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"Since 1990, housing productions has consistently failed to keep up with demand, creating a shortfall of nearly 300,000 homes in those counties combined. This shortfall continues in spite of an ever-increasing population."

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*"The quality of life deteriorating everyday."*
What is missing here is a simple reality: Americans don't believe density is a good thing. I recall in history in the B.C. era that the Romans would "design" a city for a population. Soon the population would exceed the design limits and people became annoyed. I look around and see the quality of life deteriorating everyday. The farms are gone. The open spaces turned into more spawl. Houses built on tiny lots crowding us further together. The fact is most of human history we have had alot of space between us. We are denying certain human realities: we believe having room to live is quality. More building equals more spawl-which will mean more people. Many of us believe 300 million Americans is more than enough. I know the neo-thinkers are more like the rest of the world, and not much like us traditional Americans. This article if agreed with will lead us to a nation of continuous spawl and crowdedness-not real quality. The solution is really simple, but as usual not what the neo-thinkers want. Let people determine the changes in their neighborhoods and cities-not a few people. Let the majority decide through the ballot box! NIMBY is not a bad thing. I have a right to protect my quality of life. The choices of the uneducated/ignorant/masses should not dictate my future. I already am saving money to purchase a home on 3+ acres somewhere. This is my choice-not and the governments. Traditional Americans like myself that have no relatives to find outside the U.S., we seem to matter little anymore. Newer Americans and their "foreigner" views seem to be taking over this country. I hope the neo's lose in their attempt to make us like the rest of the world. Remember-whose leaving the U.S.? Almost nobody! I am just putting into words what many of us whose parents and grandparents were born here, we are 100% American. We believe we should be Americans, not Foreigner-Americans.Our values are being trashed everyday in this country now, we are losing liberty and freedom everyday. Let Our People Decide Their Neighborhood's Futures-NIMBY Is American-We believe we have the right to protect our lives from the ignorant/uneducated. When we let their choices determine our fate-we will be like the rest of the world. Glen Jameson-just another American that has no relatives in a foreign country!
Think about this - A Business and Development Position Paper on Housing from the Central City Association, the Building Industry Association, the Valley Industry and Commerce Association and the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce recognizes the need for housing for an existing work force comprised of those who earn between 80 and 120% of the median income:
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*" . . . Sponsor the invasion of millions upon millions."*
You assert that people are coming here whether we build or not. Yes, people....in the form of illegal immigrants...are indeed "coming". Like the screaming Mongolian hordes were "coming" to Hungry and Poland they invading our country by the millions. In our current system of a Corporate Welfare State, profiteers have found lucrative enterprise in cheap labor whose social cost are borne by the American taxpayer. Profit minded developer interests see (and lobby for vigorously) an enormous profit potential in a taxpayer subsidized housing boom for the hordes of migrant poor. In a collusionary effort between the politicians and developers.....public lands can be auctioned off to privateers.....private land can be forced into sale via eminent domain....and the "American Dream" for half the peasantry of Mexico can be subsidized by the American taxpayer. By 2050 we can have half a billion people crammed into our borders. The profiteers and politicians who sponsor the invasion of millions upon millions of third world peasants into our midsts are the same people who label those that would resist the paving over of America as NIMBY's. Robert R.
Think about this - Ann B. Schnare - chairman of the Center for Housing Policy Leadership, the nonprofit research affiliate of the National Housing Conference in her introduction to the report entitled "A New Century Housing - America's Newest Working Families says:
"Concern about the housing problems of immigrants extends beyond narrow political interests or specific geographic areas. For one thing, the issue will not simply resolve itself. Despite the recent economic downturn and a crackdown on illegal entry since September 2001, immigrants continue to flow into the country. By the Census Bureau’s own estimates, 2 million more immigrants have arrived in the U.S. since the 2000 census." "The ability of America’s working immigrant families to obtain decent and affordable housing has implications for the social and economic well-being of our nation. According to the Center for Labor Market Studies at Northeastern University, recent immigrants were critical to the nation’s economic growth in the past decade, accounting for half of the new wage earners who joined the labor force in those years. That study also cited evidence that most immigrants contribute more in taxes than they use in services." "It is the Center for Housing Policy’s hope that the information in this report will encourage policymakers and citizens to face the challenges of the housing needs of all working families, and to consider the specific housing situation of our newest working families." (http://www.nhc.org/pdf/pub_nc_07_03.pdf)

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