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March 20, 2019 at 6:14 PM in reply to: Piggington’s Evoloution-when will housing prices become the discussion again. #812154
phaster
Participantone other item to consider about selling,… is there an adverse tax consequence
March 19, 2019 at 9:25 AM in reply to: Piggington’s Evoloution-when will housing prices become the discussion again. #812129phaster
Participant[quote=Astrid Rey]I don’t know what will happen with the economy in general but I don’t believe that polls in the news tell us anything. When 7 in 10 people think that the economy is good what does that really say? So many people were fooled before. It seems that maybe the smart thing is to believe the opposite of the majority. And now more than ever people want to believe their side is right and do not want to look at facts. People want to see those that they do not like to be wrong, even if it costs them money.[/quote]
polls were wrong WRT to trump and the 2016 election, and my gut feeing is too few are looking at the big “economic” picture or pondering the knock on effects,… yeah I know I’ve said that before BUT this thread was refreshing in that in that I did learn something I was not aware of, nor had thought about
[quote=flu]
…I would use Zillow to look for housing because lately Craigslist has become sketchy at best for finding rentals… Sketchy for the landlords looking for tenants, sketchy for tenants looking for a place to live. Zillow is so much more civilized. Thank you sdrealtor for that recommendation!
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just out of shits and giggles, tried posting an apartment “studio” rental on zillow, and the result was a surprising number of cold calls from residential real estate agents, asking if I was interested in selling,… typically I get more than my fair share of calls from commercial property brokers like CBRE that are looking to broker and get commissions on 1031s, Triple Net Leases, Delaware Statutory Trust, and other investment strategies typically not associated w/ residential housing
WRT the OP comment
[quote=temeculaguy]
This place was the “red pill” to the main stream media circa 2006 and look at it now.
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was not aware of this forum back then, but have to say its interesting in that this forum is one of the sources I use as a proxy to gauge what the somewhat economically/politically informed are thinking,… and sadly I’ve come to the conclusion that assessing economic risk and developing hedge strategies isn’t on the radar screen of most people (nor is recognizing the errors of basic math when managing a portfolio by politicians or the news media)
http://www.TinyURL.com/13thcheck
so I can only conclude that eventually the local economy is going to have a TSHTF moment which was sort of just reported on in connection w/ the US Supreme Court taking a pass on reviewing the battle over local pension reform
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Supreme Court won’t weigh in on pension battleThe U.S. Supreme Court has declined to weigh in on the battle over pension reform in the city of San Diego.
The decision leaves in place a California Supreme Court decision from last year that called pension reform into question and required a lower court to come up with a remedy. It could end up costing the city billions.
https://www.10news.com/news/local-news/supreme-court-wont-weigh-in-on-pension-battle
[/quote]March 17, 2019 at 9:46 AM in reply to: Piggington’s Evoloution-when will housing prices become the discussion again. #812106phaster
Participant[quote=Astrid Rey][quote=temeculaguy]As an OG of this site I have dropped in every few months only to close the window in disgust to see what my once loved forum has become. I have different motives today than I did back then. I bought eleven years ago after the biggest bubble in my lifetime and I will always credit this place with how I managed to time the market. Now I’m curious as my children are now adults, college grads and in the workforce, I want to give them advice that is timely as far as purchases or renting goes.
But alas, the site is awash in liberal drivel, socialism, politics and trump derangement syndrome. What the hell happened? This place was the “red pill” to the main stream media circa 2006 and look at it now. To quote Bunk from the Wire “Makes me sick how far we done fell” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wmgghlEagA
So when does piggington become a forum for the economic punk rockers again, those who would never listen to the main stream media and want to beat the sheeple and the system. Or will it remain a place democratic socialists go when the Rachael Maddow show has a guest host?
I’ve also seen the treatment of some old friends by the rabid progressives and have been tempted to intervene, but wisdom prevents me from doing so because they need to age out of it. As the old saying goes, “if you are not a socialist by 20 you have no heart but if you are not a conservative by 40 you have no brain.” They need to age out of it and I will not convince them otherwise, however at some point someone has to declare “adult swim, everyone under 18, out of the pool.” Plus I hate politics and despise both sides and never put that much faith in another human.
