I appreciate how Max Mautner in “Finding common ground on parking, housing,” acknowledges that he and I want the same thing — a county that keeps its appeal for our children and our employers. While Mautner points out that adding a parking stall to each unit of Gateway in San Mateo adds roughly $300 a month, “often the line between a young family affording to live here and not,” unless the units are rented to singles exclusively, it is the young family who cannot go without a car — grocery shopping, taking children to sports events, medical appointments, school.
Many apartment complexes provide one garage per unit, and if you look at the available parking on their streets, you understand that people are parking blocks and blocks away, depending on the time of day.
One more step is needed for a county that keeps its appeal for children and employers. State Senate leader Monique Limon and her Senate colleagues proposed “Fair Share” plan that would impose a tax on the state’s largest and wealthiest corporations whose employees rely on public assistance.
Another issue to be addressed is the oxymoron “working homeless.”
The metaphorical “elephant in the room” — representing an obvious problem that people just don’t want to talk about — is that cities court large companies for tax revenue, yet the successful companies are paying their employees minimum wage rather than a living wage. Today affordable housing pays the price.
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