Thursday, July 9, 2009
Saturday, July 4, 2009
Sonoma county - now THAT"S what I'm talkin about!!!
Temporary occupancy of travel trailers or recreational vehicles is permitted for the following purposes: 1. To house an ill, convalescent or otherwise disabled friend or relative needing care from the occupant of the primary residence; or a friend or relative providing necessary care for an ill, convalescent or otherwise disabled occupant of the primary residence subject to the following requirements: (Sub type - CGVR) a. Documentation from a physician. b. Connection of the temporary unit to an approved sewage disposal system or sewer. c. Compliance with minimum setbacks. d. Annual renewal of the temporary permit. 2. To house agricultural employees for ninety (90) days on properties with a bonafide agricultural operation. All sewage from these temporary units shall be discharged into a lawful sewage disposal system, unless otherwise approved by PRMD. (Sub type AGEM
Temporary occupancy of travel trailers or recreational vehicles is permitted for the following purposes: 1. To house an ill, convalescent or otherwise disabled friend or relative needing care from the occupant of the primary residence; or a friend or relative providing necessary care for an ill, convalescent or otherwise disabled occupant of the primary residence subject to the following requirements: (Sub type - CGVR) a. Documentation from a physician. b. Connection of the temporary unit to an approved sewage disposal system or sewer. c. Compliance with minimum setbacks. d. Annual renewal of the temporary permit. 2. To house agricultural employees for ninety (90) days on properties with a bonafide agricultural operation. All sewage from these temporary units shall be discharged into a lawful sewage disposal system, unless otherwise approved by PRMD. (Sub type AGEM
Saturday, June 27, 2009
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
hy wpri
A record number of families are being put up in motels in Massachusetts. High unemployment and the rising number of home foreclosures is the reason the state is taking this action.
Housing Massachusetts’ homeless is costing tax payers around $2 million per month. It costs an average of $85 per night to have families, including nearly 1000 children, stay in motels.
The Interagency Council on Housing and Homelessness admits that the use of motels for the homeless is not ideal, but is the best that can be done at this time.
Homeless advocates are worried that families are not getting the support of shelters with living rooms, kitchens, and play areas.
House them on the Kennedy's compound. There's plenty of room
Paul
I think most of the comments in here must have been sent in from bored frat boy rich kid interns from Repubican politicians offices on their "summer jobs." If they ever had to worry about being homeless they might not begrudge spending 2 million dollars a month on housing them. We spend billions of dollars a month on unecessary weapons in a war which a "conservative" president lied us into, so I think the liberals are even on this issue ! snark
Those who say it would have been better for the government to pay off their mortgages need to realize most of the homeless never had a mortgage, they were renters. Most of them in apartments barely able to pay the exorbitant rents. A loss of a job, a loss of overtime, a health emergency, any number of misfortunes could have pushed them over the edge.
I think the only criticism which I have read that was valid is that Massachussets should build its own apartments and house the homeless in them instead of paying 2 million a month to house them in little privately-run motels. But hey, we got a program like that-its called PUBLIC HOUSING, you know, something the Republicans try to cut all the time because they believe its SOCIALISM. Well, public housing has kept millions of people from joining the ranks of the homeless. We need to increase funding so every those threatened with homelessness do not have to wait years for a spot to open up in public housing.
steveO · 2 hours ago
And now these Mass. Morons will flee the state (just like California's Morons) and continue voting for Liberals in their new states - making liberalism just like a virus. Liberals never learn and the rest of us pay for it. Liberal states like MA, CA, MI, - well, every state that's bankrupt and a cesspool essentially - should be walled off.
JuanPeron 67p · 2 hours ago
The article forget to mention that Massachusetts offers FREE cell phones to people on Welfare. The logic is that no one is any better than the rest, and if you don't have a job or want one, that's simply no reason why you can't have a cell phone like the hardworking taxpayers who have them. If there's an outrageous, taxpayer funded, fly in the face of common sense idea out there, Massachusetts will crank it up a notch and make it the law.
Meo · 4 hours ago
Oh please you people have no idea what its like to be homeless, hungry, financially stuck. It's because of the big politicians and Americas complete selfish holier than thou attitude. That people are hurting. Children are hurting. You people need to wake up and smell the Dunkin Donuts coffee before its you too living in your cars or in a shelter or in a motel. Because the electric company and the powers that be, that you all elected remember, turn around and raise taxes and rates. Wait till winter when the gas company cries poverty, and raises rates. Already health insurance companies are crying poverty and need to raise rates. We the american people allowed this. We asked for this because of our laziness and our own stupidity. The officials are finally listening but its too late. Everyone says blame the poor for their own actions. Now the rich are getting poor and they are crying foul. Our politicians aren't anything more then the Sheriff of Nottingham or King Johns, Where is Robin Hood when you need him???
