Comments on: What I learned at the BarCamp preparty http://kuwtb.com/156 The Adventures of Meck: A Relocated Yankee Turned Charlotte Young Professional Who Lives, Works, Plays, and is Growing Up in Uptown Fri, 16 Jul 2010 04:49:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: David Kyle http://kuwtb.com/156/comment-page-1#comment-58 David Kyle Fri, 30 Jan 2009 15:46:00 +0000 http://meckdoes.wordpress.com/2009/01/28/what-i-learned-at-the-barcamp-preparty#comment-58 Wow! Apparently someone didn't clean the wax out of their ears that night.<br/><br/>The 2 are not directly related. To clarify, I was discussing the ineffectiveness of HFH and how it doesn't even scratch the surface of the affordable housing problem in Charlotte.<br/><br/>The "manhole cover" regulation was just ONE EXAMPLE out of hundreds of outdated construction regulations that drive up the cost of housing.<br/><br/>There isn't a conspiracy per se. Just a "good ol' boy" system between CharMeck politicians and the construction industry. They are happy the way things are, and won't change anything that would disturb existing business arrangements.<br/><br/>The politicians support moronic things like HFH because it gives them the opportunity to publicly pretend that they care about poor people.<br/><br/>This isn't anything new. Anyone interested can read a detailed report on the subject here:<br/><a HREF="http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a787375631~db=all" REL="nofollow">http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a787375631~db=all</a> Wow! Apparently someone didn’t clean the wax out of their ears that night.

The 2 are not directly related. To clarify, I was discussing the ineffectiveness of HFH and how it doesn’t even scratch the surface of the affordable housing problem in Charlotte.

The “manhole cover” regulation was just ONE EXAMPLE out of hundreds of outdated construction regulations that drive up the cost of housing.

There isn’t a conspiracy per se. Just a “good ol’ boy” system between CharMeck politicians and the construction industry. They are happy the way things are, and won’t change anything that would disturb existing business arrangements.

The politicians support moronic things like HFH because it gives them the opportunity to publicly pretend that they care about poor people.

This isn’t anything new. Anyone interested can read a detailed report on the subject here:
http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a787375631~db=all

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