On Mission between 14th and 15th.
Note: Mayor Lee promises 30,000 new affordable “units” by 2020. Shopping carts not included.
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Mark, did Lee say he would build 30,000 “affordable” units by 2020?
I thought he said just that he would build 30,000 units. With the assumption that most would be market-rate.
It seems unlikely that many of them could be affordable because they are not affordable to build in the first place.
Is that one of John’s rentals?
I’m afraid that the ability to profit from the city’s homeless is mostly reserved for the non-profit and city-run SRO’s who charge $40-$60 a night for a roach-infested, urine-stained bunk.
And I’m sure you can offer something better? Or you’re just here to criticize? Or wait, what will you call it? Just an observation….
It’s a catch-22. If you offer “something better” to homeless people, more will arrive to take advantage of that generosity, and you are back to square one.
So, no, I don’t have a solution and apparently nobody else does either.