Comments on: Trillions More for the Wrong Housing Policy http://www.frumforum.com/trillions-more-for-the-wrong-housing-policy Building a conservatism that can win again Sat, 11 Feb 2012 17:50:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: MI-GOPer http://www.frumforum.com/trillions-more-for-the-wrong-housing-policy/comment-page-1#comment-69016 MI-GOPer Wed, 21 Oct 2009 20:08:47 +0000 http://www.newmajority.com/?p=14129#comment-69016 Mr Pinto, not only are the US taxpayers tossing bad money after really bad money in this latest scheme to buy home-owner votes, but the entire American Housing Policy for the last 50 yrs has been founded on the wrong goal: Every American should have a single-family, detached house for a home. The American dream for GI's returning from Europe and the Pacific may have been to own their own suburban home with that white picket fence, but now millions of Americans think living in a nice, safe, decent apartment is "home", living in a high-story condo development is "home", sharing their home with their parents is "home" for many who come to America from a different culture. We need to move away from the conventional American "dream" of owning a house and start talking about people who need a home --and, yes, maybe that means they aren't financially qualified to have a single family home of their dream. Proping up the single family home industry --and the selling & finance industries that feed off it-- isn't a national policy based on lessons learned... it's just another step deeper into the doom of our Obama Recession. Mr Pinto, not only are the US taxpayers tossing bad money after really bad money in this latest scheme to buy home-owner votes, but the entire American Housing Policy for the last 50 yrs has been founded on the wrong goal: Every American should have a single-family, detached house for a home.

The American dream for GI’s returning from Europe and the Pacific may have been to own their own suburban home with that white picket fence, but now millions of Americans think living in a nice, safe, decent apartment is “home”, living in a high-story condo development is “home”, sharing their home with their parents is “home” for many who come to America from a different culture.

We need to move away from the conventional American “dream” of owning a house and start talking about people who need a home –and, yes, maybe that means they aren’t financially qualified to have a single family home of their dream.

Proping up the single family home industry –and the selling & finance industries that feed off it– isn’t a national policy based on lessons learned… it’s just another step deeper into the doom of our Obama Recession.

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