Who is going to Serve?

Who is going to serve you and I?

There is a discussion on another
blog about the rising prices of homes.
And if anyone who has a fair job,
will be able to buy a house.

Homes are selling fast, and more
are being built. Not only here in the
Northwest but every where. Every
time you talk to someone from another
city or state, they seem to have the
same story. Houses being built big,
and high prices. Old houses torn down
to make way for bigger and better.

People are coming to the Northwest,
from, of course, California, but also
from Nevada, Arizona, Utah, North
Carolina and other states.

Seems a lot of them are running away
from what they are causing here.
They are selling high, buying high, and
causing a big prices here. As people
here, are selling every lot, pasture, and
trailer lot to cash in on the big boom. And
the cities, towns, and county seem to be
fine with this. More tax money. But also
more services.

It is like the 1880 and the gold rush.
Except the gold is the price you are
asking for your home.

Where is this all leading to? No one seems
to know. There are those who say it is about
to come to a halt and others say another 5
years... and others who seem to think we are
heading for a crash like Russia did.

But what I want to know is...who is going
to serve us? I think it is fair to say that
half, or maybe even 2/3's of the people
who work... work in a service type of job.

That is the job that needs to be done a
lot of times 24 hours a day, meaning 3
shifts or 2 ..12 hour shifts. Working
weekends are common for these people.
They work holidays most of the time.

These are people who work in hotels,
nursing homes, clean offices, hospitals,
clean linens, people's clothes, restaurants,
services stations, fast food sites, and any
other type of service we all depend on.

Working in 24 hour and some times 7
days a week, type businesses. And along
side this not so pleasant of jobs, is the
fact they are low man on the totem pole
of wages. Lots of them working for minimum
wages. Which in Idaho is less that $6.00
last I heard.

Being they are saying that the average cost
of a house is now $200,000 and up.. and it
is a rare to find one lower. How do these
people buy a home. A lot of the apartments
are going condo. The trailers are being sold
off to make room for a town house in its place.
Where are these people going to live?

Even low income housing is out of their
reach. They make too much money. As a
lot of the low income is around $12,000 income.
These people will make $16,000.
Where do they go? Trailer parks are being
pushed out. The ones that are still hanging
in there, are told you have to have a trailer
no older than 5 years old. Even those are
out of these people's reach. Trailer payments
and space rent.

The local paper last year, quoted that it took
an income of $11.50 to be able to rent in
Sandpoint. And $15.90 to buy. That was
at last year's house and rent prices.

$800 is a common rent price. A house
payment averages $1000+. a month.
Where are these people going to live?
Will they all leave... will they all be priced
out of housing?

Who is going to serve you and I?