{"id":2076,"date":"2012-01-06T09:33:03","date_gmt":"2012-01-06T17:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?p=2076"},"modified":"2015-03-02T18:20:22","modified_gmt":"2015-03-03T02:20:22","slug":"moab-afforable-housing-a-zephyr-solution-mcbonderman-house-15000-square-feet-for-the-homeless-acres-and-acres-of-bottom-land-for-the-biggest-community-veggie-garden-in-the-four-corners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/06\/moab-afforable-housing-a-zephyr-solution-mcbonderman-house-15000-square-feet-for-the-homeless-acres-and-acres-of-bottom-land-for-the-biggest-community-veggie-garden-in-the-four-corners\/","title":{"rendered":"Moab Affordable Housing? A Zephyr Solution— ‘McBonderman House’…15,000 square feet for the homeless, & acres and acres of bottom land for the biggest community veggie garden in the Four Corners!"},"content":{"rendered":"

From our archives: July 2009<\/em><\/p>\n

For the Homeless in Moab, and those trying to find solutions for the homeless,\u00a0 consider this idea…<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

McBonderman House<\/strong><\/p>\n

There was a time, in the very recent past, when Moab, Utah welcomed\u00a0 and easily accommodated a diverse population. Its citizens represented the entire spectrum of American Life. The wealthy had their bigger homes, the vast middle class
\nlived more modestly,\u00a0 but the lower income working class Moabites could find affordable housing as well. Whether to buy or rent, it was an easy task to make Moab home.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s what\u2019s called a \u201ccommunity.\u201d<\/p>\n

Of course, to many, all that is gone. A greed-driven economy that extends far beyond the city limits created a new Moab, while its weak, impotent politicians, and a mostly listless apathetic public practically slept through the transformation. Now, barring a long-term collapse of the world economy that drives prices back down (What was Cactus Ed\u2019s mantra? \u201cOur only hope is catastrophe!\u201d), the way Moab is now is the way it is likely to stay.<\/p>\n

Except more so.<\/p>\n

But when it come to \u201caffordable housing,\u201d perhaps the solution is right under your noses. What is affordable housing after all? A roof over your head.\u00a0 A kitchen to open a can of beans. A bathroom with a toilet that flushes (if you want REAL luxury). What more do you need?\u00a0 For the people who only ask for these simple necessities, perhaps a new Moab resident can offer some aid and comfort.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>David Bonderman! Step forward and lend a hand,<\/p>\n

Mr. Bonderman, is\u00a0 \u201ca prominent venture capitalist and major financier for the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance.\u201d He invests all over the world.\u00a0 He owns power plants in Texas and goes after the coal in Malaysia.\u00a0 He owns an airline in the United Kingdom that claims “Climate Change is Bullshit.”\u00a0 He\u00a0 is also Moab\u2019s wealthiest part-time resident and the owner of Moab\u2019s biggest home. At about 15,000 square feet (not counting out buildings), calling his new digs a \u201cMcMansion\u201d doesn\u2019t do it justice. It’s about the size of an airport terminal in a medium sized city.<\/p>\n

And it’s a fair bet that Mr. Bonderman will spend very little of his time there. Some close to the billionaire have indicated he has yet to spend a single night at his Moab Palace.\u00a0 Fortune<\/em> magazine noted a few years back that he spends most of his waking life in his Gulfstream jet, racing around the globe, from deal to deal. And then he also has that mansion in Aspen…<\/p>\n

So…why waste all that space?<\/strong><\/p>\n

A lot of Moabites in need of affordable housing could be accommodated at Bonderman\u2019s palace. He\u2019s not there…what the hell does Dave care? I\u2019m sure he has some caretakers in residence who can keep an eye on the place and make sure everyone is picking up after themselves.<\/p>\n

This could be the classiest flop house of all time.<\/strong><\/p>\n

And all that land that surrounds his castle? Let\u2019s open that up to the public too.\u00a0 Mr. Bonderman can parcel out all that fertile bottomland to anyone in Moab who wants to grow a garden but hasn\u2019t the space to do it. Bonderman could be known as the man who saw suffering and tried to stop it. Who reached out to the poor and the needy. The man who did the right thing.<\/p>\n

The Grand Canyon Trust has already called him \u201cone of the great conservationists in America today.\u201d Now he has the chance to be one of America\u2019s great humanitarians as well.<\/p>\n

McBonderman House.. The Bonderman People\u2019s Farm<\/strong>…it\u2019s an idea whose time has come.<\/p>\n

—Stiles<\/p>\n

Read The Dec\/Jan Zephyr online:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From our archives: July 2009 For the Homeless in Moab, and those trying to find solutions for the homeless,\u00a0 consider this idea… McBonderman House There was a time, in the very recent past, when Moab, Utah welcomed\u00a0 and easily accommodated a diverse population. Its citizens represented the entire spectrum of American Life. The wealthy had […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2076"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13256,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2076\/revisions\/13256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}