Affordable Housing - code words for Socialism

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Socialism is a precursor to Communism. Once you're on the slippery slope of Socialism, it's not hard to reach Communism.

An Affordable Housing Task Force is a precursor to a Homeless Task Force. Once you're on the Affordable Housing train, it's not hard to make "affordable" even "free" and "low barrier".

We saw our local government picking a cause called "Homelessness" and creating a Task Force with cherry picked non-profits to strong arm the citizens into doing what the local government wanted. The hope was to cause the community of citizens to buy into a "task force" conclusion that we need to have low barrier shelters.

Well, they follow the same strategy with the "Affordable Housing" item. Stack the deck of the board and create some study that sounds legit to use to persuade the voting public and elected folk. The "Affordable Housing problem" isn't called out by the voter. It's called out by our local government. It's not supported by the voters, it's supported by the cherry-picked people who had their names put on this study! As one community member described this, "The list of people on this committee is Haywood's version of the SWAMP."

Get informed and engaged. Voting season is always near. If we're electing people who don't understand and participate in this voter-manipulation strategy, then we elected the wrong people. And so far those complacent elected people have caused huge low-income housing developments to appear.

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To prove that "Affordable Housing" and "Low Barrier Shelter" isn't something Haywood/Waynesville wants, it should be noticed that the subject would never have any traction if it weren't for the support of the many lobbying groups (aka non-profits) that collect money and influence from a few and apply pressure to the elected people. In other words, the idea of affordable housing and low barrier shelters would NEVER be voted in favor by the voters that elected people should represent.... At least not until all the new affordable housing has filled up with new voters.