Local Leaders Should Protect Us From ‘Affordable Housing’
Local Leaders Should Protect Us From ‘Affordable Housing’
Editor,
Due to their socialist (communist) policy foundation, neither socialist mass transit nor inclusionary zoning provide sound, sustainable solutions for us, and will backfire as they did on the USSR.
Making housing less affordable, inclusionary zoning is a Marxist utopian idea that does just the opposite, proven to do much more harm than the small amount of good its advocates proclaim.
Two recent reports from the Reason Foundation unmask the Soviet-style Trojan Horse called “Inclusionary Zoning”: “Housing Supply and Affordability: Do Affordable Housing Mandates Work?” (April, 2004), and “Do Affordable Housing Mandates Work? Evidence from Los Angeles County and Orange County,” (June, 2004), both by Benjamin Powell, Ph.D, and Edward Stringham, Ph.D.
The authors‚ findings prove that “inclusionary zoning” will hurt many more people than help, and will greatly harm our children, and even more severely damage our grandchildren.
The authors conclude about “inclusionary” (ultra-socialist) zoning schemes: (1) produce fewer housing units, (2) have high costs, (3) make market priced homes more expensive, (4) restricts the supply of new homes, (5) decreases tax revenues to local government, (6) does not address the cause of the affordability problem, and (7) will make housing less affordable.
It will be worse than what our government did “deregulating” electricity.
On behalf of our children and grandchildren, I urge local elected leaders to reject all forms of socialist “affordable housing” and “mass transit” which history has shown cannot work over the long term.
Joseph P. Thompson
Hollister
