Current Events > If you thought San Francisco was bad now, it is about to get even worse

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Damn_Underscore posted...

Isn't the reason the housing crisis is so bad in California that the government refuses to give out enough building permits and also zoning laws that only allow for standard suburban housing

Yes, and every attempt to get a permit is opposed by progressive NIMBY groups.

Boudin pledged to stop taking first-offense drunk drivers to trial, providing they didnt injure anyone. He promised to end gang enhancements, part of a California law that adds additional prison sentences to defendants who participate in violent street gangs. As for quality-of-life crimes that harm communities, hes been open about ignoring them, stating that crimes such as public camping, offering or soliciting sex, public urination, blocking a sidewalk, etc., should not and will not be prosecuted.

Literally all three of these things are shitty for common people, not for police. What the fuck is the point?

And like even if you're *for* "public camping", why not designate zones for people to do it in. And then maybe have a medical station nearby or something to treat them and make sure they're good (unless that's already in action).

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Broseph_Stalin posted...

Damn_Underscore posted...

Isn't the reason the housing crisis is so bad in California that the government refuses to give out enough building permits and also zoning laws that only allow for standard suburban housing

Yes, and every attempt to get a permit is opposed by progressive NIMBY groups.

What makes them progressive?
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She's not biased at all...

He said sarcastically.

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shockthemonkey posted...

Bro thinks progressive = bad without any cognitive reasoning involved, so if theres something he doesnt like he just calls it progressive.

@shockthemonkey assumes I'm wrong because he's incapable of even questioning his own tribe. Time for a reality check I guess.

First off take a wild guess as to what kind of person is getting elected to local government in places like San Francisco. Hint: it's not moderate democrats. Progressive find "woke" reasons to support shitty NIMBY policies that help them and fuck over everyone else.

This is a great example of what the permit process is like in SF. Guy spends 5 years and over a million dollars of his own money trying to get a permit to turn his laundromat into a multi-family housing unit. Eventually they drop the BS excuses and admit they don't want to give it to him because he'd make money doing so. Free markets bad . Once he decides to take the city to court his permit is miraculously approved.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExgxwKnH8y4

Meet the white homeowners behind the """anti-gentrification""" movement.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/oct/18/los-angeles-gentrification-boyle-heights-race-activism

Wait no actually NIMBYism is cool because environmentalism man. Even though NIMBYism is a deterrent to denser, greener cities and encourages urban sprawl. Whatever it sounds progressive so just go with it I guess.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/jun/22/proud-nimby-environment-developers-no-nature

And here's your typical progressive housing racket:
https://i.imgur.com/ocniTvZ.png
https://i.imgur.com/4zpjMle.png
https://i.imgur.com/PzqWYYw.png

"Nooo we can't build more housing, capitalist only care about supply and demand! BTW if you're a rich person who needs housing contact me I'm a realtor who profits off the artificially high housing cost in my area" This is Trump level grifting, impressive.

Oh and of course Bernie supports all of this garbage, including nationwide rent control. Progressives fucking suck on housing policy, like they do on most issues.

LMAO

You know you're taking a hard L when you're trying to argue Bernie Sanders isn't a progressive.

AlephZero posted...

Abolish the police department, let neighborhoods form their own collective law enforcement.

Ive got all the law enforcement I need under my bed!
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No seriously when you're losing this badly it's better to just not respond.

"San Francisco isn't a progressive city" isn't a hill you want to die on my dude.

chinese billionaires buy up housing wholesale and make it expensive as fuck as midwest neckbeards cheer the downfall of the wretched SJWs

these threads are always peak cringe

Great, I'm sure that heifer who supports a lunatic whose parents murdered cops will be a terrific leader :D
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shockthemonkey posted...

Anti-working class policies are progressive because theyre in San Francisco sure is a take

No one's saying they aren't anti-working class. I'm just telling you who's behind them.

Your argument is literally "it's not bad when we do it". TAKE THE L.

imagine blaming the entirety of SF's housing situation on blue-haired feminists and completely ignoring that even without nimbyism it'd still be a tiny-ass city with an inordinate demand for housing, horrible geography, international speculating out the ass and it's smack-dab in the biggest tech center in the world with six-figure salaries as a standard

no it's the SJWs, entirely, fully. i have paused my 5-hour youtube review of The Last Jedi and tucked away my NES Classic to post this thread and make my take known.

