Maybe the Dems haven't been perfect, but the Republicans have done no better. As a matter of fact the previous 8 years before O'Bama the previous President, I won't name so you can't scream I'm bashing Bush, began this downward spiral of our economy. There is nothing you can say to defend his 8 years. I'll let you call O'Bama bad, if you will admit that other guy was just as bad. NotNow Hero Member Posts: Really, sit down and read it.
Then read the Federal Papers, written as an explanation of the Constitution by the guys who wrote the document. Don't listen to me or anyone else on this forum or others, read the original documents. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.
If the first be destroyed, the last must be substituted; and where this becomes the ordinary instrument of government there is an end to liberty! Quote from: avonjax on December 15, , PM. Quote from: stephendare on December 16, , AM. Similarly, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti designated a downtown city lot for trailers to temporarily house some of the estimated 25, people sleeping on the street.
Other trailers are to be used for showers, bathrooms, and laundry. In fair share fashion, Garcetti called on city council members to identify similar places in all of their districts for the installation of such trailers.
By pulling together stakeholders at the local level, mayoral leadership and effective community organizing can overcome some of the objections to building and subsidizing permanent housing for the poor. Every Veterans Day, with food donated by Feeding America, Tampa holds a community event to hand some veterans the key to their own fully furnished apartments, courtesy of partner Ashley Furniture.
Over volunteers offer services and serve as buddies to veterans. On its own, conventional politics can often be insufficient to overcome resistance to affordable housing. De Blasio, for instance, has been blasted for siting homeless shelters in some neighborhoods, and Garcetti is feuding with the Los Angeles city council over a linkage fee opponents say will slow development.
Housing activists in environmentally conscious, tech-based boomtowns such as San Francisco, Austin, Seattle, New York, and Cambridge contend that restricting the supply of new housing, especially multi-family, high density, and moderately priced units, is exclusionary and inequitable. YIMBY rejects strict zoning and regulations that raise the cost of living beyond what lower-income people, especially those just starting out, can afford, and that push development into low-income neighborhoods, gentrifying them.
YIMBY groups argue that denser new development of smaller, more affordable residences can forestall displacement of young, low-income working people and temper ever-rising rents and housing prices. Some employers also support the movement so their workers can commute more easily. YIMBY is particularly strong in California where, for decades, there was a set number of housing units, including low-income units, that each city was supposed to build based on projected growth.
Many cities lagged in this obligation. Now Sacramento is considering a bill to allow developers to bypass local design and environmental reviews in cities that delay or derail housing construction, often with the blessing of local neighborhood groups, through multiple appeals and years of litigation. Politically speaking, supporters of such regulations see themselves as left-wing because they are preventing the enrichment of developers at the expense of the natural environment.
Local affordable housing efforts are beginning to hook up in a national movement. In so many cities, progress seems to be stalled not just by federal and state restraints on resources and authority, but also by a lack of political will. There are still many places with strong opposition to affordable housing and that criminalize or displace people experiencing homelessness.
Yet the obstinate regeneration of homelessness and lack of affordable housing in many large, gentrifying cities are becoming key issues in urban politics. No longer content to play to the growth machine or homeowner taxpayers, mayors and city council members are becoming proactive, raising new revenues to finance affordable housing and using land-use and housing regulations to cut through opposition. Confronting the many challenges of COVID—from the medical to the economic, the social to the political—demands all the moral and deliberative clarity we can muster.
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Home Help Login Register. A bounty of sun, no state income tax, miles of beaches, Disney World and more new condominiums than speculators could flip. Jacksonville came in at number 13 and Orlando at number nineteen. Name It Portland So how did these Margaritaville metropolises get ranked with sad sacks like Detroit number two and Toledo number 11? But the magazine says it collected such data as unemployment, suicide rates and household antidepressant use to determine that St.
Nevada has two cities in the saddest 10 Reno and Las Vegas and California has two Bakersfield and Sacramento in the top Do we want more of the same? In a society governed passively by free markets and free elections, organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy. Well, since this one didn't get a response in my absence, I will ask: Are we finally willing to concede that Republican rule in Florida is disastrous for the Public Good?
Oh, sure At least Dems are by and large unabashedly pro-the public good, and do not insist on corporate wellfare to provide a public good for us.
Moving to Florida will not help you! What is it that would have anyone assume geographic locatation,no matter how socially constructed as "Idyllic",trumps human condition?? No wonder the world glares at Florida. Upon moving from evil Miami to the relative wilds of NE Florida ones learns right quick that supposed bucolic settings can harbor sad scenes.
We cling to our neighborhood Nodes,surrounded,free travel limited,adhering to our core daily habitat as if an endangered species,alert to further intrusion. Shoot,I have property in Putnam county impossible to sell thanks to the veil of community malaise The proposed Toll routes were as if a snake wiggling across the Florida landscape,including a not so Tampa wiggle over yonder Palatka way I found that in certain areas, unanticipated growth impacts had already taken a toll,the Toll Road a final nudge for a handful of families that were throwing in the Florida Towel.
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