The Republican think tanks and pols have for several decades shouted for the ending of Fannie Mae and Federal Housing Agency. Since these FHA mortgage frauds are being done by right wing----in many Republican states---we can expect Trump will continue to keep FHA rolling out fraud but for things different.
This is why we are hearing from CONSERVATIVE POSING BUSH NEO-CONS that maybe they won't end the FHA just yet.
'The platform that party officials approved at this week's Republican National Convention in Cleveland states that, "The utility of both agencies should be reconsidered." That contrasts with the 2012 version of the platform, which stated, "Both Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac should be wound down in size and scope."'
This is Trump's look as he thinks how HE will channel all that FHA funding fraud.
Texas is indeed a third world nation----it is a mess. The Bush NEO-cons have basically brought what was in Foreign Economic Zones in Asia to the US. The first round of dormitory-style buildings will look more contemporary than the Asian industrial dormitory compounds but that is only to speak to our first world developed nation quality of life. The global corporations and development corporations behind these constructions in Texas are the same as those corporations building the same in Asian Foreign Economic Zones.
'The new campus has two forty room dormitories for visiting managers and engineers, and a community center'.
These are the global labor pool white collar sweat shop workers ----the professionals who travel to all Foreign Economic Zones. These are the people who will become that $20-30 a day----and these dormitories are that corporate campus---eat, be schooled, work, and live at the expense of that corporation. Today our US based-executives still get that US standard salaries albeit lower----soon these US professionals will live like Asian professionals.
THIS IS WHERE FUNDING FROM A CARSON/TRUMP WILL GO IN US CITIES DEEMED FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONES.
So now Texas is exporting what it built to all mid-size US cities next on the Foreign Economic Zone development window. No public housing---no low-income housing---these worker dormitories will be that AFFORDABLE HOUSING.
Compliance & Regulation
Republican Platform Softens Stance on Winding Down Fannie, Freddie
By Bonnie Sinnock
July 21, 2016
IMAGE: Bloomberg
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has not weighed in on the issue of the GSE conservatorship or the change to the GOP platform's language about Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.The official platform of the Republican Party has softened language calling for the end of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, while continuing to demand reform.
The platform that party officials approved at this week's Republican National Convention in Cleveland states that, "The utility of both agencies should be reconsidered." That contrasts with the 2012 version of the platform, which stated, "Both Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac should be wound down in size and scope."
It's unclear what the significance of the change is or why it was made. Top Republican leaders, including House Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling, have repeatedly called for the end of the government-sponsored enterprises. There is no sign that they have eased up on that view. Additionally, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, the Republican vice presidential nominee, is a close ally to Hensarling and has previously endorsed privatizing Fannie and Freddie.
Still, because Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has not weighed in on the issue, the change in the platform has opened the door to speculation.
"I think they wanted to set a marker out that there are some things that need to be changed [with the GSEs] but they're not necessarily shutting them down," said Brian Montgomery, a former Federal Housing Administration commissioner during the George W. Bush administration and the current vice chairman of Washington, D.C., consulting firm The Collingwood Group. "I'm just thinking or speculating that they realize that it's much easier said than done."
Montgomery added historically, party platforms don't necessarily have much impact on voters' decisions, "but maybe they should."
A Republican administration and Congress would do away with "the jumble of subsidies and controls that complicate and distort home-buying" at the two GSEs, according to the 2016 platform.
The change in stance could reflect acknowledgement of and frustration with ongoing difficulties in removing agencies from the market due to their continuing outsized presence in it, even as their regulator and conservator has taken steps to try to reduce taxpayers' exposure.
"For nine years, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have been in conservatorship and the current administration and Democrats have prevented any effort to reform them," the platform states.
The Federal Housing Finance Agency has mandated the agencies scale back their loan portfolios and, to some extent, the credit risk of loans they securitize; but the GSEs still buy and guarantee the bulk of the single-family loans in today's market.
"Nobody has come close to replacing what they do, and so I think that it [the change in the Republican platform's wording] is just an acknowledgement that the mortgage market would come pretty close to coming to a halt and Fannie and Freddie no longer existed," said Brent Nyitray, director of capital markets at iServe Residential Lending in Stamford, Conn. "The private-label market has just been largely dormant. That's what I take it to mean."
While the Republican Party may be acknowledging that winding down the GSEs is a tall order given how they've become entrenched in the market during the last four year, it has been consistent in signaling that is plans to reduce the range of loans that they and the FHA guarantee.
"I would assume from the Republican standpoint they're sick and tired of affordable housing mandates and all that sort of stuff. I certainly would imagine if Trump wins, that aspect of it will probably be de-emphasized," said Nyitray.
Lawmakers from lower-cost areas where homes generally cost less than $200,000 traditionally have questioned higher-cost FHA loans, said Montgomery. "They used to say, 'What are you doing lending to rich people to buy $725,000 homes?' There aren't many markets where they can do that and that can be the median price in some of those markets, and now they [the high-cost loan limits] are down to $625,000, but that still sounds high to some of them. So it doesn't sound like that view has changed a whole lot."
The 2016 platform states the party would ensure FHA lending does not support high-income individuals, as opposed to saying it would limit it to helping first-time home buyers and low- and moderate-income borrowers in 2012. It also says in 2016 that, "We will end the government mandates that required Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and federally-insured banks to satisfy lending quotas to specific groups."
The Republicans also said they would "scale back the federal role in the housing market, promote responsibility on the part of borrowers and lenders, and avoid future taxpayer bailouts."
With efforts to cultivate private securitization alternative slow to grow, some believe this could mean a Republican administration would be more open to a public sector alternative for reducing GSE risk to taxpayers, such as removing their role as issuers and having them operate more like Ginnie Mae. Ginnie insures bond payments while lenders act as approved issuers for it. Separate government agencies insure the credit risk of loans in securitized Ginnie pools.
"I think that the right side of the aisle would be more willing to look at a model like that that is more palatable and minimizes taxpayer exposure than having the GSEs continue to issue bonds on their own and have the credit risk associated with the bonds. I think it's something that should be evaluated," said Joseph Murin, a former Ginnie chairman who headed the agency between January 2008 and August 2009. Murin is currently chairman of the investment advisory firm JJAM Financial LLC in Pittsburgh.
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Texas is indeed a third world nation----it is a mess. The Bush NEO-cons have basically brought what was in Foreign Economic Zones in Asia to the US. The first round of dormitory-style buildings will look more contemporary than the Asian industrial dormitory compounds but that is only to speak to our first world developed nation quality of life. The global corporations and development corporations behind these constructions in Texas are the same as those corporations building the same in Asian Foreign Economic Zones.
'The new campus has two forty room dormitories for visiting managers and engineers, and a community center'.
These are the global labor pool white collar sweat shop workers ----the professionals who travel to all Foreign Economic Zones. These are the people who will become that $20-30 a day----and these dormitories are that corporate campus---eat, be schooled, work, and live at the expense of that corporation. Today our US based-executives still get that US standard salaries albeit lower----soon these US professionals will live like Asian professionals.
THIS IS WHERE FUNDING FROM A CARSON/TRUMP WILL GO IN US CITIES DEEMED FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONES.
So now Texas is exporting what it built to all mid-size US cities next on the Foreign Economic Zone development window. No public housing---no low-income housing---these worker dormitories will be that AFFORDABLE HOUSING.
For those thinking our global labor pool workers tied to construction are actually earning that $9 an hour our CLINTON/OBAMA global Wall Street neo-liberals PRETEND these immigrants earn-------WAKE UP------and this is a wage that will not change as US trades are eliminated or forced to work and live the same--
'Most workers get paid 85 pesos a day, or approximately $6.70, various bonuses , attendance and food increases the weekly pay to approximately $75.00 a week'.
This is from what our 5% to the 1% Latino global Wall Street players profit from the 99% of our immigrant citizens---see why that 5% always goes CLINTON GLOBAL WALL STREET?
'EL PASO, TEXAS
Comercial and Industrial Real Estate opportunities in El Paso, Texas,
Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, and New Mexico'
FOXCOM has three new plants totaling 1.2 million square feet in their new campus in San Jeronimo, Mexico near the international port of entry of Santa Teresa, New Mexico on the western outskirts of Ciudad Juarez. The new campus has two forty room dormitories for visiting managers and engineers, and a community center.
Foxcom, is a multibillion dollar company based in Taiwan. It manufactures name brand computers, cell phones and other electronic gadgets . Foxcom has spent about $240 million so far to build the first part of its campus. The new campus covers about 150 acres and eventually is to grow to about 600 acres. Foxcom is planning to build a fourth plant on campus early next year.
Foxcom has about 19,000 employees in Mexico working in five cities in eight plants, including the three San Jeronimo plants, and 2,000 employees in another computer plant near the Juarez airport. Foxcom is planning to put all of the company’s Mexico operations at the San Jeronimo campus.
A new Anapra highway between San Jeronimo and Downtown, Juarez will allow a labor pool of about 400,000 people that live in Anapra and its surrounding neighborhoods located less than five miles from the new campus.
800 managers which include 160 engineers are employed in the new campus. A total of 7,381 employees assemble 15,000 to 40,000 computers, laptops and servers for Dell. At this time much of the work force travels long distance to the campus on buses provided by Foxcom. Most managers drive their own cars. Most workers get paid 85 pesos a day, or approximately $6.70, various bonuses , attendance and food increases the weekly pay to approximately $75.00 a week.
A proposal to expand the Santa Teresa airport runway to handle cargo planes is being planned. Eventually the Union Pacific Railroad plans to move to Santa Teresa. The proximity to an international port of entry will allow the campus to be designated a Mexico free-trade zone giving the company tax advantages, making it faster and less expensive to move truck shipments across the border.
There is no doubt that the San Jeronimo-Santa Teresa area will flourish. The El Paso and Juarez land markets offer diversified industrial opportunities.
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We are already seeing this in Baltimore with existing housing where what would be a one bedroom apartment is housing several people while charging far above MARKET VALUE-----$1200-1500 in Charles Village. We see many of our Baltimore row houses moving from having one large middle apartment to having those permitted for smaller units charging more rent.
