The Insane Battle To Sabotage a New Apartment Building Explains San Francisco's Housing Crisis

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Bob Tillman has spent nearly 5 years and $1.4 million trying to convert his laundromat into new housing.
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Bob Tillman has spent nearly five years and $1.4 million on a legal battle to turn his coin-operated laundromat into an apartment building. His saga perfectly encapsulates the political dysfunction that's turning San Francisco-once a beacon for immigrants and home of the counterculture-into an exclusive playground for the ultra-wealthy.
The median cost of a single-family home in San Francisco is already five times the U.S. average, and the city now has the highest rent per square foot of any municipality in the nation. The explanation for the crisis is simple: As the city's population has surged, developers have found it nearly impossible to construct more housing. About 80 percent of San Francisco's existing buildings were already standing in 1980.
Tillman has owned his small laundromat in the Mission District for 20 years. In 2013, with the housing market hitting record highs, he decided to tear it down and build an eight-story, 75-unit apartment building. (Christian Britschgi first covered Tillman's project for Reason back in February.)
At first, it didn't seem like a controversial project: Nobody lives above the laundry, the building wouldn't displace anyone, it qualified for a density bonus and streamlined approval process under state law, and the site was already zoned for housing. While San Francisco passed a comprehensive zoning code in 1978 that restricted the construction of new housing to certain areas, mandated design elements, and limited the height of new structures in some parts of the city to just 40 feet, none of those regulations stood in the way of Tillman's plans.
"If you can't build here, you can't build anywhere," he told Reason.
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@saidsadly2400 5 жыл бұрын

The man owned a laundromat for 25 years and when he wants to build on land he owns he is called a fascist? Wow. Just wow.

@pinkiesue849 4 жыл бұрын

Maybe they really want 150-250 sq ft apartments only, and for him to keep the laundromat.

@wildfire160 4 жыл бұрын

He managed to sell the property for $13.5 million after getting planning permission to the owner of a hotel chain...That was actually pretty cheap but i suppose after all these years and at his age maybe he just had enough of it and in his own words “I just want to sell my property, get the best price for it, and move on.”

@gregorythompson5334 4 жыл бұрын

@@rpsabq2774 that doesn't make sense. I don't think you know what the word fascist means

@Sovereign_Citizen_LEO 4 жыл бұрын

@@gregorythompson5334 - It doesn't mean what you think it does. In reality there is no such thing as Fascism, because it never includes the "Nationalist" component. The real Fascists are Internationalists/ Globalists. They are in many cases Zionists. Fascism is not on the right. Fascism and Marxism/ Communism/ Socialism are one in the same. If you look at those governments and socioeconomic systems throughout history, they always nationalize and privatize their industries, killing not only individual rights and liberties, but the private business owner, innovator, and entrepreneur. They use the force of Government to take over industry. This is why such societies cannot create wealth or sustainable economies, let alone increase the standard of living for their citizens.

@blankblank1949 4 жыл бұрын

@@wildfire160 Yeah he just need to put it on Index fund and live somewhere serene

@blobbowo 3 жыл бұрын

"we have a housing crisis! what do we do?!" "let's spend multiple years preventing people from making more housing!" "yeah, that sounds like a great idea! let's do it!"

@mycutepetshrimp1532 3 жыл бұрын

B L O B B O

@becketw7867 3 жыл бұрын

literally all of california

@Ashley-1917 3 жыл бұрын

The crisis is not nescicaraly a lack of housing, but rather a lack of housing that local residents can afford. By building "market rate" housing in a low income area, more wealthy tennnants will move in. This has the effect of raising the maximum competitive cost of housing in that area to a level where local residents can no longer afford to live there, and are either forced to leave or go homeless. So in the case of this housing crisis, preventing market rate housing from being built is a valid strategy.

@blobbowo 3 жыл бұрын

@@Ashley-1917 cool thx i didn't know dat

@elcomodo1 3 жыл бұрын

Dobedobedo

@404Floatnotfound 3 жыл бұрын

Absolutely insane "We need housing" "This housing is oppressing" These people are so spoiled, pampered and bored they literally must create problems to feel relevant

@name4601 3 жыл бұрын

Those are liberals for you.

@TheRisky9 3 жыл бұрын

What they don't understand, is they don't understand the law of tradeoffs. The idea that you have to give up one thing in order to acheive something. It's like the kid who says he'll make a million dollars, but then he just sits on the couch in his mom's basement playing games. Like it will just happen just because he believes it would.

@serpentines6356 3 жыл бұрын

@@name4601 No, those are lefties. I consider myself 'liberal', and value liberty, and good business practices. I hate bs like this. Although, I do think it is ugly, and would ask for a revision of the design.

@muhammadyaseer9673 3 жыл бұрын

@@TheRisky9 I am personally attack

@livefreeprintguns 3 жыл бұрын

Imagine having *the balls* to act like nothing or no one came before you existed there, and to call anything after "gentrification" lol FOH.

@SupHapCak 3 жыл бұрын

Cities: “We have a homeless problem :(“ Also Cities: *makes it illegal to sleep in a car, even if you aren’t homeless*

@timbrink 3 жыл бұрын

Why would you sleep in a car if you aren't homeless?

@LeavingGoose046 3 жыл бұрын

@@timbrink Wife kicked you out for the night, or a million other innocent reasons the government shouldn't even care about because such a law shouldn't exist.

@Frostmournt 3 жыл бұрын

@@LeavingGoose046 jesus crys... home of the brave and land of the free eh?? such bullshit

@Frostmournt 3 жыл бұрын

@@LeavingGoose046 I'm agreeing with you, such law shouldn't exist in the first place, there are plenty of examples of why someone needs a rest on their car, and by egregiously makes bullshit regulation then where is the freedom???

@LeavingGoose046 3 жыл бұрын

@@Frostmournt Fair enough, you had it worded in a weird way. I apologize and will retract my previous statement.

@GANTZ100pts 4 жыл бұрын

CA: We need more housing. Also CA: We have to stop this man from building more housing.

@L_87 4 жыл бұрын

Its gonna cast a shadow! 😂

@theminuteman6211 4 жыл бұрын

@@rpsabq2774 If you purposely limit the creation of supply, you end up with higher prices idiot

@zehahaha5630 4 жыл бұрын

@@theminuteman6211 It's really simple supply and demand

@gregorythompson5334 4 жыл бұрын

@@rpsabq2774 you don't understand supply and demand. Increasing units reduces market price. If you want other people to offset the cost, around 90% 0f the units have to have the higher income people in it to pay for the building.

