliation and I will always vote for the party that is the least evil to my people and my country. So I voted to recall Newsome and voted for a Libertarian.
Bureaucrats are in heaven. They get to create a system that they control and can watch the human suffering caused by themselves
I know that alot of people don't believe in God ,but you better start reading that BIBLE!!! because it tells everything about how people ; money, power, murderers, and all of that and it's really real
The hold up is the stinginess of people. PERIOD.
The problem is so severe, the players so corrupt. Call it a state of emergency, and have the non corrupt Army Corps of Engineers start building immediately on federal land and also taken away state land.
That would be interesting
I think it’s safe to say some lawmakers got ahead of themselves. You need a permit to cut a tree wider than 9 inches, but letting people go homeless on the street is okay. Laws need to adapt to the times….and times are tough. I guess there’s no such thing as a flexible government!
How about letting them go to the bank, like every other development. Hopefully we’ll have a “whole new attitude” in Sacramento on Sept 14. Bye Gavin.
Hopefully soon enough
He's not going anywhere
@@tanyabell9316 He’s trash just like his followers
Please explain who and what is preventing them going to the bank and turning these lots into market-rate housing. Kthxbye
The problem with California is too much regulations, from protecting the environment to unnecessary building requirements, cost a lot to build a house in California. Instead of easing restrictions they start building themselves with “affordable housing”. The government will NEVER beat the private sector in doing business.
And how many people in CA government have jobs dedicated to the homeless making well over 6 figures? Follow the money!!
@@Maria.9094 with no progress smh
@@TreyFive7 exactly!!
"The government will NEVER beat the private sector in doing business." The private sector demands results. The Government? Not so much.
The state keeps making rules that make building unafforable. Things like excessive permits. Fire sprinklers. Solar.
So true.....
Im fine with sprinklers as its for safety unless you need one in a home like a house in the suburbs.
The private sector can evaluate projects hurdle rates in an afternoon. Government takes years. What a bunch of geniuses.
Ironically they private sector used government reports and analysis. Someone has to pay for the initial data collection.
@@erikanders3343 but this isn't new now. they should be able to figure this out in matter of days.
@@TreyFive7 again, the source data collection is paid for by the government and that takes time. Businesses get for free or rarely buy that data from the government for their own uses. evaluation of projects relies on tons of data that needs to be there.
Lets also not forget the massive amount of regulation to control fraud and corruption takes time to perform.
Thanks NBC. I’m loving your objective journalism of my Bay Area.
Isn't "affordable" a subjective term? Bezos buying his way into outer space is affordable to him, but me don't have that kind of money. A round of golf at Pebble Beach might be affordable to me but not to an Uber driver. Affordable housing really means "the projects" say in the Bronx or Harlem, look how that turns out.
Affordable is like 1,300 for a 1 bedroom I guess
Sounds to me like their stalling because they spent your tax money
You MUST mention the NIMBYs’ HUGE contribution to this crisis.
Riches in the California do not want the new cheap houses because it drives the home price down. Also, who really want to live in the cheap home community? The drug and crime are going to ruin the cheap home community once it is build and occupied.
Way to complicate things again California....a complete nightmare of red tape to do any kind of construction in the state.
Since, about 1970 , California has been experiencing an extended and increasing housing shortage, such that by 2018, California ranked 49th among the states of the U.S. in terms of housing units per resident.
What they need to do is sell off the surplus "shovel ready" land and use those amounts to fund the development of the tracts that can be developed within budget. Some completed projects are better than none. And the real limiting factor, according to the video, is not the red tape, but the lack of funding. Land = money. Sell some.
Thank you. Please continue to report on this.
Once built, you'll see short buildings because of silly height limits. However, in San Diego tall buildings are being built all over downtown. Once the airport hopefully moves the buildings will be much taller.
