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Vulcan isn't causing gentrification, nor is the city. Protectionist SF homeowners are, with their limiting multifamily construction to just 13% of our land area. Want to reverse gentrification? Upzone. Not just in the CD, but everywhere.
It's a big internet out there so sure there is something to interest you elsewhere.
Gentrification, you are weighing pros against cons.
Redlining is basically purely bad.
Take your pick.
Yes. Yes they should.
The length of the closure has also affected those of us using those buses, since they've had to reroute around construction or cut off this section of their route entirely.
Meanwhile, the other streets in the neighborhood are in truly awful condition. Yes, they'll come out and patch a pothole if you call them on it, but that doesn't do much good when the entire street is crumbling.
Some people might call our household part of the gentrifiers, but we're just as likely to be priced out of the neighborhood soon, ourselves.
That said, it sure seems like SDOT botched this project. The Mayor and Council Member Kshama Sawant did the absolute right thing by proposing the mitigation funds.
"Even as homelessness declined slightly nationwide in 2015, it increased in urban areas, including Seattle, New York and Los Angeles."
That was from the heavily-circulated AP story a few days ago. It is okay to acknowledge that there is a draw or magnet-effect pulling people who fell through the cracks in their rural community to places like Seattle where they can encounter more welcoming and (relatively) humane policies. The question is how do we deal with the influx. Denying the effect does nothing to further that conversation or burnish your progressive credentials.
Dan is sure killing it with rebuttals to suggestions that nobody is making.
this piece is some strong work - right up there with a muedede piece in terms of not making any sense and half-heartedly attempting to provoke.
You'd think that the free-marketeers would at least nod in the direction of the idea that private developers might tend to prefer projects with higher profit margins.