Local Leaders Should Protect Us From ‘Affordable Housing’
Dear 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.
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, Gilroy
Have Our Leaders Become Socialists?
Dear Editor,
After defeating the USSR, have local leaders decided to accept its socialist policy? Fee simple absolute title was achieved in Western Civilization after centuries of bloody conflict. People were slaughtered; kings were beheaded. From the Magna Carta to the Bill of Rights’ Fifth Amendment, unconditional ownership of real property became one of our society’s proudest achievements, available for anyone with the resolve to work to attain it.
Now will local leaders thrash this ideal giving Marx, Engels, Trotsky, Lenin and Stalin the last chortle from their graves?
Please report the finding of the two studies in the report from Reason Foundation: (1) “Housing Supply and Affordability: Do Affordable housing mandates work?” (April, 2004), and (2) “Do affordable Housing Mandates Work? Evidence from Los Angeles County and Orange County,” (June, 2004).
These accurately reveal what our local leaders, backed up by the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Kelo v. City of New London, can do to ruin the achievements of our ancestors.
Our leaders appear inclined to join the Marxist Revolution. Question is: Will we let them? If we do, what will they nationalize next? Your home? Your equity? Have our leaders gone mad?
Joseph P. Thompson, Gilroy
