On 12/10/2019 01:31 PM, Ken wrote:
Ed Pawlowski wrote:
Looks like we may have opportunity to help our fellow man. Just got
out of jail? You get a new house. Managed to sneak across the
border? You get a new house. Earn a good living and pay taxes?
Sorry, find your own house.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/20...deal-framework


Omar's $1.2 Trillion 'Homes for All Act' Heralded as Ambitious
Addition to Green New Deal Framework
The 10-year plan to build millions of sustainable, affordable housing
units is called "a new mile marker in the progressive left's efforts
to stake out a national housing agenda."

According to a fact sheet (pdf) from Omar's office, the legislation
"establishes a new vision of how 21st Century public and affordable
housing should look and operate" by requiring that all new housing
units built with the allocated funds:

Remain permanently affordable;
Be integrated, to the best possible extent with public transit and
vehicle alternatives like walking and biking, while allowing for
flexibility to accommodate the needs and resources of rural,
metropolitan, and Tribal areas;
Be designed, built, and operated to the highest possible environmental
standard, with a focus on minimizing energy costs and achieving carbon
neutrality;
Prohibit any discrimination against residents based on sexual
orientation, gender, criminal history, or immigration status;
Be located in communities that are in compliance with the
Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing rule in order to ensure fair and
equal access;
And provide residents with free, voluntary wrap-around services that
help address the needs of those experiencing chronic homelessness or
housing instability€”like access to healthcare, employment, or
education assistance, childcare, financial literacy class, and other
community-based support services.

I think this has already been tried. It was called Cabrini-Green. How
did that work out??

It was sustainable... Until they planted the charges that is. That's
not the only high rise, or low rise for that matter, failure. Omar fails
to realize you might be able to temporarily take the people out of the
slums but you can't take the slums out of the people for more than a few
years.