BTW interesting history about that socialist quote, https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/02/24/heart-head/
there’s debate about who said it and what they said, but any of those credited and any of the versions still make the point.[/quote]What made this site and others like it during the housing bubble fascinating to read was that it was not simply about economics and housing prices. It was really about group thinking and how so many people will behave irrationally when they are surrounded by the safety of others doing the same thing.
It is so ironic that temeculaguy has now revealed himself to be a stereotypical Trump follower. Trump and his followers are driven by the selfish but irrational psychology that created the real estate bubble.
People put blind faith in the idea that real estate would make them wealthy and that the price would always go up despite obvious evidence to the contrary.
[/quote]since FlyerInHi brought up the subject of terrorism on another thread because of events in NZ,… one older comment caught my eye
[quote=cvmom]
Seems to me that people coming in from outside the country are really not the primary issue–the issue is people who are disenfranchised, not part of the community, don’t really see a future for themselves, and who want to get back at all of those who are on the other side of that divide. Those unhappy people can really come from anywhere, including internally. As long as there are people who don’t have hope, this danger is going to continue.
https://www.piggington.com/terrorism_0#comment-269660
[/quote]FWIW what came to mind is Lord of the Flies a book focuses on a group of British boys stranded on an uninhabited island and their disastrous attempt to govern themselves
as I see things, for the most part there isn’t any adult “political” leadership addressing big financial issues head on, so what happens in reality is extreme political views that actually create big financial problems!
https://www.piggington.com/local_politicians_fully_baked#comment-283210
WRT local RE prices,…
being higher up on the economic food chain, skimming comments on this forum can be useful but one need to read between the lines,… for example this thread confirmed that for the time being having rental properties in the area is a good investment BUT one has to look eles where to see that prices are being bid up by “foreign” and so called “smart money”
http://www.TinyURL.com/2019sdre
which is comforting since I’m one of lucky ones who happens to have various RE holding(s) in my own portfolio
if I were starting out it would be difficult because of various economic headwinds, so don’t see any obvious low risk choices other than being prudent and don’t put your self in a positon of being overextended
[quote=temeculaguy]
I’m not sure the stars will align again the same way they did last time. I also see the prices at about 2006 levels, which was way overpriced in 2006 but in 2019 I’m not so sure. Just borrow no more than about 3X your gross household income and it won’t matter if your value goes up or down if you can ride it out. The trouble with just starting out is that is difficult to time the market because if prices tank, then jobs, income and credit will too. Young couples need all three.
[/quote]March 14, 2019 at 3:22 PM in reply to: Piggington’s Evoloution-when will housing prices become the discussion again. #812070phaster
Participant[quote=spdrun]Wouldn’t we be better off if peak oil HAD hit 20 years ago and we were updating the nation’s electric grid to handle (say) 75% of vehicles being electric, electrifying freight lines, converting all oil heating systems, etc? Also, we’d have more clean, safe, and modern nuclear reactors as well as renewable power right now.
Cheap oil and gas are crutches that keep us from developing cleaner energy technologies.[/quote]
20 years ago (about the year 2000) CO2 levels were about 370ppm
https://blog.datawrapper.de/weekly-chart-carbon-dioxide/currently its 410+ ppm
https://www.co2.earth/daily-co2unfortunately even if there was a dramatic reduction in liquid fossil fuels (i.e. gas, diesel and JP4) due to crude extraction constraints,… CO2 levels would have and will continue upward (w/ various chaotic effects on the environment) because coal could be converted into a liquid fossil fuels via the Fischer–Tropsch process
basically we’re rushing in uncharted territory w/ unappreciated risks (by the public in general) where the interaction/feedback of economics/finance are not included in the calculus
tick, tick, tick,…
March 14, 2019 at 3:18 PM in reply to: Piggington’s Evoloution-when will housing prices become the discussion again. #812069phaster
Participant[quote=flu]I’m still waiting for peak oil….
You know, that conviction that blew up in doomsday theorists face, royally…Funny no one likes to talk about it anymore… But hey, it’s a great folklore, right up there with the entire John Titor timer traveler folklore..
