Major SF earthquake could devastate housing, price out poor and elderly

AP ^ | 9/22/5 | BRIAN SKOLOFF

[Mister Baredog]

You wanna live on top of the San Andreas, then you pay the piper pal.

You must be kidding.

After the Northridge quake I cancelled my quake insurance.

The rates doubled and after seeing the FEDS giving out money to almost anyone I decided I was foolishly paying for something I didn't need.

Your tax money will be readily available to me next time, thanks in advance.

[newfrpr04]

"San Francisco destroyed by earthquake: GAYS hit the hardest"

[G.Mason]

"And this story is relevant now why???????????????????"

Why?

You think the Atlanic and the Gulf of Mexico will stay hot throughout winter? What the heck are the media maroons gonna pitch, if not (((((((EARTHQUAKE!!)))))))

The odds are we won't get to see one of them reporting as a chasm opens up and swallows them.

Too bad ;)

[alloysteel]

If San Francisco gets a shakeout like New Orleans just did, perhaps that is not a bad thing. Poor people, so low on the scale that they fall into the unemployed underclass, have no business living in a city that cannot accommodate them in its economic profile. For them, the city offers little protection in the best of times, as they are preyed upon by the unscrupulous, and the daily incidentals are already available to them only by begging or as a charitable gesture.

Obviously, they need protection, as they are no longer, or have never been, fully functioning adults. Get them out of an uncertain environment, and away from the influences of a dreadful daily apocalypse.

And why do the underclass stay in the city, any city? Because it is easier to hide there, for whatever reason. Cities are anonymous, and for some persons, this allows a practically new beginning every day.

Communes in the central valley of California? And deal with the NIMBY phenomenon? It may have to be done, but at a cost of great political resistance. And not everybody KNOWS how to tend their own gardens.

[evets]

Ha ha. I'm stealin' this:

and leaving you this:

[RS]

"A major issue would be creating replacement housing for the poor in one of the nation's most expensive markets."


... but at least we have a good supply of broken, rusty cars, so every front lawn can have one !

[Publius6961]

This is pretty funny.
I'm solidly middle class, two of my three kids were born in San Francisco, and I was priced out years ago.
In spite of the deterioration there given a choice I would still be there. Only the rich and those on welfare, or old time residents or inheritors of homes can live there today.

Under those circumstances it's really tough for me to generate sympathy for "possibly displaced" poor.

[ßuddaßudd]

As a married heterosexual man, I am prepared. You wont see me begging and chanting on tv.

[buwaya]

Lets think of this for a moment -

San Francisco is in no greater earthquake danger than pretty much any place on the California coast. The whole place is at the edge of a plate. You could be talking about Los Angeles or San Jose and it wouldn't be any different.

Now, California needs cities to be economically viable, and it needs coastal cities. There aren't that many good places for coastal cities in CA, its got a pretty rugged coastline (the plates, see?).

SF and Oakland, San Jose, and points between, are in a really excellent place for cities, right there on the finest harbor in the west coast, on the biggest and only navigable river in California.

So if you want California at all as a significant state, San Francisco (and Oakland, San Jose, etc.) are the price you pay.

[Gay State Conservative]

Chronicle headline:"Major Bay Area Quake,Women and Minorities Hardest Hit"

[bert]

Another course would be abandon the foul place and disperse the inhabitants to the wind.

[SquirrelKing]

Wow! You ROCK!

Dear diary...

[SunkenCiv]

This is just water-carrying drive-by shill helping SF do some blame-shifting PR.

• San Francisco hopes to reverse black flight [09/08/2007 10:26:56 AM PDT]
• 'Liberal' California Wages War on Middle Class and Poor [11/18/2004 12:32:42 PM PST]
• "Stanford douchebags" ruining San Francisco? [01/30/2015 5:09:21 PM PST]

  [snip] Author, founder of Salon.com, and Bernal Heights resident David Talbot recently made a speech at Stanford which was then published in 48HillsOnline.com decrying "Stanford douchebags", gentrification, and Mayor Ed Lee. Talbot's strong words for Stanford students have struck a chord up north in San Francisco, and his speech is rapidly going viral. [/snip]

• San Francisco's median rent hits a ridiculous $4,225 [06/02/2015 12:49:10 PM PDT]
• San Francisco's Affordable Housing Shell Game [04/21/2007 12:33:33 PM PDT]
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• Struggling to live in a $1M city: Photographer captures lives of ordinary San Francisco residents [07/14/2015 7:42:40 AM PDT]
• San Francisco artist who is being kicked out of apt. is perfect example of why rent control is awful [02/02/2016 9:49:45 AM PST]
• San Francisco artist is evicted from his rent control apartment after 34 years [02/04/2016 6:53:38 PM PST]
• Enjoy your more expensive Chipotle, San Francisco! [07/11/2015 8:59:56 AM PDT]
• Robots Serving Healthy, Cheap Fast Food At This New San Francisco Restaurant [09/15/2015 11:00:05 AM PDT]
• The absolute worst advice we give to Americans struggling to pay rent [07/30/2015 1:38:10 AM PDT]
• Many low-income Americans can't even afford to rent [06/18/2015 4:31:18 AM PDT]
• American Dream, Downsized [02/06/2007 10:21:19 PM PST]
• Homes too expensive for many [05/20/2002 2:31:50 PM PDT]

[Ditter]

MrD has a relative that we have heard, lives under a bridge in San Fran.

Someone needs to warn him.

[dfwgator]

“Women, Children and Minorities Hardest Hit.”