Posted on 01/29/2021 12:14:09 PM PST by Vendome
Mayor London Breed delivered an upbeat message in her State of the City address Thursday about the future of San Francisco, which has been battered in the past year by the COVID-19 pandemic
“I believe we are at the start of an incredible recovery,” Breed said. “We aren’t just going to go back to the way things were. We aren’t just going to repair. We are going to reinvigorate. To come back even stronger. We will put people back to work. Our businesses will flourish. Opportunities will expand.”
Breed promised San Francisco will “bounce back” as she laid out a vision of helping small businesses, building more housing and addressing homelessness.
“We will continue our work to cut the red tape for small businesses, because it’s more important than ever,” Breed said. She hailed the success of November’s voter approved Proposition H, which loosened restrictions on where certain types of business can open and eased the approval process.
“It’s already working,” Breed said. “We’ll build on this success and make it even easier to turn an idea into a thriving small business.”
While she didn’t offer specifics, Breed added that “we will also help music venues, clubs, and bars—who have lost so much—get reopened and get back on their feet.”
She vowed to “keep pushing to meet our goal of building 5,000 new homes each year” and to streamline the approval process of development “even if it means going to the voters to do it.”
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Just consider the four-year permit period for new multi in SF and you’ll be jes’ fine.
I thought libs liked red tape?
Government housing I assume. Hurtling towards total government control.
Your Pelosi Pork machine at work. The money will end up in some expert pokets along the way.
I remember that someone in SF, perhaps her, was offended at suggestions that SF was in violation of environmental laws due to so much human waste being in the streets, and washing out into the bay.
What a bizarre city that is. Huge numbers of homeless doing God knows what, while it’s so expensive to live there that there are two classes, only the poor who are subsidized and the wealthy can live there.
“keep pushing to meet our goal of building 5,000 new homes each year”
Hey wait I thought building was bad. That’s what they told me since the early 1970s. Evil Developers! Overpopulation! Environmental disaster! No water! No power! Don’t build roads! If we don’t build it they won’t come!
Oh I got it now. As long as the population coming are non-white immigrants, we gotta build baby build, living like China = Good. Suburbs Bad! Cubbyholes for everyone! Tenements forever! Since Breed grew up in welfare housing, that’s the world she thinks is great!
We’ll see if all the SF hipsters think it’s so great.
You would have to pay $2 million for this place here.
What about that new place over there?
Oh, that’s a new subsidized unit - already spoken for - the tenant will be paying $200/month.
People are moving out of the stinky city. The only people to put in these new homes are homeless people.
What a financial disaster.
That can come handy during the Covid Anal Swab
So where are all the covid cases among the homeless?
Homes that resemble like China. All compacted, no backyards, no Air Conditioning,etc.
Breed is going to clean the excrement off SF streets?
And subletting it to two Twitter Techies for $3500 a month each.
Oh, ... and Twitter it's self is exempt from SF property tax, too, ... not so much for the preexisting businesses next door to 'em, though.
eek.
“...building more housing and addressing homelessness.”
The overwhelming majority of San Francisco’s homeless aren’t homeless because there aren’t houses. They’re homeless because they’re on drugs, crazy, or both.
probably means converting abandoned office space into rabbit warren apartments. “Homes,” not houses.
B. Who would be insane enough to tie up capital in such a venture?
C. Has she sought care from a mental health professional?
Building houses isn’t going to bring the middle class back from Texas.
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