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Panelists say housing crisis will require
moving of mountains and minds

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Posted By: cjjeepercreeper, 1/13/2022 10:35:41 AM

Changes to both physical and philosophical landscapes may be required to pull Durango and La Plata County out of the deepening housing crisis some say the area has slipped into over the course of decades. At the Durango Chamber of Commerce Eggs & Issues meeting held virtually Wednesday, a panel of community leaders and housing experts discussed the need to create attainable housing for workers.

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The situation in Durango is a microcosm of what is happening nationwide. What we have going on with these democrats in power is worker bee/elitist communism. This article reeks of it.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: cjjeepercreeper 1/13/2022 10:36:42 AM (No. 1037156)
Here is exactly what I am talking about, quote from the article says it all: "Elizabeth Salkind, executive director of Housing Solutions for the Southwest, advocated for shifts in policy and perspective to find creative solutions to the housing crisis. “Our country’s in love with single-family residential,” said Salkind, who is also a volunteer for Housing Colorado. “... But we cannot as a nation, probably a world, continue to live with that as our only ideal. It’s not realistic. It was like a post-World War II thing that everyone got on board with. But it’s simply not our future for housing.”
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Reply 2 - Posted by: Lawsy0 1/13/2022 10:41:33 AM (No. 1037164)
''For assuredly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be removed and be cast into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he says will be done, he will have whatever he says.'' Mark 11:23
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Reply 3 - Posted by: bldrrepub 1/13/2022 11:25:01 AM (No. 1037234)
Let’s build ugly Soviet-style multi-family “homes” so that everyone can live here. One look at the Denver or Boulder market tells you exactly what that gets you - $4000/month 2 bedroom apartments. Sometimes you don’t get to live where you want to live.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: paral04 1/13/2022 11:26:07 AM (No. 1037237)
If we didn't have millions of invaders from the south we would be just fine with housing.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: msts 1/13/2022 11:29:21 AM (No. 1037245)
The goal is to have evryone live in apartment blocks in cities, take mass transit and if you have to drive, drive electric cars. Electric everything. Not because it eliminates Greenhouse Gas though. By concentrating people in this fashion and only allowing for electricty to provide heat/light and transport, the Power Elite can shut off everything to you in a flick of a switch
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Reply 6 - Posted by: singermom9 1/13/2022 12:05:03 PM (No. 1037288)
They do not really mean "housing for workers". They mean free housing for illegals.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: Heil Liberals 1/13/2022 12:25:14 PM (No. 1037322)
What they mean is that peasantry should be happy that someone is building them a cinderblock, multistory hovel out of eyeshot of the masters they are there to serve.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: Come And Take It 1/13/2022 12:38:23 PM (No. 1037353)
Paul Joseph Watson has spoken extensively on England's tower block culture, which is essentially the same thing. One of the core values of the American Dream is to own your own home. I do, and I would never live in an apartment inside an urban sinkhole. There is no power on Earth that will change my mind on that.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: MDConservative 1/13/2022 12:47:32 PM (No. 1037374)
Housing crisis? Really, what is being said is that people can't "afford" living in such places. If you believe in economics, let economics sort it out. Sometimes people have to move to make it. Ask those Okies of the thirties how that worked. Let me know when Beverly Hills opens its "affordable housing" complex.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: Birddog 1/13/2022 2:36:19 PM (No. 1037524)
One of the proposals is to take the Fairgrounds, move it to Durango Mesa(formerly known as Ewing Mesa) and turn it's site into a (public)housing development...Durango/Ewing Mesa HAD been under permitting process for 2000 homes, but the City canceled it's residential zoning and turned it into "Openspace" instead. Mayor is from Calif, many of the quoted "Councilpersons/Experts" are also recent arrivals from blue state urban chit-holes. They are now claiming NIMBY is the problem(Single family residential not wanting public housing projects next door) The root cause is BANANA...(Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anybody) that shut down suburb development in order to require highdensity housing and mass transit, city centered people and Govt.in control of them. Social Engineering=Socialist Engineering, "Scientific Socialism". Social Science is NOT an actual Science.
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Reply 11 - Posted by: Penney 1/13/2022 3:23:56 PM (No. 1037571)
America needs a builder. Trump is an accomplished builder. ...In total contrast, the dem pols only tear down & destroy as evidenced by their horrid political policies throughout the past year which are devistating life in America.
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Reply 12 - Posted by: rocket-j-squirrel 1/13/2022 3:25:10 PM (No. 1037572)
Drive into Breckenridge, Aspen, or Vail. A few miles out from the lodges, you'll see a small town of trailers where the "help" live. I spent some time doing real life educational experience in Cripple Creek, Co. back in the '70s. Ms squirrel was trying to make a living hitching a ride into Crested Butte to sell baked goods ( we weren't married at the time). I was pumping gas and mowing down aspen trees (quakies) to build roads for home development projects down by Fluorescant and Lake George. It truly sucks to be poor in Colorado.
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Reply 13 - Posted by: Faithfully 1/14/2022 7:42:31 PM (No. 1038902)
Soviet era apartment blocks thee, Martha's Vineyard for me.
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