Despite California’s reputation as a ‘sanctuary state’ that promises to welcome illegal immigrants with open arms and taxpayer-funded handouts, rich Democrats in the Golden State are afflicted with a severe case of NIMBY-ism, according to the Washington Examiner‘s editorial board.
And while tens of thousands of immigrants are answering the call amid a crisis-level housing shortage, these virtue-signaling Democrats refuse to commit state resources towards accomodating the influx of new residents.
Via the Washington Examiner Editorial Board
NIMBY California Democrats
California’s increasingly left-wing residents want open borders, and they want their state to give handouts to immigrants, legal and illegal. But they don’t want any building to house this low-income riffraff anywhere near their expensive homes.
California Democrats’ NIMBY-ism, or “not in my backyard,” is a perfect case study in modern left-wing hypocrisy. Gestures and virtue signaling about tolerance and openness? They’re all for those. But don’t suggest opening the gates to their communities.
California’s housing shortage has reached crisis levels. Home prices are more than twice the national average. The state has the nation’s second-lowest ratio of homes to residents.
Lawmakers in Sacramento considered Senate Bill 50, which would have forced local governments to permit high-density housing in specific areas. Left-wingers who actually, rather than just rhetorically, welcome all comers would pass such a bill. But California Democrats, of course, did not. Instead they passed Senate Bill 451, a tax credit for rich people who restore historic buildings.
SB 451 would grant a 20% tax credit for the restoration of qualifying buildings and a 25% tax credit for the rehabilitation of those historic houses on federal surplus property, include affordable housing, are in a designated census tract or military base, or is a transit-oriented development. Yes, there is some lip service there to affordable housing, but that’s all it is. Weighing the marginal benefits, the owners of low-density historic properties will be happy to renovate at one-fifth taxpayers’ expense and then charge high rents.
From the Spanish colonial and Georgian revivalist structures across Los Angeles County and the Victorian to beaux-arts in the Bay Area, California has plenty of architectural gems worthy of preservation. But wealthy owners of such properties have every reason to maintain and preserve them without a handout. Subsidies to preserve low-density housing amid a severe housing shortage is nuts, or mercenary, or both.
California needs prolific development of high-density housing to cut prices and sustain the influx of immigrants flowing over the southern border.
Homelessness has skyrocketed by 17% in San Francisco and 43% in neighboring Alameda County in the past two years. This bill won’t just fail to help those who have nowhere to live, but it will also cost the state money it doesn’t have.
Residents of prosperous Pasadena and Palm Springs have emphatically endorsed the bill. Why wouldn’t they? It’s free money to spend on their multimillion-dollar estates, from which they can write letters to the editor cursing President Trump and professing their love for immigrants — as long as those foreigners don’t live too close by.
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I thought California was broke.
Stupid asses. Just like NYC. When you willingly bend over and spread your cheeks. Why act so surprised when it hurts.
Twenty thousand new homes going up on the last piece of open land in my county. It’s most likely going to be a magnet for Yankee relocation/resettlement. Already have the homebuilder signs up, but not one road, no utilities, no schools, no water treatment, no nuttin. Trade ya!
Build a road, and voila, there is the sewage system california style.
Be a shame if the entire development burned down.
Are you a barn burner, AC?
Dear Donald,
Last week I read about a small town in New Mexico that was struggling with illegals being dumped there by the Border Patrol. I thought screw them. NM is a blue state that hates you.. Then I looked up the voting results for that city and county. Trump carried that county handily. Why would you punish your supporters?
Don’t announce on twitter you will dump illegals in Pelosi’s district just tell the Border Patrol to put every (I mean all of them no matter where they are caught in the USA) illegal they catch and release in California. No more talk just action. A million unemployed criminals dumped into San Francisco should do wonders for the moral superiority of the Democrats. Let the illegals wait for their immigration hearings in San Francisco. Take a page from the Democrat handbook. Reward your friends and punish your enemies.
Sincerely,
OTC
Hear, hear, couldn’t agree more.
Dumb cunt
A large group of AFRICANS was captured after they illegally entered our country. Some were from the Congo . Which just happens to have a new outbreak of Ebola. To read an excellent dissertation on the virus go to the Raconteur Report. No shit, if this enters our country it could make the plague look like a Sunday picnic.
Don’t worry folks, Trump is on it. /sarc
So many are coming across that BP is overwhelmed. They have no facilities left to put them all up. I don’t get it why they are not just dropped back across the border but instead shipped to somewhere in the US to set up shop; on taxpayer dime.
I saw where a a paraplegic and quadriplegic were dumped off a raft into the Rio Grande to drown when BP was approaching. BP rescued them both and brought them over for processing. Obviously BP couldn’t leave then to drown but then ended up helping them get to the American side. By some reports I’ve seen that they are releasing 100, 000 a month now. That is insane, over a million by October!
George Nader, who was a key source for special counsel Robert Mueller, has been arrested on child porn charges: https://news.yahoo.com/businessman-linked-mueller-probe-faces-child-porn-charge-200916986.html?ncid=facebook_yahoonewsf_akfmevaatca
Your article is not implying that the left coast wealthy elites are extremists for poor illegals and criminal elements invading our country to live among everyone and every community except theirs . Perish the thought !
For a second there I thought you had the same wealthy politically connected bags of shit that Maryland has especially when taking shithole dwellers out of the shithole they made and moving them to a more target rich area to as the one former mayor of Baltimore City said “ Give them room to DESTROY”
Thank god that stupid bitch has a new prestigious job as the head of the American council of mayors . The latest one may be wearing an orange jump suit soon , its the new black LMAO !