- Super blood blue moon over Sutro [@echeng]
- Packed SF mayoral forum hosted at Noe Valley Town Square [@nbcjeanelle]
- Video of part of the mayoral forum featuring Amy Weiss [YouTube]
- This billboard [stylerehabsf]
- No love for Noe Valley residents at a Scott Weiner Town Hall [@weel]
- Cool local art [bruce_catz]
Amazing the way that entitled little snowflakes equate "needing to live somewhere" with "needing to live exactly where I want to live." As long as there have been cities (let alone suburbs) there have been different housing options for people who can afford more or less and who choose to value various amenities differently (e.g., I care more about commute time and you care more about a larger home or better public schools). Over the years, I've known plenty of people who chose to live way out (e.g. Fairfield) because they made such a tradeoff ... and none of them ever whined that the system was "unfair." Apparently these self-proclaimed "YIMBY" snowflakes have set their sites on Noe Valley and decided that they deserve to be able to live here and enjoy lots of space and short commutes and affordable prices all at the same time. Outer Sunset or Daly City or West Oakland won't cut it for them, no matter what transit options exist. And these folks jump quickly to equate wanting to preserve the nature of one's neighborhood (vs. building the end-to-end high-rises that would be needed to give everybody both lots of space and affordable prices) with racism or (this is a new one) "anti-immigrant sentiment." I share my house with an immigrant so people might want to hold back on that accusation until such time as I kick her out.
ReplyDeleteAre there any low income government owned housing buildings in Noe Valley like there are in other neighborhoods? If so, what are the addresses?
ReplyDeletehttps://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/07/20/how-san-francisco-turned-its-tenements-into-treasures-215391
ReplyDeleteOne way to make sure that your opinion (regardless of whether it is reasonable or not) doesn't help move people toward having a useful discussion is to build it around phrases such as "entitled little snowflakes."
ReplyDeleteOkay, thank you 9:10 am poster for the article educating me that SF transferred ownership of all its public housing buildings but kept the land. So, revised inquiry: Are there any RAD, Mercy Housing or the like type buildings in Noe Valley? I am asking to see if we are participating/helping out as I am not aware of any but that doesn't mean they don't exist. If we don't then we should. Leno lives here and if Pelosi has them in her hood then he/we need to step up.
ReplyDeleteThere's at least one Mercy program in the Castro https://affordablehousingonline.com/housing-search/California/San-Francisco/Monsignor-Lyne-Community/10021127
ReplyDeleteThere is also a large amount of subsidized housing in Diamond Heights and the area above Glen Park and the building across from WF on 24th is senior housing.
I don't think that senior building on 24th is enough to get the "target" off Noe Valley's back. We are being perceived as obstructionist in a housing crises. We, as a neighborhood, would be better served to band together like was done on the Town Square and locate OUR preferred location(s) for such housing before The City, some developer or YIMBY fixates on some unpalatable location(s). Mark Leno lives on Clipper so we should be working with him on this matter. For example: There are two lots on each side of Noe at Duncan where Duncan dead ends. Building there does not appear to involve evictions nor removal of buildings. This location also sits on the 24 bus line and within a few blocks of the 35 bus line and J Church train line. Change is coming. Let's manage it.
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