Tuesday, May 05, 2009
Finding new work for bulldozers: destroying houses that should never have been zoned or permitted ... by gimleteye
Thanks to the Wall Street Journal for pointing out this video, in "Banks wreck new houses". The lede for the story: "A Texas bank is about done demolishing 16 new and partially built houses acquired in Southern California through foreclosure, figuring it was better to knock them down than to try selling them in the depressed housing market."
Of course, we have many of our own versions of this story scattered throughout Miami Dade. How many homes did Miami Dade County Commissioners permit to be built, through zoning changes demanded by land speculators, the LBA and high-paid land use lawyers, in farmland and Everglades wetlands that could similarly be torn down for lack of market? Thousands. Why do we continue listening to the destroyers?
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6 comments:
And the County Commission today were talking about getting builders to bid on building affordable housing for them. Like we don't have enough housing? Why don't they just go out and buy existing homes and put the people in them?
Those Texans know how to take care of a problem!
In the last land boom there, they apparently bulldozed a bunch of foreclosed homes.
I think it is a great idea for here as well.
They can start by bulldozing the crap built down in South Dade.Convert it back to Ag land or Natural Areas.
There are never going to be the jobs needed to keep people employed and living down there.
People in South Dade are leaving the area because they can't find jobs. Nevertheless, CC #15 just approved a zoning change that would greatly increase the number of housing from 400 to more than 600 -including new condominiums for "workforce". I've been asking the county when are they going to build a fire station to serve the area, which lot remains empty after 5 yrs. of promises. Their response: "There's no money". But attorney Mayol, representing the developer, assured opponents that "it will be built immediately". Does he have a red telephone connected directly to the BCC or was he again lying to the public?
What about a law compelling land use attorneys to "do time" operating the heavy equipment tearing down the excess housing they persuaded local zoning officials to permit.
Last Anon - I'm all for it! Add to land use attorneys, the commissioners that continously approve their crazy zoning changes promoting sprawl!
They are competing with you. Don't put your house up for sale. It's used and it's not up to par with the current design trends.
By the way, it's official. I live in low income housing.
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