@Mrmudbone_gaming 4 жыл бұрын

Because he’s not going to make it an affordable housing building. He’s trying to sell to the rich to move into the mission.

@infinityryvus 5 жыл бұрын

Whenever someone says "it's for the children" I know their idea is a bad one.

@mahfik6958 5 жыл бұрын

Make more schools, it's for the children.

@Cha-Khia 5 жыл бұрын

@@mahfik6958 Make schools better... It's for the country.

@MeanOldLady 5 жыл бұрын

@@mahfik6958 - Clearly the schools are failing the children & should be defunded instead of producing more entitled, useless Marxists.

@FFGG22E 5 жыл бұрын

By the time children are involved in any of it, it's a sure sign that they've lost the argument.

@mahfik6958 5 жыл бұрын

@@MeanOldLady yeah I agree for the west (USA abd Europe) the education should reform, I mean it sounded so bad.

@BKPrice 3 жыл бұрын

"San Francisco continues its transformation into a cloistered country club." You mean toilet and needle repository.

@souvikrc4499 3 жыл бұрын

It's really both at the same time.

@mercy_angel8260 3 жыл бұрын

Exactly 💯

@longanddeadly 3 жыл бұрын

Tent cities with hiv soups. And its capitalism's fault.

@3kojimbles895 3 жыл бұрын

@@longanddeadly totally not because of the socialistic policy to make druggies more equal than regular people

@CB-rv2lj 3 жыл бұрын

@@longanddeadly I can't tell if you're trolling or not. But Im not sure how the freedom to trade privately owned things somehow created tent cities and hiv soups. Not the deterioration of the nuclear family, lack of tradition, and no sense of community. Clown boy.

@arthasmenethil2201 3 жыл бұрын

"The owner of this laundromat obviously is on pursuit of profit. That's bad." "I wanna build a skyscraper, 100 million is my budget." "Ok, you can begin tommorow."

@AlchemistsCookbook 3 жыл бұрын

They should look at how you solved a housing crisis in Stratholme my king.

@mr.jamster8414 2 жыл бұрын

that's epic

@outofbluepills 5 жыл бұрын

Housing is too expensive. We need to cut the supply of housing. --Econ 101, right?

@maxxon2060 5 жыл бұрын

Out of Blue Pills lol

@tropingreenhorn 5 жыл бұрын

they want to build expensive, government funded "affordable housing"so poor people can treat their homes like garbage and disensentivize developers from wanting to build because they won't make any money from it. Then they want to block the production of new housing. Make a shit ton of new housing. Let people make huge apartmentd, let sanfransisco grow. Let the proces go down with increased supply. It is so obvious what to do..... they are so stupid it hurts me to listen to their ideological blindness

@dilligafmofoker 5 жыл бұрын

Mark Shamy That’s retarded. Housing most definitely is governed by the law of supply/demand. Landlords will charge whatever price the market will bear. That’s capitalism. Want communism? Move to Venezuela.

@The757packerfan 5 жыл бұрын

Housing DOES follow supply-demand curves. Mark is confusing the order of things. Lets take NY city for example: People want to live near their job, which means they need to live in the city. There is only so much room left in NY city, so the price on housing goes up. Developers see how much they can make from housing, so they do what they can to build more housing (increasing the density). Notice, the expensive housing comes first, then the density increases. Increasing the amount of housing has never increased the price of housing, all other things constant.

@fredlebhart1393 5 жыл бұрын

The757packerfan so people making more money can’t live near where THEY work?!

@ChrisStavros 4 жыл бұрын

"These are the times that each of us must rise to counteract the terror of fascism" - Macbook grandma living a fantasy of battling Hitler in her head, meanwhile she's just blocking a guy from building a house in the city

@mikeg3439 3 жыл бұрын

They do literally see themselves as superheros battling Hitler with every step. Hitler being anyone or anything that doesn't pump funds into the Democrat party and blindly go along with anything they say.

@wrlord 3 жыл бұрын

"He's exploiting the process for his own gain." It's HIS property.

@sageoverheaven 3 жыл бұрын

Marxists want to abolish private property 💀

@Jekyll_Island_Creatures 2 жыл бұрын

Agreed, but we're fighting open Marxists here.

@christianmoore7109 2 жыл бұрын

How dare he benefit himself

@dbomb127 Жыл бұрын

You will own nothing and you WILL be happy

@Shamwell15 3 жыл бұрын

He finally got it approved (and dropped the lawsuit against the city) and sold the property to a larger developer for approx. 13.5 million.

@soylentgreenb 3 жыл бұрын

Good. The place and culture is evil. Get as much as you can and move away from there.

@peachycream8674 3 жыл бұрын

I love how a fat legal lawsuit against the city because they broke their own rules is what it took to approve it. Damn vultures in that office. 😭

@myzen1729 3 жыл бұрын

Damn should get more than that honestly

@chrisg5219 3 жыл бұрын

Its also why corporations end up in control of everything. They have the lawyers and bureaucrats to deal with this. No wonder the middle and upper middle class are getting crowded out by insane bureaucrats in government and activists.

@DrRiq 3 жыл бұрын

Damn I was hoping he'd fuck em up good

@idreesAlmiklafichannel 5 жыл бұрын

“Activist protest affordable housing” _irony intensifies_

@TheManelich 4 жыл бұрын

activist fight agaisnt gentrification that push hard working people out of the city for more wealthy people; that's why san francisco housing is so expesive and it is making more people homeless. in this project only 11% of the units can be rent by people generating 54% of the median income this is not enough.

@nobilesnovushomo58 4 жыл бұрын

@@TheManelich Sadly, this is what is needed to make the tenant building profitable in this city. Personally, I'd be happy if any housing were built at all because a net increase in housing is good for at least stalling somewhat increase in housing prices, if more could be built maybe housing might become more affordable. I don't blame the businessman for making a complex that's still expensive to live in.

@FreedomTalkMedia 4 жыл бұрын

@@TheManelich You know how to make it enough? Get the government out of the way and just let people build whatever they want to build and rent it to whomever they want to rent it to.

@panblacksolutions 4 жыл бұрын

They're not protesting affordable housing, this is propaganda. They are protesting gentrification. The housing this guy wants to build is only 11% rent controlled.

@FreedomTalkMedia 4 жыл бұрын

@@panblacksolutions So?

