Affordable Housing: Doing the Same Thing Over and Over Again

Insanity Is Doing the Same Thing Over and Over Again and Expecting Different Results.

The current Affordable Housing Crisis and the Homeless Problems will continue to get worse unless we do something different. Yet, at every level of the political spectrum, politicians continue to focus on repeating the same proposed solutions over and over again, in spite of the fact that they have failed to produce new results over the past thirty years.

In addition, that is exactly what major industry leaders are telling us to do and that is what Frank Rolfe and his investment partners are self-servingly advising others to do.

Tim Sheahan, when he was president of the National Association of Manufactured Home Owners (NAMHOA) noted in a document linked here that when there was plenty of competition and new land-lease manufactured home (MH) communities were coming online, that the law of supply and demand kept site fees affordable. Unfortunately, there have been no new communities in California in the past thirty years and only ten in the USA since 2000. There is plenty of demand, but no supply.

“In 2016, more than three-quarters of low income older Californians whose head of household is age 65 or over are ‘rent burdened,’…