Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:
Not enough houses. We need to build more. And people can’t afford them because they have too much student loan debt from worthless college degrees. We need to subsidize mortgages again, just like before the last real estate crash.
The answer to social engineering failures is never to stop social engineering. The failures only prove that the agenda was not implemented sufficiently. This time, it will be different.
Wondering if the Narrative may be flawed doesn’t make you intelligent, it makes you a hater. Why is that?
Joe doakes
The problem with Narratives is, eventually you have to prop ’em up with bread and circuses.
Brings to mind living right across the street from “affordable housing” that cost more than I’d just paid for my home, and learning that in 2001, the city of Oakland CA thought that $350k/unit qualified as “affordable”. My thought was you could flat out buy homes in Iowa for three families for the cost they were spending on one. It is as if cities need to remember that “affordable housing” used to mean tarpaper shacks and 300 square foot tenements. Not that we ought to push the poor back into THOSE, but it does seem that there ought to be some happy medium between a tenement or tarpaper shack and the 2000 square foot homes they now deem “affordable.” Maybe….just maybe….we set it somewhere around the 1000 square feet with single car garage for a family? Maybe if we loosened zoning requirements, we’d get some of that?
BB:
Bite your tongue. Everyone knows that single family homes are destroying the planet due to inefficient use of resources, energy, and infrastructure. We need to build multi-story multi-use buildings with the ground level populated by socially acceptable businesses, and the upper 4-6 levels being “affordable” housing. Of course, having 6-12 living spaces piled on top of the equivalent of a single-family dwelling acreage means far more bang for the buck for government in terms of property taxes collected.
Will do. In a world where people need cars to get around, we obviously need to build tall buildings surrounded by parking lots, or worse yet, tall buildings not surrounded by parking lots. Got it.
Of course! We need to follow the visionaries of St Paul who decided that putting in a 15K seat soccer stadium with less than 300 parking spaces available is a good thing.
I truly hope that the people who live around the stadium and voted for the current St Paul city council enjoy the resulting traffic snarls and residential streets clogged with parked cars. Further irony would be if SPCC enacts codes that forbid people from renting out their yards for parking like they tried to do with the state fair. I would laugh heartily if that happens.
I live 2 blocks from a suburban park that hosts high school cross country running meets in the fall. It’s no fun when there’s a meet because every available foot of curb space is taken up, and our streets are BARELY wide enough for two cars to pass each other with cars parked on both sides. I don’t know if 2 F-250s could pass each other with cars parked on both sides.
Crap, I screwed up the tag after my first paragraph.
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