[Vision2020] The Virtues Come First

[Donovan Arnold]

Kit,

I also think that setting aside funding for helping of
building low income housing and reducing property
taxes on those that provide low income housing would
be of great benefit.

Donovan J Arnold

--- Kit Craine <kcraine at moscow.com> wrote:

> 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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