Damn, there were a heck of a lot more dinosaurs that decayed than peak oil theorists estimated….
ha ha ha
Scientists 1, Conspiracy Theorists 0[/quote]
sigh,… déjà vu

https://www.piggington.com/ot_bearishgurl_should_clean_her_act_or_go?page=3#comment-271254
March 14, 2019 at 2:38 PM in reply to: Piggington’s Evoloution-when will housing prices become the discussion again. #812068phaster
Participant[quote=moneymaker]Like the Winston Churchill quote and bookmarked the site. Also bought post bubble, 10 years ago. So real estate is not on my priority list. Still fun to watch as my wife seems to be addicted to it. The stock market is also starting to get boring, Trump needs to spout off more often to shake things up, got about 30% cash waiting for something to happen. For lent I think I’ll become anti-commercial and try not to spend any more money than I need to.
[/quote]slightly off the RE topic,… but since you mentioned it, back in a high school religion class had a discussion about what we were suppose to do during lent (i.e. the act of giving up something to practice self-discipline and remember the sacrifices Jesus made),… so shared I needed to rid myself of my habit of,… procrastination!
that was decades ago,… sadly I still have and should rid myself of a procrastination addiction?!
as for “local” RE prices,… for the most part they reflect supply and demand along w/ being a function of access to credit
for the past few years we see demand high and supply low,… hence as expected prices of existing san diego RE is being bid upward,… which also means decreased general affordability
http://www.TinyURL.com/2019sdre
BUT given access to credit isn’t as widespread as it was back in the sub-prime lending mania of 2003-2007,… there isn’t as much excitement discussing housing prices because there are fewer players and FWIW as I read the tea leaves we’re in an extended period of a more subtle greater fool credit bubble
March 8, 2019 at 1:36 PM in reply to: Piggington’s Evoloution-when will housing prices become the discussion again. #812028phaster
Participant[quote=flu][quote=The-Shoveler]LOL I don’t think the sky is falling,
But even former gov Brown said, only a reasonable pension should be guaranteed, I think leaving a door open for default and restructure.[/quote]
I wasnt talking about you. Come on now, I know you’re pretty sensible…. I was talking about a lot of the other “ooo it’s going to crash and burn anyway now” that came before you…
And there’s got to be a medical diagnosis for those that get high on seeing other people fail.
[/quote]huh,… thought this was water under the bridge
https://www.piggington.com/ot_dontfeedthetrolls#comment-277663
or perhaps you have yet to face up to knock on effect of various medical issues?!
[quote=spdrun]
March 5, 2019 – 1:23pmSays the cancer patient who could become unable to work and end up dependent on social insurance at basically any time…
https://www.piggington.com/more_crazy_taxation_ideas_aoc_types#comment-283100
[/quote]oh well, anyway to everyone else who might come across this thread,… FWIW there is an expression familiar to pilots and aeronautical engineers
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“Aviation in itself is not inherently dangerous. But to an even greater degree than the sea, it is terribly unforgiving of any carelessness, incapacity or neglect”
[/quote]I mention this aviation safety reminder (which I grew up with) because the same mindset should be applied to investing (like when managing a public pension portfolio OR buying/managing RE investment properties)
the reason we are where we are is because of carelessness, incapacity AND neglect,… so just sayin’ if the goal of the OP is to “become a forum for the economic punk rockers again” (which implies acknowledging the existence of systemic mismanagement),… better have a hedge strategy in place to beat the sheeple and the system (which is something Warren Buffett implied just a few days ago)
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Warren Buffett discusses ‘disaster’ contributing to Bay Area exodus in CNBC interview…California’s unfunded public pensions are a hot topic, with taxpayers on the hook for making up any shortfalls in employee contributions or investment returns.
“If I were relocating into some state that had a huge unfunded pension plan, I’m walking into liabilities,” Buffett said. “‘Cause I mean, who knows whether they’re gonna get it from the corporate income tax or my employees — you know, with personal income taxes or what. That liability isn’t gonna — you can’t ship it offshore or anything like that. And those are big numbers, really big numbers
March 8, 2019 at 9:07 AM in reply to: Piggington’s Evoloution-when will housing prices become the discussion again. #812017phaster
Participant“red pill”
huh,…
AAPL bringing 1,200 employees is indeed a good sign that the area has telecomm knowledge (which is field of growing demand),…
BUT looking at the big picture there is a storm that too few know is brewing
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Where Do Households (w/ in California) Have the Most Money After Housing?
