Editor,
I ask the Peninsula Health Care District to do everything possible to provide truly affordable housing at its Burlingame site. Please provide housing for those who most lack it — our very low-income and extremely low-income county residents. That is the highest and best use of the property.
Housing is a basic human right, desperately needed as an important action in stopping the march of the climate emergency here on the Peninsula.
Urban land is at a premium — 6 acres is so much more valuable for truly affordable housing, not higher end “workforce housing.” A tidy revenue stream from high end workforce housing is a nice way to meet short term fiduciary obligations. However, long-term financial health, related to building resilience against the climate crisis, calls out for a much better use of district resources.
Robert Whitehair
San Mateo
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(1) comment
Thanks for your letter, Mr. Whitehair. You say housing is a basic human right, which it isn’t and you say adding housing will stop the march of a climate emergency, of which there is no emergency. But you fail to address the cost of building housing. It is well-documented that the cost to build housing is becoming more and more prohibitively expensive. Tacked on fees and assessments and mandatory this and mandatory that added to homes only add to housing prices. If we don’t tackle the costs to build housing, we’ll never build enough housing and we’ll never be able to subsidize low-income housing. Of course you can increase the income limit to $1 million to qualify for low-income housing.
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