As with the article above-----that worker's dormitory was for global labor pool sweat shop professionals-----here is what our global factory workers can expect and no matter how many times APPLE or national media claims things have been made better at the global corporate campus factories----THEY HAVE NOT----THEY DO NOT INTEND FOR THEM TO BE BETTER----this is about housing, feeding, schooling a global labor pool as CHEAPLY AS POSSIBLE and these will be the AFFORDABLE HOUSING MOVING FORWARD will be building this coming decade as more global labor pool are brought to build our US city corporate campuses and infrastructure.
FEDERAL FHA----FEDERAL PUBLIC HOUSING FUNDS----WILL GO TO THESE GLOBAL CORPORATE CAMPUS DORMITORIES.
'Wang, who did not want his full name published, is among thousands of workers housed in a vast complex where tensions aggravated by regimented and cramped living conditions boiled over on Sunday into a violent mass riot'.
'Eight to 10 people shared a single room, with as many as 30 rooms on each floor, workers said, adding that men and women were segregated and closely supervised by security guards'.
When a CLINTON/OBAMA global Wall Street candidate shouts he/she will get AFFORDABLE HOUSING for community citizens----this is it and they KNOW THIS!
I shared a few months ago about how Baltimore's 311 is a farce----I called to have the city make these landlords provide enough TRASH CANS for these hyper occupancy row houses in Charles Village----because they do nothing we have family trash being piled on our sidewalks by city trash cans-----it is not the fault of our immigrant citizens---it is the fault of city zoning and permitting ---AND the failure to monitor LANDLORD'S pushing as many people into living spaces as they can.
This will be a TRUMP/CARSON HUD/FHA
World News | Thu Sep 27, 2012 | 5:16pm EDT
China's dorm room discontent emerges as new labor flashpoint
By Michael Martina |TAIYUAN, China
Twenty-three-year old factory worker Wang spends up to 12 hours a day making iPhone components in China, but his major complaint is not about the monotony of the production line - it is about his degrading worker-bee life inside the dormitory.
Wang, who did not want his full name published, is among thousands of workers housed in a vast complex where tensions aggravated by regimented and cramped living conditions boiled over on Sunday into a violent mass riot.
"The bathrooms are simply disgusting and people are constantly stealing things," Wang said as he stood outside of the factory in the northern city of Taiyuan, owned by Apple Inc's largest contract manufacturer, Taiwan firm Foxconn.
Until the riot, which turned from a personal dorm squabble into battles between police and about 2,000 workers and spilled over into Monday, the focus of labor discontent in China had been on production lines, especially those making products for Apple.
The unrest, which left about 40 people injured, metal factory gates flattened, cars overturned and windows smashed, shifted the focus on to broader living conditions, particularly for migrant workers who live in thousands of factory dormitories around the country.
It also highlights mounting pressure on Chinese manufacturers to keep pace not just with rising wages but with a younger generation's demands for more comfortable, flexible lifestyles. The sheer size of some factories - almost 80,000 toil at the Taiyuan plant - presents huge management problems.
"The management is awful," said Wang, adding that his dormitory's bathroom floors were often covered in excrement.
Access to the seven-storey, grey concrete dormitories at Taiyuan is restricted to factory workers only, but many unhappy employees spoke to journalists outside the surrounding tall chain-link fences about a long list of frustrations.
Eight to 10 people shared a single room, with as many as 30 rooms on each floor, workers said, adding that men and women were segregated and closely supervised by security guards.
Some complained of rules that limited personal freedoms - a flashpoint for a digitally connected generation. There was no drinking or smoking, and one worker said management did not allow residents to hang posters on the wall.
Guards working for Foxconn have been known for bullying in efforts to stop theft. Employees at Taiyuan said the treatment was dehumanizing. One worker said he had been berated by security for having his jacket unzipped.
MANAGEMENT CHALLENGES
Foxconn, which outsources management and security of the dormitories, has said it will review how they are being run.
"We need to put things into context after this incident. The first is how to manage dormitories," Foxconn Technology Group spokesman Louis Woo said after the riot.
Foxconn, the trading name of Hon Hai Precision Industry Co, the world's largest contract maker of electronics, said it had been trying to boost worker loyalty by increasing dormitory space and recreational facilities.
Labor advocates have also noted that in some places the firm is beginning to offer more accommodation choice by giving housing and food allowances to workers who live off-site.
However, experts say many firms are failing to meet the challenge of managing workers in China, where the pool of low-cost labor is drying up after 30 years of economic boom.
"Their (workers') expectations have changed so drastically, and companies haven't kept up..." said Mary Gallagher, an associate professor of political science at the University of Michigan who researches Chinese labor issues.
She said migrant workers were now fewer in number, more educated, came from smaller families and that companies would have to do more than boost pay to entice them into signing up.
"I'M NOT SURE IT WILL WORK"
Job hunters still queued at sunrise at the Taiyuan factory's gates on Wednesday with job applications in hand, just two days after the riot which forced a day-long closure.
But Foxconn workers said that since the beginning of the year the lines had shortened from thousands to hundreds - and that the new recruits' enthusiasm soon waned once they started work.
"There are fewer people that want a job like this. They can't bear it - working all day like machines and then going home to chaotic and dirty dorms," said a 28-year-old male employee with the surname Wei.
Lu Feifei, 23, and his wife were transferred three months ago from Foxconn's Shenzhen plant to relieve a labor shortage in Taiyuan, but there were no dormitory rooms for couples there.
Instead, they pay 10 percent of their combined 5,000 yuan ($800) monthly salary on a dank one-room apartment a short walk from the factory, more than twice what it would cost the average worker to live in the dorm.
"For me personally, I'm not sure it will work for us long-term," Lu said.
Dozens of workers and head-hunters said hundreds of new recruits flowed through the doors at the Foxconn plant every day but they usually only stayed for a matter of months.
"Turnover has been high in the past few days. Maybe 600 a day," said Qing Fengbin, a recruiter handing out cards that read "achieve your dreams" at a booth near one of the plant's gates.
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Here are the deregulation policies that will continue in housing for our US cities and this article addresses why we have row houses in Charles Village with several citizens living in a one bedroom house---they are calling this DENSITY----but what is really happening is a slow walk to the middle-class and working class being squeezed out of city center altogether. The real estate space that regulations use to protect created a quality of life for a community......global Wall Street calls it PROHIBITIVE and discriminatory-----the global Wall Street 5% players are those folks getting these row houses and packing them with human capital----so yes they are putting money in their pockets FOR NOW. It is only for deregulation global Wall Street is doing this---so we are watching the same walk in NYC and San Fran where immigrant tenet housing and high-rises stand just outside of a city center owned by the global corporations for which these global labor pool citizens work.
THAT IS THE GOAL OF THESE DEREGULATIONS---AND WALL STREET PLAYERS ENRICHED BY LOOSENED STANDARDS WILL BE LOSERS VERY SOON.
'The development targets seniors who earn 80 percent or less of the area median income'.
'In his hearing, Carson also took aim at another, unrelated form of overregulation.
"Exclusionary" land-use regulations that limit construction raise housing costs "and entrench racial segregation," Carson's prepared testimony stated'.
Obama and Clinton neo-liberals started this----Trump and Carson will super-size this. When we read of apartments in NYC costing $2000-3000 a month with space that is a walk-in closet----this is the deregulation that leads to this----is that how we want BUILDING DENSITY to look?
Obama's spin on these deregulations to our low-income citizens was to condemn the policies of HIGH RISE PUBLIC HOUSING----well yes left social democrats never liked these policies they were installed by a right wing President and Congress====but Obama and Clinton neo-liberals were not saving our low income citizens from these high-density poverty conditions---they were actually EXPANDING them by deregulating our housing policies that gave quality of life to communities.
Trump's plan for looser housing rules likely to include mortgage changes
By Joseph Lawler (@josephlawler) • 1/17/17 12:01 AM
President-elect Trump's housing agenda is likely to involve changes to the new rules and policies on mortgages imposed following the 2008 financial crisis, details that emerged during Ben Carson's confirmation hearing to lead the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Trump's views on housing remained mostly a mystery throughout the campaign. Only once did he refer to any of the concerns facing home buyers, renters, builders, real estate agents and lenders. In an appearance at a homebuilders' trade group meeting in August, the Republican said that new Obama administration rules made it "impossible for your people to go get mortgages."
In his appearance before the Senate Banking Committee Thursday, Carson lent a little more context to that industry-friendly but vague statement.
In his prepared testimony, Carson wrote that banks are "loath" to lend to homebuyers through programs that involve insurance through the Federal Housing Administration, part of HUD, because of the "fear of getting sued if the borrowers default."
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Carson did not read that part of the testimony at the hearing, instead opting to discuss his own history of overcoming childhood poverty. As it happens, some of the passage was taken from a Wall Street Journal report without proper attribution, the Washington Post noted.
Nevertheless, Carson expressed the view that lenders have pleaded to the federal government over the past half-decade-plus because the regulatory and legal actions taken in response to the crisis have left banks and other lenders scared to extend credit for fear of being penalized or sued by the government later.
"His comments there were helpful," said David Stevens, head of the Mortgage Bankers Association.
Most significant are the major settlements that the government has reached with big banks over bubble-era mortgages that were sold to the FHA, along with other agencies. For example, in April the Department of Justice announced a $1.2 billion settlement with Wells Fargo for claiming that home loans met the terms for FHA insurance, when they did not.
While populist critics have said that the Obama Justice Department should have gone further in prosecuting big banks for potential mortgage fraud, the industry has its own complaints about the way that the lawsuits have been handled. Because the suits turn on specific terms in long loan contracts, they say, it is difficult to be certain that they won't be on the hook for inevitable defaults in the future.
Carson's comments were an "important part of what's needed to bring the broad lending community back to HUD," Stevens said.
In his hearing, Carson also took aim at another, unrelated form of overregulation.
