Posted on 05/22/2019 6:24:01 AM PDT by C19fan
Residents of the expensive California neighborhood where Google has its global headquarters have voted to ban trailers from parking overnight on public streets after a camp of permanent residences has built up due to soaring housing costs.
The decision to get rid of the unsightly RVs came in a March city council vote after complaints of sewage spilling from the mobile homes and into the roads around the Googleplex campus.
Many in the meeting blamed the Google effect for forcing long-term residents out of their homes and in turn creating the housing crisis that has seen some get in trouble for discharging 'domestic sewage on the public right of way'.
But some making a home in the trailers – often with power generators attached to the back and blacked out dusty windows - are also contractors for the company who can't afford the high living costs.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
NIMBY, peasants!
The bleeding hearts aren’t bleeding when it’s in their backyard.
Sunnyvale is likely not a “sanctuary city”.
Gonzo Gates to an extreme.
My kid’s friend had a 1/2 year internship of some kind at Google last summer and autumn I was told she paid $1200/month - to sleep on a couch in someone’s living room
I feel sure somehow the irony is lost on these elitist schmucks.
I spoke to someone around three years ago who described the parked RV situation as just a big ‘dump’. No enforcement of sanitation standards. They were figuring that in ten years, it’d be on someone’s toxic-living ‘zone’, and Google would just pack up and leave....taking the crowd who created the mess...with them, to some new city to restart all over again.
Sewage in the streets? Surely, it can’t be any worse than the piles of poo in the streets of SF. Let em stay....LMAO....What’s good for SF should be good for there as well.
Welcome to the World You Helped Create, Google.
There was a time when a lot of these people could work off site, somewhere where the COL is lower. That option seems to be slowly going by the wayside.
Don’t blame Google for high rents. The fault lies with housing supply restrictions imposed by government policies. They need a supply side revolution, not rent controls. Republicans need to be talking about this.
“that has seen some get in trouble for discharging ‘domestic sewage on the public right of way’.
******* is full!” Cousin Eddy.
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How could they be so cruel to economic refugees?
As is the case 90% of the time, government is the root of this problem. Regulations and taxes have made housing so expensive, and the welfare system that draws people to the cities plus the notion that people have a right to live somewhere, no matter how impractical that is for them, keeps them in pricey markets. If it’s too expensive to live in NY or CA, MOVE! Everything government touches turns to crap sooner or later.
Capitalism!
Strikes me one way to deal with the serious sanitation problem posed by all the parked RVs would be for one or more entrepreneurs to buy some honey wagons and run mobile pump out services. A marina where I keep my cruiser does that—just runs a pump out boat for the renters who live aboard and need to have their holding tanks pumped. Then severely fine anybody who dumps his filth on the public highway.
I know, it’s CA and CA regulators have a diabolical talent for prohibiting simple common sense solutions like this one.
But, this is Google. The ruler of the internet.
No one should have to relocate to get work a job at Google.
Of course! They need more government to solve all their problems, then there will be utopia. ;-)
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