George Lucas Strikes Back with Affordable Housing

The land use dispute between George Lucas and the wealthy residents of Marin County rages on:

When George Lucas tried to expand his production company studios in California’s wealthy Marin County, the community pushed back. Then the “Star Wars” creator wanted to sell the land to a developer who would build affordable housing. “It’s inciting class warfare,” Carolyn Lenert, then head of the North San Rafael Coalition of Residents, told The New York Times at the time. 

Now, two years after that project stalled, Lucas has decided to build the affordable housing and pay for it all himself.  “We’ve got enough millionaires here. What we need is some houses for regular working people,” Lucas said through his lawyer Gary Giacomini, CBS affiliate KCBS reported.