The Politics of Place: Suburbia, Section 8 /Vouchers, Zoning, Enforced Integration

March 4, 2008

Disclaimer: Before I start my Uber-Rant - let me say this is not a rejection of “sustainable” or “green building” or what is called “infill”(making use of ALREADY developed) areas. I am all for less consumption -

http://www.jetsongreen.com/2007/04/sundance_channe.html

Good guy: http://www.mkd-arc.com/homes/glidehouse/

ecological, simple, natural, healthy, beautiful , non-wasteful, uses solar, and also is not promoting monster/vulgar size -

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The Ghettoization of Suburbia , Subsidized Forced Integration .

Hey, everyone deserves to live in a good , healthy, non-violent place (away from their own!and tax-payer funded!) Whatwhatwhat? You *don’t” want ghetto in your condo? YOU EVIL NAZIRACISTHATER! -what once was “mean-spirited” is now “RACIST!” , which as I said in a recent post, harkens back to the language of “Mommmmyyy! Those kids are being MEAN. They’re EXCLUDING ME! ” but now, it isn’t just cry to your mommy, now it’s INSTITUTIONALIZED.

Kid shot and paralyzed by Drive-by shooting :

http://www.nbc11.com/news/15295467/detail.html

You want this crap in your town?

MADE-UP word : “INCLUSIVENESS” means in real translation : YOU HAVE NO CHOICE. You are such pussies that you are afraid to be called names , you would rather endanger your own children, your family , your property, the general well-being of other good people in the community. Ghettos that never get any better? Answer: Housing vouchers! That way the ghetto can come to nice neighborhoods,and because of market-rate or above voucher amounts, it also has the double effect of providing incentives for landlords who would otherwise avoid these types as tenants, ( for good reason) and thus because of high voucher amounts , it also raises market rents for people who do pay! (your daughter doesn’t already have at least one half-whatever toddler? or wear a hair net like she is in a a south central LA gang? Loser parents you are ! How are we ever going to hold hands and sing “Kum Bah Yah” at the Great Multicultural Music Hall if you don’t become more “INCLUSIVE”…and stop all this NIMBY-ISM ? You want your daughter sneaking this into her room?!!?

So… When those “smart-growther’s” come to your town (and they will) with their “luxury condos” and “mixed use shops/lofts” (when they say “mixed-use” that is code for condos with a % set aside for section 8 and vouchers, same with “higher-density”) and “walkability” (Gee, I can walk just fine as is!) and “livibility” “high density” and little meetings they call “charrettes” (basically a sales pitch hoping to convince you that they really are going to make things “better” Yeah, dorks, better for THEM!), glossy brochures with cute houses and shops, do not go for it. These developers get a huge tax break for providing at least 20% or more of the housing to ghetto/voucher/section 8, and they get incentives like higher buildings, looser building requirements with parking, size of units, etc. as well as the vouchers being for market rate or higher rents-

Now , you white working wage slave or even successful person with money, when this crap comes to town, you won’t have any say about it, they will move right next to you , or on top of you , and your hard-earned life will suddenly become filled with noise, fighting, slamming of doors, yelling out of windows and down hallways, dirty diapers hung on doorknobs in plastic shopping bags, non-stop thumping rap music and/or TV turned up loud coming through your wall, and other never-ending disrespect for shared spaces, which some people don’t get that condos/apartments/du/tri/plexes are. They just know you won’t do anything about it, because you’re WHITE and White People are afraid, they’re “nice” , they don’t like to stir the pot, hence, the big, rude, Chip-on-the-shoulder “AND?” look you will get when you are caught in a moment of watching the horror unfold. Oh, and your schools will start to suck, test scores will obviously go down, your kids will get their ass beat, lunch money stolen, and all the various and sundry problems that come with “diversity”and this idea that we can “fix the poor situation” and its associated social ills by simply moving them amongst civilization, part of what they call “re-distribution of wealth”

A way to avoid this is to form local, vocal anti-development groups to keep this crap out . Sometimes there will be an environmental feature you can use, like some kind of endangered species, but you can fight it BEFORE they try to breeze into town talking about “revitalization” and how it will make all this money in property taxes for your city.

It won’t , tax money for cities comes from taxes on products and services, not property tax, that % is very small, and in new developments, it almost all goes right back into what is called a “redevelopment agency” , because they promised to build a library or a town square (betcha that stuff won’t be in writing, but even if it is, is it worth your area being wrecked by higher crime, unsupervised kids, much more noise, loud music, etc? No one wants THAT, but that is what is inlcuded in the package!) , hence we have :

http://www.gooznews.com/archives/cat_metropolitan_and_urban_affairs.html

The irony in all this is that when it comes to housing, liberals are the main support for voucher programs to house low income people. But over the years, while the Republicans have occasionally given housing voucher programs like Section 8 lip service, they usually are the first programs on the chopping block. Why? Effective housing voucher programs are also effective income and race integration programs, and many landlords in suburban areas would rather see their apartments stay empty that rent to people who are not the same class or race as those already living there.

http://silentconsort.wordpress.com/2008/03/04/the-politics-of-place-suburbia-section-8-vouchers-zoning-enforced-integration/
Even with the higher than market rate rent, and tax incentives, it appears some owners still do not want this on their property. Gee, is it because they suspect these people will wreck it? Oh My GAWD, how RACIST! ! but wait, did I SAY … any particular race? OOps, the name-callers just got “owned” ,to use hacker-speak- The immediately used their own knowledge and experience and came to their won conclusions about who the landlords don’t want there. Now why would they think that? No, the name-callers came to that mental scenario all on their own, because they know it’s true. The above blogger tries to soften the word race with prefacing it with ‘class’ , but we all know it isn’t the poor elderly immigrant Mrs Kerplopovich and her daughter, son-in-law and baby that the landlord is worried about moving in .