"Exclusionary" land-use regulations that limit construction raise housing costs "and entrench racial segregation," Carson's prepared testimony stated.
Lowering the cost of construction by cutting back on rules was a key thrust of Carson's testimony. Asked at one point what he would do to give more housing options to poor people, Carson said "we have to either raise their income or decrease the cost of the housing. I think both are areas that we need to work upon."
That is an area of agreement with the Obama administration, noted Adam Millsap, an analyst at the libertarian Mercatus Center. Obama's Council of Economic Advisers has produced research concluding that overly restrictive building regulations have driven up the cost of housing, increasing inequality and harming the environment by forcing people to rely on cars.
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Here is the real estate model our mid-size US cities are tied to in MOVING FORWARD---I wanted to show our low-income citizens how they are not even considered once these city developments MOVE FORWARD. Here we are seeing talk of how to subsidize MIDDLE-INCOME people-----with middle-income being upper middle. This article was written in 2015 ----and they are floating a MUNICIPAL BOND for this supposed middle-class subsidized housing----LOOKS LIKE SAN FRAN GETTING IN ON COLLAPSING BOND MARKET! So these promises are POSING--
When we see a GOVERNOR BROWN or a NANCY PELOSI all hot and bothered about immigration policies against IMMIGRANTS----this area of CA is ground zero for that APPLE GLOBAL CORPORATE FACTORY DORMITORY-style housing for immigrants. Below see how much an low-income immigrant family pays----and they will be pushed further out as that price will rise.
'Under the plan a new housing program would use a small slice of the bond money to pay real estate developers that are building new market-rate buildings to restrict some rental units for households that make roughly $100,000 to $140,000 a year'.
'The average rent for a two-bedroom, one-bathroom apartment reached $2,501, up 16 percent in just two years'.
San Fran approving housing subsidy for middle-class as mid-size cities do low-income-----still tying them to municipal bond market.
Trump of course will not allow this housing subsidy----as it was never meant to help middle-class----it was simply meant to increase BOND DEBT.
'The bond money the city spends on middle-income housing in new market-rate projects would be tacked onto the money developers already have to pay on affordable housing fees, or spend themselves constructing low-income units in their own projects under the inclusionary law'.
While Baltimore pols are still pretending they are working for low-income citizens and housing----here we see what Baltimore's housing will be in a few decades as they are then ignoring middle-class housing needs.
San Francisco may subsidize middle-class apartments for first time
May 12, 2015, 5:55am PDT Updated May 17, 2015, 12:20pm PDT
Cory Weinberg Reporter San Francisco Business Times
If voters approve Mayor Ed Lee’s $250 million housing bond in November, they will unlock a stream of cash that the city will use to subsidize rental housing units for middle-class residents for the first time.
Under the plan a new housing program would use a small slice of the bond money to pay real estate developers that are building new market-rate buildings to restrict some rental units for households that make roughly $100,000 to $140,000 a year.
The city already helps residents in that income bracket pay for down payments on for-sale homes – and there is, of course, rent control on older buildings. But this would be the first program using public money for new rental units. It may also throw a new income bracket into the frantic world of housing lotteries, where thousands of applicants vie for dozens of spots in new market-rate buildings.
City officials want to stem the exodus of residents who earn too little to afford new luxury housing but too much to take advantage of low-income housing programs. That’s a pretty large group – about 40 percent of the city, a report notes – who are getting whacked by rents that rose in San Francisco by 15 percent over the past year.
Market rents skyrocket due to housing production that hasn’t kept up with an infusion new residents, often with high-paying jobs. Meanwhile, the middle-income bracket has seen almost no new apartments built within its reach lately. The city saw only 19 percent of the 6,754 moderate-income units it needed over the last seven years actually built, according to the Association of Bay Area Governments.
The city must win two-thirds approval from voters for the bond to pass, which hasn’t happened since 1996 after two failed attempts last decade. Lee will ask the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday to approve an ordinance calling for the largest housing bond in the city’s history to go to the ballot.
Offering up a new program for middle-class residents also allows Lee to sell the bond to voters as one that would help “teachers, firefighters and construction workers,” as he did to reporters multiple times on Monday.
“They are in professional jobs but...they’re finding it extremely hard to still live here in the city,” Lee said. He also said several times that the city won't raise property taxes to pay for the debt.
Where does the bond money go?
In unveiling plans to reporters Monday, Lee said a bulk of the bond money would go to speeding up the development of massive public housing projects and low-income developments. Those programs already exist in the city's arsenal to reach Lee’s goal of producing 30,000 new units by 2020, with one-third as affordable to low-income residents.
But “the middle-income proposal becomes the shiny penny. Right or wrong, the administration will sell their package on the middle-income ticket,” said Peter Cohen, co-director of the Council of Community Housing Organizations, which advocates for the construction of low-income housing.
“You’re talking about giving public subsidy to market-rate developers to buy units at cheaper cost. If you go that direction, that’s a new terrain,” he added.
Despite its shininess, the middle-income piece is the smallest of the housing bond's priorities. It’s also a small ingredient in the mayor’s office’s complex recipe of housing production strategies overall.
The city says $50 million to $100 million of the bond money will go to the public housing projects, helping speed up a Sunnydale development to be finished in 15 years instead of 20, for instance.
A range of $100 million to $150 million would go to low-income housing by quickening the process for affordable housing developers. That money would also help the city buy existing rent-control buildings and affordable units to preserve them from getting converted to market-rate.
To help middle-income residents, the city expects to use $25 million to $100 million of the bond money.
Those dollars can pay for more units if the city helps preserve incoming market-rate units for middle-class renters instead of buying sites because land and construction costs have soared during the real estate boom. The high cost of land "is the number one issue now the mayor's office of housing is struggling with for providing affordable housing," Planning Director John Rahaim said last week.
Mayor’s office officials declined to say how many middle-income units the money would pay for exactly, but said the city would pay about $150,000 to $200,000 per unit to restrict them at moderate-income rents for perpetuity. Initially, that would likely pay for a few hundred units.
Tinkering away
The middle-class program also appears to be a bit of an experiment that may start out small. Another newer strategy to help housing affordability is the mayor’s “small sites program” that uses a small pool of money to buy existing rent-control buildings going on the market.
A task force convened by the mayor last year also proposed a few other strategies to help fund units for middle-income residents, such as letting market-rate developers build inclusionary units for that income bracket in a program dubbed the “dial.”
“There’s no silver bullet,” Rahaim said. “This is not just a California issue. New York, Washington D.C. and Seattle are experiencing this acutely right now. We may be entering an era where middle-income housing may be subsidized in some fashion.”
Of course, public subsidy for low-income housing is also in short supply, especially since California’s elimination of redevelopment agencies zapped $28 million a year that the city used for affordable units.
But there is some precedent for cities subsidizing middle-income housing, such as a 60-year-old New York program that offers “low-cost financing and property tax abatements to developers who agreed to cap their profits and submit rent increases for approval,” according to CityLimits.org. New York is also mulling a new program to subsidize units within reach of the middle-class.
The bond money the city spends on middle-income housing in new market-rate projects would be tacked onto the money developers already have to pay on affordable housing fees, or spend themselves constructing low-income units in their own projects under the inclusionary law.
For context, the city is planning on developer fees making up about a third of the $862 million going toward affordable housing over the next six years. Other majors sources include the city’s housing trust fund and general fund.
That $862 million would bulge to $1.1 billion for the city to use over the next six years if the housing bond passes.
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This is how we know to where housing for the 99% is going-----there is no plan for middle, working class, or poor in these US cities deemed Foreign Economic Zones----this is why ending FOOD STAMPS which is coming will be tied to these industrial corporate campus feeding areas---like eating your workplace dining area for all 3 meals of the day every day.
Also note that the value of FOOD CARDS----these will take the place of debit cards for Food Stamps---$64 a month is included in data shown globally as MONTHLY INCOME for Asian workers........these workers are being sold as earning higher wages after several decades of slave labor ---but they are not---
'Tens of thousands on each shift pay for meals swiftly by swiping cash cards loaded with 400 yuan ($64) a month in food credits'.
This is the real estate in our US cities left to decay and these few decades have been used as MORTGAGE/TITLE flipping fraud. Those same global Wall Street players are tied to loading row houses with several immigrant citizens in each room for their own profits AND YES THEY ARE THE ONES SHOUTING HOW MUCH THEY LOVE OUR IMMIGRANT CITIZENS!
So, as Baltimore City pols and Baltimore Development continue to sell any plans are being made for AFFORDABLE HOUSING----this is to what they are speaking-----these dormitories on global corporate campuses is the AFFORDABLE HOUSING FOR THE 99% OF CITIZENS....American and immigrant.
Obama and Clinton neo-liberals sold the policies of feeding low-income children 3 meals a day in schools were preparing for this housing policy------
Obama and Clinton neo-liberals sold the policies of feeding low-income children 3 meals a day in schools were preparing for this housing policy------
Baltimore next O'MALLEY---- a new city council member DORSEY would tell you this is what he means by AFFORDABLE HOUSING FOR LOW-INCOME---if he was not so busy calling PLANK A RACIST-----this is how global Wall Street pols POSE---they address issues that never solve these problems.
WE THE PEOPLE can believe as MOVING FORWARD continues that all this would never happen if TRUMP were not elected----but he was installed to see that these next steps do MOVE FORWARD.
When workers dream of a life beyond the factory gates
Can Foxconn, the world’s largest contract manufacturer, keep growing and improve its margins now that cheap and willing hands are scarce?
From the print edition | BusinessDec 15th 2012 | SHENZHEN
TO GET some idea of the scale of Foxconn’s Longhua campus in Shenzhen, in southern China, a visit to its massive central kitchens is all that is needed. They lie at the heart of this sprawling complex of factories, dormitories, sports facilities, banks and stores built by the secretive Taiwanese-owned firm. The food-preparation centre, spread over 12,500 square metres on four storeys, goes through three tonnes of meat a day as it prepares grub with military precision.
