Comments on: Proposed CA Constitutional Amendment Could Unlock Billions for Housing

By: Local Yokel Reprise

Local Yokel Reprise — Mon, 21 Aug 2023 00:01:26 +0000

YIMBYs often are slimy as well as multi-unit housing obsessed, want Granny and others thrown out due to ageism in addition to wanting as a number of local government employees do to see turnover of homes to re-assess and raise taxes on them, or see some converted to mid-rise apartments, or with ADUs or second homes without quality, or oversized replacement homes like those by some households, with even high-rises a possibility among the truly deranged, where they don’t belong.

And, like urban fantasists, they want OTHERS forced into this alternative, poor housing and living.

It’s worth it to them to be dealing with the non-profits and governments acquiring housing (governments, to pay future pensions or just to speculate or invest) to see more “progress.” I wouldn’t be surprised if some YIMBY and other activist group leaders have related financial interests.

Look where, and replacing what, in this example, a remarkable high-rise project is sought, and see the YIMBY support here, on their own site and on other, more recent articles, as with earlier other articles. They show support for this and loathing (alien, toxic as all too often) for low-rise and for Sunset(!) and the best living in the country post-war.

https://sfyimby.com/2023/07/builders-remedy-for-300-foot-tower-floated-at-80-willow-road-in-menlo-park.html

https://almanacnews.com/news/2023/08/10/could-menlo-park-fight-a-massive-builders-remedy-development-expert-says-the-city-might-have-a-winning-argument

That the main people with the project are a Putin Pal and a guy who just formed a development firm and seems likely to exploit the Builder’s Remedy in the state, it’s befitting YIMBYs would support it.

By: Ruth A Callahan

Ruth A Callahan — Fri, 11 Aug 2023 19:06:24 +0000

Don’t be fooled This is a YIMBY backed constitutional amendment to “end run” prop 13 and raise “special parcel taxes ” on single family homeowners for the purpose of securing municipal bonds (which are loans which the single family homeowners will be accessed to pay as the bonds become due and the bond measure proposed for the 2024 ballot is in the 5-10 billion dollar range) which will be used to “in fill” the single family neighborhoods with “ministerial rights” developments of multi-story (currently 4 stores are allowed in SJC on single family lots and no parking is required) 4-plexes and 6 to 8-plexs of multi-family dwellings. The purpose of the “infill objectives” is to render extinct single family neighborhoods because the YIMBY’s (financed through dark money form developers and NGO’s which are non-profits who do not have to reveal the source of their funds and YIMBY refuses to do so) because the neighborhoods are “bastions of white privilege racist communities”. Their words – not mine.
So, if you want Granny put out of her home which she worked all her career to pay off and live with assurance of never being unsheltered and to pass down a family legacy to the children who earned it through sweat equity – “not generation wealth falling from the sky” – then vote for this developer / doner class gift. The developers our making billion and paying no taxes to build massive high rises with public funds (Measure E in SJC) and then have the tax payer pay the rents for the low income people who will live in this public housing rent free, utility free with free transportation for the next 55 years. Only single family homeowner will pay. Not commercial property owners, not corporate entity’s- only single family homeowners!! The population of SJC has shrunk dramatically and the state’s own projections for growth in California, into the next decade, predicts that the population will continue to decline precipitously. The state own estimates say will loose over 2 million resident in the coming 5 years and there will be a consistent decline in population through out the end of the decade. People don’t want to live here anymore. Taxes, blight, vagrants, drug use on our streets and byways and the persistent drum beat of the march toward a Marxist agenda by the city council and city staff make this city unbearable. Time to wake up people. If you want to stop the destruction of our lifestyle and communities and fight back the homeless taking over our neighborhoods go to ourneighborhoodvoices.com and join the only constitutional amendment movement worthy of your vote next November.
Observation; where is the legislation/drive to educated the unskilled immigrant work force here in our city/county/state? Why are the labor unions not opening up training on a massive scale to end wage disparities? Why are the community college not expanding nursing , trade skills instruction etc. ? The great equalizer is education and we need to upgrade skills and stop pandering to the leftist who want to destroy the character and economic opportunities this country has to offer.

By: CUI BONO?

CUI BONO? — Thu, 10 Aug 2023 22:59:56 +0000

Officially “Affordable” and especially lower-income group housing that residents can afford from what is out of pocket directly for it will need government involvement and a good deal of subsidies. Which developers and non-profits would benefit from this?

By: Time to be Honest

Time to be Honest — Thu, 10 Aug 2023 18:04:19 +0000

Already spent billions on housing development/homelessness and affordability hasn’t gotten better. To relate the high-prices in housing to simply a “lack of housing” is absurd. The root cause of the affordability issue is the concentration of extremely high-paying jobs in one state/area – particularly the Bay Area/LA – and it is made worse by the lack of housing. But, the root cause is NOT a lack of housing.

Think logically. If a small town in Ohio has 200 families, and only 100 homes to sell – and the average household income is $45,000 per year – then those 100 homes could NOT sell for $1.4 million, like in San Jose. They would still remain affordable for those households. Similar to rent levels – the 100 families that don’t get the $190,000 home to purchase – won’t be competing with households earning $400,000+ per year for rentals – therefore rent levels may increase, but nowhere near Bay Area.

Now, if that same town in Ohio built giant Google, Apple, Facebook, Intel, Cisco, Nvidia (list goes on for a long time) campuses – then the existing $45,000/year households are competing with thousands of high paid tech workers – which would then make every home less affordable. Now, the 100 households who purchased property would see their investments skyrocket – but the other 100 from that Ohio town renting would see their dream of buying a home disappear – and some big rent increases to make room for the tech workers.

That is the story of the Bay Area. Rent and home purchases would be cheaper if this wasn’t the “capital of silicon valley.” So, you’re just developing more homes that will be too expensive for the lower and middle class – and the only thing that makes this area more affordable is spreading out high paying tech jobs to other regions, and the pandemic started that process. Then, the question is, since CA depended on high earners so much to subsidize everything – how do they fill that revenue gap?

The lack of foresight and understanding of issues for leaders in CA is widespread. They create “solutions” that cost a fortune, and make the issues worse.

The fact that a rich household, or high-earning household is willing to pay $2 million for a 1200 sq ft single family home is the root cause.

By: Not Suckered

Not Suckered — Thu, 10 Aug 2023 01:39:14 +0000

And repealing Proposition 13 as the envious, resentful over-age children want only unleashes government greed even more and worse than why Proposition 13 exists.