[SmithL]

Most Californians are totally unprepared for the next big quake, but the AP is ready. They've dusted and polished "Disaster", Bush's fault", and most importantly, "Women and minorities hurt most."

[MineralMan]

Counting...1...2...3

[Rutles4Ever]

Are we just counting on an endless string of disasters now?

[E. Pluribus Unum]

"San Francisco destroyed by earthquake: women, children and minorities hardest hit"

[RexBeach]

Rent control? Another terrific idea. Oh boy.

This earthquake is a nightmare waiting to happen -and just about nothing can be done to ease the outcome of a substantial quake.

[COEXERJ145]

Of course it would all be Bush's Fault.

[Labyrinthos]

Most Californians are totally unprepared for the next big quake, but the AP is ready. They've dusted and polished "Disaster", Bush's fault", and most importantly, "Women and minorities hurt most."

Let's not forget global warming, SUV's, and the 2nd Amendment.

[cubreporter]

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

[lepton]

How much stupid does it take to feel the need to write this story?

[untenured]

Rebuilding San Francisco after a major earthquake would change its human face, hastening gentrification and driving out poor and elderly residents, experts and city officials warn...

...Housing there being so plentiful and cheap now.

[2banana]

According to the San Francisco Housing Data Book, the city had 146,000 rent-controlled apartments in 2002, accounting for about 75 percent of rental units.

And housing is some of the most expensive in the country - does anyone see a cause and effect?

[silver charm]

I guess this means Katrina's 15 minutes of fame are up. lol
Are the wire services hard up for disasters?

Seriously, all I can say when I read stories like this is "puuulleeeez!" I lived in and around the San Francisco bay area for 30 years. Always with the worst case senarios' and dire predictions. The story I would like to see is "Major earthquake his bay area........Berkeley has slid under Emeryville! Few seviving moonbats vow to take their heads out of thier asses and become conservative!"

[Doc Savage]

Here's a tip to Sodom Francisco... Don't live there you a-holes! You fall in a big hole..., get yourself out!

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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.”