Any affordable-housing program short of a complete government takeover of the market is going to be at best an incomplete, short-term band-aid. As long as private sale of residential property remains legal, the only long-term solution to infinitely spiraling prices is to balance supply with demand. Which in the Bay Area simply means finding the right places to let builders build.

Let builders build.

Good idea. To support our local elementary school district public employees, especially newly tenured or newly hired teachers - I, like Superintendent Rudolph, think we should continue discussion of this. As a community, can we contribute USE OF PUBLICLY OWNED LAND for this purpose?

Of course we can. And IMO I think we should. IMBY, or close by. That's where our neighborhood schools are, not in Morgan Hill or Gilroy.

MVWSD draft Minutes for 1/18/2017
"Dr. Rudolph noted the following upcoming items in addition to those listed under Future Board Meeting Dates below:
... Housing for teachers"

As far as helping people born in the USA it is next to nothing in Santa Clara County as eighty to ninety percent of the low income and section eight housing has been given to elderly Russians or Asians allowed by former Obama administration to be first in line for the available housing through religious (being Jewish) persecution. They live here free on SSI and free medical care while our poor wallow in their misery.Lobbying by major Jewish interests such as the JCC help to make this possible. If you don't believe me go to any section eight property in the county and you can literally walk around and hear nothing but Russian or Mandarin. From this the elderly are able to bring in their families which further puts burdens on our federal deficit.The last administration through its flooding of immigrates into our low income properties is a big price for our native county, and in these cases does not contribute to the US like we are led to believe, but further drains our budget. So for the native poor of our communities about all you'll most likely have in the future is wishful thinking as far as low income housing coming to you. It is a sad state of affairs, and the liberal drift always blowing in our faces will I am sure remove my statement even though everything I have said is truth, and truth that you will not hear in liberal media. Please check it out, you will be astounded.

WOW this person appears to be very hostile

Dennis said:

“As far as helping people born in the USA it is next to nothing in Santa Clara County as eighty to ninety percent of the low income and section eight housing has been given to elderly Russians or Asians allowed by former Obama administration to be first in line for the available housing through religious (being Jewish) persecution. “

What you neglected to state, is that a vast majority of those elderly came to the valley to build the Silicon Valley. They came in during the 60-70s and were instrumental to contributing to the integrated circuit and the space race during Apollo. So before you start gunning down these individuals, you better make sure you have your facts straight.

“They live here free on SSI and free medical care while our poor wallow in their misery.”

SSI is only available to legal citizens of the US and those who have paid into the Social Security program and is based on those contributions. They level of SSI is needs based and not much, it usually is capped to 75% of what a person is entitiled to under Social Security retirement and disability. Thus before you claim they are unworthy to live here, just realize they worked here in the past and probably made it possible for us to live in the “Silicon Valley”

“Lobbying by major Jewish interests such as the JCC help to make this possible. If you don't believe me go to any section eight property in the county and you can literally walk around and hear nothing but Russian or Mandarin.”

This statement seems to be only motivated by one who has an inate animosity against anyone that is different than themselves and his preferred peers.

“From this the elderly are able to bring in their families which further puts burdens on our federal deficit.The last administration through its flooding of immigrates into our low income properties is a big price for our native county, and in these cases does not contribute to the US like we are led to believe, but further drains our budget.”

This seems to be a blatant admission of age based discrimination because the stress is on the eldery.

“So for the native poor of our communities about all you'll most likely have in the future is wishful thinking as far as low income housing coming to you. It is a sad state of affairs, and the liberal drift always blowing in our faces will I am sure remove my statement even though everything I have said is truth, and truth that you will not hear in liberal media. Please check it out, you will be astounded.”

This statement seems to be a blatant statement that Dennis has a hatred to those who are not worthy of a higher earnings. An economic systems cannot survive without adequate opportunities for anyone to succeed with whatever skills, talent, or resources they have.

But this person instead is clearly saying that those who are poor deserve no consideration at all regarding economic policy. This is the same mentality that existed during the 1910s-30s that broke the economic foundation of capitalism. It also contributed to the recent financial disaster that still is haunting us because of the $20 Trillion cost that needs to be paid back. This was not caused by poor people but greedy peopled that created the biggest Ponzi scam in history.

People with wealth bought insurance policies on properties they did not own. In some cases 10 investors and one mortgagee to 1 property. If the property was worth $300,000., the foreclosure cost $3,300,000. was paid by AIG for example to the American taxpayer. This is the biggest theft in capitalist history.

So Dennis, please do not target those who you “think” are the problem, they are the innocent victims of a mess made by those who feel entitled to take advantage of everyone else.

Ignorance will not set you free. The government states; If you are neither a citizen nor a permanent resident, you still may be entitled to receive SSDI if you can show that you are lawfully present in the United States ...plus our massive debt is the result of the Obama bank bailout. And as far as he poor are concerned I live in the very subsidized housing that I talked about, and I have talked to many of the immigres that could speak some English, many could not, and the idea that these elderly people helped to build anything in this valley is a total fantasy. Many of the people had only been in the United States less than ten years at the very most and had never worked at all in the US. And like I said before; just check it out yourself because I live in it.

Dennis you stated:

"Ignorance will not set you free. The government states; If you are neither a citizen nor a permanent resident, you still may be entitled to receive SSDI if you can show that you are lawfully present in the United States "

Again, the only way you can receive those benefits is that at some point of time you paid FICA taxes on earnings you made while here in the US. You can be a H1B visa or green card, but the payments you made in FICA entitled you to a claim for those benefits. However your benefits are based on the earnings, so if you were a highly paid professional, those benefits would be larger than a minimum wage job.


You stated:

"...plus our massive debt is the result of the Obama bank bailout. "

THe bank bailout was signed by George W. Bush.: and I quote:

"The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 (Division A of Pub.L. 110–343, 122 Stat. 3765, enacted October 3, 2008), commonly referred to as a bailout of the U.S. financial system, is a law enacted in response to the subprime mortgage crisis authorizing the United States Secretary of the Treasury to spend up to ..."

Obama was not elected until Nov. 2008, and did not take office until Jan. 2009, he was forced to uphold a law that George W. Bush signed into law that he himself wanted to be passed. NOT Obama. So please get your history straight?

I find it difficult to see how you could change the history of the Financial Bailout so dramatically.