Posted on 09/01/2020 12:28:05 AM PDT by grundle
Hillary Ronen is an elected government official who gets paid $140,148 per year to work as a member of the legislative body for San Francisco.
In this video, Ronen blames San Francisco’s homeless problem on “Republican ideology.” (Skip to 8:52 in the video).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uw8MACDZ3RI
Ronen is wrong.
“Republican ideology” is not the cause of San Francisco’s homeless problem.
Here six are reasons why “progressive ideology” is the real cause of San Francisco’s homeless problem.
First of all, here is a link to an article that was published by the Atlantic in 2007.
When a developer builds housing, there are three separate and distinct costs: the cost of land, the cost of construction, and the cost of getting a building permit (which the article refers to as the “right to build”).
The article includes this chart:
So in San Francisco, getting a building permit (which the article refers to as the “right to build”) adds approximately $700,000 to the cost of a new home.
And please remember, this cost for the “right to build” is completely separate from the cost of the land, and the cost of construction.
The cost for the “right to build” is determined entirely, 100% by zoning laws, density restrictions, and other local government policies.
Since Hillary Ronen is an elected government official who works as a member of the legislative body of San Francisco, she is one of the people who is responsible for the city’s zoning laws, density restrictions, and other local government policies.
Secondly, here’s another example of how hard it is to get a building permit in California:
January 23, 2015
… there were more permits for single-family homes issued last year through November in just one Texas city – Houston (34,566) – than in the entire state of California (34,035) over the same period.
Let’s put this into perspective.
Houston is 628 square miles.
California is 163,696 square miles.
So even though California is 260 times as big as Houston, Houston actually issued more new building permits for single family homes in 2014 than did the entire state of California.
Just think about that for a minute.
Those numbers show just how incredibly, ridiculously hard California makes it to build new housing.
Anyone who has ever bought or sold anything at eBay understands that, all else being equal, the bigger the supply of something, the lower price, and the lower the supply, the higher the price.
By making it so difficult to get a building permit in California, the government is causing housing to be far, far more expensive than it would otherwise be.
Third, here is a great article by Thomas Sowell about how the politicians in California have waged war against the construction of new housing.
Fourth, this video also explains San Francisco’s war against the construction of new housing. And please note that it is progressives, social justice warriors, and other left wing activists who are the ones that are most opposed to building this new housing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExgxwKnH8y4
Fifth, in the video with Ronen that I included at the beginning of this blog post, she brags about creating a new government program that gives free illegal drugs to homeless people. (Skip to 7:56 in the video.)
Being high on illegal drugs makes the problem of homelessness bigger, not smaller.
And sixth, the Washington Post published this article, which is called:
“Rand Paul is right: The most economically unequal states are Democratic”
The article includes this chart, which ranks the states by their levels of inequality based on their Gini coefficients.
You can see a bigger version of the chart at this link:
The information in the chart verifies the title of the Washington Post article. Blue states have more inequality than red states.
So that’s six different reasons why Hillary Ronen is wrong to blame San Francisco’s homeless problem on “Republican ideology.”
In each and every one of those six cases, it is actually “progressive ideology” that is causing San Francisco’s homeless problem.
San Francisco is waging a very strong, major war against the constriction of new housing.
For Hillary Ronen to blame this on “Republican ideology” is a huge lie.
On the contrary, since Ronen is one of the left wing, progressive, elected government officials responsible for San Francisco’s housing policies, it is Ronen’s own fault that San Francisco has such a big homeless problem.
If you parted up the homeless crowd....roughly 90-percent would be in a group of heavy drug-use or mentally incapable of taking care of themselves. Removing them from society (into facilities that are locked down) would leave you a small crowd who simply need cheaper accommodations and marginalized coaching to get back into society.
But this pro-homelessness crowd are simply sinking millions into a resolution without any payback for society.
Blames homelessness on Republican ideology...
Maybe SF should elect more Democrats?
Oh, wait...
It is the fault of Republican ideology, because leftist ideology only works when it is applied to the entire country, and since Republicans fail to abjectly surrender or allow their voices to be suppressed by Marthusian censors, are sabotaging leftist solutions to the homeless. I’m glad I was able to clarify this. In a nutshell: Surrender Dorothy, or else.
Is there any Democrat official in SF or LA who is not a communist, black extremist or batshit crazy?
Somebody bag and tag this woman before she bites someone.
Hey Hillary, if you can’t solve a problem, you blame others. You must be a stupid bitch...
This could’ve been avoided..
Americans weren’t smoking enough dope in the ‘90s.
A fool is truly more dangerous than a scoundrel.
Do they actually have any Republicans in San Francisco?
Is this your blog?
It was posted in "bloggers", so there's a clue.
Do you have a link to anything informative/useful that you posted today? Yesterday?
It would be more credible to blame aliens than Republicans for any woe of San Fran. Because there are far more aliens, even ones in spaceships in San Fran than conservatives.
Everything I post is informative and useful and generally fascinating.
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