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The poor need affordable housing. The people need jobs. Government makes sure we have neither.
"The din of construction is missing from the eastern edge of the Hollywood Walk of Fame, where workers had hoped to break ground on a 70-unit affordable-housing complex months ago. No nail guns are firing. No hard hat-wearing workers are milling about.
And it's not the only would-be construction site that's silent. Plans to build more than 16,000 housing units in California, many of them for low-income residents, have been frozen in bureaucratic limbo since July."
This was to be built by bond money, but the State has not spent the money.
"Yet none of the $714 million in bond money earmarked for construction has been spent -- one of the many results of California leaders' chronic inability to balance the budget.
"Our . . . ongoing budget problems are the primary cause of this backlog," said Tom Dresslar, a spokesman for state Treasurer Bill Lockyer."
Is this corruption or Democrat incompetence--either way, the people lose.
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"The din of construction is missing from the eastern edge of the Hollywood Walk of Fame, where workers had hoped to break ground on a 70-unit affordable-housing complex months ago. No nail guns are firing. No hard hat-wearing workers are milling about.
And it's not the only would-be construction site that's silent. Plans to build more than 16,000 housing units in California, many of them for low-income residents, have been frozen in bureaucratic limbo since July."
This was to be built by bond money, but the State has not spent the money.
"Yet none of the $714 million in bond money earmarked for construction has been spent -- one of the many results of California leaders' chronic inability to balance the budget.
"Our . . . ongoing budget problems are the primary cause of this backlog," said Tom Dresslar, a spokesman for state Treasurer Bill Lockyer."
Is this corruption or Democrat incompetence--either way, the people lose.
More...