This family of four tries to blame the government for their inability, unwillingness to cheaply rent or buy a home in central Los Angeles on their low wages with little savings. There are a few issues here the biggest being their relatively low wages. The article states the two daughters graduated from college. Jennifer Nazario got a Masters in economics and Paula Zanario got one in public policy. Their Opinion op-ed piece shows they may not have been paying attention in class.
People making minimum wage can't afford to rent a one bedroom in LA same in SF and NY let alone buy a home. Median rent for one bedroom here is $2,100. You need two people with minimum wage jobs to afford that and they're still rent burdened. They should increase their wages before considering buying. They've now bought at the peak of the market with high interest rates and a super low down payment. Hope they didn't get an adjustable and never have an emergency or job loss.
One issue I've found with people living in rent control units is they never strive to increase their income because they don't need to. I can only imagine how low the rent is for that studio after having been there for 25 years. It's wayyyyyyy below market rent. They've been taking advantage of their landlord who has subsidized their rent for 25 years. Their landlord is probably also an immigrant Latino.
Legally they were not allowed to have four people in there. They could have been evicted easily but the landlord was nice to them and allowed them to stay. It's two people max allowed for a studio though sometimes they'll allow a very young underage child.
As I read the article the two kids weren't old enough to work until about 2022. They said they both went to college then grad school. They chose not to get full time jobs. Then they said they, I assume the two daughters, make over $136,650 a year combined. They did at least state they were happy they had low rent so they could save a lot of money for years. That's nice. It also means they are admitting they could have afforded a bigger better place if they wanted to. They are complaining about a situation they created for themselves.
The writers state they applied for the BofA program but didn't qualify because they made too much money. They also applied for the California Dream for All program which ran out of funds. Then they whined about the pay back part of one program if they accrue equity and sell. That's how the program works and is funded! We're really just taking their word for it. There could be more involved like credit scores, time at their jobs, other debt like car payments, credit card debt, bad debt, student loans...
They ended up buying a home outside of expensive downtown Los Angeles with 3% down. This was after they basically complained about rising rents, home prices and gentrification. They moved somewhere else and contributed to gentrification in that area. "Gentrification" has nothing to do with race but finances. Finances correlate with race in the US. Whites make more than Latinos and Blacks. It's actually just the revitalization cycle of real estate. People get pushed out of more expensive areas into less expensive areas. That's what happened with this family. They originally found a cheap place to live because it was in the recession phase before the recovery phase. They just did the same with their new place. They committed "gentrification."
Jennifer and Paula Nazario suggest government programs should provide free or cheap down payments for homes for poor people with low income jobs, bad credit, lots of debt and no savings. They clearly were not paying attention in class especially Jennifer with her Economics degree. If anyone can basically buy a home for free even though they can't easily make the mortgage, taxes, insurance, upkeep expenses, they will default and lose the home. That's why conventional loans don't allow you to borrow the down payment money. If you aren't making enough income to afford the down payment, you can't weather any emergency and won't be able to pay back the loan. Someone with no money in the deal won't care as much about losing the property. No bank would loan on a property without an equity cushion for fees, costs if they get stuck with it in foreclosure. There is a ton of years long research on this.
Someone should have dissuaded the Nazarios from writing this clueless op-ed piece. It makes them look really stupid. I wasn't going to say anything until I saw that Jennifer has a degree in Economics. I'm truly embarrassed for them because I'm Latino. Thankfully I have common sense and don't expect the government to pay for everything for me. You have to do some things for yourself in this world.
From the article: "Jennifer Nazario is a systems administrator at a network of college-preparatory schools and a first-generation college graduate with a master’s degree in economics. Paula Nazario is an assistant director at UCLA and the first person in her family to go to college. She has a master’s degree in public policy."
https://www.yahoo.com/news/family-four-shared-cramped-studio-100112963.html
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