Nancy Federico, 77, has lived at her apartment on La Playa Street, behind the motel, for 43 years and has an ocean view. When the building goes up, she won’t be able to see the ocean anymore.
“I moved here for that view,” said Federico. “I pay for that view, and then you want to take it away from me and give it to somebody else? How are you going to compensate me? You’ve got to compensate me, or do I have to file a lawsuit?”
The lawsuit counter is that way, ma’am. 
You aren’t paying for the view, you are paying for housing you dumb shit.
I get it, she enjoyed the view for more than half her life, but she isn’t entitled to the view. It’s not like they are kicking her out of her home or something. Come back when they eminent domain your ass to build a strip mall or golf course.
My town has been converting old school buildings into non-profit housing. The two they’ve completed are really nice, they converted the playgrounds into gardens and green space, they’re energy efficient, and they don’t change the character of the neighborhoods they’re in(not that I think that matters).
The biggest project yet is starting next year. It’s getting pushback from reactionary dickholes because it’s going to have, gasp, 30% of the units dedicated to low income housing. The “Muh property values!” dipshits would rather have a vacant rotting brick building in their neighborhood than have 10 poor families get affordable housing.
The stupidest part of this pushback is that this town is an absolute shit hole, it’s one of the poorest towns in the state. It’s has tons of low income housing as it is, it’s just not subsidized. There are so many dilapidated multi family homes being rented by absentee landlords who don’t pay their property taxes. The tenants live there because the rents are below market, but they have to move if something breaks, because these landlords are just syphoning cash until the town takes them for nonpayment of taxes.
I’m no real estate expert, but having people on the streets seems to me like it would harm neighborhood home values more than having them in houses and off the street
He said a small town. Small town America gives it’s homeless one way bus tickets to the big city cuz only the city can afford them.
This leaves rural America generally homeless free and then Republicans can pile on to Democrats ruining our cities, as evidenced by all the homeless. Smh. All while willfully ignoring that both property crime and violent crime happen at far higher rates out in county.
Every small town in America, having traded in its character for a freeway offramp, feels, and looks, the exact same nowadays - over policed and traumatized communities originally, back in the good ol pre-2008 days, addicted to Adderall and Oxycontin, nostalgically peeling scabs with meth and fent-laced brown. No will to invest locally, no desire to improve things, just escape from the overbearingness, stuck surviving in the dissonance between repeatingly mouthing self-affirmations/placations and the anxiety of knowing you’ll live to witness civilizations end. Just in time for everyone to fall out of love with the discarded husk big tech left of the Internet.
We are all war victims. Protracted slow economic warfare, intentional, we are all frogs and the waters already at a boil. But continue on being a pick-me for corporate greed (not you personally)
With friends like these who needs enemies?
Excellent post. You might like Quiet Town by The Killers
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
That’s easily solved by my solution to the undesirables which my lawyer has advised me not to state in public writing anymore
You are forgetting about anti-homeless architecture and other ‘wonders’ of capitalism that are meant to ‘solve’ that problem.
In my area they just finished a bunch of low income duplexes in a utilitarian metal building style. Not necessarily a bunch of pushback, but there’s loads of negativity over the look and style; purely superficial shit.
I find it funny because those low income metal buildings are gonna outlast the quarter to half a million dollar groverhaus communities that are popping up everywhere here.
Meanwhile my town keeps converting old schools into luxury apartments that go for 50% more than the area average rate. They take away the nice parks and stuff and build big fences around them so only residents can get in. Plus they aren’t building new schools, just closing the old ones, so yeah we’re doing great
Why doesn’t she just move into the new building?
Entitlement.
but with a big “Zoning Complaints Department” sign on itKnowing SF, and in particular knowing the Sunset, I will be shocked if this gets built.
Housing in America is an investment. As such it has risks.
These people; There’s no guarantee to housing… just my view.
I’ve lived in that neighborhood, right by Other Avenues grocery co-op. the absolute farthest edge of the city, literally abutting the ocean, is an interesting choice of location to put your low income housing. It’s almost as if they want these residents to be as far away and out of sight as possible.
or new construction is more expensive and slower close to the city center
Its both
yea you right
Go outside
Go the damn ocean. It’s not far, you bitter old crank
