[Vision2020] The Virtues Come First

[Kit Craine]

The first step in providing decent housing is an attitude on the part 
of the authorities that land use is a community asset, rather than a 
private individual’s key to maximum profit.

The second is to enforce existing zoning codes rather than to let the 
for-profits gobble up the moderately priced properties for illegal 
conversion into multiple-family rentals.

The third is to limit changes to the code to what will benefit the 
community rather than to what the property wants in order to maximize 
his/her economic benefits.

Unfortunately, that won’t happen in our life time in Moscow.

Kit Craine.

On Jun 21, 2005, at 7:51 PM, Donovan Arnold wrote:

> I am glad we can agree on this Rose. Thanks.
>
> I wonder if there is a way we can get the community to
> support efforts to expand support for the poor beyond
> that of federal and state mandated or provided
> programs.
>
> Many people assume that everyone can work. That is not
> always true. Family members that have children,
> elderly parents, and sometimes disabled members of the
> family to take care of cannot work enough hours to get
> out of poverty. Also, many people with disabilities do
> not have the ability to work over a certain number of
> hours because they will lose their medical care
> benefits, the costs of which would run many times over
> what they could make. Many employers also will only
> pay persons with disabilities minimum wage, which is
> not a livable wage.
>
> I think that we need to provide more services that are
> not cash services, like food, clothing, and utilities,
> but most of all decent affordable housing. Non-cash
> services do not have to always be reported, where as
> cash and income does, causing them to lose other
> benefits and assistance.
>
> Donovan J Arnold
>
> --- DonaldH675 at aol.com wrote:
>
>> Donovan has hit the nail on the head!  Provide a
>> stable living  environment
>> is the first step in defeating the dragon of
>> poverty.  Thanks,  Donovan.
>>
>> Rose  Huskey
>>
>> "Find out just what people will submit to, and you
>> have found out the exact
>>> amount of injustice and wrong which will be
>> imposed upon them; and these
>> will continue until they are resisted with either
>> words or blows, or both. The
>> limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance
>> of those whom they
>> oppress." Frederick  Douglass
>>
>
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