Poorly run cities try the reverse and seek to manage housing goals with punative fees on developers and rent controls. Look at the cities with the highest impact fees and most strict rent controls and you will on average find the highest cost of living and the most slum lords. In summary government incentives encourage desired behavior and government penalties often have worse unintended consequences.

* Around 2014, Boise offered developers $1,000 per multifamily unit for market rate units in the downtown planning area and $2,000 per affordable housing unit.

* Also eliminated the local park impact fee for residential development projects in downtown Boise, even though more residents increase demand on the nearby local/neighborhood parks of Camels Back and Military Reserve.

* Will probably use the TIF funds from the Gateway URD to expand infrastructure needed to annex more of the nearby area.

Citizens need to strongly advocate for any additional annexation of the southern Area of Impact to include a Community Infrastructure District to pay for the growth in this largely undeveloped land, just as has been done for growth (sprawl) in the Harris Ranch/Barber Valley area.

What do people see locally next?
– Economy? Plenty of local jobs, though a major housing bubble due to left coast city refugees. Try to refinance though and you’ll get stuck with rates 1% or more higher than advertised… banks are gouging.
– Virus: I run analytics for a living and predicted the current viral wave back in August. It looks like its plateauing but will spike again in mid to late January, will reverse spike when retirees start getting vaccinated, then trend down slowly as the general population gets vaccinated. It’ll turn into an annual vaccination along with flu due to its swift loss of immunity… then stick with us because many people won’t vaccinate.
– New recalls against socialist politicians.
– Explosion of people getting out this summer.
– Ongoing ammunition shortages even though we have a major plant in Lewiston… can we do anything that gets them to sell to locals first? BTW… 1 in 9 democrats became new gun owners this year. Self defense is a human right.
– Ongoing riots. The left proved that violence works so expect others to pick that up. That will lead to increasing censorship, laws taking away rights, then more push back. It’ll continue to be a grind rather than flash point. Expect an interesting decade… keep at least 3 months of supplies on hand.

* Boise is planning sewer rate increases and/or bond funding to cover replacement costs AND expanding infrastructure.

* Suez water claims hookup fees pay for any expansion and that the proposed rate increase is not for expansion but the projects appear to include expansion.

* Boise park impact fees were originally set in 1994 at only 40% of the cost to build a park. Never adjusted for inflation, eventually falling to the equivalent of 20% of the cost to construct a park, which meant all other tax payers subsidized the difference when parks were built.

* Collect Boise park impact fees in the Area of Impact but not use these to build parks in the AOI – shifted the fees to other areas of the city, especially to incent developers in the east end.

* Not collect Boise fire and police impact fees until 2008.

* Not collect fire district impact fees for NACFR and Eagle Fire District until this past year.

* Ada County does not collect impact fees for eligible services: sheriff, jail, EMS, coroner, parks.

* No school impact fees allowed by state law.

* Annex land and not extend equal services and infrastructure, but use increased tax revenue to subsidize projects to incentivize developers elsewhere in the city, or tuck it under the mattress for a mega library.

* Urban Renewal Districts circle the property tax right back to developing the land that paid it. This strips 20 years of taxes away from other gov. agencies, so they take the 3% annual budget increase to make up for the loss, pushing the burden onto all other taxpayers.

* The 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act reduced the corporate income tax rate from 35.0% to 21.0%. This has allowed corporate developers of multifamily apartment complexes to receive a higher return on investment while simultaneously taxing these properties as commercial, which shifts more of the burden for covering government services (for the increased population) onto other tax payers. Yet apartment complexes are zoned as residential for the permitting process.

Well, since so many readers and voter think their idea of “Marxism” overrides a king, dictator, or ‘holes’ in office, what is that about?

Marx said the basis for change is:
-Society divided into classes. Check. That is TRUE today.
-The workers work for the capitalists. TRUE.
-Workers work at unfair low wages to the capitalist advantage. TRUE. See Editors note above.
-The capitalists ‘live off’ the work of the workers. TRUE. Thanks Bezo!
-The wealthy own the government, army and courts. ?? Seems TRUE. Well a lot of readers here claim this is true. Money buys politicians, defense companies profit, and if you’re poor your outcome in court is bleak.

The editor even offers, “forcing employers to pay wages commensurate with rent or housing prices”. Wow! “forcing” employers is kinda contrary to ‘free markets’ right? Doesn’t that reinforce the Marxist ideas that the gap between classes become too great and intervention is needed?
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And who exacerbates these characteristics of our CURRENT society?
-Divisive social/eco classes.
-Increasing income/wealth gap.
-Low wages for the workers so they can’t afford rent and are at the mercy of the capitalists.
-Labor vs wealth
-Accessible health care only for the wealthy.

Who is the MOST divisive person in the world right now?
Marxism says these conditions are necessary before enough people cause change.

Who benefits most by these conditions continuing? And yet, they are perfectly fine with controlling the laws (“law and order”) to maintain the higher class for luxury and control.
Who wants to maintain this status quo?
I say there is about 70million people really pushing our sled to the cliff of Marxism. They just don’t realize it.

The only thing missing is the revolution of the working class- Hello TEAPARTY from year 2009. Remember all the signs opposing the wealthy 1%ers? And now, those people are on which side of politics? They flew Gadsden flags in 2009 with Glory upside down. Now they’ve added their MAGA flags and a bible {McGeachin}.

In Saudi Arabia, when the peasants got restless the King just threw money at them and pushed the military upon the citizens. You know, like $1,200 for every person and soldiers knocking down journalists at St Johns Church. Or dropping their property taxes {CARES Act is costing your children and grandchildren 2 Trillion dollars. The tax cuts of 2018 is costing them another 2 trillion}.
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So, who is really causing Marxism to be true today?

Slippery slope with the next step reporting when your neighbors appear to have too many friends and family over for dinner.