“Next Oregon governor should focus on pathway to homeownership”
I Agree – M. Fitzpatrick
Without hesitation, I agree with the above caption and have always advocated for homeownership as the solution; a remedy long overlooked due to the lack of understanding, intentional or unintentional and compassion for those who make wealth possible for the wealthy. There is a need for that concept – however, it should not take precedence over the greatest housing needs.
While writing opinions about housing as well as outlining unconventional considerations of what affordable homeownership can mean and does mean for lower income households as well as the city governance, and community resource development has long baffled me. Housing for all is a form of nation building, not welfare.
As a long-term community development advocate and practitioner – I am amazed at the intentionality of government’s overlook of the creation of wealth for lower income residents as well as the eventual prosperity of our cities.
Government consistently find logic in investing in market rate and high-income housing – the existence of such housing on a national level far exceeds the need while affordable housing, when considered by the massive need, can far exceed the subsequent benefit of the smaller amount of expensive and high-end market rate housing.
While devising a strategy and working on the alleviation of the devastating impact gentrification was having on the City’s Black community – I began to mindfully measure the impacts of the displacement of lower income households and their replacement by higher income residents.
I believe we can all agree that there are more residents at the bottom income stratosphere, struggling to survive, than there are high income households at the top of the income stratosphere supporting the viability of local government.
Ten nicely constructed and maintained homes on an acre of land will generate more property taxes and value to the community and local government than one high-end home on the same size space.
I would like to call attention to the compilation of affordable housing, nicely constructed homes for homeownership purposes versus the compilation of single site, high-end homes. What I consider is based on instinctive analysis of the status. And, I say this to make a point, and not to change
When I see the homeless camps, I am once again reminded of U S Government’s disregarded pledge that “all Americans deserved a decent, safe, sanitary and affordable home to live.
I began to think about the lost revenues, in jobs specifically, as well as opportunities to rebuild and maintain the Nation’s once valued infrastructure. What happened? Why did it happen? Is America better off today than it was yesterday? Is America in a free-fall? Can it re-equip its moral standing? Why were drug companies allowed to destroy the American character? Why did the U S government allow private, for-profit enterprises to deplete resources from the masses?
I am just thinking; I am just asking?
Let us think about the American economy and what it would be if we returned to the state of existence where more Americans, those currently on the streets, were contributing to its viability.
“Next Oregon governor should focus on pathway to homeownership”
I Agree – M. Fitzpatrick
Without hesitation, I agree with the above caption and have always advocated for homeownership as the solution; a remedy long overlooked due to the lack of understanding, intentional or unintentional and compassion for those who make wealth possible for the wealthy. There is a need for that concept – however, it should not take precedence over the greatest housing needs.
While writing opinions about housing as well as outlining unconventional considerations of what affordable homeownership can mean and does mean for lower income households as well as the city governance, and community resource development has long baffled me. Housing for all is a form of nation building, not welfare.
As a long-term community development advocate and practitioner – I am amazed at the intentionality of government’s overlook of the creation of wealth for lower income residents as well as the eventual prosperity of our cities.
Government consistently find logic in investing in market rate and high-income housing – the existence of such housing on a national level far exceeds the need while affordable housing, when considered by the massive need, can far exceed the subsequent benefit of the smaller amount of expensive and high-end market rate housing.
While devising a strategy and working on the alleviation of the devastating impact gentrification was having on the City’s Black community – I began to mindfully measure the impacts of the displacement of lower income households and their replacement by higher income residents.
I believe we can all agree that there are more residents at the bottom income stratosphere, struggling to survive, than there are high income households at the top of the income stratosphere supporting the viability of local government.
Ten nicely constructed and maintained homes on an acre of land will generate more property taxes and value to the community and local government than one high-end home on the same size space.
I would like to call attention to the compilation of affordable housing, nicely constructed homes for homeownership purposes versus the compilation of single site, high-end homes. What I consider is based on instinctive analysis of the status. And, I say this to make a point, and not to change
When I see the homeless camps, I am once again reminded of U S Government’s disregarded pledge that “all Americans deserved a decent, safe, sanitary and affordable home to live.
I began to think about the lost revenues, in jobs specifically, as well as opportunities to rebuild and maintain the Nation’s once valued infrastructure. What happened? Why did it happen? Is America better off today than it was yesterday? Is America in a free-fall? Can it re-equip its moral standing? Why were drug companies allowed to destroy the American character? Why did the U S government allow private, for-profit enterprises to deplete resources from the masses?
I am just thinking; I am just asking?
Let us think about the American economy and what it would be if we returned to the state of existence where more Americans, those currently on the streets, were contributing to its viability.
MFitzpatrick