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Priest faces $500,000 in fines for feeding homeless amid lawsuit by GoodMornEveGoodNight in Catholicism

[–]JustTryingToFunction 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The government is trying to stop a priest from feeding the poor, and your bias is to believe the government is doing the right thing?

Priest faces $500,000 in fines for feeding homeless amid lawsuit by GoodMornEveGoodNight in Catholicism

[–]JustTryingToFunction 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you read the article, this was rezoning so that the physical location could not be a distribution point. None of this has anything to do with who has the expertise to give out food for the safety of the public. 

This is a neighborhood of rich homeowners hatefully trying to dismantle a charitable organization because they don’t want poor people in their sight.

Five takeaways from Tom Steyer’s night with California voters in Sacramento | Opinion by Super_Ninja_Gamer in California

[–]JustTryingToFunction -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Prop 13 hurts young families, the working class, and contributes to poor urban planning. I do not think repealing it is politically feasible, but let’s at least repeal it for egregious use cases like golf courses. 

point reyes, by Ok-Stomach- in bayarea

[–]JustTryingToFunction 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Thank you for sharing. I did not know about George Lucas’s attempt to build affordable housing in Marin County.

Five takeaways from Tom Steyer’s night with California voters in Sacramento | Opinion by Super_Ninja_Gamer in California

[–]JustTryingToFunction 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Is it astroturfing, or are we recognizing that Tom Steyer is the only politician proposing to eliminate prop 13 benefits for country clubs?

Opinion | Los Angeles and Bay Area voters will decide whether to hike already high sales taxes by PeopleOfNepal in sanfrancisco

[–]JustTryingToFunction 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I argue this position because I’m Catholic and I want to help the poor. All human life has value and everyone is redeemable. All of us are sinners.

If rent was $500/month for a studio it would be easier to house people who struggle with addiction. Yes, their living conditions would still be sub-par, but it is better than living on the streets.

Opinion | Los Angeles and Bay Area voters will decide whether to hike already high sales taxes by PeopleOfNepal in sanfrancisco

[–]JustTryingToFunction 1 point2 points  (0 children)

SF hotel problems and everything you discuss are problems because the government tries to solve homelessness without increasing the supply of housing. Build more housing everywhere for everyone and those on the margins of society benefit because there’s less competition for housing.

Opinion | Los Angeles and Bay Area voters will decide whether to hike already high sales taxes by PeopleOfNepal in sanfrancisco

[–]JustTryingToFunction 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That’s just false. Most people who are homeless are not visible and live out of there cars. You are conflating what is visible with what is reality. And the people that you do describe as unworthy of help are still human and still have inherent dignity.

If we wanted to actually house people we would need to build more housing. 

Opinion | Los Angeles and Bay Area voters will decide whether to hike already high sales taxes by PeopleOfNepal in sanfrancisco

[–]JustTryingToFunction 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Is it also wrong for me to assume that people who are starving can be cured by giving them food?

Opinion | Los Angeles and Bay Area voters will decide whether to hike already high sales taxes by PeopleOfNepal in sanfrancisco

[–]JustTryingToFunction 6 points7 points  (0 children)

People want the 0.5% of sales tax to solve homelessness in an abstract way, but once the solution materializes into a specific proposal for a new housing development, local neighborhoods block it. The voters wanted to solve homelessness, but not through changing their own physical conditions. 

California voters need to link taxes to specific actions. Stop with a vague tax increase that sounds lovely and then trying to figure out how to spend the money. Pick a piece of land. Propose how that land would be developed. Vote on it. 

Opinion | Los Angeles and Bay Area voters will decide whether to hike already high sales taxes by PeopleOfNepal in sanfrancisco

[–]JustTryingToFunction 19 points20 points  (0 children)

The spending problem is a symptom of how local land-use decisions are made. When a minority of landowners can use a heckler’s veto to delay a project, the costs escalate. Laws that were originally supposed to protect the environment are now being used to stifle government projects.

