Comments on: Increase in homelessness: affordable housing and jobs http://blog.vivianpaige.com/2006/06/16/increase-in-homelessness-affordable-housing-and-jobs/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:36:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: vjp http://blog.vivianpaige.com/2006/06/16/increase-in-homelessness-affordable-housing-and-jobs/comment-page-1/#comment-879 Sat, 17 Jun 2006 04:33:42 +0000 https://vivianpaige.wordpress.com/2006/06/16/increase-in-homelessness-affordable-housing-and-jobs/#comment-879 You are right. The question is: what can we do about it? After all, we keep reelecting the council members.

]]> By: Jeff C http://blog.vivianpaige.com/2006/06/16/increase-in-homelessness-affordable-housing-and-jobs/comment-page-1/#comment-872 Fri, 16 Jun 2006 17:46:16 +0000 https://vivianpaige.wordpress.com/2006/06/16/increase-in-homelessness-affordable-housing-and-jobs/#comment-872 No surprise here. Trailer parks are closed and replaced with condos. Apartments and long term hotels are bulldozed in Ocean View and are then replaced with McMansions, or the apartments are converted into condos, all in the name of “crime prevention”. Low income housing developments are bulldozed and are turned into new single-family subdivisions. No new low-income housing or trailer parks or apartments are even being planned to replace the old units. The downtown housing being built is EXCLUSIVELY high priced condos. Property taxes are going through the roof, with zero support for low income homeowners.

Simply put, the land owners who can make record profits by booting out renters and converting their properties into condos want the poor to just go away, and move to Chesapeake or Portmouth. The Norfolk councilmen give lip service to the poor but only see dollar signs in the increased property taxes that McMansions or condos can produce.

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