https://www.zillow.com/research/metros-most-money-after-housing-23185/
[/quote]looking at the interactive graph seems Los Angeles is worst off than San Diego (for real estate affordability),… BUT one item not taken into account in the zillow study and other real estate centric studies is the systemic problem of public pensions
have not looked into detail(s) how the LA public pension portfolio is structured, but here in SD the big problem seems to be the three decades plus standard operation procedure of a 13th check which looking at the black box, is exponentially producing debt obligation (which the front page news article in the UT should have reported on)
http://www.TinyURL.com/13thcheck
given the court ruling just announced
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California Supreme Court curbs a pension benefit but preserves ‘California Rule’
https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-pension-court-20190304-story.html
[/quote]people should seriously ponder “what if” nothing is done to directly address issues like the “California rule” which implies taxpayers are the financial backstop for shortfalls of public pension portfolios because the “California rule” like credit default swaps from too big to fail banks, have taxpayers as the implied financial backstop
http://www.TinyURL.com/InvestorWarning
bottom line,… even before the eventual storm hits, the system is set up w/ two massive systemic head winds which are setup to hit households w/ debt obligations that are going to be difficult/impossible to deal w/ so as a result I’d say real estate is going to take an eventual hit (so better have a hedge strategy in place to beat the sheeple and the system)
February 14, 2019 at 5:30 PM in reply to: OT: Public Employee Unions Attack the City of San Diego/Prop B #811789phaster
Participant[quote]
Pacific Legal Backs San Diego Mayor’s Pension Push in SCOTUSThe mayor of San Diego has a First Amendment right to advocate for changes to the city’s retirement plan without first meeting with labor unions, the Pacific Legal Foundation said in a brief filed with the U.S. Supreme Court.
The conservative public interest law firm wants the justices to undo a 2018 decision by the California Supreme Court holding that the state’s “meet-and-confer requirements” …
blab, blab, blab,…
[/quote]seems the way things stand beneficiaries of the status quo (i.e. the local political bureaucracy AND public pension recipients) are acting akin to leadership or the minion “believers” of old church orthodoxy,… which made laws saying that the Earth is the immovable center of the universe
https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/horizon/sept98/galileo.htm
in other words, its like all the beneficiaries are arguing w/ themselves over the pension status quo saying “legal laws” are all that matters and basically ignore fundamental forces in nature (like gravity)
I mention this because, seems the way the pension portfolio was structured is akin to a projectile that has a explosive force that moves it,… for a small time frame right after an explosion stuff will be forced upward, BUT eventually things will come crashing down due to the influence of gravity
guess since lawyers and “legal laws” pay little or no attention to math/physics,… AND because beneficiaries of the status quo (i.e. the local political bureaucracy AND public pension recipients) don’t want to admit to a root cause being DISHONEST and DUMB portfolio management
http://www.TinyURL.com/13thcheck
lawyers from both sides are going to run up the tab arguing over “free speech” AND I’ll bet both sides never once mention the issue of “bad math” which continues to create ever growing debt!
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Participant[quote=The-Shoveler]I long for the days of droughts and endless sunshine.
I guess they can shut down the new desal plant for a few years maybe save a few bucks.[/quote]
one stormy days like today I understand the sentiment BUT,… be careful what you wish for
one thing few realize is that drought in this region can last longer than a human life time AND that there have been two long term drought events that happened in the past 1200 years,… which in geological time is akin to a blink of an eye
http://www.TinyURL.com/AncientDroughts
FYI
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Get ready to save water: Permanent California restrictions approved by Gov. Jerry Brown…The laws set an initial limit for indoor water use of 55 gallons per-person per-day in 2022, which gradually drops to 50 gallons per person by 2030.
Just how consumers will be required to meet the goals remains unknown.
https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article211333594.html
[/quote]January 23, 2019 at 9:16 AM in reply to: San Diego homeless, mercifully, do not live very long #811665phaster
Participant[quote=FlyerInHi]
What burns me is that the states that send us their worst people think that the homeless problem is a coastal city thing. People come here to beg because of the attractive environment. We need CalExit so we can deport these people them back home to their folks.[/quote][sarcasm on]
given POTUS and his talking/tweeting points of the virtues of a great big beautiful wall and your mentioning deporting the worst people,… perhaps we can combine the two ideas for a “final solution!”