@florichi 3 жыл бұрын

"Our children need sunlight to be raised healthy" 3 minutes later: "Come on, lets get a meal at McDonalds"

@yucol5661 3 жыл бұрын

Ok, that’s not the reason. Don’t try to explain the problem by criticizing things that don’t matter in the first place

@cslantz4020 3 жыл бұрын

@@yucol5661 Sorry if I sound rude but what point are you trying to make? Its a simple joke pointing fun at the stupidity of the situation.

@keaganthegreat 3 жыл бұрын

@@yucol5661 they literally said his application was rejected at one point for a partial shadow on a schoolyard.

@elizbararchvadze7619 3 жыл бұрын

Ok, now lets ban mcdonalds 😆

@tescomealdeals4613 3 жыл бұрын

@@keaganthegreat of which a shadow was already there, and it would only be there early in the morning, it is just a stupid situation

@ebl2732 3 жыл бұрын

When people say they like small government, they are thinking of all these useless bureaucrats.

@lanesteele240 3 жыл бұрын

We are going to form a committee to talk about this comment

@michaelrichards4332 3 жыл бұрын

Forreal, I work for a university and our team is one of the best in the institute, know why? Our admins trust us and give us a shit ton of breadth to do our work, the worst divisions tend to be the ones that have massive amounts of documentation requirements and levels of management

@arthursalas8010 3 жыл бұрын

No one in SF likes small government. They think it’s the answer to all their problems

@soylentgreenb 3 жыл бұрын

When people think of feeding people feet first into wood chippers they think of beaurocrats like these.

@serpentines6356 3 жыл бұрын

Here is an idea. Pass a law in California that says if you run for office you have to live at least one month on the streets while campaigning . If you survive, you are good to go, and if elected you only make 50,000 a year. Then we could have our small Gov't. : )

@giancarloduncan2104 3 жыл бұрын

Ugh. "A climbing gym? On Mission Street? What's it gonna be like 5 to 10 years from now?" Exactly the same, but with a climbing gym.

@1978garfield 3 жыл бұрын

The strange thing is we are told to just suck it up when a project comes in that will make a neighborhood worse. Projects, section 8, and the like bring crime. My city snuck in a residential mental heath / drug treatment facility. They assured us there would be no problems because if any resident breaks the rules they are kicked out. We pointed out that would just mean even more homeless insane junkies in our neighborhood. We were then told "these kind of places have to go somewhere and this is where it is going." Someone at the meeting said "Well at least maybe some of the homeless, mentally ill drug addicts in the area can get off the street and stop panhandling, stealing and harassing people." That is when they admitted that no one in our county would be admitted to this place. It as built exclusively for residents from Chicago. So when it is something bad that will lower property values, increase crime and make the area less safe the answer is "suck it up, it has to go somewhere, neighborhoods change." If something would make the area more desirable we are told "This area can't ever change. The blacks, latinos or whoever took it over in the 60's 70's, whenever and they own it forever now. Granted none of them are property owners and rent was higher before they moved in. But they are here now and rent can never go up because reasons." I doubt very many working class live in Beverly Hills. They all have to commute to come in and do their important jobs and then commute back home to same place with lower rent. With the tech explosion SanFran is just going to become too expensive for the working class. It sucks for people who have rented there for a long time but when you rent you have to pay market prices. It is just how it is.

@gabrielgarcia7554 Жыл бұрын

We all know all of us Latinos hate having fun at climbing gyms. Clearly this is oppression lmao.

@camron.w1841 3 жыл бұрын

"I want to develop affordable housing" "We must rise to counteract the rising of facism" Wot?

@mikeg3439 3 жыл бұрын

anything they don't want = fascism. It's the ultimate in gas lighting and sadly more than half of the nation buys into it, or fears it enough to remain silent.

@flapaflog 3 жыл бұрын

11% affordable housing is not really affordable housing

@elieobeid123 3 жыл бұрын

@@flapaflog 11% is better than 0 %

@DrCruel 3 жыл бұрын

Translated from the Leftspeak: "Pay me."

@sylasvernon4796 3 жыл бұрын

Claiming other people are racist is how they can have an argument when they actually have no real argument

@Jaya365 3 жыл бұрын

Protect our children.... From shadows. But not tree shadows. And only morning shadows.

@mobiditch6848 3 жыл бұрын

Nevermind skin cancer

@Jaya365 3 жыл бұрын

@Mellio Kuang I have no doubt he believes in his own conviction

@NeonNion 3 жыл бұрын

CUT THE TREES DOWN!!

@sumvs5992 3 жыл бұрын

Just a reminder that night is shadow

@nathanparker3191 3 жыл бұрын

Greatest reply.

@torysetliff 3 жыл бұрын

This man owns the land...to my Texan mind, this is insane.

@IonorReasSpamGenerator 3 жыл бұрын

Laws for urban development are quite stricter for a reason, in many cities, you can't build high rise (like Washington) others did not allow build some modern art "masterpiece" that will mess up the skyline or create reflections that will heat up the neighborhood. What it seems here to be more of an issue is that some politicians may be weaponizing laws intended to keep the spirit of city architecture and protect other home owners into something that is used to induce bribes from home developers that are too tired to achieve their goals legally when the legal system is corrupted to the point of intentionally creating obstacles to enforce their ways of doing business...

@meferswift 3 жыл бұрын

@@IonorReasSpamGenerator im for taking environmental hazard that the development might produce. The actual problem that should indeed be researched and considered. But that kind studies mainly involve scientists, engineer and medical research among other thing that can usually be done in sufficiently expedite time frame. Social issues however is a freaak job with lots of hypocrisy and not so good intentions. You can add reinforcement to your design or choose different materials so your building dont burn your neighborhood. But if it hurt the activists feeling? Goodluck fixing that.

@randominternetguy3537 3 жыл бұрын

It's not just the shitty government, its also a group thats trying to extort money from him

@user-yi7td2sq9b 3 жыл бұрын

Unfortunately, land is hardly yours to own if you're literally paying the state rent (property tax).

@mushypork2132 3 жыл бұрын

I don't know why we keep referring to politicians and political activists as humans

@arthasmenethil2201 3 жыл бұрын

"Our children must raise healthy! He's taking away our sun! "Son, don't touch that needle. No, son! That's not mud!"

@christianroman780 5 жыл бұрын

WHAT DO WE WANT? MORE HOUSING!!! WHERE DO WE WANT IT? NOT HERE!!!

