Posted on 05/07/2024 7:08:51 AM PDT by Red Badger
San Francisco's well-publicized homelessness crisis is emblematic of the problems facing many of America's big cities as they struggle to provide affordable housing against the backdrop of high interest rates and low inventory.
This has led the city to employ a variety of methods to tackle the problem, but a recent plan to provide tiny houses for San Francisco's homeless population has residents furious over the cost.
The units would cost a reported $113,000 each to construct. Considering that the average home in San Francisco costs nearly $1 million the $113,000-per-unit cost for the tiny houses seems in line with San Francisco's notoriously expensive real estate market. Why is there so much outrage? First, it's much higher than nearby cities like Oakland and San Jose are paying to build comparable units. Second, the program is taxpayer-funded.
It also costs an estimated $2.9 million per year to operate the city program that will manage the units, and the tiny homes will be demolished in a few years to make way for a permanent affordable housing complex in San Francisco's Mission District. Many San Francisco residents question the wisdom of spending millions of dollars to build affordable housing, and then tear it down to replace it with another affordable housing development.
Making matters worse, most of San Francisco's housed residents are struggling to deal with the city's notoriously high cost of living. According to Apartments.com, the average residential rental in San Francisco costs $2,800 per month. That is nearly double the national average of $1,514 per month. Adding insult to injury is that $2,800 per month gets you a basic apartment in a basic neighborhood. Luxury dwellings cost upward of $5,000 per month.
Tenants are considered rent-burdened when their monthly rent exceeds 30% of their income. That means San Francisco residents must make about $100,000 per year just to keep their heads above water. Not long ago, a $100,000 per year income was considered a landmark on the way to economic freedom. Now, it's the minimum entry requirement for many of America's big cities.
Even though San Francisco's tech boom has created many millionaires, not all the city's residents work in that sector. Most schoolteachers, social workers, restaurant employees and regular workers in San Francisco make far less than $100,000 per year. No city can function without people staffing these positions, and most San Franciscans are an unexpected car repair or layoff away from being homeless.
Little pink houses for you and me, lol.
It’s cute how San Francisco calls them tiny houses for the homeless more like for everyone by the time the invasion ends.
You get what you vote for....good and hard!
The units would cost a reported $113,000 each to construct...
That alone is outrageous.
They could have them built in a cheaper state and ship them in by rail for less.............
“You get what you vote for...”
You are so right. My old man used to call that, “If you dance, you pay the piper.”
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They wouldn’t vote for a Republican in San Francisco even if he was running against Hitler.
Build them, tear them down, build them again, tear them down again, on and on. Makes perfect sense, right? How long do they think these things will last? Are the homeless going to take care of them? If they are vets, then give them their benefits, and proper care, stop taking away from their funding to give to aliens who will only make a mess of their “temporary” housing.
Do they move their cardboard homes and shopping cards in as well ?
Tuff Sheds of comparable size cost a whole lot less than that.
Little boxes on the hillside,
Little boxes made of ticky tacky,
Little boxes, little boxes, little boxes all the same.
There’s a green one and a pink one
And a blue one and a yellow one,
And they’re all made out of ticky tacky
And they all look just the same.
Its even more outrageous when you consider there is no land cost involved.
The bigger picture is that US cities like Memphis, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Houston, etc.... are engaged in an experiment. They have emptied their jails, courts, prisons, etc.. and instead run the cities as free range prisons. Every aspect of life in those cities is shaping into prison life. Everyone except the ruling class is managed exactly like prison inmates.
Somebody is making out like a fat rat on these ‘houses’..............
Yes, just add a toilet, sink and one electrical outlet..............
“Outraged”…sorry, I don’t believe they are.
its just a dry place for get high or drunk and flop.
Oh, for sure. My guess is a contractor related to one of the “officials”, or a very generous “donation” to their campaign.
Soon to be surrounded by fencing “for their safety”.
I could put one up, with the help of some volunteers, for less than five grand.
Problem is that we’d have to go around the Pelosi syndicate to fo it.
You all know doubt realize that her ol man was connected when he ran Baltimore.
Well the skanks family ruined Baltimore and moved west. Why? Because of the adult industry. Big money was to be made in that.
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