Midcoast Community Council Farmworker Housing Inspection Task Force Update Raises Questions About Ignored Need for Service Worker Housing

One thought on “Midcoast Community Council Farmworker Housing Inspection Task Force Update Raises Questions About Ignored Need for Service Worker Housing”

1. Concern for the lower-paid folks in society is only human. But all of these interwoven discussions of the need for more “affordable” housing ignore the fact that there are already too many people on the Midcoast and in Half Moon Bay for sustainability by local vital resources, infrastructure, and the local economy. If something is not sustainable, it does harm in the present and kills the future. The dreamed-up “growth ethic” is actually a growth myth in the real world. All increased artificial development on the limited Midcoast makes life worse for all, as it has done for decades now. It has been worse in HMB, of course, but county rule in the unincorporated Midcoast has produced results as bad in many instances.

   Farm labor housing hereabouts should be located on the farms where the farm workers live. This housing should be up to code and use on-site resources. Service workers of all kinds should be paid enough to live locally or commute from less expensive places (good luck finding those in the Bay Area, especially when the cost of commuting is factored in). Or do what even the arrogant rich have done for centuries in Western culture: Give your servants a place to live in your own homes. “Affordable housing” is the ascendant urban over-development scam (a scam that once went under the label “urban redevelopment”) perpetuated by developer/builder-owned governments and supported by well-meaning but reality-blind population-and-environment-ignorant progressives.

   Cypress Point is a county-forced, feel-good disaster, greased and funded by over-the-hill politics without regard to local neighborhoods, inadequate supporting infrastructure of all kinds, inadequate water and sewer in our already “full” local district, inadequate tax base for support, inadequate services for the planned population, and so on. More urbanization on the Midcoast, and almost everywhere else in the world, is a major problem, not a solution.

Comments are closed.