Rent Control in Davis > Rexroad.com

The front page of the Davis Enterprise has an article by Cory Golden about Atria and Covell Gardens.
The one passage of the article that really caught me was --

City Councilman Lamar Heystek told those gathered that 'what (Atria is) doing may be legal, but that doesn't mean it's right.'

He said that in addition to the city asking the company to participate in voluntary mediation, he hoped to draft a resolution supporting state action to control fee increases for senior facilities.

At the local level, he said the council should discuss 'rent stabilization' - his preferred term for rent control - for mobile homes, market-rate units and assisted living facilities and critically assess the city's changing housing needs.

The first thing that stood out was that "rent stabilization" is just another name for rent control.

The second was that at least Councilman Heystek is being consistent in casting the net large enough to include those facilities that also house seniors. Good for him. He is wrong on rent control but at least consistently wrong.

The other thing is that I still want to know why the subsidy of senior rents should be from Altria alone to the seniors. Why shouldn't all of Davis pay for the subsidies? The burden should not fall on just a few landowners that rent to seniors. The entire community should get the priviledge of paying the rent for someone else.

Davis could pass another parcel tax for $100 a year. Then each senior, regardless of income level, could get a voucher for $1,000 a year to help provide them with housing somewhere in Davis.

Rent control doesn't work and it is wrong.

Also, why stop at housing. I am sure Nugget Markets would love to enter into voluntary mediation with the City of Davis to negotiate lower prices for seniors. Seniors eat too don't they? What about phone service? Car sales?

Comments

By RENTCONTROL @ Saturday, December 29, 2007 1:25 PM

The problem with most of us is we do not act till we are burned.
Of course you may be different. OR BETTER!
I meet a lot of seniors in my travels and I am sorry that some feel that seniors are not worthy of some breaks in life.
I am a senior now and I feel blessed that I have a roof over my head, food in my belly, and no real bills to pay.
But, (there is always a butttt)
I have a social security check of 940. a month.
My rent has esculated to 600.00 dollars a month, Utilitys another 200.00
I was sold the bill of goods when I moved in here. Not that I could have moved somewhere else.
Like out in the woods with a lot of other seniors, vets, Americans that cannot cut grass for a living because we have so may parisites migrateing here, and running our government.
I can only say one more thing.
There are a lot of people like myself. I built boilers and got the asbestos, and lost most of my joints to the waters that are blessed with fluoride. and I now am talking to a lot more poor souls that are awakening to the people that have used our taxes while we were working.

We are tired of you hipocrates.

Mike

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