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Kush hits the point squarely about how we have a large anti-housing element. Kush suggests some un-American and unsavory reasons for not wanting people in our city. This was also mentioned in a recent article of the Arizona Progress Gazette: " We must wonder aloud if NIMBYism is becoming a facet of a bit of a local purity test for the Scottsdale GOP, much like stricter immigration standards are at the state and national level. "

This is the uglier, extreme edge of anti-housing bias. But the bias exists in less pernicious constructs. Many of our older population were blessed to grow up in a time of abundant housing and affordable higher education. As a result, many feel that is the only paradigm of adult residences that is worthwhile and acceptable. Its a shame that rather than gratitude for the 40 year economic boom in which they grew up, they display entitlement and disdain for Gen X and younger who came of age when our post WWII boom was retracting, 2 working parents became the norm, and college degrees outpaced inflation by 700%. Candidate Pamela Carter callously suggested that to end the housing crisis young people simply needed to save more, as if recent grads have that kind of choice when one must earn nearly $75,000 simply to afford a 1 bedroom in Scottsdale.

Perhaps older folks will re-assess the sacred cow of single-family home ownership when their taxes go up, their security is at risk because our understaffed Police and Fire Department continue to have difficulty hiring, services take longer and cant keep employees, and there are no children to make Scottsdale the city they so wrongly think they are keeping special.