Politics And Current Events

[tifosi77]

Great disloyalty.... to whom or what?

[AuthorTony]

Trump cancels Denmark meeting over Greenland not being for sale. What an awful timeline.

"Greenland is not for sale," she told Greenlandish media on Sunday. "Greenland is not Danish. Greenland belongs to Greenland. I strongly hope that this is not meant seriously."

[Gaucho]

Great disloyalty.... to whom or what?

Israel, probably. Their country, you know.

[Morkle]

Trump cancels Denmark meeting over Greenland not being for sale. What an awful timeline.

"Greenland is not for sale," she told Greenlandish media on Sunday. "Greenland is not Danish. Greenland belongs to Greenland. I strongly hope that this is not meant seriously."

[Shyster]

So there is a subtext to the reluctance to greenlight new projects that I feel none of these stories really capture. A lot of this activity at the Supervisor level is constituent-driven.

Concur on that, and Reason does mention the local community opposition. But that opposition is misplaced, and people are just hurting themselves by opposing new housing. The Tech Bros are going to live there whether the locals like it or not, and those Tech Bros' big Google salaries mean they can outbid the locals for the limited number of apartments. It would be better for the locals to maximize the size of the new buildings. The Tech Bros are more likely to move into those new apartments than the existing older ones, and that lowers the demand (and hence the rent) for those older places. By artificially limiting supply, the locals are basically bidding themselves out of living in their own neighborhoods. The solution of "gentrification" is not to limit the supply of new housing; it's to build a lot of new housing to satisfy the demand and keep rents low.

[AuthorTony]

Meanwhile Trump would sell Puerto Rico for $24 worth of beads and trinkets.

[CBear3]

Meanwhile Trump would sell Puerto Rico for $24 worth of beads and trinkets.

Oh man, can we please have Country realignment drama like college football realignment. We could bring The Dude out of retirement.

[tifosi77]

So there is a subtext to the reluctance to greenlight new projects that I feel none of these stories really capture. A lot of this activity at the Supervisor level is constituent-driven.

Concur on that, and Reason does mention the local community opposition. But that opposition is misplaced, and people are just hurting themselves by opposing new housing. The Tech Bros are going to live there whether the locals like it or not, and those Tech Bros' big Google salaries mean they can outbid the locals for the limited number of apartments. It would be better for the locals to maximize the size of the new buildings. The Tech Bros are more likely to move into those new apartments than the existing older ones, and that lowers the demand (and hence the rent) for those older places. By artificially limiting supply, the locals are basically bidding themselves out of living in their own neighborhoods. The solution of "gentrification" is not to limit the supply of new housing; it's to build a lot of new housing to satisfy the demand and keep rents low.

This is manifestly not how the process is unfolding. When people are evicted or burned out of their legacy housing, where exactly are they supposed to live for the 18 months it takes to build the new units? The notion that building $1,000/sq ft luxury apartments will somehow relieve housing pressure on a group of people who already had homes they could afford is sort of fantastical. The old building was rent controlled, the new one will not be. It doesn't matter that X number of units are reserved for renters at or below 55% of the SF Bay Area median income; the median income in SF is $96,000 (a number that will only go up as more Tech Bros converge), many of these displaced residents are on fixed incomes and paying rents based on 1979 rates. Below-market-rate units in the Mission can still be four figures/mo for a 400 sq ft 1-br, which doesn't really help a family of 4 that got booted from a legacy 2-br unit.

Although, the laundromat guy made out quite well. He secured the permits late last year, but then sold the property to a hotelier for $13 million.

[Shyster]

This is manifestly not how the process is unfolding. When people are evicted or burned out of their legacy housing, where exactly are they supposed to live for the 18 months it takes to build the new units?

Somewhere else where they can afford the rent.

The notion that building $1,000/sq ft luxury apartments will somehow relieve housing pressure on a group of people who already had homes they could afford is sort of fantastical.

If supply increases while demand remains the same, then price falls. That's how supply and demand works. Limiting the supply of housing is only going to make prices go up—not down. And while those luxury apartments may not be affordable for everyone, they will increase the supply of available housing for those who can, and that will help lower the overall price because the people who can afford the "$1,000/sq ft luxury apartments" are right now living in housing that might go for lower rents if the supply were adequate to meet demand.

The old building was rent controlled, the new one will not be.

Good. Rent control is an abomination. If someone loses out on a rent-controlled apartment, that sucks for them, but I'm not going to feel any sympathy for someone losing out on something that shouldn't exist.

