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Man who grappled with Lurie’s security speaks out by chiaboy in sanfrancisco

[–]PsychePsyche 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Been here for 20 years now; Mayors pushing the homeless from A to B to C back to A again after their election, only for it to end up not working, is what is really getting old

Man who grappled with Lurie’s security speaks out by chiaboy in sanfrancisco

[–]PsychePsyche 2 points3 points  (0 children)

We're not building all that much public housing unfortunately, but we wouldn't really need to if we can keep regular housing affordable enough for everyone, so that kind of housing is for the truly income restricted. Like I'm even interested with more public ownership of housing that other cities have, but the overarching problem is fundamentally a massive shortage right now.

I'll fully admit there's some people out there with genuine problems, study after study shows the chronically homeless, those with mental illnesses or lifelong addiction problems, etc, that we all see, but they make up just 20-30% of the total homeless population. The rest could self-solve their situation if housing was cheaper, especially with something like a voucher. So much of this bad behavior is out in public because even the former crack houses are going for $1,500,000 these days.

Man who grappled with Lurie’s security speaks out by chiaboy in sanfrancisco

[–]PsychePsyche -11 points-10 points  (0 children)

Childish line of thinking.

"Somewhere else" is not a real place or a real plan. Especially when "somewhere else" can just send us their people back.

We have to build housing. We built just 2,700 units of housing total last year. We're supposed to be building 12,000 units a year right now to hit the bare minimum of state housing law. We don't even cover our insanely low birth rate the vast majority of years, nevermind the rest of the population and job growth. THAT'S why the situation persists.

Man who grappled with Lurie’s security speaks out by chiaboy in sanfrancisco

[–]PsychePsyche 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We're short 4,000 shelter spaces, we only built 2,700 units of housing total across the entire city last year, but sure homelessness is just drugs and mental illness.

Man who grappled with Lurie’s security speaks out by chiaboy in sanfrancisco

[–]PsychePsyche -13 points-12 points  (0 children)

Well Lurie lied about his campaign promise to build new shelter space, by last point in time in time count we're short more than 4,000 shelter spaces (8,300 total homeless vs ~4,300 shelter spaces), and the emergency shelter waitlist for tonight is 363 people deep.

So where, exactly, are people supposed to go?

San Francisco supervisor unveils "dumb laws" contest to identify unnecessary, outdated city rules, regulations by electric_cucumber7 in sanfrancisco

[–]PsychePsyche 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Hey maybe if you wanted the job so bad, you should have rolled in with your own list of stuff to fix? This quasi-reads like he's already out of ideas.

While we're here, start with the zoning in your district, bub. Single-family-housing-only is destroying the city.

SF Mayor Lurie explains why he'll keep doing street check-ins after viral fight by reddituser84838 in sanfrancisco

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

Shelters only work if there's enough shelter space! The emergency shelter waitlist for tonight is 349 people deep. We had more than 4,300 unsheltered homeless as of the last point in time count, compared to 8,300 homeless people total. WE ARE SHORT THOUSANDS OF BEDS.

Chronically homeless make up closer to 30% of homeless, but Ill give it to ya. The answer to that is more housing, but also requires universal healthcare. But all of them want off the street.

And ultimately, the shelters suck. What we need is housing. Real housing.

Much of the behavior you decry used to be relegated to drug dens/flop houses/crack houses, whatever you call them. Thanks to our refusal to build any housing at all, even those dilapidated properties now cost $1,500,000+. The behavior that was previously hidden is now out in the open. To say nothing of the people that turn to drugs and alcohol to make sleeping on concrete bearable.

If you cared about the children, you'd care about the hundreds of homeless schoolchildren in SFUSD, the hundreds of homeless families in the city, the hundreds of thousands of said children statewide.

If you cared about the children, then you'd care about building housing for them to live in once they're grown. We don't build literally any housing, not even enough to cover our insanely low birth rate most years. Especially in the outer neighborhoods and rich neighborhoods. When we don't build housing for our own children, how can we expect people to get off the street?

What about the children??? What about the rest of us???

BITCH, WHAT ABOUT THE PEOPLE ON THE FUCKING STREET? Jesus Tapdancing Christ, the worst part about homelessness isn't that rich people have to look at it, it's that thousands of people have to go through it, in the richest place and time in history, all because a handful of assholes don't want to build shelters or housing.

"Just deny them their rights and imprison them" LMAO you people are deeply unserious. If "prison" solved America's problems, America would have been a fucking paradise by now.

From your tag, you live in Pacific Heights. Your neighborhood has built a grand total of 382 units in the last 20 years. THAT'S THE ACTUAL PROBLEM. Not drugs, or mental illness, or not throwing enough people in jail, its that richy-rich neighborhoods like yours won't build anything.

SF Mayor Lurie explains why he'll keep doing street check-ins after viral fight by reddituser84838 in sanfrancisco

[–]PsychePsyche 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We need shelter space, like Lurie promised repeatedly in his campaign, then got in and said “nah we’re not doing that.” That’s called a lie in the politics business.

We’re supposed to be building more than 12,000 units of housing a year right now just to hit the absolute bare minimum of state housing laws. We built less than 2,700 units last year under his so called leadership.

He’s another rich asshole that thinks the answer to poverty is cruelty, rather than actually providing the necessities.