The Viceroy ·
Andrew · 4 hours ago
Mass. deserves this, they want this, and I hope they continue to throw their money away on stuff like this.
AnnieP1 69p · 57 minutes ago
LOL! Two million a month!! What else can I expect from a state that elects Kerry, Kennedy, and Frank...speaking of which, why don't you have the Kennedys, and Kerry's rich wife open up their EXTRA houses to take care of these people? And I'm sure Barney has more than one house, too. For once, make these charming representatives put their big advocating mouths where their personal resources are.
Velvinette · 2 hours ago
Hi, I live in Massachusetts, and know one of these hotels with homeless families in it. Up here, $85/night = $595/week or $2,400/month and that's not bad for a family-size place where you know they are safe and the utilities and all that are taken care of. And we are not going broke. Our employment situation just turned around last month. Also I know a lot of people who have moved to Texas from here, so I don't think we are all as different from each other as some of you think. We are not communists. We are not girly-men. Engineers, scientists, physicists and others are responsible for such projects as the Trident Missiles, combat simulation software, economic and energy-related work that keeps our country going and keeps it safe. We had the first state constitution in our country. Texas had one of the last. So it makes sense that there are some gulfs between us. But we are both part of it, and if we can work together how strong can our country be?
ForrestGump 15p · 1 hour ago
You liberal democrats deserve the government you voted in!!!
Wouldn't it be cheaper for the government and better for the families for the state to pay the mortgages on these people's forclosed homes? $85/night x 28 days is $2300.
nceeno 47p · 1 hour ago
At $85 per night, that's $2,550 a month. Almost twice what my mortgage is.
$2 million = 785 rooms being rented each month. I'll bet these hotels don't even offer a continental breakfast.
We should just name the state Assachusetts.
AMM · 4 hours ago
Wow. There are some REALLY cold hearted people commenting here. I'd sure hate to be a relative of yours down on my luck. Lets just line these people up and shoot them, problem solved, right?
adamch 49p · 2 hours ago
Hollywood cliches:
* Without capitalism there'd be no Hollywood - yet filmmakers hate capitalism.
* Filmmakers hate capitalism - yet they sue for unauthorized copying of their movies.
* They sue for unauthorized copying - yet on screen they teach us to share.
* On screen they teach us to share - yet they keep their millions to themselves.
* They keep their millions to themselves - yet they revel in stories of American misery and depravity.
* They revel in stories of American misery and depravity - yet they blame the resulting anti-American sentiment on conservatism.
* They blame the anti-American sentiment on conservatism - yet conservatism ensures the continuation of a system that makes Hollywood possible.
A record number of families are being put up in motels in Massachusetts. High unemployment and the rising number of home foreclosures is the reason the state is taking this action.
Housing Massachusetts’ homeless is costing tax payers around $2 million per month. It costs an average of $85 per night to have families, including nearly 1000 children, stay in motels.
The Interagency Council on Housing and Homelessness admits that the use of motels for the homeless is not ideal, but is the best that can be done at this time.
Homeless advocates are worried that families are not getting the support of shelters with living rooms, kitchens, and play areas.
House them on the Kennedy's compound. There's plenty of room
Paul
I think most of the comments in here must have been sent in from bored frat boy rich kid interns from Repubican politicians offices on their "summer jobs." If they ever had to worry about being homeless they might not begrudge spending 2 million dollars a month on housing them. We spend billions of dollars a month on unecessary weapons in a war which a "conservative" president lied us into, so I think the liberals are even on this issue ! snark
Those who say it would have been better for the government to pay off their mortgages need to realize most of the homeless never had a mortgage, they were renters. Most of them in apartments barely able to pay the exorbitant rents. A loss of a job, a loss of overtime, a health emergency, any number of misfortunes could have pushed them over the edge.
I think the only criticism which I have read that was valid is that Massachussets should build its own apartments and house the homeless in them instead of paying 2 million a month to house them in little privately-run motels. But hey, we got a program like that-its called PUBLIC HOUSING, you know, something the Republicans try to cut all the time because they believe its SOCIALISM. Well, public housing has kept millions of people from joining the ranks of the homeless. We need to increase funding so every those threatened with homelessness do not have to wait years for a spot to open up in public housing.
steveO · 2 hours ago
And now these Mass. Morons will flee the state (just like California's Morons) and continue voting for Liberals in their new states - making liberalism just like a virus. Liberals never learn and the rest of us pay for it. Liberal states like MA, CA, MI, - well, every state that's bankrupt and a cesspool essentially - should be walled off.
