Perfect!
Not sure what exactly will come of this even if people voted for it. I mean, what developer is going to do a 100% affordable housing building with such valuable land, right?
Yes, but noâŚ
Yeah, the government is the solution to all of our problems.
Too much whining and no building!!! Just build it!!! We will survive somehowâŚ
These neighborhood groups are just selfish assholesâŚTheir concerns are not for anyone but themselves
Affordable housing is the government code word for somebody else pays.
Say, whatâs the opposite of gentrification? Iâve lived through that but donât have a slick, one word description.
The opposite of gentrification is ghettoizationâŚ
Um⌠that pretty much speaks for 99.999% of the people ever livedâŚ
Well, harder to findâŚ
Itâs the wrong focus. There are 6M open jobs. How do we help those people fill one of those 6M open jobs? Then they wonât need affordable housing. The talk of minimum wage is annoying. Minimum wage has always been near or below the poverty line. It was never meant to be a livable wage. If someone works for years and can only earn minimum wage, itâs not reasonable to blame everyone else for that personâs inability to move up.
If you want to solve it, then make affordable housing military style barracks. Give people living there minimal privacy and no cable TV. People will quickly get motivated to earn enough money to move out. As long as government assistance provides private apartments or SFH rentals, what motivation do people have to earn more to pay for something they are getting for free? Earning more wonât increase their standard of living, so why do it?
Everything about the approach to these problems is wrong. Thatâs why the spending grows much faster than inflation, and the situation isnât improving.
HmmâŚsounds like what happened to Antioch.
KQED did a whole series about it. Of course, they interviewed local âleadersâ some of whom Iâve experienced. And of course, according to them the only problem is racism.
The new âismâ in Bay Area Metrospeak is âanti-displacementâ. Yes, many politicians and government planners say what happened to the SF Mission must be stopped because it âdisplacedâ people. They have now created policies to prevent this from happening elsewhere.
I was born in the City. I had family in the City. The Mission was a ghetto hell hole that no one in their right mind wanted to be in, at least after dark. If you want that crap back, then be my guest. Itâs been massively improved by âdisplacementâ or âgentrificationâ or whatever you want to call it.
Defy that at your own risk. If you do, I think you should move into the Sycamore area of Antioch. Iâll give you five months max before you flee or are impacted by violence.
My recent trip to Costa Rico saw better digs in the ghettos than some of what we have here.
Having lived through this crap, I get really tired of the race card. If your pants are down around your ankles; if youâre toting a firearm under your jacket because you think that makes you cool; I and most anyone I know, including many non-whites, donât care what color you are. Just get the hell out of here!
Come on, for parking??? Take the freaking bus, you lazy-arsed students!!!
Typical nimbly I got mine screw you attitude.
First a laundromat is more important than housing now a parking lot is more important than housing people. And these liberals say they are concerned about the homeless⌠Hypocritical horse shitâŚ
Not sure how applicable these ideas really are (especially around here) but food for thoughtâŚ
Anything and everything should be triedâŚNumber issue is zoningâŚThis is a national issueâŚThe feds should suspend local zoning laws for 3 yearsâŚProblems would be solved