On Jan. 30, the affluent town of Hillsborough held a city council meeting to discuss its floundering housing element plan. The plan, which lays out how towns and neighborhoods will meet state-mandated housing targets within eight years, was supposed to be submitted to California’s Department of Housing and Community Development by Feb. 1.
It wasn’t. And it remains in limbo more than a week later. More troublingly, a Hillsborough resident proposed a loophole that’s been popping up in other affluent Bay Area towns trying to meet their housing requirements: build a segregated development specifically for developmentally disabled adults, thus preventing a potential influx of other unwanted “low-income” neighbors.
Hillsborough is required to zone for 554 units of additional housing by 2031, a portion of which must be “affordable” based on the area’s median income. As is the case with many ultra-wealthy neighborhoods, Hillsborough residents and local politicians have expressed skittishness at city council meetings about absorbing residents whose income levels are categorized as “very low” for the area. (In Hillsborough’s case, “very low” is considered $87,000 a year for a family of four.)
“It is frustrating to see public entities use housing for people with certain types of disabilities as a way to circumvent housing element objectives and oppress other populations they perceive to be less desirable for their community,” Michelle Uzeta, senior counsel at Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund, wrote in an email to SFGATE. “These types of affluent communities routinely oppose housing for people with mental health disabilities and people recovering from addiction.”
https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/bay-area-towns-mull-plan-to-avoid-new-housing-17767526.php
Fucking POS Libs.. Want to force responsible, normal working citizens to ruin their own neighborhoods with gangs, drugs and homeless down everyone’s throat right up to the moment it might, possibly affect them.
It wasn’t. And it remains in limbo more than a week later. More troublingly, a Hillsborough resident proposed a loophole that’s been popping up in other affluent Bay Area towns trying to meet their housing requirements: build a segregated development specifically for developmentally disabled adults, thus preventing a potential influx of other unwanted “low-income” neighbors.
Hillsborough is required to zone for 554 units of additional housing by 2031, a portion of which must be “affordable” based on the area’s median income. As is the case with many ultra-wealthy neighborhoods, Hillsborough residents and local politicians have expressed skittishness at city council meetings about absorbing residents whose income levels are categorized as “very low” for the area. (In Hillsborough’s case, “very low” is considered $87,000 a year for a family of four.)
“It is frustrating to see public entities use housing for people with certain types of disabilities as a way to circumvent housing element objectives and oppress other populations they perceive to be less desirable for their community,” Michelle Uzeta, senior counsel at Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund, wrote in an email to SFGATE. “These types of affluent communities routinely oppose housing for people with mental health disabilities and people recovering from addiction.”
https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/bay-area-towns-mull-plan-to-avoid-new-housing-17767526.php
Fucking POS Libs.. Want to force responsible, normal working citizens to ruin their own neighborhoods with gangs, drugs and homeless down everyone’s throat right up to the moment it might, possibly affect them.