JuanPeron 67p · 2 hours ago
The article forget to mention that Massachusetts offers FREE cell phones to people on Welfare. The logic is that no one is any better than the rest, and if you don't have a job or want one, that's simply no reason why you can't have a cell phone like the hardworking taxpayers who have them. If there's an outrageous, taxpayer funded, fly in the face of common sense idea out there, Massachusetts will crank it up a notch and make it the law.
Meo · 4 hours ago
Oh please you people have no idea what its like to be homeless, hungry, financially stuck. It's because of the big politicians and Americas complete selfish holier than thou attitude. That people are hurting. Children are hurting. You people need to wake up and smell the Dunkin Donuts coffee before its you too living in your cars or in a shelter or in a motel. Because the electric company and the powers that be, that you all elected remember, turn around and raise taxes and rates. Wait till winter when the gas company cries poverty, and raises rates. Already health insurance companies are crying poverty and need to raise rates. We the american people allowed this. We asked for this because of our laziness and our own stupidity. The officials are finally listening but its too late. Everyone says blame the poor for their own actions. Now the rich are getting poor and they are crying foul. Our politicians aren't anything more then the Sheriff of Nottingham or King Johns, Where is Robin Hood when you need him???
The Viceroy ·
Andrew · 4 hours ago
Mass. deserves this, they want this, and I hope they continue to throw their money away on stuff like this.
AnnieP1 69p · 57 minutes ago
LOL! Two million a month!! What else can I expect from a state that elects Kerry, Kennedy, and Frank...speaking of which, why don't you have the Kennedys, and Kerry's rich wife open up their EXTRA houses to take care of these people? And I'm sure Barney has more than one house, too. For once, make these charming representatives put their big advocating mouths where their personal resources are.
Velvinette · 2 hours ago
Hi, I live in Massachusetts, and know one of these hotels with homeless families in it. Up here, $85/night = $595/week or $2,400/month and that's not bad for a family-size place where you know they are safe and the utilities and all that are taken care of. And we are not going broke. Our employment situation just turned around last month. Also I know a lot of people who have moved to Texas from here, so I don't think we are all as different from each other as some of you think. We are not communists. We are not girly-men. Engineers, scientists, physicists and others are responsible for such projects as the Trident Missiles, combat simulation software, economic and energy-related work that keeps our country going and keeps it safe. We had the first state constitution in our country. Texas had one of the last. So it makes sense that there are some gulfs between us. But we are both part of it, and if we can work together how strong can our country be?
ForrestGump 15p · 1 hour ago
You liberal democrats deserve the government you voted in!!!
Wouldn't it be cheaper for the government and better for the families for the state to pay the mortgages on these people's forclosed homes? $85/night x 28 days is $2300.
nceeno 47p · 1 hour ago
At $85 per night, that's $2,550 a month. Almost twice what my mortgage is.
$2 million = 785 rooms being rented each month. I'll bet these hotels don't even offer a continental breakfast.
We should just name the state Assachusetts.
AMM · 4 hours ago
Wow. There are some REALLY cold hearted people commenting here. I'd sure hate to be a relative of yours down on my luck. Lets just line these people up and shoot them, problem solved, right?
adamch 49p · 2 hours ago
Hollywood cliches:
* Without capitalism there'd be no Hollywood - yet filmmakers hate capitalism.
* Filmmakers hate capitalism - yet they sue for unauthorized copying of their movies.
* They sue for unauthorized copying - yet on screen they teach us to share.
* On screen they teach us to share - yet they keep their millions to themselves.
* They keep their millions to themselves - yet they revel in stories of American misery and depravity.
* They revel in stories of American misery and depravity - yet they blame the resulting anti-American sentiment on conservatism.
* They blame the anti-American sentiment on conservatism - yet conservatism ensures the continuation of a system that makes Hollywood possible.
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
How's this. A used travel trailer can cost below $10,000, no luxury, just the basics. Shared among three families, the summer vacation can be great. And for most of the year, the trailer is available for emergency housing, foreclosures, natural disasters, and families in transition. Please comment if you have ever done this. Thanks.
Sunday, June 14, 2009
HT June 14 NYT op-ed Too Poor to Make the News
It was the back story that got to me: Peg, who is 55 and lives in rural Missouri, had been working three part-time jobs to support her disabled daughter and two grandchildren, who had moved in with her. Then, last winter, she had a heart attack, missed work and fell behind in her mortgage payments. If I couldn’t help, all four would have to move into the cramped apartment in Minneapolis already occupied by my nephew and his wife.
Only after I’d sent the money did I learn that the mortgage was not a subprime one and the home was not a house but a dilapidated single-wide trailer that, as a “used vehicle,” commands a 12-percent mortgage interest rate.The new movement is for poor foreclosed families who are already in tough shape already. Is there a way that someone owning a travel trailer could lend or lease the trailer as temporary housing? Zoning questions? Plumbing? electric?
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