The enormous scale is to be expected, given that Foxconn (also known by its parent company’s name, Hon Hai) is the world’s largest contract manufacturer. The Longhua campus, covering 2.5 square kilometres, employs 240,000 people. Across China, it employs 1.4m on 28 campuses (see chart). Nor, given the firm’s prowess at churning out gazillions of gadgets like Apple’s iPhones, does the kitchen’s efficiency come as a surprise. Tens of thousands on each shift pay for meals swiftly by swiping cash cards loaded with 400 yuan ($64) a month in food credits.
The only things more impressive than the size of the canteen’s woks—more than 1 metre wide—are the firm’s spectacular growth and outsized ambitions. In the past decade it has gone from being one of many invisible firms in the electronics supply chain to the world champion of flexible manufacturing. Barclays, a bank, forecasts that the company’s revenues will exceed NT$3.9 trillion ($134 billion) this year.
Foxconn is investing heavily to expand in the interior of China. By the end of this year its newish facilities in Zhengzhou, in Henan province, will employ more workers than the Longhua campus. It is also expanding in Brazil and Mexico. There are rumours it might even open a factory in America, since Apple, its biggest customer, has just declared that it plans to have some of its Mac computers made at home. Rich-world companies looking to follow suit, “reshoring” jobs back home, are struggling to find enough skilled manufacturing workers; Foxconn could apply to Americans its extensive experience of training Chinese workers from scratch. It admits it is “exploring the opportunity”.
More strikingly, Foxconn believes it can double in size yet again. Executives talk of becoming one of the world’s top 20 businesses. This is no fantasy: Barclays foresees Foxconn’s revenues growing by 15-20% a year in the coming three years. There are two main obstacles to sustaining such growth: finding and retaining good workers in China, and improving the firm’s anaemic profit margins. Both problems will only be aggravated by growth.
As good employees become scarcer, Foxconn is having to pay more attention to working conditions—an issue on which it has attracted much unwelcome publicity. A lunchtime visit to the Longhua campus suggests that nowadays life there is not so bad. Off-duty workers smoke and fiddle with their mobile phones on the kerb outside the production halls, snooze on the campus’s football pitch or sit crocheting together in their dorms. Employees on an assembly line making corporate IT equipment look bored senseless but the facilities are orderly and spotless—a far cry from South Asian firetraps.
When your correspondent requested an unscheduled visit to an assembly-line workers’ dormitory, officials immediately obliged and remained outside the dorm’s entrance. The women inside, who bunk eight to a room in basic but decent conditions, were unafraid and in good humour. People on campus dress in casual clothes, not company uniforms, and seem only about as discontented as the youth found in any Chinese city. Look closer, though, and you notice something jarring: enormous safety nets hung on many buildings to prevent suicide jumpers.
That hints at Foxconn’s biggest challenge: demography. No longer can the firm rely on a steady supply of migrant workers grateful for any escape from grinding rural poverty. The country is rapidly ageing, and the pool of hungry young workers is shrinking. Besides expecting ever better pay and conditions, today’s new recruits want more fulfilling lives than those their predecessors put up with.
Until recently Foxconn was unyielding in its discipline and working practices. But two years ago a spate of suicides led to a global outcry that shook the firm. Since then, several outbreaks of worker unrest and noisy campaigns by activists have further blackened its name. In response, Apple requested that the Fair Labour Association (FLA), an American watchdog, audit its suppliers. A report issued by that group in March found that although Foxconn’s facilities were “no worse than any factory in China” there were violations of the FLA’s code of conduct.
Peter Deng, a manufacturing director at the firm, recalls that a decade ago Foxconn gave only one or two days off per month and there was no limit on overtime—“and the workers didn’t mind.” Now, the firm claims to limit overtime and to insist that workers take a day off every week. It is also increasing wages and, after scandals, limiting the use of interns (about 2.7% of its workforce). In August the FLA said that Foxconn was “ahead of schedule” in improving conditions.
Fine, but if Foxconn wants to keep booming, it must do far more. The canteen visit hints at three ways it plans to improve workers’ lives.
First, automation. It takes just three people to prepare the eight tonnes of rice consumed at lunch. The assembly lines are next. Terry Guo, the company’s flamboyant chairman, has vowed to build “one million robots” in an effort to eliminate mind-numbing tasks and move towards fully automated plants. The challenge is that tastes change quickly in consumer electronics. By the time bespoke robot kit is ready to automate a given factory line, the product mix has changed, making it obsolete. Scepticism is warranted, but insiders believe the firm is just a year away from breakthroughs that work at scale on commercial lines. Such “Foxbots”, and related services, could even be sold to other firms.
Second, a bit of freedom. Workers can now skip the canteen, instead swiping meal cards at food courts on campus or going off campus to eat. They also now get a housing allowance, letting them choose between staying in dorms or (as 70% now do in Shenzhen) living off campus. There is more of a social life, too: a young employee, recently arrived from remote Xianyang, talks blushingly about her evenings with handsome co-workers at the Cyberfox, the campus internet café.
Third, outsourcing. The dorms, catering, security and much else at Longhua are now run by outsiders. Louis Woo, special adviser to Mr Guo, insists this is not to save money but to improve workers’ quality of life: “they simply do a better job than us.”
Going west
Foxconn’s net margin has already fallen from above 6% a decade ago to around 2% now. It risks being squeezed further as the firm splashes out to attract and retain new workers. The trouble is, Foxconn is stuck in the hyper-competitive middle of the electronics supply chain. Upstream, the designers of components make enormous margins, as do the firms downstream that market the finished products. But midstream gadget assemblers do not. In China, it costs Apple a few dollars to have an iPod assembled, which it then sells for $299.
Could Foxconn’s push towards cheaper inland provinces boost margins? Not for long. Because of tax holidays granted to its new plants, the firm’s effective tax rate will drop from 25% in 2011 to 16-18% this year. But the gains will soon be eroded by higher inventory and logistics costs (because of the more remote locations), rising pay and fading subsidies. Within a few years, argues Alberto Moel of Sanford C. Bernstein, an investment bank, the shift will bring “no net benefit to gross margins.”
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Here is the goal of deregulated housing policy----you know the one that was going to address the concentrated poverty justice issues---this is why Maryland Assembly pols from Baltimore pushed deregulated housing while saying all that BULL ----as did Baltimore City Hall with JACK YOUNG leading the way.........this is global corporate campus housing and it will look just like that in China---
Remember, there is no middle-class in US cities deemed Foreign Economic Zone----BASIC INCOME is that far-right Libertarian Marxist policy taking all US citizens and immigrants to those Asian work wages and living conditions.
GLOBAL WALL STREET SAYS---WE JUST WANT TO TAKE CARE OF OUR HUMAN CAPITAL----CORPORATE CAMPUS SOCIALISM-----
Baltimore Development, Johns Hopkins, and their 5% to the 1% players and pols are MOVING FORWARD to this as hard as they can go-----THAT PUGH----SHE IS QUITE THE ONE WORLD ONE GOVERNANCE PLAYER!
Building density as Obama called deregulation of housing------------
'The changes could result in the city's population rising to 50,350 residents and 53,250 workers by 2040, according to the consultants' estimates'.
This is what University of Maryland's Department of Social Work is pushing for GLOBAL Wall Street the policy of LAND TRUSTS----to save land to build these global corporate campus housing PRETENDING it is citizen co-op ownership tied to bonds to transfer to corporation when development starts.
I like this-----OF COURSE THEY WILL BE MAROONED-------that is what ending public transit and keeping 99% of citizens on global corporate campuses is about for goodness sake--------Sierra Club supports CLINTON NEO-LIBERALS EVERY ELECTION knowing these global corporate campus policies kill the environment and justice.Don't worry---there will be a driverless vehicle that will take them to workplace so they will not be out and about freely!----
'James Eggers, director of the Sierra Club's Loma Prieta Chapter, raised concerns about the potential new tenants who, without onsite parking and with limited public transit options, would be effectively "marooned" in an isolated corner of the city'.
Uploaded: Mon, Oct 24, 2016, 10:59 amMenlo Park: 'Corporate housing' zone would allow 1,500 dorm-style units on Facebook campusTonight: Menlo Park commission to act on general plan updateby Kate Bradshaw / Almanac
Tonight, the Menlo Park Planning Commission will meet again on the city's general plan update, this time to issue recommendations to the City Council. The commission previously met on Oct. 19 for a four-hour discussion on proposed changes to the plan that governs future development in the city.
Among the topics discussed in the first meeting were the new zoning designation of "corporate housing" at Facebook's east campus. According to City Planner Deanna Chow, there could be up to 1,500 dorm-style corporate housing apartments built there, and could be used for Facebook employees only.
The dorms wouldn't have any extra parking, and it would be expected that the development would generate zero new car trips. Spouses who work elsewhere or children couldn't live there, and pets would not be allowed either.
James Eggers, director of the Sierra Club's Loma Prieta Chapter, raised concerns about the potential new tenants who, without onsite parking and with limited public transit options, would be effectively "marooned" in an isolated corner of the city.
"Where do the residents of this island go to after work or apart from work?" he asked. "We do not want to see more highly active nighttime activities with light outdoors near the wildlife refuge."
He suggested a pedestrian tunnel or some type of additional infrastructure be built to grant those tenants easier access to the rest of the city.
Other general plan issues previously discussed include impacts on water supply and emergency safety.
Impact of changes
Menlo Park's project to update its general plan has involved two years of work by city staff and consultants from PlaceWorks, and more than 60 meetings to discuss the proposals and gather community feedback.
Proposed changes to the general plan could allow an additional 2.3 million square feet of nonresidential development, 4,500 housing units and 400 hotel rooms to be built in Menlo Park east of U.S. 101. That's beyond the additional 1,000 housing units and 1.8 million square feet of nonresidential development that are allowed throughout the city by current zoning, not including projects that are planned or underway.
The changes could result in the city's population rising to 50,350 residents and 53,250 workers by 2040, according to the consultants' estimates.
