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To: Elroy who wrote (347022)	8/16/2007 5:17:39 AM
From: Taro	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575154

Ted just set a new record, beating his own old: Posting 44 messages in a row, un interrupted by others. For sure it takes at least 3 degrees to come up with a scheme how to achieve this. Taro

To: Elroy who wrote (347022)	8/20/2007 2:49:16 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1575154

And how does that "experienced secretary" live? Have you ever been to house? Ever seen her car? Determined the condition of her teeth; her health? She shares an apartment with other renters. It's probably not all that nice, but its as nice a place as she has ever lived, so it's fine for her. People don't generally mind basic accomodation until they've had better. As for her teeth, she probably hasn't been to the dentist, ever! All true......and she'll have fake teeth by say 40? Sounds about right. So you should be pushing for more low income housing developments. That's one problem with the housing development market - it seems all the developers want to build the snazziest state of the art hi tech beautiful building for the most well off families when what is needed in many places is loads of cheap, basic accomodation near the cities. Yes, that's true. It would be a great way to alleviate the problem. However, most lower income projects don't pencil without gov't subsidies. Unfortunately, the feds got out of subsidizing housing projects under Reagan 15 or 20 years ago. It seems GOPers considered subsidizing housing to be another form of socialism. Plus, it was putting a crimp in our defense budget. Some more affluent states tried to pick up the slack by providing some funding for lower income housing but its very limited because of their limited resources. Cities like Seattle and SF that are growing and economically sound are able to get some low income units included in developments by allowing greater density than zoning permits which translates into more units. However, many developers will forego any zoning benefits because they don't want to deal with low income housing. Consequently, this approach also is a drop in the bucket. Any suggestions?