You might want to take note that there will be a draft affordable housing action plan open house Oct 25, 3:30-8pm at the Township of Langley Civic Facility, 4th Floor Lobby (20338 65 Ave). The draft is found here: http://www.tol.ca/Services-Contact/Document-Library/fid/192
Some of the areas being explored are creating rental housing along built up areas serviced by transit.
This doesn't bode well for the existing home owners in Brookswood most of whom have no wish for apartments in their community....
"Gap: Lack of a variety of affordable homeownership options
This is not an issue unique to Langley Township, but it is particularly important in a family –friendly municipality. The Township’s Sustainability Charter speaks directly to this though the goal of developing livable and vibrant communities with flexible, affordable and mixed housing options. The wider the choice of housing types and sizes, the more options are available for home ownership."
In a socialist view of the world this is true. The communists build lots of block housing so everyone could fairly own a home, right? That worked out well... :)
So far the report doesn't include any reference to the risks due to the increase in crime that happens around family social housing. I used to be a member of the RCMP in Richmond and we were constantly having to deal with crime (drugs, robberies, house break-ins and auto crime) committed by residents from a number of affordable housing apartments in the Colonial Dr. plus the No. 2 Rd. and Blundell areas. If a crime happened in west Richmond it usually originated in those two areas. Friends of mine who were officers in Burnaby also had the same issues with family apartments in the Edmonds area.
When you build affordable and social housing and increase the population in the area you increase the number of people who are going to involve themselves in crime. Typically rental units attract a type of person who really doesn't care as much for the place they are living in for they don't have a stake in the community. This is evidenced by the present spike in serious crime that is now happening in south Brookswood as 'Developers Ghetto' houses are rented out.
Btw, welfare will pay for a rental unit directly, that is directly to the landlord. So the welfare recipient doesn't have that responsibility (or maybe they are worried the money will be spent on drugs) so any low rent housing units will be built and ready for welfare recipients to move in. It's good not to have that worry about paying for your home as you are working towards improving Brookswood and Langley... Personally it feels good to have worked hard to gain an education plus work long hours to keep a job so I can pay the taxes that pay for welfare so welfare recipients can ruin my property, community and steal my belongings to support drug addiction. :)
Some of the areas being explored are creating rental housing along built up areas serviced by transit.
This doesn't bode well for the existing home owners in Brookswood most of whom have no wish for apartments in their community....
"Gap: Lack of a variety of affordable homeownership options
This is not an issue unique to Langley Township, but it is particularly important in a family –friendly municipality. The Township’s Sustainability Charter speaks directly to this though the goal of developing livable and vibrant communities with flexible, affordable and mixed housing options. The wider the choice of housing types and sizes, the more options are available for home ownership."
In a socialist view of the world this is true. The communists build lots of block housing so everyone could fairly own a home, right? That worked out well... :)
So far the report doesn't include any reference to the risks due to the increase in crime that happens around family social housing. I used to be a member of the RCMP in Richmond and we were constantly having to deal with crime (drugs, robberies, house break-ins and auto crime) committed by residents from a number of affordable housing apartments in the Colonial Dr. plus the No. 2 Rd. and Blundell areas. If a crime happened in west Richmond it usually originated in those two areas. Friends of mine who were officers in Burnaby also had the same issues with family apartments in the Edmonds area.
When you build affordable and social housing and increase the population in the area you increase the number of people who are going to involve themselves in crime. Typically rental units attract a type of person who really doesn't care as much for the place they are living in for they don't have a stake in the community. This is evidenced by the present spike in serious crime that is now happening in south Brookswood as 'Developers Ghetto' houses are rented out.
Btw, welfare will pay for a rental unit directly, that is directly to the landlord. So the welfare recipient doesn't have that responsibility (or maybe they are worried the money will be spent on drugs) so any low rent housing units will be built and ready for welfare recipients to move in. It's good not to have that worry about paying for your home as you are working towards improving Brookswood and Langley... Personally it feels good to have worked hard to gain an education plus work long hours to keep a job so I can pay the taxes that pay for welfare so welfare recipients can ruin my property, community and steal my belongings to support drug addiction. :)
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