East Bay official apologizes for ghetto remarks about affordable housing. Will city oust him?
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suggesting that affordable housing would create a ‘ghetto’ in the city’s downtown.MARK COSTANTINI / SFC
The Livermore City Council will consider removing a planning commissioner Monday evening after he made offensive remarks, suggesting that affordable housing would create a ‘ghetto’ in the city’s downtown.
Commissioner John Stein, who previously served on the City Council, came under fire after he said he didn’t want downtown Livermore to turn into a “ghetto” when discussing an affordable housing project.
“I really don’t want to see the downtown become a ghetto of affordable housing, and I support inclusionary housing both on a macro and micro scale,” he said at an April 20 meeting. “I think it should be distributed throughout the city and if we see high-density housing downtown, it should be market rate with maybe 20% affordable rather