The infrastructure for the socialist takeover of the US is quietly being laid right in front of our noses.
Where is the funding coming from? Who is planning on moving in? These are the primary inquiries that are being deflected toward the proposed benefits of multi-family low and mixed income apartments, otherwise known as affordable housing. These come in the form of apartments, townhomes, and row houses. It has been claimed to be the solution to homelessness, mostly by city councils and globalists posing as housing experts that travel from city to city to make their pitch to those residents that are willing to hear their pitch, such as Gregg Colburn, a resident of Seattle, who has come to Raleigh as part of his metropolitan globetrotting. Mr. Colburn wrote a book, Homelessness Is A Housing Problem, which outlines the reasons for the need for affordable housing. It is absolutely illogical and disregards the basic facts of human nature and confounds the causes of homelessness in our cities. They do this by citing correlative statistics to a completely clueless citizen audience. Declaring that there just aren’t enough homes to go around is as preposterous as declaring that those that cannot afford a car are carless because there aren’t enough cars to go around. He and the globalist democrat local community leaders refuse to acknowledge this crucial truth. If our society had agreed that those who work to provide a home for their families will pay for those who are unwilling to make choices that enable them to pay rent, Gregg would be right. Logically, taxpayers could be mandated to pay for housing all homeless individuals regardless. At that point, all incentives to make the right choices would disappear. It would actually incentivize choices that lead to more homelessness. Actually, the mostly democrat local governments know this and are incentivized to maximize taxpayer funded low and moderate income families and individuals. They are proposing more than doubling the current housing availability in the next 4-5 years to keep up with the forecasted population growth.
In so doing, they are actually disincentivizing market priced home ownership
The subsidies come from other people’s federal, state, city, and county taxes, and even some sales taxes and local government user fees. They also get funds from private developers for the permission to build market rate apartment buildings, which benefits the city by growing its tax base. Raleigh got $4.7 million from the federal government for fiscal year 2024-2025. $4 million of this subsidy was combined with a $10.5 million investment from Wake County to create the Wake County Affordable Housing Preservation Fund. Additional funding was secured from banking partners to make a total of $61.6 million for a projected 3,170 affordable units. A private developer, Hoffman and Associates provided $1.5 million to the affordable housing fund for the permission to build a market rate apartment building on top of the city bus station. The 2026 city budget calls for close to $11 million to be spent on affordable housing.
The city residents were was asked to rank 3 priorities: housing for low and moderate income families, housing for homelessness or those at risk for becoming homeless, and social services for low and moderate income families. The result, now in October of 2025 is that the GoRaleigh bus drivers have personally in a large group shown up to a city council meeting to fervently expose the degree of violence that runs rampant in the city, making their job too dangerous. The city just passed a rezoning law that turns single family home neighborhoods into multi-family subsidized apartment buildings. This is the precursor of runaway gang violence and a permanent government dependent voting cohort. The city will spend taxpayer money to actually find and attract tenants. Worse yet, it paves the way for indoctrinating the youth into socialism. Raising a family in an apartment building with limited income is always oppressive and restrictive. The larger the development the greater chance the children are overcome by the lowest level of culture, namely drug addiction and crime. This is not a bias. It is a fact as demonstrated by all of our large cities. No amount of social services solves this socialization problem. Children that are raised in an environment where they are proud and appreciative of their home are better positioned to be motivated to nurture healthy relationships and contribute the best of themselves. Parents who design more of their home environment are more likely to be more dedicated to their children.
- Public Housing, Concentrated Poverty, and Crime https://www.clevelandfed.org/publications/economic-commentary/2014/ec-201419-public-housing-concentrated-poverty-and-crime
- How Is Affordable Housing Funded? https://www.localhousingsolutions.org/housing-101-the-basics/how-is-affordable-housing-funded/
- Partner With Us https://www.wake.gov/departments-government/housing-affordability-community-revitalization/partner-us
- Budget and Management Services https://raleighnc.gov/budget-and-management-services