Broward County Commissioner Kristin D. Jacobs

February 22, 2009

Broward County Commissioner Kristin D. Jacobs
115 South Andrews Avenue
Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33301

RE: One way to end the housing crisis and help Mother Earth!

Commissioner Jacobs,

Borrowers are in trouble. Lenders are in trouble. Home builders are in trouble. Old people are in trouble. Young people are in trouble. Everybody is in trouble.

Almost 10,000 were in the queue for Section 8 Housing. The police had to be called out to maintain order. Although there was no mention of it in the print media it didn’t take a detective to see that the overwhelming majority of potential applicants for government help with housing were African-American. Of this majority the overwhelming majority were single moms, yes, women of color, with children in need of a good local Ritalin program. They are society’s most vulnerable members. As such they should be society’s most protected.

Herewith a plan to save them AND to defang the real estate crisis.

In case no one has told you let me be the first. If real estate values go down the amount of money the Broward County raises, money that is carefully spent helping people, goes down. That means you can help fewer and fewer people. You can’t have manatee suffrage and protection for greyhounds and counseling for pregnant pigs without a constantly rising source of revenue. If your elevator stops at all the floors even you should get that. You do, don’t you?

Let Broward County take over all foreclosed houses and apartments. Fill them with worthy Section 8 applicants.

Let Broward County take over all partially completed houses and apartments. Finish them with local residents being paid Davis Bacon wages.

Go Green!

Windmills. Solar panels. Organic cement. No plastic. Bamboo rebar. Victory gardens on the roofs. No swimming pools. Ceiling fans. No A/Cs. Bike paths to school. No washers and dryers.

The mind boggles at what we can do here.

It’s a “win-win” situation.




People get housing. If it isn’t a human right it should be.

People get jobs at good wages plus benefits.

I’ll bet that assault weapon usage will go down.

The only way to make it better would be to do away with the FCATs. Let’s do that too.

Call me for details.