@saintanthonygoodchild1288 5 жыл бұрын

Hahahahaha! I couldn't have mocked it better myself!

@peppermintgal4302 5 жыл бұрын

People can want housing while not wanting it on the terms of a parasite, asshole. Also, I hate your username. Romanism completely destroyed all the virtue of Christianity by instilling it with the same imperialist ethics of the pharisee. There is no greater contradiction than Romanism and Christianity. Not that I'm Christian, but there was something admirable about the impulse of the early church to reject both the imperialist ambitions of the Roman empire, and the imperialist envy of the Pharisees.

@fajaradi1223 5 жыл бұрын

So where it should be built? THERE! where? THERE! where? THERE!

@MsBrendalina 5 жыл бұрын

@@peppermintgal4302 """People can want housing while not wanting it on the terms of a parasite, asshole.""" Well then...What terms will you accept? I don't see how the dude in this video is a "parasite". He's been a contributing member to the community and he's run a business there for years. He's not some millionaire douche who came in from 1,000 miles away to put together a pet project. He even started the project precisely because he wanted to provide some affordable apartments for the customers who frequent his laundromat. How much more morally pure do you need him to be before you'll deem him worthy to build some apartments into his existing building? The reason housing prices in San Francisco are so outrageous is because there just isn't enough to go around. Ever hear of "Supply & Demand"? THOUSANDS of people want to live in San Francisco (or need to live there because that's where their job/company is). But the city isn't allowing new apartments/homes to be built. So the existing ones can charge a fortune in rent because there are plenty of rich people clamoring to live there and very little competition from other housing units. The housing crisis will never be solved if you don't provide places for people to live in.

@Vid_Master 5 жыл бұрын

its funny that you never see White Communities yelling with megaphones about being displaced, and giving interviews using "white culture" as a way to get what they want.

@jeffp7776 3 жыл бұрын

"The first rule of holes is when your in a hole stop digging" Timeless quote.

@mikeg3439 3 жыл бұрын

California version is when you're in a hole, blame Trump and dig even harder. I know, I live here. Moderate/conservatives are hated and considered to be traitors. Any yard sign that isn't for a left leaning politician earns you vandalism and your car keyed. By grown-ass adults, half the time. It's that bad. Most Californians are dangerous, drug-addled fascists.

@keepinitfloored 3 жыл бұрын

14:28

@GoTocco 3 жыл бұрын

Tell that to Jeff Bezos. Amazon was losing money for decades to price everyone out of business. Now he owns everything.

@kylefagan9585 3 жыл бұрын

The 2nd one is know your role and shut your hole

@Erk0806 3 жыл бұрын

It depends on what side your on. I guess if it easy for you to justify the fact that ppl are being pushed out their homes by developers then the solution is to keep on rolling. I would say remember this when your looking to buy a home in hometown and are completely priced out of the market...... I’m sure you will have a different perspective then..

@tanyachef 3 жыл бұрын

"exploiting his property for top gain!" I guess they do not like the taxes that would generate? These ppl LOVE to talk and advocate for "RIGHTS" but ignore the RESPONSIBILITY that goes hand and hand with.

@threemar3 3 жыл бұрын

This is what drives me nuts. They'd rather tax people for nothing, and keep people poor, than allow people to get rich and get taxes off of them. By making this guy spend so much money on the case, he'd have to raise rent to extreme numbers to break even. If they had just let it happen, he'd probably have some reasonable rent costs.

@imma5269 3 жыл бұрын

They’re not upset about people making a lot of money, they’re upset that they aren’t making a lot of money themselves. Hypocritical brainlets

@MohammedAli-pj1it 3 жыл бұрын

Exploiting property for the highest value is maximizing value for society. That's literally how shit works. Sure only rich people would be able to afford it at first. But that means less rich people completing for other units in the city. Every unit of market rate housing creates .6 units of affordable housing just via market forces alone

@ssjwes 3 жыл бұрын

I'm glad I'm starting to see more people talk about responsibility that go along with those rights people love to scream about so much.

@rickpickle 3 жыл бұрын

their tactics are not designed to inform, they are designed to humiliate, so the less they adhere to reality the better. when people are forced to repeat obvious lies, and worse, forced to stay silent, they lose their probity. a society of emasculated liars is easy to control. it's a communist propaganda technique.

@mae2759 3 жыл бұрын

I can't count how many times my jaw dropped open watching this. I'm so glad I don't live there. Poor Bob.

@HVACSoldier 5 жыл бұрын

Building apartments is called “fascism” in San Francisco?

@fernandoabiti9350 3 жыл бұрын

At this point the left definioìtion of facism is a good thing

@colin1818 3 жыл бұрын

The left doesn't know what that word even means.

@zendean5207 3 жыл бұрын

Actually, all apartment buildings are along tge lines of fascism. But feudalism would be a more accurate term. Fascism graphically described would look like a pyramid. One dude at the top getting all the money, all the dudes at the bottom working their asses off as slaves making the dude at the top richer. Yhis is capitalism. And once the government starts siding with the dude at the top, it's called fascusm. This guy is rich enough to spend 1.4 million dollars just getting a project approved. There is no need for anybody to feel sorry for him. He'll be fine. If he'd have made his building 90% or even 100% rent controlled affirdable housing he'd still be rich snd naking money and everybody would be happy. He's just another rich dude from a fich momma trying to get richer and crying like a pussy when he actually has to work at it.

@colin1818 3 жыл бұрын

@@zendean5207 - lol, you have no idea what "fascism" even is, do you? You're just ignorantly calling everything "fascism" that you don't like. You also have no idea how basic economics works. I could cite multiple examples of why rent control destroys housing availability but you're clearly just a marxist with an axe to grind and no facts to support your positions.

@jmc5910 3 жыл бұрын

They want free housing

@gsd4me00 5 жыл бұрын

If all else fails, make it about "the children".

@kangyuan4842 5 жыл бұрын

Like he said, "it's a no brainer." Which qualifies every progressive.

@mariomendoza8041 5 жыл бұрын

Or accuse the man of being a fascist..because he wants to build housing..

@Rick_Sanchez_C137_ 5 жыл бұрын

The children that they forgot to abort.

@fredlebhart1393 5 жыл бұрын

David Hunn yeah the kids will DIE in the shadows!!!!

@JJones987 5 жыл бұрын

Exactly. Same tired playbook.