California just needs a major densification of its urban cores and a lot of its affordability woes would start to even out. Theres a huge restraint on the amount of unbuilt land available which means density is necessary to house all the people ur cities attract in an affordable manner. When people have trouble finding housing house prices/rent go up. Increase the citys capacity to house people and prices will begin to level out at which point the other efforts in place may actually be able to take some effect. Unless u address the density issues and stop buying into the nimby movement than ur cities will never be affordable. I understand homeowners tend to think of increased housing price as a good thing but if u cant afford to stay in the place you want to live is it really helping you at all? Ur only turning a profit if u move further away from the city to a less desired area which is counter intuitive to actually making the city better or your quality of life for that matter.
"Not acceptable but",
"You can't just pick and choose which projects."
"It's Gavins fault."
"He just gave us 1.7Billion to.... investigate how to help clear up the backlog of projects." How much is needed? "3.7 Billion.".
Never rely on government to find a solution. Let the market "fix" the problem and you will get housing.
Please name an example of a truly "free" market providing housing for everyone. Kthxbye
@@LisaBeergutHolst I don't know and I may be wrong, but I would say that ninety-nine per cent of all housing built in the USA are built by the free market. Secondly, in my area of the country (mid-Atlantic), there are several large developments going on where housing is being built at a modest cost and no government involvement.
@@corin164 Obviously not so modest that it prevents people from being homeless. You didn't answer my question.
@@corin164 "No government involvement"? Who is going to pay to repair or replace the roads and sewers in 20-30 years? Answer: the taxpayers.
@@LisaBeergutHolst You're mixing apples with oranges. Roads, waterways, and other utilities are for "the general welfare of the People", which is allowable under the U. S. Constitution. There's nothing in the Constitution about providing housing, feeding, healthcare or any other essential requirements to sustain life to individuals who wish not to provide these requirements themselves.
No need to Visit "Pirates of Caribbean" at Disneyland anymore..
The New Ride is the Entire State of California.
30 percent of buildable land in California is zoned for apartments 70 percent is for large expensive houses. And those homeowners don't want apartments in their neighboorhoods.
It’s the zoning that needs to be addressed!
“Without the funding, how hard does this process get?” You can’t make this stuff up….😂
So where does all the money go? The hundreds of millions that the legislature allocated and paid out (to someone or some entity) to help with the homeless and affordable housing crisis. It gets spent alright - but in places none of us ever hear about.
I had to report for jury duty in Oakland. In the waiting room there was nothing to read but a thick report by the county grand jury. The report detailed 7 separate cases of how public money was mis-spent. In one case, a newly formed tax-payer-bond funded organization burned through 15 million dollars in 3 years. The appointed director was paid $200K (per year), several assistants topped $100K and dozens of others got $50K (again, per year). All of these employees showed up for work an average of 40 percent of the time - if that. They rented expensive office space, went on out-of-town expense-paid trips to "explore" other city's programs, and at the end of the day succeeded in printing out nice color brochures. Their mission was to help inner-city/ at-risk youth. At least the kids got those glossy brochures about the value of staying in school. I would bet that these employees and directors have also done a stint in affordable housing organizations.
Any the cycle continues.
They don't want affordable housing!
Can you say taxation and regulations
maybe 1.8 bilion goes into politicians and government worker campaigns for election into office
Its called GREED.
That’s California for you!
To get a "surplus" California removed unfunded obligations (pensions) from the budget. That's the same as you removing your credit card debt from your budget to make it look better. Toss pensions back in, and the budget shortfall is horrific.
Build it in Central Valley and areas that are more affordable. Don’t insist on living in expensive cities and complain about affordability.
All of the private investors and developers of affordable housing have been forced to leave the state. Too many needless regulations. It's the profit that keeps things cheap.
When they said 1 year , it means at least 3 years. When they said 2-3 years , it means 5-10 years. It’ll never be done on time
Here is what they need to do. Build motel rooms with a kitchenette area, That's it, it's better than living in a tent or a car. Easy to design, easy to build and you have studio housing for low income people.
Vegas has been doing this for years.
The core problem is "affordable housing" sounds really good, but the reality is someone is giving a high value property to someone else. The person getting the home gets a great deal. This isn't how a market works, so yeah, not a lot of people lining up to give away value. And what happens if you build 3000 low cost units? More people move to the area. You can never provide enough low cost units in high demand areas. BTW, "low cost units" are not going to homeless people. They certainly can't afford any of those.
