To the editor: As an architect, I've been designing all kinds of residential housing for greater than 30 years and, knowledgeable by this expertise, I've come to imagine the one main impediment stopping an efficient response to our housing disaster is a definite lack of will. (“Amid housing crunch, officers need Orange County to remain the best way it's,” Jan. 22)
Because the saying goes: “the place there’s a will, there's a method.” Sadly, there's a appreciable lack of will to handle this urgent difficulty for a lot of elected officers and housed residents alike.
Sadly, I discovered the feedback of Councilwoman Peggy Huang of Yorba Linda, who resists constructing denser housing in suburban Orange County, becoming this stereotype completely: loads of excuses coupled with a transparent lack of any city-generated options for housing.
Many officers in Orange County have chafed as state laws and regional housing allotments have pressured them to take our housing shortages critically. I hope this strain conjures up our communities to develop the desire and conviction essential to take constructive motion on housing.
Steve Shepherd, Huntington Seaside
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To the editor: Clearly we've got a significant housing scarcity within the metro hubs of California. So many are unhoused or many merely discover rents or mortgages to be past their means.
So the plain reply is to construct extra housing, proper?
However I ask: Does everybody in California have to reside in these metro areas? Should we add to our density? Don’t we've got to determine the infrastructure first?
And from the place will the water come? What in regards to the site visitors? As a result of as we all know, extra individuals equals extra vehicles.
With the present inhabitants exodus from California, maybe we gained’t want all these new houses in spite of everything.
James Bevacqua, Glendale
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To the editor: We learn that amid a extreme statewide housing scarcity, officers of practically half the cities in Orange County selected to sue the state somewhat than enable sufficient new housing to be constructed to satisfy the wants of their cities — as a result of virtually all new housing can be flats and condos, they usually see multifamily housing (and the individuals who reside in it) as a menace to their concept of neighborhood character.
These good individuals would by no means discriminate towards anybody based mostly on the colour of their pores and skin, however they haven't any downside discriminating towards individuals based mostly on the kind of housing they reside in. When you can’t afford to reside in a single-family home, they don’t need you of their neighborhood.
It’s time to begin speaking about these within the upper-middle class who discriminate towards the 80% of the inhabitants who make much less cash than they do.
Sharon Gehl, San Diego
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To the editor: Your story quotes one one who moved to Yorba Linda many years in the past as a result of she wished to personal horses, and now worries that new consumers would possibly construct denser housing on her avenue’s half-acre heaps. Others expressed that they don't wish to lose the spread-out suburbia of single-family houses that they declare defines Orange County.
When weighing the wants of the housing insecure towards luxurious for the only a few, I really feel the coverage selections ought to be straightforward and apparent.
Preserving Orange County “the best way it's” actually means sustaining exclusionary, ceaselessly racist insurance policies for the consolation of highly effective (majority white) stakeholders. It's time for Orange County to come clean with its historical past of poor zoning decisions and play its half in fixing California’s worsening housing disaster.
Lucas Chen, Los Angeles
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