The Ballot Box Forum

[JoeTheOctopus]

My family started coming to R.B. during the summer in the late 1800s. My father lived on Ave F in a home for tubecular children in the 1920s and eventually purchased land and built a home a block away in 1949. My parents had five daughters and thirteen grandchildren. Only one of us have been able to live in Redondo Beach due to the high housing costs, even though we were all college educated and had good careers.
Los Angeles is enclosed by mountains with a few passes leading to the higher and lower deserts. Housing in Southern California is expensive and takes a disproportionate amount of income to purchase. How can our children live near us? The traffic from an increase in residential units would be somewhat offset by the traffic currently necessary to make the long commutes to the distant and polutted inland homes of our children and grandchildren. I personally am in favor of more housing and also allowing more mother-in-law units on residential properties. It is rediculous how many of us live in million dollar beach homes with three and four bedrooms and only two people. I wonder how other parents feel about this?