Affordable housing is not really a thing that could work.
Having a few units here and there is not going to substantially make a difference. It's going to help the lucky few, only a small fraction from all that need some help. All the others will pay market rates. That's not going to be fair to many, including people that bought their home, without aid, or people that just barely don't qualify.
On the other hand, they will never be able to get many affordable units, because it's too expensive and because there just isn't enough open land in the Bay Area.
The solution is to do away with affordable housing and just approve more housing at market rate. More housing = better rents.
just remove the zoning. Entirely. Also remove the added surcharges and system / development charges - total and complete veasy fix. But then property values as we know it would plummet and people are greedy.
As it should be.
Housing shouldn't be an investment in the first place.
Gee, look at the cost of building materials, permitting fees, environmental red tape, it’s no wonder projects are stalled.
I thought 3D printed houses could be as cheap as $5K?
Gavin Newsome would never allow that.
THis is California we are talking about. So much to do, not enough money. Even then, there's zoning rules, red tape rules, chain of command rules, permits, etc.
By the time every project gets completed, the people who needed won't need it anymore because their home would be at the cemetery.
Politicians blame everything on the pandemic but this issue precedes the pandemic.
This is why we need to get Kevin paffrat as the governor
im voting for him when gavin newsome is recalled!!
@@dean4125 yes
It is a solvable problem but government won't be the one to do it. Everything they touch fails.
They need to hurry up and build the affordable housing in the bay. We don’t need anymore bay people in the valley
Thanks a lot for nothing Jerry Brown
In the last governor election, there was an Asian guy verse Newsome. The Asian guy said he will bring back the zoning department. Newsome said he will build million of housing. I think the Asian makes sense.
The "asian guy" was John Chiang Democrat. He is the state treasurer from 2015 to 2019 he received 616,789 votes (9.5%). As for "bring back the zoning department" there was never a state level zoning department. This is a county and city function and some have disbanded the use of it because its counter productive to getting more housing.
You should come to Toronto. Building in Toronto is even harder than in California by an Order of magnitude. In Toronto, the politicians regularly trade affordable housing lots to build student housing, buildings for universities and market rate condominiums by adding a developer charge that pays for parkland that is supposed to be included with the building but is instead sold off for air rights to add a few more stories to a building instead of a park. The city makes money, the developers pass the costs on to the building owners and tenants and no affordable housing is ever built. Or it is built on the far edges of the city and temporary container housing for a few dozen units. Or sold to another town or city so they can play the same game again and build nothing.
How about using modular construction for affordable housing projects? (even an earthquake strike it down, you can rebuild it in days after cleanup)
Good luck with that.
You know how modular construction is still being dismissed in the US as "communist" like wtf.
Hmm 3 billion backlog but here the governor is saying how California had an extra 70 billion hmmmm something doesn’t match up
Can’t or won’t?
I hope the tech companies move out so the housing costs ease
bro we need a new governor he doesn't even know what he's doing anymore
Go let the homeless in those lots and I bet they'll start to work on it just to kick them out
Get your Mobile home of my land that i pay taxes for. Go to Antarctica.
There’s no money, as simple as that
Also some cities charge over 100k for permits.
Just closed on my house up near Sac. Got lucky. Basically my agent and the seller's agent are bffs and that allowed her to get my offer in there. The seller only had another offer before accepting. Otherwise I would still be looking.
State has 97.5 billion in budget surplus this year, that pretty deep pockets for a lot of state projects.
So we take taxes to pay for housing. When the high taxes and laws are making so you can’t sell affordable housing. Because the cost to build a house is so high. The USA just keeps getting dumb and dumber.
I am a person who was homeless. I am a veteran. I have section 8, HUD-VASH housing now. When I was going through a homeless crisis depression was constant, medical doctors prescribed medications. Psychologist informed me that the life expectancy of homeless was shorter than the housed. C'mon guys, it's already too late.