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On the eve of last weeks municipal election in San Francisco, a speaker at an event for Chesa Boudinthe eventual winner in the race for district attorneytook the microphone. Hey, so I just got one thing to say, she began. Which is fuck the POA (Police Officers Association)! San Francisco, this is what we get when we throw the fuck down. This is the city where we elect a public defender to be our district attorney. What we start here, the nation follows. So, look out.

As Fuck the POA! Fuck the POA! Fuck the POA! filled the room, the leader at the podium offered her middle finger, and many in the crowd followed suit. The profane chorus was not led by a grassroots Boudin supporter, nor by an Antifa rabble-rouser, but by Sandra Lee Fewer, an elected member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. Other city supervisors past and present also graced the stage, including Matt Haney, Hillary Ronen, and Jane Kim.

Boudin, whose parents were left-wing radicals in the Weather Undergroundthey went to prison for the murder of two police officers and a security guardhas a contentious relationship with the police and has not been shy in expressing it. Fewer, an ardent Boudin supporter, claimed that the POA, which has been deeply critical of the new attorney general, is a racist organization because it ran a series of ads claiming that electing Boudin would put families at risk, and that his reckless policies will cost lives.

Those claims are essentially correct. Boudin pledged to stop taking first-offense drunk drivers to trial, providing they didnt injure anyone. He promised to end gang enhancements, part of a California law that adds additional prison sentences to defendants who participate in violent street gangs. As for quality-of-life crimes that harm communities, hes been open about ignoring them, stating that crimes such as public camping, offering or soliciting sex, public urination, blocking a sidewalk, etc., should not and will not be prosecuted.

These changes will likely result in harm and injury. Gang warfare, for example, is heating up, as organized Honduran nationals take over large swaths of the city, selling fentanyl and other deadly narcotics. The first quarter of 2019 saw 39 fentanyl-related deaths, which, at current rates, will just about double those of last year. The sex trade is rarely victimless, and people living in and around homeless camps experience high levels of violence.

Boudins platform of decarceration and ending the criminalization of poverty clearly appealed to many San Francisco voters, though the citys growing public-order woes hardly suggest over-policing or aggressive prosecution of crime. A spate of car break-ins has reached epidemic proportions, with roughly 70 smash-and-grabs happening daily. Boudin has responded by pledging to address the root causes of crimeaddiction and homelessnessbut San Francisco already spends hundreds of millions of dollars annually on human services, and the problems continue to worsen. His key promise regarding car burglaries is to put the city in the business of fixing the smashed windows at a discountessentially a gesture of defeat.

Fewers vulgar speech quickly went viral, and she eventually issued a half-hearted apology. I used profanity in my comments about the POA, but quite frankly, I dont think it is language that we have not heard before, she grudgingly allowed. However if that language has offended you, the members of the San Francisco Police Department, I sincerely apologize.

Chesa Boudin won the election. As of next January 8, he will be the citys district attorney. San Franciscos political culture is racing to meet the rhetoric of its most left-wing advocates.
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YugiNoob posted...

Boudin, whose parents were left-wing radicals in the Weather Underground

it's impossible to say what political ideology these people support. Could be a ton of republicans in SF.

"people in other countries buying $2.5 million dollar homes sight unseen in cash but trust me it's the SJWs doing this to you guys and i told you so" - guy in a dallas suburb who doesnt understand that a dallas suburb is maybe a little fucking easier to run

People are leaving California in droves!! It is an absolute shithole and no one should live there!!

(Watches new neighbors move in and buy up 900k houses)

(Sees my own home which I bought for 625k appreciate to ~800k in just a few years. Salary steady rising and now just shy of 200k)

Yeah I think Ill stay lol

Edit: for the record this is SoCal. Dont think I could manage a busy city like SF
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Tokyo has a metro population of 38 MILLION PEOPLE with less than 2 thousand homeless people. LA has 13 million people with over 60 thousand homeless people. Rent is cheaper in Tokyo.

But yes our disastrous urban planning policies have absolutely nothing to do with this, lets blame those evil foreigners!