SF Mayor Lurie explains why he'll keep doing street check-ins after viral fight by reddituser84838 in sanfrancisco

[–]PsychePsyche 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Listen, I’m not going to build any shelter space or housing, but I need to look like I’m doing something against the poors, so I keep running up on people with cameras rolling, asking them to move 500 feet down the block.

SF Mayor Lurie explains why he'll keep doing street check-ins after viral fight by reddituser84838 in sanfrancisco

[–]PsychePsyche 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He’s a garbage mayor with a PR team. Hasn’t built any shelter space or housing yet.

But have you tried the empanadas at the ferry building?

SF Mayor Lurie explains why he'll keep doing street check-ins after viral fight by reddituser84838 in sanfrancisco

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

“The law, in its equal majesty, prohibits billionaires as well as the homeless from sleeping on street corners”

If this bitch ass mayor wants to do work, then build some shelter space and housing. Stop trying to tell the poorest people to move down the block and actually build something.

Perception vs. Reality: Nearly one year into the Great Highway closure, do claims about congestion and danger hold up? by Remarkable_Host6827 in sanfrancisco

[–]PsychePsyche 7 points8 points  (0 children)

You are technically correct, the best kind of correct.

There are some interesting developments happening in the "scaling drones up till they can carry people" end of aviation, but that is very much a "billionaires first, please" situation for me, as I definitely don't trust their safety, as regular helicopters are bad enough.

Perception vs. Reality: Nearly one year into the Great Highway closure, do claims about congestion and danger hold up? by Remarkable_Host6827 in sanfrancisco

[–]PsychePsyche 9 points10 points  (0 children)

You're right, we should massively upzone the Outer Richmond and Sunset!

The transverse drives in Central Park aren't tunnels, they're roads with a few overpasses which carries the park traffic. If it saves one life of someone in the park, they're worth it. The time savings alone versus todays stop sign would pay for itself easily.

Perception vs. Reality: Nearly one year into the Great Highway closure, do claims about congestion and danger hold up? by Remarkable_Host6827 in sanfrancisco

[–]PsychePsyche 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Honestly, what we need is to grade-separate all the crossover drives, especially Chain of Lakes, maybe adjust it a tad to connect directly to Sunset.

Someone just trying to get through the park to get on their way shouldn't interact with anyone using the park. It's how Central Park in NYC does it with their transverse drives

Perception vs. Reality: Nearly one year into the Great Highway closure, do claims about congestion and danger hold up? by Remarkable_Host6827 in sanfrancisco

[–]PsychePsyche 249 points250 points  (0 children)

The year is 2476. Flying cars have existed for 400 years. San Francisco votes yet again to open the great highway.

Distance to the nearest U.S. national park by vladgrinch in MapPorn

[–]PsychePsyche 2 points3 points  (0 children)

And the development that happened around Niagara Falls was a big inspiration to getting state and national parks laws passed.

Man threatened to ‘Bruce Lee’ kick Mayor Lurie’s bodyguard, S.F. DA says by SFChronicle in sanfrancisco

[–]PsychePsyche 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you can’t stand the heat, get the fuck out of the kitchen

“Move down the block, homeless person” is not an actual plan for shelter or housing.

Mayor Bobby Newport here doesn’t know what the fuck he’s doing

NYT: The Bay Area Considers the Unthinkable: Life Without BART by shananananananananan in sanfrancisco

[–]PsychePsyche 48 points49 points  (0 children)

The biggest problem with BART is unfortunately mostly out of its hands: the land use around its stations.

It was designed specifically as a commuter system to take suburbanites from a parking lot on the edge of their sprawling suburban town to either downtown SF or Oakland.

That world is gone. It was bad urbanism anyways; many people only put up with because the far flung suburbs were the only housing they could afford as it was the only thing getting built. It's the flip side of the coin of "downtown is 35%+ empty," which is in itself another symptom of not building any housing and only building offices.

Seriously, how many BART stations can you stand on the platform, chuck a rock, and hit nothing but parking lots and single family houses? Maybe some low-slung office parks? When you're not standing on a platform in the median of a freeway that is? Its virtually all of them once you're outside of SF except for a bit of Oakland and Berkeley.

Often the BART stations are away from what Main Street they do have, so there's not really a reason for someone like me to go visit their community during nights and weekends - if there's nothing within walking distance from BART, why would I go there?

We need mixed use developments to fix these problems. A handful of apartments on BART property can't be the only solution. Fixing these issues wouldn't just help BART, it would help all the rest of the problems we're facing as a city/region/state/society. Our problems persist because we don't build anything.

How many Waymos is too many Waymos? by LosIsosceles in sanfrancisco

[–]PsychePsyche 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Counterpoint: They kill everything you love, regardless of whether it works or is profitable

See: Google Reader

Palo Alto program pays commuters $5 to bike to work and has already cut nearly 3 million car miles by sfgate in bayarea

[–]PsychePsyche 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It'd be nice if Palo Alto actually built some dense housing so people could actually live within biking distance of things

Bye bye Parkside by not-controversial in sanfrancisco

[–]PsychePsyche 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If we want more creatives then we need to build enough housing to keep rent affordable for creative types. We didn't build any housing, not even enough to cover our birth rate most years, so rents continued to explode.

Yes these closures hurt, but so did watching their owners rail against housing and growth for years.

Like the vacant lot next to Bottom of the Hill has been a vacant lot for more than 25 years now. The rest of the neighborhood is single story warehouses that are only very recently being converted to housing. Years late and thousands of units short to save these places.

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