Posted on 07/14/2015 7:42:40 AM PDT by dennisw
Struggling to live in America's $1M city: Photographer captures lives of ordinary San Francisco residents who have been forced to live in cars, trailers, garages and tents following the tech boom
Photographer Wenxin Zhang moved to San Francisco in 2011 Discovered a group of people online that had been forced to find alternative means of accommodation 'I visited them alone with mutual trust,' she said The subsequent photo essay is called Goodnight Stories
A recent report said that a family needs about $200,000 a year to live comfortably in San Francisco, so long as their children go to public school.
And in June the median home price hit $1 million.
Wenxin Zhang understands this better than most.
The Chinese-born, California-based photographer moved to the city in 2011 and started reaching out on internet forums to meet new people.
What she found was a community that had been displaced by a city that has been hit with skyrocketing prices following the tech boom and expansion of nearby Silicon Valley.
Zhang decided to start documenting these people and the alternative means of accommodation they had been forced to find.
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Struggling hipsters .... so sad.
Looks like the last of the flower children being priced out.
Many have.
Many now go to Portland and other such places, who once may have ended up in SF.
Part of the reason to be here in SF is that many are music and art students.
Back when I was much younger I lived among these people, an out of place engineer among artists, a crow among songbirds.
It’s a peninsula: they can even walk elsewhere.
Living on a boat in SF is NOT cheap dock fees WOULD BE VERY EXPENSIVE!!!! there are MANY people who live on their boats and LOVE it WHAT’S THE PROBLEM???????
[...to live comfortably...]
Three quarters of the American public has that same problem, so stop whining.
Curious. They’re all white people.
Obama wants to send minorities to affluent white areas. What better place to start than San Francisco? I say send all the minorities, illegals, and refugees there. Let’s see how well those elitist liberals would like that.
Homelessness = obamanomics.
And why are these whites not receiving the help blacks get?
Our boat is in Ventura Harbor and the rents in Ventura are really high. We have liveaboards all around us and most of them are because that’s the life they choose.
We did have a husband and wife and 2 kids once that lived next door on a sailboat. She told me it was because they couldn’t afford anything else. Apparently they hadn’t thought of living elsewhere because their family was all in Ventura county.
If you own your boat outright the dock fees and liveaboard fees are a heckuva lot cheaper than renting or buying in most places by the water.
Minorities, in the sense of black people, have been moving out of SF for decades. The place used to be @15% black, now I think it’s under 5%. Most who remain are in public housing.
It is much more Asian than before, but that doesn’t count as minority I suppose.
Hussein won’t do it to SF. The vote there is lopsidedly Democrat and the donation money thence to the Democrats is huge. He won’t do anything to interfere with that.
Yes they are expensive. But less expensive than 2br apartment in a location with a similar “cool factor”.
The social signalling value of living on a boat is significant.
WHites don’t get reparations. Blacks do.
(Man sitting on wooden pallet)
“I’m so poor, that I have to live on a cliff and sleep on a wooden pallet”
You had a PALLET!!!? I’m so poor that...
#11 Ah, which were you : )
Artists, starving students, addicts, the insane and eccentric have always lived in residence hotels.
At one time I did too.
WHites don’t get reparations. Blacks do.
Blacks have been far overpaid. Everyone of them should get on their knees and be thankful everyday that their very own Africans forefathers started the slavery that got them out of Africa.
Not to mention the rent control affect.
We rented in the highly desirable Marina District in 2012. Many of our neighbors were lower middle class, but had been there since the 1970s.
The reason: rent control. They paid 30% of market rent. Utilities are basically free in that climate, you don’t need a car, a Safeway supermarket kept food prices reasonable.
....Uh, OK.
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