The meeting starts at 7 p.m. in the council chambers at 701 Laurel St. in the Civic Center. Read the agenda or watch the meeting online.
This is why we are hearing from CONSERVATIVE POSING BUSH NEO-CONS that maybe they won't end the FHA just yet.
'The platform that party officials approved at this week's Republican National Convention in Cleveland states that, "The utility of both agencies should be reconsidered." That contrasts with the 2012 version of the platform, which stated, "Both Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac should be wound down in size and scope."'
This is Trump's look as he thinks how HE will channel all that FHA funding fraud.
Texas is indeed a third world nation----it is a mess. The Bush NEO-cons have basically brought what was in Foreign Economic Zones in Asia to the US. The first round of dormitory-style buildings will look more contemporary than the Asian industrial dormitory compounds but that is only to speak to our first world developed nation quality of life. The global corporations and development corporations behind these constructions in Texas are the same as those corporations building the same in Asian Foreign Economic Zones.
'The new campus has two forty room dormitories for visiting managers and engineers, and a community center'.
These are the global labor pool white collar sweat shop workers ----the professionals who travel to all Foreign Economic Zones. These are the people who will become that $20-30 a day----and these dormitories are that corporate campus---eat, be schooled, work, and live at the expense of that corporation. Today our US based-executives still get that US standard salaries albeit lower----soon these US professionals will live like Asian professionals.
THIS IS WHERE FUNDING FROM A CARSON/TRUMP WILL GO IN US CITIES DEEMED FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONES.
So now Texas is exporting what it built to all mid-size US cities next on the Foreign Economic Zone development window. No public housing---no low-income housing---these worker dormitories will be that AFFORDABLE HOUSING.
Compliance & Regulation
Republican Platform Softens Stance on Winding Down Fannie, Freddie
By Bonnie Sinnock
July 21, 2016
IMAGE: Bloomberg
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has not weighed in on the issue of the GSE conservatorship or the change to the GOP platform's language about Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.The official platform of the Republican Party has softened language calling for the end of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, while continuing to demand reform.
The platform that party officials approved at this week's Republican National Convention in Cleveland states that, "The utility of both agencies should be reconsidered." That contrasts with the 2012 version of the platform, which stated, "Both Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac should be wound down in size and scope."
It's unclear what the significance of the change is or why it was made. Top Republican leaders, including House Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling, have repeatedly called for the end of the government-sponsored enterprises. There is no sign that they have eased up on that view. Additionally, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, the Republican vice presidential nominee, is a close ally to Hensarling and has previously endorsed privatizing Fannie and Freddie.
Still, because Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has not weighed in on the issue, the change in the platform has opened the door to speculation.
"I think they wanted to set a marker out that there are some things that need to be changed [with the GSEs] but they're not necessarily shutting them down," said Brian Montgomery, a former Federal Housing Administration commissioner during the George W. Bush administration and the current vice chairman of Washington, D.C., consulting firm The Collingwood Group. "I'm just thinking or speculating that they realize that it's much easier said than done."
Montgomery added historically, party platforms don't necessarily have much impact on voters' decisions, "but maybe they should."
A Republican administration and Congress would do away with "the jumble of subsidies and controls that complicate and distort home-buying" at the two GSEs, according to the 2016 platform.
The change in stance could reflect acknowledgement of and frustration with ongoing difficulties in removing agencies from the market due to their continuing outsized presence in it, even as their regulator and conservator has taken steps to try to reduce taxpayers' exposure.
"For nine years, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have been in conservatorship and the current administration and Democrats have prevented any effort to reform them," the platform states.
The Federal Housing Finance Agency has mandated the agencies scale back their loan portfolios and, to some extent, the credit risk of loans they securitize; but the GSEs still buy and guarantee the bulk of the single-family loans in today's market.
"Nobody has come close to replacing what they do, and so I think that it [the change in the Republican platform's wording] is just an acknowledgement that the mortgage market would come pretty close to coming to a halt and Fannie and Freddie no longer existed," said Brent Nyitray, director of capital markets at iServe Residential Lending in Stamford, Conn. "The private-label market has just been largely dormant. That's what I take it to mean."
While the Republican Party may be acknowledging that winding down the GSEs is a tall order given how they've become entrenched in the market during the last four year, it has been consistent in signaling that is plans to reduce the range of loans that they and the FHA guarantee.
"I would assume from the Republican standpoint they're sick and tired of affordable housing mandates and all that sort of stuff. I certainly would imagine if Trump wins, that aspect of it will probably be de-emphasized," said Nyitray.
Lawmakers from lower-cost areas where homes generally cost less than $200,000 traditionally have questioned higher-cost FHA loans, said Montgomery. "They used to say, 'What are you doing lending to rich people to buy $725,000 homes?' There aren't many markets where they can do that and that can be the median price in some of those markets, and now they [the high-cost loan limits] are down to $625,000, but that still sounds high to some of them. So it doesn't sound like that view has changed a whole lot."
The 2016 platform states the party would ensure FHA lending does not support high-income individuals, as opposed to saying it would limit it to helping first-time home buyers and low- and moderate-income borrowers in 2012. It also says in 2016 that, "We will end the government mandates that required Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and federally-insured banks to satisfy lending quotas to specific groups."
The Republicans also said they would "scale back the federal role in the housing market, promote responsibility on the part of borrowers and lenders, and avoid future taxpayer bailouts."
With efforts to cultivate private securitization alternative slow to grow, some believe this could mean a Republican administration would be more open to a public sector alternative for reducing GSE risk to taxpayers, such as removing their role as issuers and having them operate more like Ginnie Mae. Ginnie insures bond payments while lenders act as approved issuers for it. Separate government agencies insure the credit risk of loans in securitized Ginnie pools.
"I think that the right side of the aisle would be more willing to look at a model like that that is more palatable and minimizes taxpayer exposure than having the GSEs continue to issue bonds on their own and have the credit risk associated with the bonds. I think it's something that should be evaluated," said Joseph Murin, a former Ginnie chairman who headed the agency between January 2008 and August 2009. Murin is currently chairman of the investment advisory firm JJAM Financial LLC in Pittsburgh.
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Texas is indeed a third world nation----it is a mess. The Bush NEO-cons have basically brought what was in Foreign Economic Zones in Asia to the US. The first round of dormitory-style buildings will look more contemporary than the Asian industrial dormitory compounds but that is only to speak to our first world developed nation quality of life. The global corporations and development corporations behind these constructions in Texas are the same as those corporations building the same in Asian Foreign Economic Zones.
'The new campus has two forty room dormitories for visiting managers and engineers, and a community center'.
These are the global labor pool white collar sweat shop workers ----the professionals who travel to all Foreign Economic Zones. These are the people who will become that $20-30 a day----and these dormitories are that corporate campus---eat, be schooled, work, and live at the expense of that corporation. Today our US based-executives still get that US standard salaries albeit lower----soon these US professionals will live like Asian professionals.
THIS IS WHERE FUNDING FROM A CARSON/TRUMP WILL GO IN US CITIES DEEMED FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONES.
So now Texas is exporting what it built to all mid-size US cities next on the Foreign Economic Zone development window. No public housing---no low-income housing---these worker dormitories will be that AFFORDABLE HOUSING.
For those thinking our global labor pool workers tied to construction are actually earning that $9 an hour our CLINTON/OBAMA global Wall Street neo-liberals PRETEND these immigrants earn-------WAKE UP------and this is a wage that will not change as US trades are eliminated or forced to work and live the same--
'Most workers get paid 85 pesos a day, or approximately $6.70, various bonuses , attendance and food increases the weekly pay to approximately $75.00 a week'.
This is from what our 5% to the 1% Latino global Wall Street players profit from the 99% of our immigrant citizens---see why that 5% always goes CLINTON GLOBAL WALL STREET?
'EL PASO, TEXAS
Comercial and Industrial Real Estate opportunities in El Paso, Texas,
Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, and New Mexico'
FOXCOM has three new plants totaling 1.2 million square feet in their new campus in San Jeronimo, Mexico near the international port of entry of Santa Teresa, New Mexico on the western outskirts of Ciudad Juarez. The new campus has two forty room dormitories for visiting managers and engineers, and a community center.
Foxcom, is a multibillion dollar company based in Taiwan. It manufactures name brand computers, cell phones and other electronic gadgets . Foxcom has spent about $240 million so far to build the first part of its campus. The new campus covers about 150 acres and eventually is to grow to about 600 acres. Foxcom is planning to build a fourth plant on campus early next year.
Foxcom has about 19,000 employees in Mexico working in five cities in eight plants, including the three San Jeronimo plants, and 2,000 employees in another computer plant near the Juarez airport. Foxcom is planning to put all of the company’s Mexico operations at the San Jeronimo campus.
A new Anapra highway between San Jeronimo and Downtown, Juarez will allow a labor pool of about 400,000 people that live in Anapra and its surrounding neighborhoods located less than five miles from the new campus.
800 managers which include 160 engineers are employed in the new campus. A total of 7,381 employees assemble 15,000 to 40,000 computers, laptops and servers for Dell. At this time much of the work force travels long distance to the campus on buses provided by Foxcom. Most managers drive their own cars. Most workers get paid 85 pesos a day, or approximately $6.70, various bonuses , attendance and food increases the weekly pay to approximately $75.00 a week.
A proposal to expand the Santa Teresa airport runway to handle cargo planes is being planned. Eventually the Union Pacific Railroad plans to move to Santa Teresa. The proximity to an international port of entry will allow the campus to be designated a Mexico free-trade zone giving the company tax advantages, making it faster and less expensive to move truck shipments across the border.
There is no doubt that the San Jeronimo-Santa Teresa area will flourish. The El Paso and Juarez land markets offer diversified industrial opportunities.
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We are already seeing this in Baltimore with existing housing where what would be a one bedroom apartment is housing several people while charging far above MARKET VALUE-----$1200-1500 in Charles Village. We see many of our Baltimore row houses moving from having one large middle apartment to having those permitted for smaller units charging more rent.
