On Tuesday night, at this month's Town Council meeting, Charlestown will be treated to the formal presentation by Planning Commissioner (and CCA Town Council candidate) George Tremblay on why adding more affordable housing in Charlestown is a bad idea.
George learned his lesson after he took flak at his earlier roll-out over his "findings" that affordable senior citizens housing could be prey to sinister – though completely imaginary – hordes of millionaire retirees who want to grab this housing as investments. In his final version, the one he plans to present on Tuesday, Tremblay stripped out those insulting references to rich retirees, although the report is still crap.
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| Here are facts about Charlestown you WON'T find in Tremblay's fictional account |
Even though it was probably Ruth Platner who gave George the idea to tee off on the elderly.
His final report is still garbage because it completely ignored the desperate lack of affordable year-round rentals and the needs of teachers and volunteer firefighters, but nonetheless, George's report adheres to CCA's anti-affordable housing doctrine.
The state law that Tremblay refers to throughout his "research" is a mandate on all RI cities and towns to reach the point where 10% of its housing provides affordable housing opportunities to its cities. I doubt George has ever read the law, or if he did, he didn't get it. Ditto for Tom Gentz. I believe Ruth Platner has read the law backward and forward, but simply chooses to interpret it to suit her antifamily, anti-senior citizen agenda.
To read some actual facts about affordable housing, so you can contrast it with Tremblay's fiction, click here.
So you can learn more about the state affordable housing law than George Tremblay, here's a great video from HousingWorksRI:
