Before I wade into some pretty choppy waters on the topic of gentrification I want to start with these photos of two buildings which are very near each other on Valencia Street here in San Francisco. The first is a new luxury condo building where very small apartments sell for over a million dollars. The … Continue reading Gentrification: The Good, Bad, and Ugly
This story was edited by Kirsten Dirksen of faircompanies.com One of the challenges faced by individual households and municipal governments alike in our current economic predicament is the need to become more efficient and to generate additional revenue without taking on new debt or obligations. The city of Lancaster, California recently changed its building and … Continue reading Garage Apartment Conversion, Lancaster, California
The title of this post is meant to be tongue-in-cheek. Gas stations all across San Francisco are in fact disappearing at a shocking rate, but no one actually misses them when the bulldozers sweep them away. That’s the whole point. Gas stations suck value away from adjacent properties and do nothing to raise the quality … Continue reading San Francisco’s Endangered Gas Stations
This video was edited by my friend Kirsten Dirksen of faircompanies.com This is a tale of how a hard core liberal achieved her goals by adopting a seriously conservative economic approach once she realized the usual government bureaucracies weren’t getting the job done. In 1980 Lois Arkin began her quest to build permanently affordable housing … Continue reading The Hippie Guide to Conservative Economics
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