As with the article above-----that worker's dormitory was for global labor pool sweat shop professionals-----here is what our global factory workers can expect and no matter how many times APPLE or national media claims things have been made better at the global corporate campus factories----THEY HAVE NOT----THEY DO NOT INTEND FOR THEM TO BE BETTER----this is about housing, feeding, schooling a global labor pool as CHEAPLY AS POSSIBLE and these will be the AFFORDABLE HOUSING MOVING FORWARD will be building this coming decade as more global labor pool are brought to build our US city corporate campuses and infrastructure.
FEDERAL FHA----FEDERAL PUBLIC HOUSING FUNDS----WILL GO TO THESE GLOBAL CORPORATE CAMPUS DORMITORIES.
'Wang, who did not want his full name published, is among thousands of workers housed in a vast complex where tensions aggravated by regimented and cramped living conditions boiled over on Sunday into a violent mass riot'.
'Eight to 10 people shared a single room, with as many as 30 rooms on each floor, workers said, adding that men and women were segregated and closely supervised by security guards'.
When a CLINTON/OBAMA global Wall Street candidate shouts he/she will get AFFORDABLE HOUSING for community citizens----this is it and they KNOW THIS!
I shared a few months ago about how Baltimore's 311 is a farce----I called to have the city make these landlords provide enough TRASH CANS for these hyper occupancy row houses in Charles Village----because they do nothing we have family trash being piled on our sidewalks by city trash cans-----it is not the fault of our immigrant citizens---it is the fault of city zoning and permitting ---AND the failure to monitor LANDLORD'S pushing as many people into living spaces as they can.
This will be a TRUMP/CARSON HUD/FHA
World News | Thu Sep 27, 2012 | 5:16pm EDT
China's dorm room discontent emerges as new labor flashpoint
By Michael Martina |TAIYUAN, China
Twenty-three-year old factory worker Wang spends up to 12 hours a day making iPhone components in China, but his major complaint is not about the monotony of the production line - it is about his degrading worker-bee life inside the dormitory.
Wang, who did not want his full name published, is among thousands of workers housed in a vast complex where tensions aggravated by regimented and cramped living conditions boiled over on Sunday into a violent mass riot.
"The bathrooms are simply disgusting and people are constantly stealing things," Wang said as he stood outside of the factory in the northern city of Taiyuan, owned by Apple Inc's largest contract manufacturer, Taiwan firm Foxconn.
Until the riot, which turned from a personal dorm squabble into battles between police and about 2,000 workers and spilled over into Monday, the focus of labor discontent in China had been on production lines, especially those making products for Apple.
The unrest, which left about 40 people injured, metal factory gates flattened, cars overturned and windows smashed, shifted the focus on to broader living conditions, particularly for migrant workers who live in thousands of factory dormitories around the country.
It also highlights mounting pressure on Chinese manufacturers to keep pace not just with rising wages but with a younger generation's demands for more comfortable, flexible lifestyles. The sheer size of some factories - almost 80,000 toil at the Taiyuan plant - presents huge management problems.
"The management is awful," said Wang, adding that his dormitory's bathroom floors were often covered in excrement.
Access to the seven-storey, grey concrete dormitories at Taiyuan is restricted to factory workers only, but many unhappy employees spoke to journalists outside the surrounding tall chain-link fences about a long list of frustrations.
Eight to 10 people shared a single room, with as many as 30 rooms on each floor, workers said, adding that men and women were segregated and closely supervised by security guards.
Some complained of rules that limited personal freedoms - a flashpoint for a digitally connected generation. There was no drinking or smoking, and one worker said management did not allow residents to hang posters on the wall.
Guards working for Foxconn have been known for bullying in efforts to stop theft. Employees at Taiyuan said the treatment was dehumanizing. One worker said he had been berated by security for having his jacket unzipped.
MANAGEMENT CHALLENGES
Foxconn, which outsources management and security of the dormitories, has said it will review how they are being run.
"We need to put things into context after this incident. The first is how to manage dormitories," Foxconn Technology Group spokesman Louis Woo said after the riot.
Foxconn, the trading name of Hon Hai Precision Industry Co, the world's largest contract maker of electronics, said it had been trying to boost worker loyalty by increasing dormitory space and recreational facilities.
Labor advocates have also noted that in some places the firm is beginning to offer more accommodation choice by giving housing and food allowances to workers who live off-site.
However, experts say many firms are failing to meet the challenge of managing workers in China, where the pool of low-cost labor is drying up after 30 years of economic boom.
"Their (workers') expectations have changed so drastically, and companies haven't kept up..." said Mary Gallagher, an associate professor of political science at the University of Michigan who researches Chinese labor issues.
She said migrant workers were now fewer in number, more educated, came from smaller families and that companies would have to do more than boost pay to entice them into signing up.
"I'M NOT SURE IT WILL WORK"
Job hunters still queued at sunrise at the Taiyuan factory's gates on Wednesday with job applications in hand, just two days after the riot which forced a day-long closure.
But Foxconn workers said that since the beginning of the year the lines had shortened from thousands to hundreds - and that the new recruits' enthusiasm soon waned once they started work.
"There are fewer people that want a job like this. They can't bear it - working all day like machines and then going home to chaotic and dirty dorms," said a 28-year-old male employee with the surname Wei.
Lu Feifei, 23, and his wife were transferred three months ago from Foxconn's Shenzhen plant to relieve a labor shortage in Taiyuan, but there were no dormitory rooms for couples there.
Instead, they pay 10 percent of their combined 5,000 yuan ($800) monthly salary on a dank one-room apartment a short walk from the factory, more than twice what it would cost the average worker to live in the dorm.
"For me personally, I'm not sure it will work for us long-term," Lu said.
Dozens of workers and head-hunters said hundreds of new recruits flowed through the doors at the Foxconn plant every day but they usually only stayed for a matter of months.
"Turnover has been high in the past few days. Maybe 600 a day," said Qing Fengbin, a recruiter handing out cards that read "achieve your dreams" at a booth near one of the plant's gates.
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Here are the deregulation policies that will continue in housing for our US cities and this article addresses why we have row houses in Charles Village with several citizens living in a one bedroom house---they are calling this DENSITY----but what is really happening is a slow walk to the middle-class and working class being squeezed out of city center altogether. The real estate space that regulations use to protect created a quality of life for a community......global Wall Street calls it PROHIBITIVE and discriminatory-----the global Wall Street 5% players are those folks getting these row houses and packing them with human capital----so yes they are putting money in their pockets FOR NOW. It is only for deregulation global Wall Street is doing this---so we are watching the same walk in NYC and San Fran where immigrant tenet housing and high-rises stand just outside of a city center owned by the global corporations for which these global labor pool citizens work.
THAT IS THE GOAL OF THESE DEREGULATIONS---AND WALL STREET PLAYERS ENRICHED BY LOOSENED STANDARDS WILL BE LOSERS VERY SOON.
'The development targets seniors who earn 80 percent or less of the area median income'.
'In his hearing, Carson also took aim at another, unrelated form of overregulation.
"Exclusionary" land-use regulations that limit construction raise housing costs "and entrench racial segregation," Carson's prepared testimony stated'.
Obama and Clinton neo-liberals started this----Trump and Carson will super-size this. When we read of apartments in NYC costing $2000-3000 a month with space that is a walk-in closet----this is the deregulation that leads to this----is that how we want BUILDING DENSITY to look?
Obama's spin on these deregulations to our low-income citizens was to condemn the policies of HIGH RISE PUBLIC HOUSING----well yes left social democrats never liked these policies they were installed by a right wing President and Congress====but Obama and Clinton neo-liberals were not saving our low income citizens from these high-density poverty conditions---they were actually EXPANDING them by deregulating our housing policies that gave quality of life to communities.
Trump's plan for looser housing rules likely to include mortgage changes
By Joseph Lawler (@josephlawler) • 1/17/17 12:01 AM
President-elect Trump's housing agenda is likely to involve changes to the new rules and policies on mortgages imposed following the 2008 financial crisis, details that emerged during Ben Carson's confirmation hearing to lead the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Trump's views on housing remained mostly a mystery throughout the campaign. Only once did he refer to any of the concerns facing home buyers, renters, builders, real estate agents and lenders. In an appearance at a homebuilders' trade group meeting in August, the Republican said that new Obama administration rules made it "impossible for your people to go get mortgages."
In his appearance before the Senate Banking Committee Thursday, Carson lent a little more context to that industry-friendly but vague statement.
In his prepared testimony, Carson wrote that banks are "loath" to lend to homebuyers through programs that involve insurance through the Federal Housing Administration, part of HUD, because of the "fear of getting sued if the borrowers default."
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Carson did not read that part of the testimony at the hearing, instead opting to discuss his own history of overcoming childhood poverty. As it happens, some of the passage was taken from a Wall Street Journal report without proper attribution, the Washington Post noted.
Nevertheless, Carson expressed the view that lenders have pleaded to the federal government over the past half-decade-plus because the regulatory and legal actions taken in response to the crisis have left banks and other lenders scared to extend credit for fear of being penalized or sued by the government later.
"His comments there were helpful," said David Stevens, head of the Mortgage Bankers Association.
Most significant are the major settlements that the government has reached with big banks over bubble-era mortgages that were sold to the FHA, along with other agencies. For example, in April the Department of Justice announced a $1.2 billion settlement with Wells Fargo for claiming that home loans met the terms for FHA insurance, when they did not.
While populist critics have said that the Obama Justice Department should have gone further in prosecuting big banks for potential mortgage fraud, the industry has its own complaints about the way that the lawsuits have been handled. Because the suits turn on specific terms in long loan contracts, they say, it is difficult to be certain that they won't be on the hook for inevitable defaults in the future.
Carson's comments were an "important part of what's needed to bring the broad lending community back to HUD," Stevens said.
In his hearing, Carson also took aim at another, unrelated form of overregulation.
"Exclusionary" land-use regulations that limit construction raise housing costs "and entrench racial segregation," Carson's prepared testimony stated.
