Because there aren't enough homes in Irvine..

[BarTopDancer]

Irvine told to accommodate 35,000 homes in 7 years (http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-irvine25jul25,1,11525.story?track=rss).

Maybe they should focus on affordable homes instead. :rolleyes:

[CoasterMatt]

Wonder what the "carbon footprint" of that is?

[RStar]

That's why they are talking about tearing down Wild Rivers now that there lease is up (and the campground next to it). The Amplitheater could be next when the lease is up.

[Gemini Cricket]

Irvine Shmirvine. Los Feliz has a House of Pies.

[Kevy Baby]

Maybe they should focus on affordable homes instead. :rolleyes:From the articleIrvine must plan for 35,000 homes by 2014, according to the Southern California Assn. of Governments. Some would be designated for low-income families.About 40% of the 700,000 new homes slated for the Southern California area must be designated as intended for low income or very low income families, according to the plan.

[CoasterMatt]

Where will these people work? That doesn't seem to matter, so long as the developers keep funding the campaigns...

[Kevy Baby]

Where will these people work? That doesn't seem to matter, so long as the developers keep funding the campaigns...There is already a HUGE crush of traffic getting into Irvine (and surrounding areas) in the morning - work is not a problem.

[Ghoulish Delight]

Where will these people work? That doesn't seem to matter, so long as the developers keep funding the campaigns...I swear about a dozen new office and technology business parks have sprouted in Irvine in the 9 months since we left. And the great park is well under way. There's employment to be had.

[mistyisjafo]

By "low income" do they mean under $1,000,000? Or is that completely unrealistic? How about in the low $700,000s? Too low?

I love living in the OC but we really have no such thing as low income here anymore. If you want low income, move outta state. Affordable no longer lives here.

[BarTopDancer]

Kevy -

Even "low income housing" is still unaffordable. Low income rent in some of the IAC communities is still $1100 a month.

[RStar]

Where will these people work? That doesn't seem to matter, so long as the developers keep funding the campaigns...

Well, they will need stores won't they? ;)

[Morrigoon]

Here's some info I posted on my blog recently about definitions of "low income":

Here is a document (http://www.ochousing.org/SCHFA-CalHFA%202003%20Program%20Flyer%202.pdf)that lists, amongst other valuable information, the SCHFA-CalHFA income limits for low- and moderate-income first-time homebuyer programs. But just in case you haven't looked at that document yet, I thought maybe I should post that information directly for you:

Moderate Income (for existing/resale and new homes):
$82,326 for 1 or 2 person households
$94,675 for 3 or more person households

Low Income (for existing/resale homes only):
$49,396 for 1 or 2 person households
$56,805 for 3 or more person households

Low Income (for new homes only):
$57,628 for 1 or 2 person households
$66,272 for 3 or more person households


While I'm at it, I should point out that their definition of a first-time homebuyer is not necessarily someone who has never owned a home before... it is someone who has not owned a home in the last 3 years. So if it has been at least 3 years since you owned a home, you are considered a first-time homebuyer for the purposes of their program.

[Alex]

"Low income" and similar designations are usually defined in relative terms to Area Median Income (AMI) not absolute terms. When I worked in community construction lending at Wells Fargo (dealt with tax credit-subsidized construction loans for MFR and SFR developments) we were sometimes involved in $500,000 homes that were "low income" because they were affordable to people earning 60% (or something like that) of the area median income (we also did truly affordable housing in the Tenderloin though it still wouldn't be considered afforable in Mississippi).

So "affordable housing" in Irvine has a completely different meaning than in Truckee than in BFE, Mississippi, than in Bel Air.

[Chernabog]

Yeeeech I am not even at a moderate income. I need to start looking for a rich man one of these days.