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/first-moments-hitlers-final-solution-180961387/
[sarcasm off]
all joking aside, what burns me is political candidates and politicians (i.e. “leadership”) that seem to be grandstanding, greedy and/or outright narcissistic 99.9% of the time
as I see things avoidable problems are caused by ass kissing politicians (who do pretty much nothing but pander to their base) along w/ government bureaucrats (i.e. public employee union leadership) who have no economic incentive to change the status quo of feeding like gluttonous pigs at the taxpayers trough
on the national level we obviously have POTUS and his selfish, idiotic stand of partly closing down government, so he can build a wall (as sort of a monument to himself) and coincidently seems trump has also managed to do a pretty good job of feeding like a gluttonous pig at the taxpayers trough (which is exactly like something an african dictator would do)
https://www.politico.com/story/2015/10/trevor-noah-donald-trump-dictator-214358
or like yesterday afternoon at the local coffee house at the informal weekly discussion where I pointed out to a few neighbors,… seems the root cause of the many local problem(s) (i.e. ever increasing public pension debt, ever increasing “homeless” etc.) is because intellectually challenged career politicians just keep on running for different political offices and are not addressing the various difficult issues in the political offices they leave behind so government bureaucrats it seems then have nothing stopping them from running amuck
since I mentioned trump and the idea of the wall being a sort of a monument to himself,… one talent/trait, all intellectually challenged career politicians seem to have is, posting slick self promotional youtube champaign videos that somehow don’t ever mention the inconvenient truth of their actual actions in office,… for example the local ass kissing, intellectually challenged career politician (of the district) is now setting sights on the mayor’s office
what’s needed to counter this “fake leadership candidate” from causing even more damage to the system is “real honest news” that pulls no punches
http://www.TinyURL.com/ToddGloria
god help us if this idiot manages to continue to convince political partisans he has any real leadership skills to solve big and vary real problems in this city that need to be addressed
http://www.TinyURL.com/13thcheck “annual 13th public pension checks”
http://www.TinyURL.com/2019SDRE “high cost of SD housing (RealEstate)”
http://www.TinyURL.com/InvestorWarning “climate change effects”
bottom line as I see things,… with $hit leadership increased “homeless” (which is a symptom of mismanagement) is inevitable no matter big city or small town,… red state or blue state,… etc., etc., etc.
January 20, 2019 at 8:37 AM in reply to: OT: Public Employee Unions Attack the City of San Diego/Prop B #811655phaster
Participantthere was a UT article about yet another annual 13th public pension check (which appeared on the front page a few days ago)
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/data-watch/sd-me-13thcheck-sdcers-20190117-story.html
so passed it along to an actuary for analysis/thoughts on the topic
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…SAN DIEGO CITY ERS PENSION NOT IN A GOOD PLACEI am going to walk you through the San Diego City ERS plan info.
Let me start with the required contributions. Brace yourself. This is the “required contribution” – that is, the part that covers the new benefits accrued (i.e. retirement benefits earned due to work done in that fiscal year) plus a portion of the unfunded liability (i.e., paying off a bit of the benefits that were earned years before, but weren’t sufficiently contributed for.)
You ready?
58% of payroll.
Holy shit.
That’s insane.
Even Police & Fire pensions, which tend to have high contribution rates (for a variety of reasons) tend to have rates far below that.
See that yellow line waaaaay below the blue bars? That’s the average ARC as a percentage of payroll, and nationally, it’s about 15% for peer pension groups. 58% is insanely high.
So… why is the ARC so high? …
http://stump.marypat.org/article/1132/san-diego-city-ers-has-no-business-giving-out-13th-checks
[/quote]FYI the local political bureaucracy recognized long ago that “the concept of Surplus Earnings” (and associated w/ the 13th pension check) was acknowledged as being NOT math kosher
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‘…in 2008, by ordinance, the Council eliminated “the concept of Surplus Earnings” because it was not consistent with sound actuarial principles and because it was being used for certain payments, which were not consistent with federal tax law or state law requirements to assure the competency of the assets of SDCERS. SDMC § 24.1501.’
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B66GMOho0KtxblFnc193UzZiUTh2M041UUZROWgySUlIZ0o0
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yet the local political bureaucracy (who also benefit in various ways from the status quo) allows piling debt on top of existing debt year after year? and they expect the taxpayers to pick up the billions in clean up cost$ for their bad math mistakes??
