[Vision2020] Answer to Question #8 (was Ten Simple Questions on theBond)

[Tom Hansen]

Exactly, Saundra.

I felt that the average landlord and the average renter were aware of this
(myself among the latter).  This, simply, is the reason why I left it
unanswered. 

I have just renewed my lease with my landlord (May to May), who owns a
substantial amount of apartments in Moscow.  If my landlord should increase
my rent substantially, this would require an explanation on his/her part.  I
have lived in my current apartment since the day I was forced out of my
abode in the former Park Village Apartments in February 1996.  (Nostalgia
quiz:  What happened in Moscow (and on campus) in February of 1996 that may
have (and did) necessitated my vacating my apartment?  For those interested,
I have some really, really neat-o pictures of it.

Take care, Moscow.

Tom Hansen

We could learn a lot from crayons: some are sharp, some are pretty, some are
dull, some have weird names, and all are different colors....but they all
exist very nicely in the same box. 
-----Original Message-----
From: vision2020-bounces at moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces at moscow.com]
On Behalf Of Saundra Lund
Sent: Friday, April 15, 2005 1:27 PM
To: vision2020 at moscow.com
Subject: [Vision2020] Answer to Question #8 (was Ten Simple Questions on
theBond)

Donovan Arnold asked:
"8)	Why does the school only outlay costs to taxpayers living in a home
with 
$100,000-200,000 in value with a 50% tax exemption? Why not break down the 
costs for an apartment dweller? Or a renter of a home? The majority of 
people having to pay housing are not in homes worth $100,000-$150,000. Tax 
increases affect the poor more then they affect the middle class with 50% 
tax exemptions and the wealthy."

The answer to this question (like most of the others) is very simple and
logical.  In fact, for anyone who has actually *worked* helping the
economically disadvantaged with housing, and likely to many others making a
genuine effort to understand rather than stereotype, the answer to Donovan's
question is crystal clear:  the cost to renters CANNOT be broken down
because of the variables.

Simply put, whether passage of the levy will cost *any* individual renter
*any* money depends on the individual property owner, *not* on anything the
district can do or know.


HTH,
Saundra Lund
Moscow, ID

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do
nothing.
Edmund Burke


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