@Kanhow 3 жыл бұрын

The stupidity of this warms my soul and puts a smile on my face.

@averagewikipediaenthusiast3088 3 жыл бұрын

The stupidity hurts and angers me. I feel bad for the guy

@CoreysCrustaceans 3 жыл бұрын

“housing is too expensive in san francisco” “no you can’t build housing here that’s gentrification” “why is housing so expensive”

@WokerThanThou 5 жыл бұрын

He ran a laundromat business for 25 years and now has the money to replace it with homes then gets called out as an *evil profiteering fascist!*

@JeevesReturns 5 жыл бұрын

Just shut the laundromat and tell ‘em all to go wash their shit in their bathtubs.

@Nehmi 5 жыл бұрын

It would have been luxury housing with no units for low-income people.

@jakes7342 5 жыл бұрын

Nehmi even if that was the case it wasn't replacing any existing housing and it's no one's business what he legally does with HIS property. I'm not a rich man I struggle month-to-month but I don't cry like a little bitch about it

@tougeruzbay 5 жыл бұрын

Democracy in a nutshell

@jakes7342 5 жыл бұрын

RUZBAY86 actually know what they're doing is highly illegal what you're seeing is a corrupt democracy

@frankmagana1408 5 жыл бұрын

Today i learned that building apartments on your property is now facism. I don’t remember learning that in AP world

@SteveB-nx2uo 5 жыл бұрын

when you dont have a brain and disconnect from reality, anything is possible!

@heartofjustice6041 5 жыл бұрын

same i was perplexed i thought you could build anything in your property as long as it followed city rules and businesses gave the OK well fuck

@user-ft2md2gd4s 5 жыл бұрын

I’ve heard California is a communist country.

@MLDprodutions1 5 жыл бұрын

These people are anti-capitalism.

@pmvaldez1 5 жыл бұрын

@@heartofjustice6041 that's not how it works.

@Nope_handlesaretrash 3 жыл бұрын

I have come to the conclusion that everyone that lives in San Francisco either has left or deserves it. They support this stuff and then act surprised when it doesn't work out for them. Don't feel bad for them just point and laugh.

@XxVMartinez123xX 3 жыл бұрын

I live an hour and a half south and look at San Francisco as an expensive shit hole my county isnt any better also

@pakilee87 3 жыл бұрын

I'm a small time city employee and we get complaints all the time about how bad things are and to me it's like well you voted for this stuff.

@rustym.shackelford5546 3 жыл бұрын

Don't be too glad that they're leaving. They'll go somewhere else & support the same policies that made them leave. We need Commie Control.

@rustym.shackelford5546 3 жыл бұрын

@@pakilee87 Hopefully things change for the better there. I don't like how many (unlike yourself) across California support this.

@wetznerkdk2922 Жыл бұрын

Thats Not commie at all. The commie approach would be expropriation, demolition and than to build commieblocks. Commies are a lot but they are Not nimbys blocking massive housing....

@amysanchez3699 3 жыл бұрын

As soon as I saw who was blocking it, I knew they wanted the property for themselves. For free. That's all it is. Greed.

@jonathangrey2183 5 жыл бұрын

So now building a building = fascism? I missed that day in history class

@fahs 5 жыл бұрын

When I lived in San Francisco, I bought a shithole, it was all I could afford. I was baffled by all the permits I needed for everything. I even got fined for cutting a limb off a tree without a permit.

@xekis 5 жыл бұрын

@@fahs Sounds horribly totalitarian. I would have left SF and moved to America after that.

@interferon4800 5 жыл бұрын

Well, they are teaching that now. You should drop in to modern history class and see for yourself, comrade.

@redgeneral5792 5 жыл бұрын

@@fahs Yeah don't fuck with the trees in California. They have to send out an inspector to make sure your tree is "dead" enough to cut down, even on private property. And they wonder why they have forest fires ALL the time.

@notsure6187 5 жыл бұрын

it wasn't in the history books back then

@heyzeus97862 5 жыл бұрын

"We want affordable housing!!!" ok well here is a plan to add more housing, if we add enough housing, we can lower the prices of all the housing helping to make affordable housing "NOOOOOOO WE WANT AFFORDABLE HOUSING"

@rwatertree 5 жыл бұрын

The anti-gentrification movement is really just a segregationist movement. Calle 24 wants the latinos who live there now to remain there and all the other races not to be allowed to move in.

@einarabelc5 5 жыл бұрын

What they really want is to be slaves, so they don't have to pay for anything with money. No responsibility, just be forced into slavery and suffer. They don't know it, but they act like so.

@interferon4800 5 жыл бұрын

@@rwatertree They are useful idiots covertly funded by existing landowners that want to keep their rents artificially high.

@SmashBrosBrawl 5 жыл бұрын

That want you to pay for their housing is what they're saying.

@fine1298 5 жыл бұрын

More like "NOOOO SPEAK ENGLISH WE JUST WANT FREE HOUSING"

@4jqxc 3 жыл бұрын

When that guy asked for another study to be done for the shadows I lost it 😅! This is how burecaecy can waste time and money and gets nothing done.

@5_qm610 3 жыл бұрын

“We have to build more housing!” *Proceeds to prevent housing because of a slight shadow*

@esquire9445 5 жыл бұрын

He isn't a professional real estate developer... so he doesn't know who to bribe.

@shpazhist 5 жыл бұрын

or maybe the person who knows already bribed who he/she needed so that to be able to buy it from him for pennies and then be able to re-sell it for millions

@drivejapan6293 5 жыл бұрын

Knowing what a bribe is and how to do it without getting caught are very different things.

@annm.7176 5 жыл бұрын

I wouldn't to hell with them.

@esquire9445 5 жыл бұрын

True... but you could just contribute to their re-election fund. Blatant bribery is built in to the system.

@SamiKrasniqi 5 жыл бұрын

My thoughts exactly

@hans7686 5 жыл бұрын

10:40 "Getting top dollar for a piece of property. Mr. Tillman is exploiting the process for his own personal gain". How dare he try to make money off of his own land!

@ChrisParrishOutdoors 5 жыл бұрын

seriously, like wtf else is he suppose to do with it?

@user-fl8lq7xq3c 5 жыл бұрын

They just don't recognize that self-interest is an acceptable motivation for doing anything

@lunaflamed 5 жыл бұрын

‘How dare he OWN land...’

