The Denver Gazette

Don’t need more ‘projects’

Speaking as a proud Libertarian, in typical idiot liberal fashion, always looking to “duh gubment” to take care of them, Denver is determined to recreate the same square wheel which has repeatedly been shown will not roll in every single city where it has been tried. They’re called “the projects” and their failures are legendary.

Would it be faaar too proactive to consider alternatives BEFORE they go charging off to the races?

Are there citizens statewide who own residential property, are no longer using all the square footage in their homes, and would welcome some extra income?

Could their seldom or unused garage be easily repurposed into living space with a separate entrance?

Are there “gubment” zoning, permitting, regulatory, obstacles which render such repurposing unrealistic? Are there general contractors who, unshackled from regulations, could easily repurpose living space cheaper and lightyears faster than Denver will ever get anywhere close to completing “the projects”?

The answer is no, and never will be, yet another governmental program (like Section 8) with vast myriads of rules, regulations, policies, procedures, administrators, consultants, accountants, auditors, required to create the projects.

Have you ever heard of a landlord who didn’t have a horror story of unpaid rent, tenant destruction, insufficient deposits, sympathetic courts whose evictions take months and judgments that aren’t worth the paper they’re written on?

Would it be far too proactive to consider alternatives like removing all the impediments to investors becoming (OMG!) landlords?

If you answered yes to one or more above, call duh “gubment” and tell them to let the market do its job and we don’t want or need any more projects.

Gordon Carleton

Pueblo West

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2023-02-05T08:00:00.0000000Z

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