Lowering the cost of construction by cutting back on rules was a key thrust of Carson's testimony. Asked at one point what he would do to give more housing options to poor people, Carson said "we have to either raise their income or decrease the cost of the housing. I think both are areas that we need to work upon."
That is an area of agreement with the Obama administration, noted Adam Millsap, an analyst at the libertarian Mercatus Center. Obama's Council of Economic Advisers has produced research concluding that overly restrictive building regulations have driven up the cost of housing, increasing inequality and harming the environment by forcing people to rely on cars.
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Here is the real estate model our mid-size US cities are tied to in MOVING FORWARD---I wanted to show our low-income citizens how they are not even considered once these city developments MOVE FORWARD. Here we are seeing talk of how to subsidize MIDDLE-INCOME people-----with middle-income being upper middle. This article was written in 2015 ----and they are floating a MUNICIPAL BOND for this supposed middle-class subsidized housing----LOOKS LIKE SAN FRAN GETTING IN ON COLLAPSING BOND MARKET! So these promises are POSING--
When we see a GOVERNOR BROWN or a NANCY PELOSI all hot and bothered about immigration policies against IMMIGRANTS----this area of CA is ground zero for that APPLE GLOBAL CORPORATE FACTORY DORMITORY-style housing for immigrants. Below see how much an low-income immigrant family pays----and they will be pushed further out as that price will rise.
'Under the plan a new housing program would use a small slice of the bond money to pay real estate developers that are building new market-rate buildings to restrict some rental units for households that make roughly $100,000 to $140,000 a year'.
'The average rent for a two-bedroom, one-bathroom apartment reached $2,501, up 16 percent in just two years'.
San Fran approving housing subsidy for middle-class as mid-size cities do low-income-----still tying them to municipal bond market.
Trump of course will not allow this housing subsidy----as it was never meant to help middle-class----it was simply meant to increase BOND DEBT.
'The bond money the city spends on middle-income housing in new market-rate projects would be tacked onto the money developers already have to pay on affordable housing fees, or spend themselves constructing low-income units in their own projects under the inclusionary law'.
While Baltimore pols are still pretending they are working for low-income citizens and housing----here we see what Baltimore's housing will be in a few decades as they are then ignoring middle-class housing needs.
San Francisco may subsidize middle-class apartments for first time
May 12, 2015, 5:55am PDT Updated May 17, 2015, 12:20pm PDT
Cory Weinberg Reporter San Francisco Business Times
If voters approve Mayor Ed Lee’s $250 million housing bond in November, they will unlock a stream of cash that the city will use to subsidize rental housing units for middle-class residents for the first time.
Under the plan a new housing program would use a small slice of the bond money to pay real estate developers that are building new market-rate buildings to restrict some rental units for households that make roughly $100,000 to $140,000 a year.
The city already helps residents in that income bracket pay for down payments on for-sale homes – and there is, of course, rent control on older buildings. But this would be the first program using public money for new rental units. It may also throw a new income bracket into the frantic world of housing lotteries, where thousands of applicants vie for dozens of spots in new market-rate buildings.
City officials want to stem the exodus of residents who earn too little to afford new luxury housing but too much to take advantage of low-income housing programs. That’s a pretty large group – about 40 percent of the city, a report notes – who are getting whacked by rents that rose in San Francisco by 15 percent over the past year.
Market rents skyrocket due to housing production that hasn’t kept up with an infusion new residents, often with high-paying jobs. Meanwhile, the middle-income bracket has seen almost no new apartments built within its reach lately. The city saw only 19 percent of the 6,754 moderate-income units it needed over the last seven years actually built, according to the Association of Bay Area Governments.
The city must win two-thirds approval from voters for the bond to pass, which hasn’t happened since 1996 after two failed attempts last decade. Lee will ask the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday to approve an ordinance calling for the largest housing bond in the city’s history to go to the ballot.
Offering up a new program for middle-class residents also allows Lee to sell the bond to voters as one that would help “teachers, firefighters and construction workers,” as he did to reporters multiple times on Monday.
“They are in professional jobs but...they’re finding it extremely hard to still live here in the city,” Lee said. He also said several times that the city won't raise property taxes to pay for the debt.
Where does the bond money go?
In unveiling plans to reporters Monday, Lee said a bulk of the bond money would go to speeding up the development of massive public housing projects and low-income developments. Those programs already exist in the city's arsenal to reach Lee’s goal of producing 30,000 new units by 2020, with one-third as affordable to low-income residents.
But “the middle-income proposal becomes the shiny penny. Right or wrong, the administration will sell their package on the middle-income ticket,” said Peter Cohen, co-director of the Council of Community Housing Organizations, which advocates for the construction of low-income housing.
“You’re talking about giving public subsidy to market-rate developers to buy units at cheaper cost. If you go that direction, that’s a new terrain,” he added.
Despite its shininess, the middle-income piece is the smallest of the housing bond's priorities. It’s also a small ingredient in the mayor’s office’s complex recipe of housing production strategies overall.
The city says $50 million to $100 million of the bond money will go to the public housing projects, helping speed up a Sunnydale development to be finished in 15 years instead of 20, for instance.
A range of $100 million to $150 million would go to low-income housing by quickening the process for affordable housing developers. That money would also help the city buy existing rent-control buildings and affordable units to preserve them from getting converted to market-rate.
To help middle-income residents, the city expects to use $25 million to $100 million of the bond money.
Those dollars can pay for more units if the city helps preserve incoming market-rate units for middle-class renters instead of buying sites because land and construction costs have soared during the real estate boom. The high cost of land "is the number one issue now the mayor's office of housing is struggling with for providing affordable housing," Planning Director John Rahaim said last week.
Mayor’s office officials declined to say how many middle-income units the money would pay for exactly, but said the city would pay about $150,000 to $200,000 per unit to restrict them at moderate-income rents for perpetuity. Initially, that would likely pay for a few hundred units.
Tinkering away
The middle-class program also appears to be a bit of an experiment that may start out small. Another newer strategy to help housing affordability is the mayor’s “small sites program” that uses a small pool of money to buy existing rent-control buildings going on the market.
A task force convened by the mayor last year also proposed a few other strategies to help fund units for middle-income residents, such as letting market-rate developers build inclusionary units for that income bracket in a program dubbed the “dial.”
“There’s no silver bullet,” Rahaim said. “This is not just a California issue. New York, Washington D.C. and Seattle are experiencing this acutely right now. We may be entering an era where middle-income housing may be subsidized in some fashion.”
Of course, public subsidy for low-income housing is also in short supply, especially since California’s elimination of redevelopment agencies zapped $28 million a year that the city used for affordable units.
But there is some precedent for cities subsidizing middle-income housing, such as a 60-year-old New York program that offers “low-cost financing and property tax abatements to developers who agreed to cap their profits and submit rent increases for approval,” according to CityLimits.org. New York is also mulling a new program to subsidize units within reach of the middle-class.
The bond money the city spends on middle-income housing in new market-rate projects would be tacked onto the money developers already have to pay on affordable housing fees, or spend themselves constructing low-income units in their own projects under the inclusionary law.
For context, the city is planning on developer fees making up about a third of the $862 million going toward affordable housing over the next six years. Other majors sources include the city’s housing trust fund and general fund.
That $862 million would bulge to $1.1 billion for the city to use over the next six years if the housing bond passes.
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This is how we know to where housing for the 99% is going-----there is no plan for middle, working class, or poor in these US cities deemed Foreign Economic Zones----this is why ending FOOD STAMPS which is coming will be tied to these industrial corporate campus feeding areas---like eating your workplace dining area for all 3 meals of the day every day.
Also note that the value of FOOD CARDS----these will take the place of debit cards for Food Stamps---$64 a month is included in data shown globally as MONTHLY INCOME for Asian workers........these workers are being sold as earning higher wages after several decades of slave labor ---but they are not---
'Tens of thousands on each shift pay for meals swiftly by swiping cash cards loaded with 400 yuan ($64) a month in food credits'.
This is the real estate in our US cities left to decay and these few decades have been used as MORTGAGE/TITLE flipping fraud. Those same global Wall Street players are tied to loading row houses with several immigrant citizens in each room for their own profits AND YES THEY ARE THE ONES SHOUTING HOW MUCH THEY LOVE OUR IMMIGRANT CITIZENS!
So, as Baltimore City pols and Baltimore Development continue to sell any plans are being made for AFFORDABLE HOUSING----this is to what they are speaking-----these dormitories on global corporate campuses is the AFFORDABLE HOUSING FOR THE 99% OF CITIZENS....American and immigrant.
Obama and Clinton neo-liberals sold the policies of feeding low-income children 3 meals a day in schools were preparing for this housing policy------
Obama and Clinton neo-liberals sold the policies of feeding low-income children 3 meals a day in schools were preparing for this housing policy------
Baltimore next O'MALLEY---- a new city council member DORSEY would tell you this is what he means by AFFORDABLE HOUSING FOR LOW-INCOME---if he was not so busy calling PLANK A RACIST-----this is how global Wall Street pols POSE---they address issues that never solve these problems.
WE THE PEOPLE can believe as MOVING FORWARD continues that all this would never happen if TRUMP were not elected----but he was installed to see that these next steps do MOVE FORWARD.
When workers dream of a life beyond the factory gates
Can Foxconn, the world’s largest contract manufacturer, keep growing and improve its margins now that cheap and willing hands are scarce?
From the print edition | BusinessDec 15th 2012 | SHENZHEN
TO GET some idea of the scale of Foxconn’s Longhua campus in Shenzhen, in southern China, a visit to its massive central kitchens is all that is needed. They lie at the heart of this sprawling complex of factories, dormitories, sports facilities, banks and stores built by the secretive Taiwanese-owned firm. The food-preparation centre, spread over 12,500 square metres on four storeys, goes through three tonnes of meat a day as it prepares grub with military precision.
