This even if you don’t like the homeless, give them homes. It solves so many social problems. I hate the “fuck you I got mine attitude” that permeates all of American culture.
I understand this desire, but the cost of land is so high in the Bay that giving folks a place entails buying new land with astronomical sums of money or repurposing already-scarce public land (read: parks) for homeless, which turns it into a zero-sum game likely to breed more animosity.
Now, could the cities simply not have sold off all their land ages ago? Yes. Could the cities simply not have abused their power of eminent domain to build freeways so much that blowback led to a significant curtailing of the latitude of this power? Also yes.
But now we're here, and don't act like leftists don't also get mad when cities are like "here's a Tuff Shed under a freeway overpass".
Less so in Oakland, but yes. In Oakland specifically the few big box parking lots there are (mostly in Emeryville) were de-industrialization "urban renewal" projects, so it's definitely all connected.
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This even if you don’t like the homeless, give them homes. It solves so many social problems. I hate the “fuck you I got mine attitude” that permeates all of American culture.
I see people complaining about homeless people going to the bathroom outside (by dumpsters or trees specifically).
BITCH THERE ARE NO PUBLIC RESTROOMS IN THIS CITY! WHERE ELSE ARE THRY GONNA SHIT? THEIR HOMES?!
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I understand this desire, but the cost of land is so high in the Bay that giving folks a place entails buying new land with astronomical sums of money or repurposing already-scarce public land (read: parks) for homeless, which turns it into a zero-sum game likely to breed more animosity.
Now, could the cities simply not have sold off all their land ages ago? Yes. Could the cities simply not have abused their power of eminent domain to build freeways so much that blowback led to a significant curtailing of the latitude of this power? Also yes.
But now we're here, and don't act like leftists don't also get mad when cities are like "here's a Tuff Shed under a freeway overpass".
I hear you, I understand you, I hate all of you and propose a different solution :mao-wave:
So much of that land is just parking lots for strip malls of national chain retailers and fuddruckers
Less so in Oakland, but yes. In Oakland specifically the few big box parking lots there are (mostly in Emeryville) were de-industrialization "urban renewal" projects, so it's definitely all connected.