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We’reTexas

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  1. Neither of those statements is accurate, but totally agree with your below statement that no one city is going to solve homelessness.
  2. Did we read the same NYT article? I thought summed up the discourse in the city fairly well.
  3. Look at my guy Joe Eskenazi scooping the Chron.
  4. No, when I worked on the Hill all accounts I heard about her were that she is an awful person and easily the worst member in the Texas delegation to work for, possibly the House.
  5. Yes, the homelessness industrial complex is a thing. There is a massive amount of grift involved and the non-profits have the funds to exert significant political influence and litigate. They are not necessarily ill-intentioned, but they have a staunch idea of what the city’s approach should be (the status quo, but with more funding for the programs they happen to operate) and what the downtown should look like (not gentrified). The progressive camp is all about throwing money at quixotic ideas and opposing gentrification and the rest of the city doesn’t give a shit about the TL, so here we are. Michael Shellenberger is an idiot btw. Gary Tan is a good follow.
  6. One of my favorite producers, they don’t get the hype they should and I’m glad.
  7. I’m just explaining, as someone active in S.F. political circles, what I view to be specific political obstructions to changing what you see downtown when people visit. I wasn’t kidding when I said the homeless had one of the most powerful political advocacy groups in the city. I think we are on the same page from a policy perspective but I find the difficulties implementing the CARE court system disheartening. Doesn’t help that the city’s homelessness department threw its hands up yet again a few weeks ago.
  8. You’re in LA so I know you know as well as I do that homelessness is a structural issue beyond the capacity of any one city to handle - Willie Brown and Gavin Newsom found out years ago, and I suspect Karen Bass will soon. In S.F. the progressive camp basically disagrees that the situation in the TL and SOMA is a quality of life issue and will actively resist efforts like the CARE Act. In any event the dynamic in those neighborhoods in so structurally entrenched I doubt it will ever change significantly. Is Skid Row similar? I’d guess.
  9. Oh you should laugh. Btw I’d say “drug workers” is my new favorite.
  10. I get the gist of what you are trying to convey, but why did institutional investors enter residential housing in the first place?
  11. You laugh but the homele… err, people experiencing homelessness have one of the most powerful political lobbies in the city.
  12. Now this is something you can shit on the city for. Those tweakers have been in that area for years.
  13. I work a few blocks away and walked by the murder scene this afternoon. It’s around the corner from Red’s Java House, under the Bay Bridge. There’s typical fidi sketchiness there (two screaming schizos in the street at 2 pm) but it’s certainly not Hunters Point or Vis Valley. That area is dead at night and totally agree if he were out at some nearby late night bar (are there any?) we should know by now where he was. Rough crowds will come over from the east bay and run side shows on Embarcadero sometimes so they can bolt when SFPD shows up - maybe he got mugged and fought back?
  14. 1967, imo.
  15. JFC, I didn’t even know that was possible, I thought everything there was an SRO for people to shoot up in.
  16. Unless you are in a few areas (which I agree have absolutely gone downhill) views like that are your daily life and why you pay to be here, and frankly if you commute in from Marin to the Financial District for work you’re not in a position to comment on the quality of life in the other 48 square miles of the city. I’ll be the first to comment on the city’s dysfunction, but I’d push back on the notion that this homicide is reflective of anything and is mainly notable because of what an aberration it is. Shit like this happens in Oakland all the time.
  17. we are never going to recover, what a shithole
  18. I wouldn’t call it a nice part of town and there is absolutely the usual sketchy S.F. shit going on at night, but a homicide is extremely unusual. SF’s violent crime feels very much like Austin’s. 🙄
  19. Kind of a weird article. I don’t think it has to do with popularity but the dynamics of expensive areas. Gen Zers can’t afford coastal metro areas yet and boomers/older Gen-Xers are paying cash if they buy at all, so it makes sense millennials would be the largest buying group by far in those areas.
  20. Conceptually, a demand-fixing scheme allowing $300k households to get into bidding wars is the opposite of what California needs and is quite an irritating development in the midst of the housing element battle. I wouldn’t be particularly worried about your concerns - if anything, this could have Prop 13-like effects and encourage people to stay in their homes until they die. Sure, homeownership is ideal (I aspire to it!) but affordability in HCOL areas is now a generational lift.
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