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NBachers

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9. Here's the one I like "Build luxury condos, & set some development money aside for low-cost housing"

Reply to friendly_iconoclast (Original post)

Fri Jul 12, 2019, 02:50 AM

Jul 2019

So the extra "low-cost housing" money is factored into what the development costs. That money gets siphoned off, and no-one ever knows where these "low-cost housing someplace else" units are. It's all a racket.

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San Francisco: wealthy opponents of new shelter claim homeless are bad for environment [View all] friendly_iconoclast Jul 2019 OP

I don't know the origins of the term, but redistribution of wealth is another term... Thomas Hurt Jul 2019 #1

We do have a redistribution of wealth True_Blue Jul 2019 #16

THey're Living Off Everyone Else's Taxes Me. Jul 2019 #2

pre-construction zoning nuisances bucolic_frolic Jul 2019 #3

Anyone tell them the 'wealthy' have and continue to destroy society? elleng Jul 2019 #4

Another example of NIMBY! B Stieg Jul 2019 #5

It's all these transplant tech residents who brought new developments on the Embarcadero. kimbutgar Jul 2019 #6

So building housing for the homeless is bad for the environment DBoon Jul 2019 #7

Exactly what I was thinking. nt Akacia Jul 2019 #12

They're gentrifying every bit of San Francisco. SergeStorms Jul 2019 #8

Here's the one I like "Build luxury condos, & set some development money aside for low-cost housing" NBachers Jul 2019 #9

The wealthy are bad for the environment! What's worse a new Tesla or a ... marble falls Jul 2019 #10

Carlin had it right years ago... moonseller66 Jul 2019 #11

California has 30% conservatives ROB-ROX Jul 2019 #13

There are lots of assholes here who are liberals too ansible Jul 2019 #14

I don't know how this is construed as "neoliberal" eilen Jul 2019 #15