Isn't this happening in more and more urban centers?

[gggg...@gmail.com]

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/10/19/california-housing-crisis-residents-flee-san-francisco-because-costs/3985196002/

[Whoey Louie]

On Saturday, October 19, 2019 at 8:31:35 PM UTC-4, gggg...@gmail.com wrote:
> https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/10/19/california-housing-crisis-residents-flee-san-francisco-because-costs/3985196002/

The high costs aren't the only problems. The homeless are all over
the place, taking dumps in the streets. In Seattle, I see the council
was discussing a similar problem and wanted to hire a power washing
firm to hose the crap off the streets. A lib objected, said it was
racist. How could that be, you ask? Why because in the 60s fire
hoses were used to spray civil rights protesters. When you let screwballs
like that run places, no surprise people want to flee.

[gggg...@gmail.com]

You know you're travelling through California when you see a homeless person holding up a sign that says:

WILL WORK FOR FOOD

OR

WEED

[gggg...@gmail.com]

I wonder what Maslow would say about THAT?

[catalpa]

<gggg...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/10/19/california-housing-crisis-residents-flee-san-francisco-because-costs/3985196002/

No, there are plenty of cities with cheap housing.

Just go to Detroit MI, Buffalo NY, Trenton NJ and other old industrial
cities.

[Beaver...@live.com]

On Saturday, October 19, 2019 at 5:31:35 PM UTC-7, gggg...@gmail.com wrote:
> https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/10/19/california-housing-crisis-residents-flee-san-francisco-because-costs/3985196002/

Yes, people who can't afford to live there are replaced by those who can.

[gggg...@gmail.com]

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/10/affordable-housing-striking-chicago-teachers-demands-191022021827491.html

[John Weiss]

On 10/22/2019 09:25, gggg...@gmail.com wrote:
>>> https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/10/19/california-housing-crisis-residents-flee-san-francisco-because-costs/3985196002/
>>
>> Yes, people who can't afford to live there are replaced by those who can.
>
> https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/10/affordable-housing-striking-chicago-teachers-demands-191022021827491.html

And the politicians who are complaining about the housing crisis are the
same ones who gave incentives to companies to relocate there to provide
high-paying jobs...

AND those same politicians don't have the gonads to force developers to
actually include sufficient lower-cost housing in their urban
development plans. They will only force the developers to pay an offset
fee, which the politicians then waste on other stuff without actually
developing any lower-cost housing.

AND in the few cases where lower-cost (i.e., subsidized) housing IS
developed, the income levels to qualify are either non-existent, not
enforced, or too high to allow the target population to get in.

[catalpa]

<gggg...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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And who is supposed to pay to make housing affordable?

Answer: The already overburdened taxpayer.

Why is it that groups of people feel entitled to force other people to pay
for their endless demands?

And the striking Chicago teachers aren't working for starvation wages and
benefits.

"Meanwhile, taxpayers recognize that Chicago's teacher salaries, the median
of which is more than $78,000, are high compared with other big cities, and
the school district is on shaky fiscal ground."

"Under the current Chicago union contract, beginning teachers make a base
salary of just over $56,000 a year, while the most senior teachers with
extra credentials make $108,242 a year."

[gggg...@gmail.com]

On Sunday, October 20, 2019 at 12:40:39 PM UTC-7, Whoey Louie wrote:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/homeless-in-seattle-why-are-so-many-of-the-citys-citizens-living-on-the-streets-60-minutes-2019-11-26/

[Whoey Louie]

And if housing cost too much where you live, there are plenty of places in
the US were the costs are a lot lower. Taxing people more to pay for people
who won't work, just raises the costs of everything for all of us. It rasises
the cost of housing.

An example of lib stupidity, some places have now imposed what they call a
"fair work week law". Sounds good, right? These laws require employers
to give employees their schedules at least two weeks in advance. Libs
have never run a business, so they are clueless. In many businesses, good
luck trying to predict schedules two weeks out. And the market already
has a solution. Good employers will try to keep employees happy, adopt
reasonable practices consistent with their business that they know. If
someone is working someplace where they get jerked around on scheduling,
the solution isn't another law to strangle business and drive up costs.
The solution is for the employee to quit and find a better job. The
unemployment rate is 3%, you know.

[gggg...@gmail.com]

On Saturday, October 19, 2019 at 5:31:35 PM UTC-7, gggg...@gmail.com wrote:
> https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/10/19/california-housing-crisis-residents-flee-san-francisco-because-costs/3985196002/

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/why-millennials-are-moving-away-from-large-urban-centers