go ahead.
The results of code and zoning restrictions. The nanny state trying to protect us from everything ends up protecting us from nothing. A complete failure of Democrats and one party rule in the BA over the last 60 years trying to stop development and bending over to protect the civil rights of the lawless and depraved.
SF city regulations make the cost of a new one bedroom apartment cost $700k. The call for affordable housing from people that insist on over design and restrictive zoning rings hollow.
SF got the city it deserved.
Now thatâs world class. Good job SF.
The homeless are taking over SF
https://www.quora.com/Why-is-the-homeless-population-expanding-in-the-state-of-California
Scroll down in the comments to see what Matthew Sutton posted, and his reply to someone elseâs reply to his comments.
In addition to the de facto decriminalization of hard drugs and the rehab center pipeline thatâs sucking addicts into California from Texas, New Mexico and IndianaâŠweâre also releasing lots of ânon-violentâ offenders in the street. By non-violent, the governor may mean rapists and armed robbers whose most recent conviction was for something non-violentâŠlike being a felon in possession of a firearm. Hell, if you rape an unconscious woman in CA that can be a non-violent crime.
Canât see why some bloggers think so highly of 7x7đ”
The issue is it costs $80k a year to house someone in the prison system. At that cost, the state canât afford to have more people in prison. It also doesnât have enough capacity in the prison system, and it lacks the money to build more prisons. The Supreme Court ruled against California for over crowding in prisons. The state really has no choice but to release people. That or figure out a way to significantly decrease the cost per inmate.
Personally, I think electronic monitoring could be a viable option for a lot of crimes. It should also be an option instead of cash bail for a bunch of crimes. The whole point is to prevent people from committing more crimes. Knowing the electronic monitoring makes it near 100% certain youâll be caught should deter people.
Iâm sure we could get even better reductions with more focus and resources that are currently dedicated to other methods.
One word: unions. Schwarzenegger tried to take them on and after that referendum the teacherâs union had one of his testicles in a jar and the prison workers union had the other.
Salaries and pensions are ungodly. Plus, much of it could be automated.
The median FAMILY income in the US is about 57k and CA spends 80k a year to keep a guy in a cage.
Jane Kim
To be honest, making the homeless move still has a benefit which is that it requires them to keep their stuff in their shopping carts and to stay mobile. The homeless camps are ugly, but itâs worse when they arenât downsizing their crap everyday and it just spills all over the place.
What is the purpose of Unions of government employees. Isnât the government supposed to have the best interest of everyone in mind? Then why do state employees need a union? And to protect from whom? The idea that state employees need protection from government is ironical.
no one would work for the state or teach if they didnât have unions. Those are shitty jobs and taxpayers will make them shittier and with lower pay if they could, so unions are there to protect their workers. I am not a huge fan either, but I work for a utility and honestly, we canât keep good people around due to the a) low pay b) shitty work/life/job demands. THe only thing keeping many people helping keep the lights on are pensions. Same with teachers. Most teachers i know have left CA for the same pay, LCOL areas (NC, etc). we canât hire enough firemen or policemen.
Really? There are hundreds and thousands of people waiting to do the state jobs. Just ask these union employed people to quit and see their positions filled so fast. The scarcity of government workers you are talking about is a falsehood sold by unions to their political masters. The unions control these jobs (and who gets hired) and the union create artificial scarcity of workers. Much like H1-B program and job openings for Green Card processing where they will say enough US workers are not available.
If the Unions were to unwound, most of the people will not even know they even existed.
We shouldnât be paying people by pensions, but having them fund their own retirement with money paid right now. Weâre just pushing our costs onto our kids.
And the pensions Iâve heard are a bit ridiculous. 50% of your pay if youâre 50 and worked somewhere for 10 years or something like that? I remember someone telling me why theyâd taken a government job, and I just couldnât stomach the pension plan she mentioned and the fact that I was going to be the one be paying for it. Seemed wrong.
Also people do teach for much lower amounts at private and parochial schools. Clearly people would still teach without the teacherâs unions getting them twice the payâŠ
And at the same time, the union rules keep public schools from being able to fire ones that arenât being effective.
And speaking of teacherâs pay scales - theyâre all setup to make sure that teachers who have worked longer get paid more. If I come in with 20 years of industry experience and want to teach CS or robotics in a public school (or even a parochial school), I get paid as if I were a 22 year old first year teacher who has exactly zero experience in that area. I get that teaching requires some different skills like classroom management, but experience should count for something in the pay scale if youâre teaching in that same area.