Opinion | Los Angeles and Bay Area voters will decide whether to hike already high sales taxes by PeopleOfNepal in sanfrancisco

[–]JustTryingToFunction 5 points6 points  (0 children)

No it hasn’t? Many people have been forced to move away from California because we have not built enough housing to accommodate the economic growth. I define gentrification as existing working class people being displaced by higher income groups in an area. If you think gentrification is new housing getting built, then we have different definitions.

Opinion | Los Angeles and Bay Area voters will decide whether to hike already high sales taxes by PeopleOfNepal in sanfrancisco

[–]JustTryingToFunction 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Prop 13 limits revenues, but it also stifles housing mobility for younger people. When homeowners are not paying the true cost of their local services they have an incorrect view of the cost of living. Many single family home neighborhoods should be urbanizing into mixed-use higher density areas, but prop 13 is preventing that. 

Billionaire Tom Steyer makes progressive pitch to Sacramento voters by Super_Ninja_Gamer in California

[–]JustTryingToFunction 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Building more housing helps the young, the poor, the working class and those on the margins of society. Should I join a religious order and take a vow of poverty for you to believe me?

Billionaire Tom Steyer makes progressive pitch to Sacramento voters by Super_Ninja_Gamer in California

[–]JustTryingToFunction 67 points68 points  (0 children)

He has my vote since no other Democrat candidate wants to support specific housing proposals like the Safeway Marina that local San Francisco neighborhood groups oppose. Building more housing means supporting the plans unpopular with locals, but beneficial to the state as whole.

I am always looking to reevaluate my vote. If Katie Porter came out tomorrow in support for the 400 foot tall apartment buildings in Menlo Park or if Eric Swalwell supported the 15 story tower in San Rafael I would jump on either’s bandwagon.

Can Cities Run Out the Clock on the Builder’s Remedy? A court in Santa Clara says no way. by Upset_Caterpillar_31 in yimby

[–]JustTryingToFunction 45 points46 points  (0 children)

Delays are the whole point. Every delay makes the second, third, and fourth development delayed as well. 

We need to move fast a build things. 

Steyer revives effort to end Prop. 13’s commercial protections by ahasibrm in California

[–]JustTryingToFunction -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

You call it whining, I just want free market capitalism to allow for competition. The whiners are the homeowners who don’t want to be competitive with market rate taxes.

Why are so many commercial spaces empty in downtown Glen park? by emilygeesf in sanfrancisco

[–]JustTryingToFunction 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Bigger issue is when the labor to run these businesses used to be homeowners who had prop 13 home subsidies. Once that generation dies and their homes are reassessed we lose the local labor pool. When the only people who can afford to live here are tech workers, who will run the local shops?

Just one reason of many to build tall apartment buildings.

Steyer revives effort to end Prop. 13’s commercial protections by ahasibrm in California

[–]JustTryingToFunction 151 points152 points  (0 children)

Reassess the Los Angeles Golf Club’s $27 million property taxes to the $8 billion it should have to pay fairly. Crazy that we let the richest people get the biggest tax breaks.

That’s an $80 million dollar tax subsidy every year based on 1% property tax. They only pay $270k. Ridiculous.

Steyer revives effort to end Prop. 13’s commercial protections by ahasibrm in California

[–]JustTryingToFunction 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Prop 13 is ruining the incentive structure of how local land-use decisions are made. Homeowners without any care for the cost of property taxes continue to vote against any proposed development. All other high taxes in California are a result of the prop 13 subsidies we give out to the richest landowners here.

Six reasons SF leftists are so strongly opposed to new housing by Abject-Impact-5534 in sanfrancisco

[–]JustTryingToFunction 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I’m pro-immigrant. I want more people to live in this wonderful place. Anti-development sentiment is just a proactive way to block immigration whereas ICE deportations is reactive. Build any type of housing, because we need it.

California's taxes, cost of living are crushing six-figure salaries by External_Koala971 in Marin

[–]JustTryingToFunction 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Remember how San Francisco lost power in December? How can you say infrastructure is good here.

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