The enormous scale is to be expected, given that Foxconn (also known by its parent company’s name, Hon Hai) is the world’s largest contract manufacturer. The Longhua campus, covering 2.5 square kilometres, employs 240,000 people. Across China, it employs 1.4m on 28 campuses (see chart). Nor, given the firm’s prowess at churning out gazillions of gadgets like Apple’s iPhones, does the kitchen’s efficiency come as a surprise. Tens of thousands on each shift pay for meals swiftly by swiping cash cards loaded with 400 yuan ($64) a month in food credits.
The only things more impressive than the size of the canteen’s woks—more than 1 metre wide—are the firm’s spectacular growth and outsized ambitions. In the past decade it has gone from being one of many invisible firms in the electronics supply chain to the world champion of flexible manufacturing. Barclays, a bank, forecasts that the company’s revenues will exceed NT$3.9 trillion ($134 billion) this year.
Foxconn is investing heavily to expand in the interior of China. By the end of this year its newish facilities in Zhengzhou, in Henan province, will employ more workers than the Longhua campus. It is also expanding in Brazil and Mexico. There are rumours it might even open a factory in America, since Apple, its biggest customer, has just declared that it plans to have some of its Mac computers made at home. Rich-world companies looking to follow suit, “reshoring” jobs back home, are struggling to find enough skilled manufacturing workers; Foxconn could apply to Americans its extensive experience of training Chinese workers from scratch. It admits it is “exploring the opportunity”.
More strikingly, Foxconn believes it can double in size yet again. Executives talk of becoming one of the world’s top 20 businesses. This is no fantasy: Barclays foresees Foxconn’s revenues growing by 15-20% a year in the coming three years. There are two main obstacles to sustaining such growth: finding and retaining good workers in China, and improving the firm’s anaemic profit margins. Both problems will only be aggravated by growth.
As good employees become scarcer, Foxconn is having to pay more attention to working conditions—an issue on which it has attracted much unwelcome publicity. A lunchtime visit to the Longhua campus suggests that nowadays life there is not so bad. Off-duty workers smoke and fiddle with their mobile phones on the kerb outside the production halls, snooze on the campus’s football pitch or sit crocheting together in their dorms. Employees on an assembly line making corporate IT equipment look bored senseless but the facilities are orderly and spotless—a far cry from South Asian firetraps.
When your correspondent requested an unscheduled visit to an assembly-line workers’ dormitory, officials immediately obliged and remained outside the dorm’s entrance. The women inside, who bunk eight to a room in basic but decent conditions, were unafraid and in good humour. People on campus dress in casual clothes, not company uniforms, and seem only about as discontented as the youth found in any Chinese city. Look closer, though, and you notice something jarring: enormous safety nets hung on many buildings to prevent suicide jumpers.
That hints at Foxconn’s biggest challenge: demography. No longer can the firm rely on a steady supply of migrant workers grateful for any escape from grinding rural poverty. The country is rapidly ageing, and the pool of hungry young workers is shrinking. Besides expecting ever better pay and conditions, today’s new recruits want more fulfilling lives than those their predecessors put up with.
Until recently Foxconn was unyielding in its discipline and working practices. But two years ago a spate of suicides led to a global outcry that shook the firm. Since then, several outbreaks of worker unrest and noisy campaigns by activists have further blackened its name. In response, Apple requested that the Fair Labour Association (FLA), an American watchdog, audit its suppliers. A report issued by that group in March found that although Foxconn’s facilities were “no worse than any factory in China” there were violations of the FLA’s code of conduct.
Peter Deng, a manufacturing director at the firm, recalls that a decade ago Foxconn gave only one or two days off per month and there was no limit on overtime—“and the workers didn’t mind.” Now, the firm claims to limit overtime and to insist that workers take a day off every week. It is also increasing wages and, after scandals, limiting the use of interns (about 2.7% of its workforce). In August the FLA said that Foxconn was “ahead of schedule” in improving conditions.
Fine, but if Foxconn wants to keep booming, it must do far more. The canteen visit hints at three ways it plans to improve workers’ lives.
First, automation. It takes just three people to prepare the eight tonnes of rice consumed at lunch. The assembly lines are next. Terry Guo, the company’s flamboyant chairman, has vowed to build “one million robots” in an effort to eliminate mind-numbing tasks and move towards fully automated plants. The challenge is that tastes change quickly in consumer electronics. By the time bespoke robot kit is ready to automate a given factory line, the product mix has changed, making it obsolete. Scepticism is warranted, but insiders believe the firm is just a year away from breakthroughs that work at scale on commercial lines. Such “Foxbots”, and related services, could even be sold to other firms.
Second, a bit of freedom. Workers can now skip the canteen, instead swiping meal cards at food courts on campus or going off campus to eat. They also now get a housing allowance, letting them choose between staying in dorms or (as 70% now do in Shenzhen) living off campus. There is more of a social life, too: a young employee, recently arrived from remote Xianyang, talks blushingly about her evenings with handsome co-workers at the Cyberfox, the campus internet café.
Third, outsourcing. The dorms, catering, security and much else at Longhua are now run by outsiders. Louis Woo, special adviser to Mr Guo, insists this is not to save money but to improve workers’ quality of life: “they simply do a better job than us.”
Going west
Foxconn’s net margin has already fallen from above 6% a decade ago to around 2% now. It risks being squeezed further as the firm splashes out to attract and retain new workers. The trouble is, Foxconn is stuck in the hyper-competitive middle of the electronics supply chain. Upstream, the designers of components make enormous margins, as do the firms downstream that market the finished products. But midstream gadget assemblers do not. In China, it costs Apple a few dollars to have an iPod assembled, which it then sells for $299.
Could Foxconn’s push towards cheaper inland provinces boost margins? Not for long. Because of tax holidays granted to its new plants, the firm’s effective tax rate will drop from 25% in 2011 to 16-18% this year. But the gains will soon be eroded by higher inventory and logistics costs (because of the more remote locations), rising pay and fading subsidies. Within a few years, argues Alberto Moel of Sanford C. Bernstein, an investment bank, the shift will bring “no net benefit to gross margins.”
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Here is the goal of deregulated housing policy----you know the one that was going to address the concentrated poverty justice issues---this is why Maryland Assembly pols from Baltimore pushed deregulated housing while saying all that BULL ----as did Baltimore City Hall with JACK YOUNG leading the way.........this is global corporate campus housing and it will look just like that in China---
Remember, there is no middle-class in US cities deemed Foreign Economic Zone----BASIC INCOME is that far-right Libertarian Marxist policy taking all US citizens and immigrants to those Asian work wages and living conditions.
GLOBAL WALL STREET SAYS---WE JUST WANT TO TAKE CARE OF OUR HUMAN CAPITAL----CORPORATE CAMPUS SOCIALISM-----
Baltimore Development, Johns Hopkins, and their 5% to the 1% players and pols are MOVING FORWARD to this as hard as they can go-----THAT PUGH----SHE IS QUITE THE ONE WORLD ONE GOVERNANCE PLAYER!
Building density as Obama called deregulation of housing------------
'The changes could result in the city's population rising to 50,350 residents and 53,250 workers by 2040, according to the consultants' estimates'.
This is what University of Maryland's Department of Social Work is pushing for GLOBAL Wall Street the policy of LAND TRUSTS----to save land to build these global corporate campus housing PRETENDING it is citizen co-op ownership tied to bonds to transfer to corporation when development starts.
I like this-----OF COURSE THEY WILL BE MAROONED-------that is what ending public transit and keeping 99% of citizens on global corporate campuses is about for goodness sake--------Sierra Club supports CLINTON NEO-LIBERALS EVERY ELECTION knowing these global corporate campus policies kill the environment and justice.Don't worry---there will be a driverless vehicle that will take them to workplace so they will not be out and about freely!----
'James Eggers, director of the Sierra Club's Loma Prieta Chapter, raised concerns about the potential new tenants who, without onsite parking and with limited public transit options, would be effectively "marooned" in an isolated corner of the city'.
Uploaded: Mon, Oct 24, 2016, 10:59 amMenlo Park: 'Corporate housing' zone would allow 1,500 dorm-style units on Facebook campusTonight: Menlo Park commission to act on general plan updateby Kate Bradshaw / Almanac
Tonight, the Menlo Park Planning Commission will meet again on the city's general plan update, this time to issue recommendations to the City Council. The commission previously met on Oct. 19 for a four-hour discussion on proposed changes to the plan that governs future development in the city.
Among the topics discussed in the first meeting were the new zoning designation of "corporate housing" at Facebook's east campus. According to City Planner Deanna Chow, there could be up to 1,500 dorm-style corporate housing apartments built there, and could be used for Facebook employees only.
The dorms wouldn't have any extra parking, and it would be expected that the development would generate zero new car trips. Spouses who work elsewhere or children couldn't live there, and pets would not be allowed either.
James Eggers, director of the Sierra Club's Loma Prieta Chapter, raised concerns about the potential new tenants who, without onsite parking and with limited public transit options, would be effectively "marooned" in an isolated corner of the city.
"Where do the residents of this island go to after work or apart from work?" he asked. "We do not want to see more highly active nighttime activities with light outdoors near the wildlife refuge."
He suggested a pedestrian tunnel or some type of additional infrastructure be built to grant those tenants easier access to the rest of the city.
Other general plan issues previously discussed include impacts on water supply and emergency safety.
Impact of changes
Menlo Park's project to update its general plan has involved two years of work by city staff and consultants from PlaceWorks, and more than 60 meetings to discuss the proposals and gather community feedback.
Proposed changes to the general plan could allow an additional 2.3 million square feet of nonresidential development, 4,500 housing units and 400 hotel rooms to be built in Menlo Park east of U.S. 101. That's beyond the additional 1,000 housing units and 1.8 million square feet of nonresidential development that are allowed throughout the city by current zoning, not including projects that are planned or underway.
The changes could result in the city's population rising to 50,350 residents and 53,250 workers by 2040, according to the consultants' estimates.
The meeting starts at 7 p.m. in the council chambers at 701 Laurel St. in the Civic Center. Read the agenda or watch the meeting online.
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