Hey, why did you post @harriet TC here?
I was only in San Francisco once…only for two or three days. I really liked the city itself. Especially the architecture of the houses. But the weather was absolutely terrible. We were there in August. I actually prepared myself for beautiful, nice, warm days. When I arrived there, I noticed that it was constantly cloudy and foggy in the morning. In the afternoon the sun came out, but a stormy wind was blowing. All this at temperatures around 20 degrees, which had felt pretty cool! It won’t be my city…the weather plays a too important role to me. 
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SFweather is well known. You should have been better prepared, or just drive 30 miles away to the hot suburbs.
At 8:54 the SF Board of Supervisor member woman says the issues in SFO are due to Republican ideology. I guess this is what is called as cognitive dissonance.
Good 10 minute video.
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Time to make drug use a felony again and get rid of all these homeless dirt bags. It is us vs them . And they have to go. Incarceration treatment and evacuation.
I have pictures from my SF cop buddies that would make you physically ill. Time to stop this madness.
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They haven’t had a republican mayor since 1964.
http://www.self.gutenberg.org/articles/List_of_Mayors_of_San_Francisco,_California
So democrats haven’t been able to fix those issues in 56 years? It’s time to let someone else try.
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I was already aware that the weather can be quite cool, but in July/August I expected it to be hot everywhere. We left the Rocky Mountains in Canada and then went down the west coast of the USA. And in San Francisco it was surprisingly cold…we were only there for two or three days before we went on to Santa Monica…my journey continued to Las Vegas…but there it was too hot for me
Interesting series of articles on people who left SF during the pandemic
I left the BA 7 years ago. I am a big champion of the BA. Born and raised. Lived there 60 years. Traveled to 40 states, 30 countries. Best place on earth for big city living. Moved to Tahoe 7 years ago. Don’t miss the BA at all. To crowded too expensive. Retired don’t need the rat race. I hardly ever go back. Maybe twice a year these days. Have everything I need in Eldorado county. Was just at a neighbors grape picking party. Old Italians born and raised in Sacramento . Twenty people picked 1500 pounds of grapes. Amazing Italian food for lunch. Better than any Italian restaurant in SF. There is so much diversity and interesting places in California, you don’t need to stay in the BA.
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Yogi: It’s so crowded nobody goes there anymore.
I agree BA specially SF is for rats and apparently there are quite a few of them.
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Apparently the homeless problem is in Redwood City now. From my friend Maria that owns a RC shopping center
well, third robbery in my shopping center this year. This time at gun point. Countless vandalism, public exposure, defacation in another shopping center. I had plants next to a store dug out and stolen for crying outloud. Crime on the level like I have never seen in my 20 years of managing properties in this town, both petty and serious. Our security costs are through the roof. Police is sympathetic but no robbers found, no homeless removed and no graphiti artists arrested. Our secuirty has very hard time getting rid of homeless as they are sacred cows here in Redwood City and you are not allowed to touch them. I went to a print shop the other day on Charter St, there is a guy living in a trailer on the street since January, using a street sewage, stealing city water, etc . His household is expanding, now it is about 10 bikes in the enclosure next to his trailer. All on a public street. If you and I park for extra 5 min without paying in downtown, I get a ticket. This guy talks like he is in charge as basically squatters on a public property and steals public resources. All the nieghboring businesses sigh and complain, but homeless is the king nowaways in California.
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If you are mad about the homeless problem in CA, blame the NIMBY’s.
Archive link: http://archive.vn/6JhD1
Though Milpitas city staff supported the project application in recent months, the council recently turned against the project after hearing from many residents who opposed it because it would make them feel unsafe to have formerly homeless people, possibly with mental health needs, living near them, they said.
Ask your friend Maria whether she would oppose having a homeless shelter built next to her home.
She is a builder. And like all builders she will tell you it is fiscal insanity to build new homeless shelters. The homeless should be housed in the least expensive housing possible. That allows for the most homeless housing for the the biggest bang for the taxpayers money. That means SROs, class C apartments or trailer parks. Trailer parks are the least expensive. Cheap land is needed for the best deals. In California that means Fresno. Like I have said relocation incarceration and rehab. Building new homeless shelters near her In Emerald hills is liberal fantasy bullshit
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Moving homeless people from Bay Area to Fresno is a non-starter. These are human beings with friends and family in the area. Many even have jobs here.
That project in Milpitas is converting an existing hotel and it’s still running into local objection. The only solution is to have these projects under direct state control and bulldoze over local NIMBY objections. We have too many little tiny cities only caring for themselves.
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move homeless to manch’s backyard… 
let’s get that project started…
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I have given up on the politics of the BA. But if the middle class can be forced out, like me, then the homeless can too. My whole family has left the BA. So the homeless are special??? They get to stay and people who follow the rules can’t… utter bullshit.
There are plenty of places closer than Fresno that can accommodate the 4000 or so hardcore homeless.
The state actually gave $9.6m to the city of South Lake Tahoe to buy SROs for our 90 homeless people. A boondoggle for local slum SRO owners. So the state plans to take 90 units off the market for the homeless. What are their plans for the next 90 homeless that arrive?
Sounds like a stupid magnet to me. Come to Tahoe without a job, home or a clue. The state will give you a free place to stay.
If it’s free you shouldn’t be able to pick the most desirable places to live in the country,
There are thousands of homeless in Hawaii, SF, SD, LA. Funny how their aren’t any in Indiana or Ohio.
The City of South Lake Tahoe grabbed more than its fair share of this $600m boondoggle … our city council deserves kudos. On a percentage basis we should have only got $375k
Of course the politicians were too stupid to realize that this program doesn’t really create more inventory. Just shuffling chairs on the Titanic.
We need a massive construction boom of market housing, fueled by deregulation and relaxed zoning restrictions,higher height limits, higher density and no development fees.
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Then they can live with their friends and family to not be homeless. Why on earth should random strangers financially support them when their own friends and family won’t even offer them a place to live? Why on earth do they deserve brand new construction when the vast majority of people paying taxes to fund it live in older homes?
Who do you think blocks the projects? It’s the same liberals who think we should build a homeless shelter and vote to do it. Then they’ll fight like crazy to prevent it from being in their own neighborhood. No one wants the increased crime, drugs, etc near their one home. This is the issue with liberal fantasies. They always say we should help people, but when it’s time to help they think someone else should make the sacrifices. People shouldn’t be allowed to vote for something unless they are the one making the sacrifice for it.
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Ask Newsom why he vetoed a bill to track homeless spending. Corrupt state of California using homeless money to fund NGO payroll.
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I saw this in the news a few days ago:
I remember when the news first came out, it also said that rather than a real lottery admission system, students from underperforming schools (Willie Brown school from bayview?) will get preference. But I can’t find that in these news anymore.
Today Boston has the same story:
"Under the approved proposal, zip codes will be ranked based on median household income, and eligible students from the lowest-income ZIP codes will be given first choice on which school they would like to attend — whether that be the O’Bryant School of Mathematics and Science, Boston Latin Academy, or the Boston Latin School. "
Anyone who thinks this is just temporary/one-year thing is going to be very disappointed later on.
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