What’s the next step so that they can force “diversity” ( AKA force poverty, crime, noise, fear, violence) upon us? Have you ever had a landlord or property manager look at you like you were their long-lost sister, or like they were having some kind of encounter with the divine, they are so happy to see you? I have. The first time this happened to me was many years ago, even with my father accompanying me and toddler in tow. It’s happened since as well, and not only by White people, an Asian seemed even more thrilled . At the time, I just thought they were oh-so-friendly people (but they weren’t that way to everyone, apparently).

There are ways around this if one must live in an apartment/condo is to either buy/rent with other like-minded people (when you buy they call it “tenants in common” or “co-op” ) who have stable income/family ties/not obnoxious/not on drugs/ not dealing/making drugs/ not leaving their kids alone or having the 8 r old watch the 5 and 2 year old while “mom” goes to the club. Also, look into historic preservation of old structures, houses, restaurants , etc., then you can fight the ghetto condo developers with that. The good news in all this? The tax-deal, well the builder/developer “only” ( along time if you are renting/own there) has to have the ghetto/voucher residents for ten years to get the little tax breaks- now that is for new developments, I don’t this applies to existing structures.

If you still live in a half-way decent area and want to keep it that way , you have to ACTIVELY FIGHT IT. . You may have to align yourself with people you might not otherwise associate with to do it. You might not agree on other things they believe in, but no matter, you want to keep your living space crime and chaos-free, you have to do it. You might have to put in extra hours at your kids school in order to keep your school high demand on parents, or encourage or institute parental volunteering .which makes undesirables not want to send their kids to that school (too much work for certain types) . Be careful of the names of these various groups, you might think the name means “against” but it is “for” , such as ” citizens for repsonsible development” (but the agenda is just promoting more development of these condos under the guise of “oh, if we say they have to put a tree here, or make the structure so high”, you know , that still doesn’t keep the area from turning to crap, it is the PEOPLE that determine the way the neighborhood works, not the neat-o or not architecture.

Yes, there are ways to keep things as they are, which is NORMAL and PEACEFUL, but you have to do stuff to keep it this way. You have to approach the “new development” people with a skeptical eye and not buy into the lie that it will be some kind of “revitalization” panacea. It won’t be, folks. It will suck. More people and “higher density” is hardly ever, better and usually worse. These big corporate developers aren’t going to live where you do, they probably aren’t even from the area, what the hell do they care happens to your town? It is in THEIR interest, not yours.

If you are lucky enough to still have suburbia that hasn’t been wrecked by this crap, you defend it and tell them to go take their “livability” and “walkability” and shove it, you aren’t buying into their “urban ” “high density” “affordable housing” “mixed use” scam. It ain’t about you. It ain’t about anything good for you and yours. You are the ones who have the power, not them, don’t let them pave over and re-zone your land for their insta-ghettos masquerading as hipster-pods. Notice they never want to build anything for old people , or working class people who actually work, no, because that isn’t going to rake in the guaranteed government bucks. It’s not profitable. Don’t worry about them calling you names like nay-sayers or NIMBY’s- . To quote “deliverance”, you can make them “squeal like a pig” on the way OUT the door of your town.

DON’T AGREE TO RE-ZONE commercial use commercial use property for residential ,or you will only get big ugly condos and stuck together monster houses that all look alike. Listen for yourself who is advocating this and how viciously they attack Evil Suburbia (as in private house, land, and people who actually worked like dogs to get there and are in serious debt to AVOID the ills of the city) and how they want to make people actually have to pay developers to say NO to them , and how these obnoxious types want to destroy your little enclaves any way they can and you tell me if you wouldn’t be as “protectionist” as myself and others that feel the same) They are not about “save the trees” , this will NOT stop ”sprawl” as they call it, it will only wreck the areas they bring their crappy condos and “mixed use” lying language to :

http://www.econlib.org/library/Downloads/y2007/Epsteinzoning.mp3

Further reading :

http://louminatti.blogspot.com/2008/02/new-urbanism-sucks-part-2.html

http://www.sfbg.com/blogs/politics/2007/10/why_vancouver_sucks.html

Furthermore, the advocates of New Urbanism are critical of housing provision in the form of large-scale social housing for the poor and a lack of diversity for everyone else.
http://www.citymayors.com/environment/new_urbanism.html

This guy blames drive by’s and burlaries on suburbia and sub-prime mortages and foreclosures- , makes bizarre prediction suburbia will be the future ghetto and what people really want is to live in these ‘hi-density” ghettos. It’s all the fault of cars, global warming, peak oil etc., why we must build this crap, and oh, if we do, people will magically stop having to commute to their jobs and using gasoline. Come ON, we KNOW that is a CROCK. No, what is their problem is separation and their desire for forced integration and I repeat , the “redistribution of wealth” Welcome to the USSR.

Yeah, like we want THAT. NOT. Read the lies for yourself-

http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200803/subprime

Another resource is this documentary called “escape from suburbia” which starts off by making fun of life in the 1950’s, mom cleaning up, wearing an apron, kid palying safely outside. Yeah, that is so terrible, we should all be in lumped in high rises, with whoever else happens to get there, however they get there, and be happy about it. Say NO!

http://silentconsort.wordpress.com/2008/03/04/the-politics-of-place-suburbia-section-8-vouchers-zoning-enforced-integration/