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SWBTATTReg

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2. A tiny drop in the bucket of things that need to be addressed in order to increase
Mon May 16, 2022, 03:01 PM
May 2022

affordable housing.

In many places in this Country, you have scores, nay, hundreds and/or thousands living in tents, RVs, etc. all across the Country. This used to be a fad, where you had the snowbirds go South, and then return North every year, but these tent/RV cities that are springing up all over the Country aren't snowbirds. They're people who are simply looking for a roof over their head, etc., housing has gotten too expensive.

A tragedy.

And a lot of communities ban motor homes and mobile homes too, so where are these people (who buy the manufactured homes) going to locate them? Authorities need to open up or repeal a lot of the bylaws, the NIMB (not in my backyard) mantra that is so prevalent in so many communities that actually helps create these problems. I recall that when they tried to develop a senior citizens development for the seniors of one community here in STLMO (more specifically, a community in the outskirts of STLMO, the city of STLMO is pretty good about affordable housing but that's changing w/ the advent of higher prices for homes in the city), the citizens of that one community refused to let the senior citizen's development proceed, even though the development would have housed seniors from that very community. Nice, eh? Won't even let their old aunts, uncles, parents when they get older, live in the communities these seniors lived in all of their lives.

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