If you can't afford it move away
The US could go on 1 of 2 directions
Finally realizing we are a 3rd eworld country And Establish Brazilian favelas
Outside the city centers
Or we could be like Singapore
Where they planned housing for everyone Regardless of economic status Without having the stigma of being public housing.
If you think it's the latter I'd like to sell you a bridge in Brooklyn
Oh wait favelas In Brazil Are going solar In California Don't hold your breath
Get the government the F out of the way! If they really want affordable housing, approve a permit and let private builders build. There doesn't need to be any funding from tax dollars. More units will lower rents. Get out of the way.
Just build more market rate housing and prices will go down. Also stop blaming homelessness on housing, it’s a drug and mental health crisis.
IT's a not win situation, help the homeless with housing and make it only in certain parts of California and that's where homeless people will move to hoping they can get free housing.
We had affordable condos in my town, but immigration took over.
Immigration or migration?
Maybe quit stacking Millions people on top of each other... in a desert??
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We should just do it like England does with council flat housing, and make it completely federally funded.
these people been lying to the people all the time
Despite the purported drought, cities all over the state are still approving 1000s of new housing developments which will increase the population by nearly 250,000 people and more water use.
We can't have it both ways. The government should start building more water facilities or stop approving more development.
Better to abolish single-family zoning and upzone majority of the suburbs. Two birds in one stone
The voters of California simply voted for zoning regulations that made it difficult for real estate developers and building more housing.
why is everybody mad?
imagine if youre the land owner, you want to sell it for max profit, right?
now imagine youre the construction owner, you want to build for max profit, right?
That mentality is the evil in this world
It's just sad that others like low income people get left behind. But some people make it harder for others
If me or you did that made promises over going to bring affordable housing and then did did not do it and kept the money they'd crucify us like Jesus
Finland and Denmark can end homelessness in less than a year. Meanwhile California. WTF everything has to be so complicated.🤦🏻
Which is why I really believe that their progressivism is fake. Their "liberalism" reeks of hypocrisy and is very far from how REAL progressives work.
@@ianhomerpura8937 I’m assuming you’re referring to Progressives and liberals here in the States and not in Europe right?
@@mopes2713 yep. Really, I am puzzled why so-called "progressives" in the US tend to be the worst NIMBYs of all.
In Europe and Asia, progressives tend to be the first to lobby for more government housing for both low-income and middle-class families.
If we could do as much construction in housing as those anchors have on their faces there would be no housing crisis.
2:49 is your answer to why the money has disappeared. Yes to recall.
All your inventory of decades worth of unharvested wood has burned down.
Artificial scarcity is scarcity of items despite the technology for production or the sufficient capacity for sharing. The most common causes are monopoly pricing structures, such as those enabled by laws that restrict competition or by high fixed costs in a particular marketplace. We also have had new innovative and progressive building systems such as Fox blocks in 2004 and ICF in 1967 by Wendel Gregori, also the mass amount of laborers able to construct this buildings leave no excuse for these governement and capitalist induced shortages. Since there are so many people prostrate with hunger in the world, this sacred council urges all, both individuals and governments, to remember the aphorism of the Fathers, "Feed the man dying of hunger, because if you have not fed him, you have killed him,"(12) and really to share and employ their earthly goods, according to the ability of each, especially by supporting individuals or peoples with the aid by which they may be able to help and develop themselves. (Gaudium Et Spes Pope Paul VI to the modern world 1965)
I guess thats why there aren't any tiny home communities
Same with Utah. ☹️
Millions for awareness nothing to solve the problem.
If you gave Fiona ma a simple test on the law of supply and demand and how it would impact prices, she would fail. The simple solution is to let developers build as much housing as needed. Eliminate all of the excess regulation, and housing prices would fall dramatically. But, this would cause her home value to fall so she would never allow this. But like I said she doesn't even know basic economics.
So another 4 years til they make the project started?!?! Jesus! And ppl ask why there's a recall by the Republicans.
Unfortunately affordable housing usually becomes a ghetto. Which is why theres also backlash by people that live near there along with all these other problems they mentioned.