Housing Shortage Fear Downplayed As Kansas City Moves To Mandate Section 8

Per ushe the Kansas City Star doesn't really address resistance to a local housing policy debate until about 12 paragraphs down into the article . . . 

But here's the important part that neither politicos nor activists have answered . . .

WHAT'S THE LOCAL IMPACT OF HOUSING VOUCHER MANDATES ON AFFORDABLE HOUSING WHEN DATA TELLS US THAT THIS KIND OF LEGISLATION LIMITS SUPPLY!!!

Again . . . This is Econ 101 level arithmetic here . . . When government works to enact even more restrictions on business . . . Many producers simply drop out of the market or escape to better biz climates. 

This why even the most diehard patriots drive Toyotas and part of what destroyed American manufacturing in general. 

Let's make this simple . . .

KCMO & MAYOR Q CLEARLY DON'T UNDERSTAND ECONOMICS OR REAL ESTATE AND THEIR "GOOD INTENTIONS" COULD SERVE TO ENACT WORSENING HOUSING SCARCITY!!!

Coupled with the rise of property taxes . . . The impact could be disastrous. 

What's troubling is that Mayor Q and council seem intent on listen to activists and acolytes rather than industry leaders. 

In the meantime . . . We wanted to highlight this resistance to 12th & Oak embracing socialism for activists and everyone else . . . Check-it:

Landlords were not part of the ordinance drafting process, and many are pushing back. They say they should have a right to refuse to participate in the voluntary federal Section 8 program. And they say the government has no business telling them they have to rent to people who don’t have a regular source of income that the landlords are convinced will be sufficient to regularly pay the rent.

“This is a business, and I should be able to screen my customers to make sure they’re credit worthy,” said Stacey Johnson-Cosby, president of a coalition of landlord groups called the Kansas City Regional Housing Alliance. “This takes away my opportunity to do that.”

The Tuesday afternoon meeting of the council’s special committee for legal review will be the public’s first chance to testify for and against the measure, which if approved by the committee would then go onto the full council for possible final adoption.

Cosby plans to be there along with many other landlords who object to being told they must accept Section 8 vouchers.

Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com link . . .

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