@Erin-Thor 5 жыл бұрын

Hans 7 - Not to mention that the people BLOCKING the building of new homes are standing there screaming "WE NEED MORE HOUSING!" Hello? That’s like screaming "HELP ME I'M STARVING!" "Here, would you like some food?" "NO! I don’t want your leftovers!" And WHY are people not focusing on the high tax rates and high property costs? If a 50’x30’ patch of dirt costs four million and I can only build four apartments on the spot... do the damn math!

@rightslip8345 5 жыл бұрын

He paid his taxes, obeyed the law, hired lawyers, and fought his fight on the up& up. So, the only recourse, as usual, is to demonize him, lie and destroy his character. Racist, latinophobe, every name in the book. The lesson here is: He should have taken that $1.5M in legal fees & greased some palms.

@GhostOfAMachine 2 жыл бұрын

"Our children need that sunlight to be healthy". After the meeting "hey kids lets get mcdonalds and ice cream"

@livefreeprintguns 3 жыл бұрын

7:08 "These are the times that each of us must rise to counter-act the terror of rising fascism." As she stares into an Apple laptop manufactured by slave labor in a fascist country. I don't know what I'm more flabbergasted by, the sheer amount of balls on people like this or the painful lack of self-awareness.

@saltymonke3682 5 жыл бұрын

Building owner: "Hey I want to build a new building on my land" Activist:"Fascist!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

@Novusod 5 жыл бұрын

Would you want an 8 floor 75 unit apartment complex built on your next door neighbore's lot? I doubt it. I am not even a Democrat I agree with the planning board.

@packergeek10 5 жыл бұрын

@@Novusod Well you are a fuckin idiot. Stew on that.

@RickZackExploreOffroad 5 жыл бұрын

Novusod - So you would prefer an ever increasing homeless population as more and more people are forced on the street? Hepatitis and other diseases that thrive due to poor housing? Or a vanishing middle class and increased income inequality as the working class flee the city? Is your motivation simply a "not in my back yard" mentality or a hope to benefit from the escalating real estate prices due to a lack of supply? It's a congested city, if crowds are not your thing then move out.

@massv953 5 жыл бұрын

@@Novusod cities grow, areas change, thats like saying i should be able to have a ranch house built in downtown. People who are in single units, small houses etc are the ones keeping people from being able to have homes. Those not wanting to build more are the greedy ones who are driving up cost, that what this is all about.

@henryperez606 5 жыл бұрын

Novusod I guess you’all out there can continue to wallow in human feces

@sageoblouk6782 5 жыл бұрын

It is terrible that the government is preventing someone from using their land in a way that they desire and is legal

@bthemedia 5 жыл бұрын

Sage Oblouk that’s the point “legal” - and land use regulation, historical significance, value to community, etc. There does seem to be issues and ambiguity in the legal process however.

@michaelscott-joynt3215 5 жыл бұрын

I feel it's worse that this comes from racist, deceitful demands of poor minorities, who basically demanded their people should be put into poor houses where, without fixing the insanity going on in the market, it's basically sentencing those people and their children to lifetime in poverty. They would rather do that than allow more white people to move in, because they believe this is a Latino area. And people wonder how ghettos begin.

@TheJhong011 5 жыл бұрын

it's worse because people in government positions are openly displaying bias and employing logical fallacies to make decisions.

@sageoblouk6782 5 жыл бұрын

@Silver Fox I am referring to the state government in this post.

@outofbluepills 5 жыл бұрын

"It is terrible that the government is preventing someone from using their land in a way that they desire and is legal" ...and would help poor and working people. Excuse me. I mean BROWN AND BLACK poor and working people (that way what has become of the once-noble left might actually care).

@G1CAAAAEO 3 жыл бұрын

People in SF: "I need housing for a normal rent" SF Democrats: "You want diversity training and transgenders in your daughters shower? Got it, but we need to raise the taxes though"

@Zeknix 3 жыл бұрын

Sounds like to me he wasn't paying his "protection" money.

@Vassil00 5 жыл бұрын

"We love and include everyone......except you and you and you.....I don't want you people in my neighborhood" -San Francisco

@a.n.l.aantineoliberalismas4504 4 жыл бұрын

@David Sanchez mate as a actually leftist these people are more Nazis then leftists actually American has no "left" party it's all right Dont blame the left on a right issue

@TheParkingLotPhilosopher 4 жыл бұрын

San fransisco has just completely turned into a clown car that makes no sense

@ryanphillips4218 3 жыл бұрын

5:45 is the truth. It's ok for it to be developed by an NGO but not him. They want it only being done under their terms and control.

@cjpenning 3 жыл бұрын

"Keep the good stuff out! Keep the good stuff out!"

@achyka3802 5 жыл бұрын

as soon as they refuse an interview you know they don't know how to defend their stance and don't believe it makes full sense

@snappedoutloco 5 жыл бұрын

Achy ka that or they are professionals who would rather not take time out of their day to prepare a comment/interview for every single KZfaq video made on the housing crisis here in sf.... I’d hope they have better shit to do with their time, like finding a solution...

@gardensofthegods 5 жыл бұрын

Sometimes people don't want to do an interview because they know they're going to be misquoted and it will be in favor of a person with a bias . Anyone who's ever been misquoted or had something edited to make it look differently than the actual truth will tell you why they no longer wish to talk with the Press

@sor3999 5 жыл бұрын

It’s hard to defend that you’re an just establishment land owner under the guise of progressivism who wants to keep supply low so you can ask for whatever rents you want for your falling apart building. More and new buildings would jeopardize that.

@saidsadly2400 5 жыл бұрын

snappedoutloco Usually groups advocating for a specific cause want nothing more than the opportunity to market their mission to others. It makes no sense for them to not want to participate in a real show addressing a problem they want to address as well.

@pupmcgee8922 5 жыл бұрын

is that why trump doesn't let anyone in on anything?

@suarez976 5 жыл бұрын

The funny thing is the guy at 10:12 saying that a building casting a shadow is somehow interfering in the safety of a child. lol.

@MKRocker2012 5 жыл бұрын

Weaponized autism at work.

@Lerxstification 5 жыл бұрын

Sick thing is, most insane leftists believe in shit like that, if they don't, they pretend to. Like supposedly 'ripping the kids out of the arms of the mothers" at the border, yet they are fine with ripping fetuses out of the womb of the mother.

