Comments on: Will State’s New Sprawl Law Actually Contain Development? http://la.streetsblog.org/2008/12/04/will-states-new-sprawl-law-actually-contain-development/ Covering Los Angeles's livable streets movement Sat, 21 Nov 2009 21:23:58 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 By: ubrayj02 http://la.streetsblog.org/2008/12/04/will-states-new-sprawl-law-actually-contain-development/comment-page-1/#comment-3246 ubrayj02 Thu, 04 Dec 2008 22:23:37 +0000 http://la.streetsblog.org/?p=1461#comment-3246 I was listening to KPCC this morning, and the Homebuilders Association is pushing Congress to help them build more suburban tract housing by loosening housing loan standards and home builder credit standards. The automakers are going to get bailed out, and the financial crooks who lent money that could not be paid (and made money on transactional fees), are getting their billions as I type. This law will never come close to affecting the kind of change we need to protect our wilderness areas, natural resources and biodiversity. A huge chunk of our economy goes into auto-based activity and large scale construction. Everyone cries out "Jobs! Jobs! Jobs!" when you touch their precious entitlement programs (which they see as "free market enterprise"). We need an alternative system of federal entitlement - and we need to do away with many of the current entitlement regimes that keep automaking, sprawl-based construction, and finance at the top of our economic pecking order. I was listening to KPCC this morning, and the Homebuilders Association is pushing Congress to help them build more suburban tract housing by loosening housing loan standards and home builder credit standards.

The automakers are going to get bailed out, and the financial crooks who lent money that could not be paid (and made money on transactional fees), are getting their billions as I type.

This law will never come close to affecting the kind of change we need to protect our wilderness areas, natural resources and biodiversity.

A huge chunk of our economy goes into auto-based activity and large scale construction. Everyone cries out "Jobs! Jobs! Jobs!" when you touch their precious entitlement programs (which they see as "free market enterprise").

We need an alternative system of federal entitlement - and we need to do away with many of the current entitlement regimes that keep automaking, sprawl-based construction, and finance at the top of our economic pecking order.

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