January 20, 2019 at 8:24 AM in reply to: San Diego homeless, mercifully, do not live very long #811656phaster
Participant[quote=FlyerInHi]We need CalExit to keep the druggies from migrating from other states. We should be able to deport them back home to their parents. Let’s only take care of the people born in California or those who have a minimum of 5 years residency.[/quote]
hummmm,….
according to the 2018 survey/study of homeless people, 74% became homeless in San Diego
(See p.24 of a PDF which did a survey on local “homeless”)
http://www.rtfhsd.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/2018-Point-in-Time-Count-Results-Powerpoint.pdf
this implies a great majority of the problems are local in nature?
in other words seems problems like substance addiction and the cumulative cockup of various political leadership decision(s) are local,… so a “CalExit” as you suggested does nothing to address to root cause of various problems which is,… human nature that is all too often corrupt and not all that smart
[quote=phaster][quote=spdrun]Yeah. We have a fuckin’ moral crisis, but it’s not the PEOPLE being immoral. It’s a crisis of greedy piece of shit (generally local and state) governments…[/quote]
we are where we are because of past political leadership decisions which were made by “career politicians” w/ far too little mental “numbers” horsepower and only having a “balls and honesty factor” of 0.01%,… how else to explain why BIG PROBLEMS came about AND remain to be addressed?
http://www.TinyURL.com/InvestorWarning
for example local politicians like Todd Gloria and Chris Ward (who actively sought the position to represent the downtown area where there is a large “homeless” problem),… as various local news reports indicate they are not addressing (i.e. in denial) of various big issues (which should be job#1 for anyone who who actively sought the position leadership role) so the end result is, their council district has been lead up a creek w/ out a paddle!
https://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2019/jan/09/letters-san-diego-homeless-do-not-live-very-lon/
what’s the answer? perhaps more numbers type guys/gals (i.e. someone w/ at least a CPA background) in politics to actually help the “homeless”
one last thought,… since california mandated more women on the boards
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California Mandates More Women On Corporate Boards
Legislators in California passed a bill recently that would require publicly-traded companies headquartered in the state to place at least one woman on their board by the end of 2019.
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perhaps there should be a proposition that requires that politicians take and pass a basic math and economics course before being sworn into office[/quote]
FYI here is something thats relevant to the issue (a news reporter based in LA that looks at the problem of substance addiction)
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The Roots of the Opioid Epidemic: A Conversation With Sam Quinoneshttps://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2018/10/15/podcast-sam-quinones
[/quote]January 13, 2019 at 7:17 PM in reply to: San Diego homeless, mercifully, do not live very long #811603phaster
Participant[quote=www.hollywoodreporter.com]
LA’s Battle for Venice Beach: Homeless Surge Puts Hollywood’s Progressive Ideals to the Test…Los Angeles is grappling with a homeless epidemic. “It’s the worst human catastrophe in America,” says Andy Bales, a pastor who runs the Union Rescue Mission on Skid Row. Faced with a growing crisis, city leaders last year budgeted more than $100 million for affordable housing, addiction treatment, job placement and mental health services. And yet, as L.A.’s real estate prices soar, so does the city’s homeless population.
…”There are actually [residents] advocating driving the homeless out of Venice — shipping them off somewhere, which is such a proto-fascist move,”
…Disagreements over the potential causes of the crimes have begun to factionalize Venice’s neighborhoods.
…The most common refrain heard when discussing the cause of L.A.’s homeless crisis is soaring housing costs. But there are other forces at play in Venice and throughout the city involving various laws and ballot measures that date back more than a decade. A 2006 ruling by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Jones v. City of Los Angeles required that law enforcement and city officials no longer enforce the ban on sleeping on sidewalks anywhere in the city until a sufficient amount of permanent supportive housing could be built. Further complicating matters were two state ballot measures that voters overwhelmingly approved in 2016 — Propositions 47 and 57 — which decriminalized certain felonies to misdemeanors in an effort to address the state’s overburdened prison system.
After multiple tire slashings, one resident built a homemade deterrent system
Others have put up unpermitted planters to eat up sidewalk space
now the real life “hollywood” trailer,… homeless zombies coming to neighborhood near you?
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