@14598175 5 жыл бұрын

Orwell saw this coming, but even he would vomit at how far it's going. One of these days they'll end up killing each other, but they won't be arrested because they'll claim "we could not have murdered a "fascist" because they're already dead inside" as they're allowed to walk. Pretty soon, EVERYONE is a "fascist"!

@gmoney5947 5 жыл бұрын

That’s probably the only sun kids get today. Didn’t you know video games look the best in the dark?

@maxrobley4200 5 жыл бұрын

They do the same thing with guns. “WaHT aBoUT tHe CHiLDRen??”

@rantingguy1726 3 жыл бұрын

The "Unwritten rule" he didn't follow was he didn't bribe them with enough free shit, extra additional low-income units, and personal donations. The SF rule of building is "Follow the law and bribe us with extra shit on top of it. If the law says you have to give 11% of your units up to affordable housing we REALLY mean you need to bribe us with 25%."

@is.this.a-real-thing 3 жыл бұрын

Coming to a city near you. I can't find a mic drop emoji but you get the point.

@liberty-matrix 3 жыл бұрын

*San Francisco, the poster child for woke to broke!*

@tanyachef 3 жыл бұрын

Ill never forget sitting in a city council meeting and hearing a young woman say "I live with 5 roommates and work at a cafe. I am an ARTIST!! I cant afford to live in SF bc cost of rent AND I AM A TAX PAYING CITIZEN!!" I DEMAND...." Uh she is a tax-paying citizen? Bc she does not own land, she pays zero property taxes. Bc she works as an employee, she pays no taxes that biz owners have to pay the city. So, other than sales tax (roughly 10% of SOME of the purchases she makes. Things like food and medicine), she pays no taxes directly to SF. Sf and the ppl that CHOOSE to live there need to realize the rights come with responsibilities. Gov interference breeds problems like these. There is NO reason she cant be an artist in Sacramento or Fresno where the cost of living is WAY lower!!!

@jont2576 3 жыл бұрын

At $7000 per month rent I would volunteer to tear down my living room and turn it into a 16 bed hostel too.

@digitallocations1423 3 жыл бұрын

What a terrible way to live.

@seansolidworks4736 3 жыл бұрын

@@digitallocations1423 it’s a little less common now. Prices in SF are plummeting, however, everywhere else in the bay rents are sky rocketing

@joysoyo2416 3 жыл бұрын

Lmao nah.

@azmike3572 3 жыл бұрын

I can only imagine the paperwork, permits, hearings, etc., that you'd have to go through to do this.

@cloudian159 3 жыл бұрын

One of the biggest issues with current "affordable" housing is that it actually encourages poverty. The reason is in many states in order to be even considered as a tenant you have to make poverty wages and if you make more than your application is trashed. This encourages a lower level of living to keep housing and other programs that are given to them.

@saint_gales 3 жыл бұрын

"encourages poverty"? who the fuck wants to be poor...?

@wilfdarr 3 жыл бұрын

That's not a function of the housing though, that's a function of the administration: if the rent were adjusted appropriately as a function of the economic potential AND the salary, people would be encouraged to seek upward mobility.

@wilfdarr 3 жыл бұрын

@@saint_gales Nobody WANTS to be poor, but the way many “affordable housing” projects are administered, the tenants get kicked out if they hit a certain threshold, so after getting a higher paying (and economically more productive) job, they are now forced to seek market rate housing which eats up far more than the small increase they got as a salary increase, making them poorer than if they had just kept the first lower paying job.

@soylentgreenb 3 жыл бұрын

If being poor means you can afford things a normal income can’t pay for; lots of people want to be poor.

@ianhomerpura8937 2 жыл бұрын

Which is exactly the problem with your mindset: you're only looking at examples within the US. Look at how housing is done in countries with decent housing and zoning laws, like you know, Japan, Singapore, and Austria.

@idiotsavant7276 3 жыл бұрын

Didn’t know “diversity” is what they call homelessness in San Fran... yeah... y’all can keep that.

@TheNinjaDC 5 жыл бұрын

Meanwhile in Texas... Developer: "I want to build a mini amusement park next to some suburbs." Texas: "Sounds like fun." *bangs gavel in approval.

@The.Red.Tomahawk 5 жыл бұрын

TheNinjaDC Nice. Murica'

@DarcyCardinal 5 жыл бұрын

Texas is awesome

@davidradtke160 5 жыл бұрын

And then Houston gets flooded and they wonder why.....because there were no building and planning efforts made to mitigate flood issues.

@nautifella 5 жыл бұрын

I am from The People's Republic of California, move about 15yrs ago; a good friend moved to Texas around the same time. He wanted to build a wall around his property. In the PRC the process is extensive; reports. endorsements (bribes), hearing et cetera. He went to the country offices and asked how to start the process. The lady behind the counter said: *_"I'd buy some materials and hires some folks."_*

@DoloRoboto 5 жыл бұрын

TheNinjaDC Lol in the rich hill country in SA I saw a tiny water park outside a neighborhood in a kids a play ground.

@taroubb1940 5 жыл бұрын

So, you wanting to build a house in your property is a fascism now? LOL ;p

@TKUA11 5 жыл бұрын

Tarou BB yes being white is racist

@taroubb1940 5 жыл бұрын

👌🏻

@pelirojopajaro 5 жыл бұрын

"property is theft" dontchaknow?

@Barskor1 5 жыл бұрын

Property tax it is not your property you are a renter from the Gubberment.

@s.n.9485 5 жыл бұрын

@@Barskor1 oh God, not this debate again lol.

@Nix-pj3fn 3 жыл бұрын

Never seen this channel i like the video format gave a lot of explanation into this ongoing issue

@Alexwhatisit 3 жыл бұрын

"what's it going to be like 10-15 years from now?" Well, better seeing as how people with money who can actually contribute to the local economy move into the neighborhood and improve things, rather then the people attempting to hold onto dilapidated properties, don't pay for it's up keep, and let it turn into 62nd - 69th/ Figueroa in LA, or the Venice board walk. Or mission street as it is now.

@justicar5 3 жыл бұрын

they move in and price the residents out, that is a constant, does the geographic area improve? Sure, do the lies of the people currently their get worse? Yes, they get chased out.

@asparagusmelontoast 5 жыл бұрын

"he is exploiting the process for his own personal gain", even though this process went over 4 years and he spent way to much on it. How jaded

@mylesgray3470 4 жыл бұрын

Giardinosaur T. That’s they way capitalism works.. profit motivation to perform work. This guy is going to make money by building apartments, we must stop him!

