SLO County YIMBY is a cross-partisan group of pragmatic people. Our goal is to work with whichever candidate wins in the ways that we can. Gibson and Ortiz-Legg gave thoughtful answers and rose to the task of answering our questions about how they would help solve our housing problems. We are deeply disappointed in the seven candidates who refused to answer us. The housing crisis is not something that is fabricated, or unique, or accidental, or the result of one party or leader. It is the result of choices that elected officials, government staff, commissioners, and voters have made over the course of decades. It affects every one of us, from seniors looking to downsize, to employers who can’t retain talent. Tents under the overpasses, traffic gridlock, and shrinking populations across the region all point to a very real—and very fixable—problem that elected leaders should be willing to publicly address. If you can’t or won’t face your constituents on this issue, then why the heck are you even running for elected office?
SLO County YIMBY
Grover Beach
This article appears in Pride 2022.
Want affordable housing? Learn a skill that pays you more so you can afford more or move to where you can afford. Not a government responsibility.
I’d like to get the government out of my way so I can build apartments on the lot that I own with my own money, thanks so much.