tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5060417.post5401566524432663431..comments2023-11-05T06:18:25.377-06:00Comments on The Privatopia Papers: How unemployment is tearing America apartEvan McKenziehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04479661304143631524noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5060417.post-52243231502083746052011-12-04T17:57:55.718-06:002011-12-04T17:57:55.718-06:00Socialism needs more taxpayers.
Capitalism needs ...Socialism needs more taxpayers.<br /><br />Capitalism needs more consumers but fewer workers.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5060417.post-50078180919470415292011-12-04T15:54:54.855-06:002011-12-04T15:54:54.855-06:00Of course, another reason that home ownership is l...Of course, another reason that home ownership is losing it's luster is that owning a home makes harder, if not impossible, to relocate if employment requires it -- especially if you can't sell that home.<br /><br />Republicans hold two conflicting beliefs:<br /><br />(1) American home ownership, the "ownership society," produces stable families and communities<br /><br />(2) Americans must be willing to migrate to wherever the jobs are, as required of them by capitalism.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5060417.post-81206494521405684192011-12-04T15:42:18.282-06:002011-12-04T15:42:18.282-06:00from the article:
"home ownership rates are ...from the article:<br /><br />"home ownership rates are in free fall, suggesting that one of the key pillars of American society—owning a place of your own—has lost its lustre"<br /><br />A 2007 survey, not commissioned for the CAI, of homeowners in HOAs shows that<br /><br />* 08% think they're great<br />* 16% think they're OK (24% positive)<br />* 21% think they're a minor annoyance<br />* 48% think they're a major headache (69% negative)<br />* 07% gave no opinion<br />* 19% said they had been in what they call a "war" with their HOA<br />* 54% said they "would rather live with a 'sloppy neighbor' than deal with an HOA."<br />* 78% said they might consider NOT buying a home under the jurisdiction of an HOA<br /><br />source: <a href="http://www.servicemagic.com/videos/at-odds-with-your-hoa/" rel="nofollow">www.servicemagic.com/videos/at-odds-with-your-hoa/</a><br />and<br />Kathy Price-Robinson. "Two Thirds 'Annoyed' With HOA Survey Says" Los Angeles Times. September 05, 2007.<br /><a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/pardonourdust/2007/09/two-thirds-anno.html" rel="nofollow">latimesblogs.latimes.com/pardonourdust/2007/09/two-thirds-anno.html</a> (link broken sometime in the past month; numbers from <a href="http://falmouthairparkhoa.blogspot.com/2011/10/proxies.html?showComment=1319985607147#c1756927574461381736" rel="nofollow">a comment</a> at Mike Reardon's blog)<br /><br />That's 4 out of 5 HOA members -- that's nearly 50 million Americans -- saying that the presence of an HOA would have a negative influence on their decision to buy their next house. Hmmm....<br /><br />How much of that "lost luster" has to do with the experiences of being a glorified renter in a community association?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5060417.post-61294540797146451232011-12-04T15:13:10.977-06:002011-12-04T15:13:10.977-06:00"HOAs have never had to weather a long econom..."HOAs have never had to weather a long economic storm. As the good perfessor recently noted, consequently they aren't prepared to cope with such adversity."<br /><br />Even the proponents of HOAs claim that HOAs need extreme powers over the homeowners -- including the ability foreclose for trivial amounts and reasons -- in order to survive.<br /><br />Which leads to the question, <i>should</i> HOAs survive? Should legislatures and courts continue to give community association corporations preferential treatment based on the assumption that HOAs are Too Important To Fail(tm)?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com