Tag: multifamily housing

Written by Diane Benjamin - editor

Homeless Shelter in Single Family Neighborhood at Planning Commission Today

By: Diane Benjamin See PDF page 20: https://bloomingtonil.portal.civicclerk.com/event/1087/files/agenda/6753 The documentation doesn’t make it clear what the owner of the vacant property wants to build: . The only way to understand what is happening is to read this story: https://www.wglt.org/local-news/2023-06-02/long-term-plan-to-help-the-homeless-lives-short-life-on-bloomingtons-northwest-side Excepts: Chris Collins said he invited people to sleep on land he owned in a Bloomington […]

Written by Diane Benjamin - editor

Rent control – More to the Story

By: Diane Benjamin Communities can already control rent increases – Quit raising property taxes! Quit pretending the needs of government are superior to the needs of people actually earning the money you take. People need to quit electing big government spenders who created the current destructive inflation by printing money. This would be Game Changing […]

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The REAL Reasons Rents are so high

By: Diane Benjamin Everyone’s first thought is property taxes. The fleecing of property owners on unrealized gains does contribute, that is no different than taxing you on stocks that have increased in value but you haven’t sold them. To pay taxes you would have to sell. Of course, if the value decreases you don’t get […]

Written by Diane Benjamin - editor

North Normal: Normal and Barickman want to devalue your property

By: Diane Benjamin Before reading the rest of THIS article, read this one: https://nypost.com/2020/07/21/joe-bidens-disastrous-plans-for-americas-suburbs/ On Thursday the Planning Commission will hear testimony about high-density and medium-density housing right next to expensive housing in Wintergreen Subdivision. This is exactly the plan Obama started under the guise of Equity housing. Biden is continuing the plan to destroy […]