Posted by
Playful Walrus on Monday, June 18, 2007 6:47:35 PM
Once again,
certain Anaheim residents are whining and asking for handouts.
Maria Mejia's family has had trouble paying the rent, forcing her to share garages with siblings and cousins and double up with in-laws and other relatives in mobile homes.
There are options here if you don’t like that arrangement. For example, you can find ways to bring in more income, cut other expenses, or move to where housing is more affordable.
Less than two miles away from her latest leaky home, thousands of condos and lofts are under construction to help relieve a housing shortage. But none are slated for low-income families, such as the Mejias.
Right. People can upgrade to those more expensive units, thereby vacating older, more affordable units that may then be available.
Tonight, hundreds of churchgoers, including Mejia, are planning to push city officials to require affordable housing in a planned development on city-owned land next to Angel Stadium.
Hmmmm… churchgoers? Isn’t it a function of churches to redistribute wealth? No government involvement needed.
Once again, truly “affordable” housing is affordable due to market demands, location, size, features, construction costs, etc. Having the City Council wave a magic wand doesn’t make anything more affordable. It means that either the other unit buyers will be subsidizing the “affordable” units, or taxpayers will.
"I don't really think that's right," said Mejia, 33. "We are working families, too, and I really think we should have some (housing), a decent place to live in Anaheim."
You are entitled to whatever you can negotiate on a voluntary exchange - nothing more. If you don’t like it, buy the land yourself and do with it what you want.
Four Catholic churches are hosting tonight's forum, arranged by the Orange County Congregation Community Organization, a coalition of faith-based groups.
Hey, the RCC has a lot of money. Why don't they buy the units and give them away?
Church members are trying to do something about an issue vexing many of its 12,000 or so families: Many members pay as much as 70 percent of their monthly income on rent. Some parishioners moved to the Inland Empire.
See, you
can move. You know what would lower housing costs? Reducing demand. Discouraging millions of more illegal aliens from flooding the area would help reduce demand. I’m sure the RCC will get right on that.
Since 2004, the city has been approving new homes on private land in the Platinum Triangle, which is transforming into a downtown-like setting around Angel Stadium.
I’m sure the other people using that land would just love to have the "entitlement-minded" poor move in next to them, especially on their dime.
Where do people get this idea that "other people" are supposed to be forced to provide them with food, housing, health care, education, and entertainment? Each one of us has something to offer other people. Voluntary exchanges of goods and services (or money, which represents goods and services) can get you what you need. Stop calling on the government to force other people to take care of you. Why doesn't your church step up?