Trump ensures his second term is worse than the first with increased environmental push backs, attacks on LGBTQ+ rights & climate science, plus proposed cuts to Native programs, housing aid and more
Not the point Jerry. You’re totally off base. Why not help inform readers of reality? Accurate reporting of facts benefits readers by increasing their knowledge. The goal is for all to access their life needs, which includes shelter for most. Tell us, Jerry, when did able bodied Californians, Americans, become entitled to live where they want at the expense of others?
In today’s economy, accessing desired shelter requires sacrifice, delayed gratification, trade-offs, and a plan: how do we get where we want to go; where and how do we each want to live. Deciding how to execute one’s plan for desire results requires decisions and implementation. In my early twenties, my plan included FT paid work during grad school in Dallas, career training in San Francisco and New Orleans, followed by jobs in Sacramento and Long Beach. Many moves and long daily commutes. Goal: to eventually live 1) where there was good weather between my narrow comfort zone of 60-85 degrees, 2) in a location with no or minimal mosquitos, 3) where I could earn enough to pay my expenses: the cost to be alive.
Having developed HUD projects for non-profit sponsors, abuses are many. One available CA option to consider is a long term 30-40 year property lease to build an ADU. NextDoor users have discussed this option. How many pursued it?
It seems to me too many locals want ‘the gift’ of HUD or CA Housing Finance Agency ‘property tax exempt, bond exempt housing’; and rent control to reduce the supply of housing.
Why is it Jerry, these locals, aren’t supporting the cost of SBUSD schools or SBCC? They’re takers or what? .
Time to look at fraud and the core structural housing issue supply, rather than continuously looking only at the demand side. HUD subsidies and rent control are not the answer. With our locally high cash economy of unreported income, and for HUD eligibility SB County poverty defined at $98,000 or less for a single person, there is huge demand for Section 8, an outdated, fraud invested program. Few locals only pay 30% of their income for housing (the HUD guideline); many of us pay 70-80% for housing in South County. Topography, water, infrastructure, and regulations limit supply. Safety of residents, workers, and our guests is highest priority.
Disagree: As a former certified HUD Housing Rep, no one is “ignoring” housing challenges. It’s good that “The plan would also impose a two-year cap on rental assistance for able-bodied adults”, while NOT “ignoring the long-term housing challenges people face in the markets.”
In 1950, it took 2 years savings to buy a CA median price home. 75 years later, in 2025, it takes 15 years savings to buy a CA median price home. And that home will not be in coastal California, one of the highest priced destinations in the country!
Isn’t it time to for journalists to message reality, truths, to readers? Communicate to those who wrongly think they’re entitled. America is a compassionate, capitalist country that historically assisted only those who cannot help themselves: the very young, very old, disable veterans, and as described in other states, “the incurables” with acute physical or mental limitations.
Not the point Jerry. You’re totally off base. Why not help inform readers of reality? Accurate reporting of facts benefits readers by increasing their knowledge. The goal is for all to access their life needs, which includes shelter for most. Tell us, Jerry, when did able bodied Californians, Americans, become entitled to live where they want at the expense of others?
In today’s economy, accessing desired shelter requires sacrifice, delayed gratification, trade-offs, and a plan: how do we get where we want to go; where and how do we each want to live. Deciding how to execute one’s plan for desire results requires decisions and implementation. In my early twenties, my plan included FT paid work during grad school in Dallas, career training in San Francisco and New Orleans, followed by jobs in Sacramento and Long Beach. Many moves and long daily commutes. Goal: to eventually live 1) where there was good weather between my narrow comfort zone of 60-85 degrees, 2) in a location with no or minimal mosquitos, 3) where I could earn enough to pay my expenses: the cost to be alive.
Having developed HUD projects for non-profit sponsors, abuses are many. One available CA option to consider is a long term 30-40 year property lease to build an ADU. NextDoor users have discussed this option. How many pursued it?
It seems to me too many locals want ‘the gift’ of HUD or CA Housing Finance Agency ‘property tax exempt, bond exempt housing’; and rent control to reduce the supply of housing.
Why is it Jerry, these locals, aren’t supporting the cost of SBUSD schools or SBCC? They’re takers or what? .
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Time to look at fraud and the core structural housing issue supply, rather than continuously looking only at the demand side. HUD subsidies and rent control are not the answer. With our locally high cash economy of unreported income, and for HUD eligibility SB County poverty defined at $98,000 or less for a single person, there is huge demand for Section 8, an outdated, fraud invested program. Few locals only pay 30% of their income for housing (the HUD guideline); many of us pay 70-80% for housing in South County. Topography, water, infrastructure, and regulations limit supply. Safety of residents, workers, and our guests is highest priority.
Disagree: As a former certified HUD Housing Rep, no one is “ignoring” housing challenges. It’s good that “The plan would also impose a two-year cap on rental assistance for able-bodied adults”, while NOT “ignoring the long-term housing challenges people face in the markets.”
In 1950, it took 2 years savings to buy a CA median price home. 75 years later, in 2025, it takes 15 years savings to buy a CA median price home. And that home will not be in coastal California, one of the highest priced destinations in the country!
Isn’t it time to for journalists to message reality, truths, to readers? Communicate to those who wrongly think they’re entitled. America is a compassionate, capitalist country that historically assisted only those who cannot help themselves: the very young, very old, disable veterans, and as described in other states, “the incurables” with acute physical or mental limitations.
I got mine, sez Denice...