HOW TO DESTROY COMMUNITIES AND GET VOTES

December 16, 2008 Blog

Hundreds of small towns in New Jersey have been mandated by unelected bureaucrats in Trenton to submit plans for the construction of 100,000 low income housing units, by January 1, 2009.

Department of Community Affairs (DCA) Director, Joe Dorea (non-elected), has refused a request from hundreds of small town (elected) mayors to extend this deadline.

Governor Corzine’s Council on Affordable Housing (COHA) has instead mandated an additional 100,000 units!

Here is the Mission Statement of the DCA housing council:
"The New Jersey Department of Community Affairs and its affiliate agencies are dedicated to providing New Jersey residents with a choice of housing that is affordable, sound, environmentally responsive, well-maintained and located in communities that are attractive, safe, economically mixed and easily accessible to employment and services. DCA and its affiliate agencies will work to ensure that community integrated housing options exist for residents with moderate, low and very low incomes, senior citizens and residents with special needs."

The main reason housing is not affordable in New Jersey is high taxation. That is why thousands are leaving the State every day. Government regulations, fees and paperwork also double the cost of home construction, upkeep and sales. Because the government is building these "Affordable Housing Units", all work is done by members of labor unions.

My wife and I are senior citizens living on Social Security. Property taxes on our little 3-bedroom rancher have doubled in the past six years. We invested much of our savings to install an efficient gas furnace and we built a chimney for alternate heat in event of power failure. Property taxes were promptly raised $1,000. That is more than a friend of our pays annually on his new $300,000 home in Delaware.

Proponents of COAH claim that building 200,000 "affordable housing units" will provide homes for many low income people. Page 15 of the 2006 Housing Report http://www.state.nj.us/dca/housingpolicy06.pdf explains what that means:

"Special Needs populations include a number of groups such as homeless individuals and families; mental health consumers; persons with developmental and physical disabilities, victims of domestic violence, veterans with disabilities, persons with AIDS/HIV, ex-offenders re-entering communities from correctional facilities, and youth aging out of foster care or leaving the juvenile justice system."

The report speaks of "hard to house" persons who will be "mainstreamed" into your neighborhood. The state places ex-criminals, AIDS infected persons, sex offenders and pedophiles in these housing units. Visit the State police website at http://www.njsp.org/ and find out how many of these individuals are in your community. We have a pedophile living on our dead-end street where a number of school children also live.

The existing government in Trenton knows that it cannot survive if too many NJ residents are hard-working, tax-paying, upright citizens. They desperately need "hard-to-house" persons at election time. Beneficiaries of government handouts seldom bite the hand that feeds them - and houses them. In order to keep low income, hard-to-house people living in the most expensive state in the nation, the State is condemning small communities to build low-income housing for them.

Tom's River has 102 known sex offenders, but is mandated to build 4,386 Low Income Units. Hoboken, home of Governor Jon Corzine, is one of New Jersey's largest cities, but has only 5 registered sex offenders. Politicians don't want them in their own neighborhoods.