Why was author Jack Cashill's book What's the Matter with California ignored in Los Angeles and suppressed in San Francisco's mainstream media? The one exception was KSFO Radio.
Affordable Housing is a major real estate issue affecting all Californians. This issue is among the many diverse exposés and issues treated in the 38 chapters of his revelatory book, What's the Matter with California, Cultural Rumbles from the Golden State, and Why the Rest of US Should be Shaking.In Chapter 23, "East of Indio" Cashill, a a competent and ethical real estate expert, interviewed a real estate developer named Gene.
Gene lamented, "In projects that used to take six months, the permit now takes two to three years." This delay and the attendant legal fees not only add to the cost of the homes that do get built, but they also "choke the supply pipeline." The resulting supply deficit adds more cost still to the homebuyer.
"I know builders who simply won't come to Califonria," said Gene ruefully.
Both the politically connected bureaucrats and their Urban Planner Land Use agendas create excessive regulations and impose restrictions on builders and construction. This bureaucratic bundling is one of the reasons that true affordable housing is difficult and unduly expensive to try to build in California.
The exception is the HIUD funded and mortgage guaranteed-- so-called "non profit developers" a/k/a "non tax paying profit developers." These real estate racketeers are "politically connected" to the public sector urban land use planners. These developers, through their questionable political action committees, also lobby, raise, and donate money while they influence legislators and building departments across California.
Despite the fact that Cashill's expertise in publicly funded housing authority is unmatched, you won't find a book review or even a menition in either of the Book Review or Real Estate sections of the Los Angeles Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, San Jose Mercury, Fresno Bee, Sacramento Bee, and San Diego Union. Unlike many of the news writers and journalists who write about affordable housing while promoting it, Jack Cashill had a real estate broker's license in Missouri. He also worked in (HUD) public housing management in both Kansas City, MO and Newark, NJ. The issues and the research that Cashill did to write What's the Matter with California is also relevant in the Steven Nary case. This 18 year-old US Navy sailor, was stalked, lured, creditably suspected of being date-rape drugged and nearly raped by Juan Jorge Pifarre. The attacker, Pifarre, died while brutally trying to rape this youth. Nary simply defended himself from rape. Nary was illegally tried by prosecutors and judges connected to Pifarre. He was sentenced to16 years to life in a state prison--affordable housing--by (then) Judge Kevin Vincent Ryan. Pifarre, this late and unlamented homosexual predator, was a scion of an Argentine banking family whose bank, Province of Buenos Aires--the oldest in Argentina, is suspected of being involved in real estate manipulations, money laundering, and holding assets stolen by the Nazis from Europeans in Nazi occupied countries during world WWII. Piffare was also connected to HUD-funded real estate racketeers operating in San Francisco, California. One of Pifarre's connections, Mission Economic Development Association, MEDA, a HUD-funded so-called "Community Group" is now claiming to offer "financial advice on mortgages/foreclosures" to people who didn't and couldn't qualify financially for houses in the first place. Kevin Ryan (Kevin V. Ryan) was the Canadian-born San Francisco criminal court judge exposed in the Steven Nary kangaroo court case, Ryan's in-laws, and Ryan himself, were involved in controversial HUD and other real estate activities. Ryan and other public corruptors and abusers are prominently depicted in What's the Matter with California. After being fired by President Bush as US Attorney for Northern California, Kevin V. Ryan applied to several big name law firms. None would hire him. After donating $150 to Gavin Newsom's mayoral campaign, Kevin Ryan is now reportedly seeking to be appointed San Francisco's new police chief. To be Continued.....