It doesn't matter that X number of units are reserved for renters at or below 55% of the SF Bay Area median income; the median income in SF is $96,000 (a number that will only go up as more Tech Bros converge), many of these displaced residents are on fixed incomes and paying rents based on 1979 rates. Below-market-rate units in the Mission can still be four figures/mo for a 400 sq ft 1-br, which doesn't really help a family of 4 that got booted from a legacy 2-br unit.

That's too bad for them, but they need to find somewhere else to live where they can afford the rent. That absolutely will not be anywhere in SF so long as the politicians and activists keep a stranglehold on the construction of new housing. You can't solve a demand-driven shortage by artificially limiting supply. All that does is drive the price even higher.

[eddy]

Trump cancels Denmark meeting over Greenland not being for sale. What an awful timeline.

"Greenland is not for sale," she told Greenlandish media on Sunday. "Greenland is not Danish. Greenland belongs to Greenland. I strongly hope that this is not meant seriously."

GOP Presidential candidate Senator Ted Cruz on campaign trail in NH Feb 2016:"We’re liable to wake up one morning and Donald (Trump), if he were president, would have nuked Denmark. That’s not the temperament of a leader to keep this country safe.” https://t.co/TKZ6VwZmku @cspan https://t.co/LbguCZWeks

[shafnutz05]

Meanwhile Trump would sell Puerto Rico for $24 worth of beads and trinkets.

Oh man, can we please have Country realignment drama like college football realignment. We could bring The Dude out of retirement.

[Sam's Drunk Dog]

Trump cancels Denmark meeting over Greenland not being for sale. What an awful timeline.

"Greenland is not for sale," she told Greenlandish media on Sunday. "Greenland is not Danish. Greenland belongs to Greenland. I strongly hope that this is not meant seriously."

Stable genius.

[Morkle]

“Trump is loved like the second coming of God”

Oh yea. He’s totally god like.

[eddy]

While serving a lenient jail sentence in Palm Beach County, wealthy financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein was allowed to leave jail for “work release” — at an office at his own organization, the Florida Science Foundation.

But at the foundation, according to a newly filed lawsuit, Epstein and his web of associates repeatedly arranged for sex with at least two girls, including one he met when she was 17.

“Jeffrey Epstein, through his brazen and powerful organization, was quite literally able to commit federal sex trafficking offenses at his work release office, during his jail sentence,” according to the lawsuit by a woman identified only as Kaitlyn Doe.

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/state/ ... 89557.html

[Troy Loney]

“Trump is loved like the second coming of God”

Oh yea. He’s totally god like.

Da fuk

[eddy]

this is crazy

Smoke From The Burning Amazon Rainforest Plunged Brazil's Largest City Into Darkness In The Middle Of The Day

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/sk ... azon-fires

[eddy]

Trump cancels Denmark meeting over Greenland not being for sale. What an awful timeline.

"Greenland is not for sale," she told Greenlandish media on Sunday. "Greenland is not Danish. Greenland belongs to Greenland. I strongly hope that this is not meant seriously."

Stable genius.

[eddy]

“Trump is loved like the second coming of God”

Oh yea. He’s totally god like.

[Troy Loney]

So really, in case anyone was confused about why Jewish Democrats weren’t rushing to decry Omar for her antisemitism. Trump should have cleared that up for everyone.

[Troy Loney]

Republicans: “How dare she accuse Jews of dual loyalty”

Trump: “How dare Jews not have dual loyalty”

[NailedPenguin]

One person hates Jews.
The other person questioned why a jewish person would vote for the person that hates jews.

Looks like we're back to A does = B again. Wish someone would get me the schedule.

[Trip McNeely]

One person hates Jews.
The other person questioned why a jewish person would vote for the person that hates jews.

Looks like we're back to A does = B again. Wish someone would get me the schedule.

I didn’t realize that one dem “hating” Jews then makes the entire party hates Jews.

I guess you happily ignore Steve King and the ilk in this debate

[NailedPenguin]

One person hates Jews.
The other person questioned why a jewish person would vote for the person that hates jews.

Looks like we're back to A does = B again. Wish someone would get me the schedule.

I didn’t realize that one dem “hating” Jews then makes the entire party hates Jews.

I guess you happily ignore Steve King and the ilk in this debate

Let me know when Steve King becomes a media darling and everyone rushes to his defense whenever people criticize him.

[Dickie Dunn]

Space Force launching next week!

[Willie Kool]

Let me know when Steve King becomes a media darling and everyone rushes to his defense whenever people criticize him.

Let us know when Omar is President and the leader of the Dem party...