@jamessuter551 3 жыл бұрын

If you're not doing it for personal gain, what's the point.

@mikeg3439 3 жыл бұрын

Setting aside the fact that Americans are now demonized for seeking personal gain. Think about that for a moment. We've started to become defensive when someone "accuses" us of seeking personal gain. Someone says that to me, I yell F-off loudly in their face. But most people back-pedal and apologize and try to defend that they aren't just seeking gain, they stutter and become flustered. It's because we are all being gas lighted, badly. The constitution has at its base, Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness, and amendments that strengthen this. Now we act like we've been told that we are evil if we fulfill the promise of our constitution. What days we live in.

@The_DC_Kid 3 жыл бұрын

You mean he's actually attempting to earn profit? OMG!!! String him up; don't they know that's PURE CAPITALISM in its most BLATANT form? We're SOCIALISTS now. Newsom decided last week; didn't you hear the statement last Tuesday morning on CBS?

@svengalilord 5 жыл бұрын

7:10 "these are the times we must rise to counteract the terror of rising fascism" How can she say that with straight face? I hope Bob Tillman continues his lawsuit and wins the $17 million that he deserves.

@WouterCloetens 5 жыл бұрын

He should actually file a suit for hate crimes as well. I'd love to see an SJW in trouble for using hurtful words.

@Dr.Kananga 5 жыл бұрын

These are people who display publicly their hate for any narrative which might be different from theirs. They like diversity only when it brings money to their pockets, otherwise you're a fascist.

@rickoconnell3645 5 жыл бұрын

Mark Kramm that moment when someone falls deep into the black whole of the npc meme

@KFrost-fx7dt 5 жыл бұрын

The old man doesn't deserve anything except to be run out of town. He's trying to build luxury apartments so that he can get rich, and is messing up the whole neighborhood in the process. People like him are why boomers are hated.

@Onshki 5 жыл бұрын

@@WouterCloetens it happens all the time. SJWs cannibalize each other like crazy. Just not fast enough.

@fringetravelideas Жыл бұрын

An update on this: the building is approved and under construction.

@elheffe2597 Жыл бұрын

Only took >4 years and millions in legal battles that the landlord will likely have to recoup with raised rental cost. NIMBYs literally shot themselves in the foot in the name of "equality" and "diversity".

@fringetravelideas Жыл бұрын

@@elheffe2597 listen, I hate nimbys as much any reasonable person, but I hate propaganda.

@mwatercress 10 ай бұрын

@@fringetravelideas Are you calling this video propaganda? Would you like to correct the record? Did this process not slow the addition of housing units during a housing crisis? Did this process not raise the cost of each unit?

@WillieFungo Ай бұрын

@@fringetravelideas It's not propoganda. You sound like a NIMBY.

@arthasmenethil2201 3 жыл бұрын

Someone explain to me why the city of SF wants unaffordable housing, clearly intentional. What's the benefit? I don't get it.

@Izithel 3 жыл бұрын

The politicians in power probably benefit, if anything perpetuating the situation allows them to keep using it as an item for any election, keeps the donations rolling in and guarantees their salary. They make a grant spectacle about blaming the lack of affordable housing on greedy corporations or gentrification by the 'rich' while they use the impenetrability and mundanity of the bureaucracy to hide their duplicity where they block any project.

@richhenry8004 5 жыл бұрын

I hope he gets every penny. This is simply bad behavior not worthy of rational thinking adults.

@jonathangrey2183 5 жыл бұрын

Not to be Mr. Blackpilled here, but all that money will come from taxpayers. They wasted a bunch of money to stop his building and now they're gonna have to waste even more money in reparations

@benwolski 5 жыл бұрын

@@jonathangrey2183 , would the money come from the general fund for SF? do you know which taxes primarily fund the general fund?

@AvNotasian 5 жыл бұрын

@@jonathangrey2183 They deserve it honesty, these people are supposed to be their representatives.

@interferon4800 5 жыл бұрын

@@jonathangrey2183 The taxpayers that voted for the city council in the first place. Sounds like a fair punishment to me...

@justincox8658 5 жыл бұрын

San Francisco is a poor investment to begin with. A wiser man would of known better.

@78g476 5 жыл бұрын

Liberals are very liberal with other people's money.

@toxic1698 5 жыл бұрын

These are not true liberals.

@vantheman1136 5 жыл бұрын

So true

@jorgemurillo1366 5 жыл бұрын

I agree with you

@kgal1298 5 жыл бұрын

@joe jitsu Rightests raise 17 million for a wall, bitch when they have to pay $5.00 extra in taxes.

@carsonrush3352 5 жыл бұрын

@@kgal1298, that sounds like an over-generalization and oversimplification of the right and the issues. Are you angry about something? Sincerely, would you like to talk about it?

@anamericanman 3 жыл бұрын

I've been to SF many times, lived across the bridge in Oakland. It wasn't all that. There was a lot of street people, it was dirty, etc. And now the crime is out-of-control.

@ZmillaZ 3 жыл бұрын

This is crazy, when I compare this to Texas where I’m looking at buying my first house this year for 160k

@empirestate8791 4 жыл бұрын

Lol "partial shade" . Last time I checked, SF is cloudy at least 75% of the year!

@Darrylizer1 4 жыл бұрын

The Mission is actually one of the sunnier places in the city and gets a lot of sunlight comparatively. The Sunset and Richmond districts are cloudy almost the entire summer. Anything close to the ocean is buried under fog for much of the summer.

@bluemopdisaster6445 3 жыл бұрын

Weight do you need approval to build an apartment building or can you just build it on your property and start renting?

@oregondude9411 3 жыл бұрын

And SF has dozens of skyscrapers that block the sun 95% of the time.

@montyi8 3 жыл бұрын

Shut up idiot

@stansman5461 3 жыл бұрын

That explains why children there grow up to be idiots

@KeepingItKeith 5 жыл бұрын

Sooooo as soon as he sues them they approve the project?? Just goes to show it was all a sham from the beginning.

@TheVuduYuDu 5 жыл бұрын

Thank you! After reading all of the other comments I think that most folk don't see the bigger picture here which is how the City of San Francisco is hustling everybody involved.

@b-b8704 5 жыл бұрын

They benefit from a long cycle as well, more pay, and more incentive for under the table cash

@SewSumi 5 жыл бұрын

@@wesleyp3024 Apparently googling, he apparently dropped his lawsuit less than 6 months after this was produced.

@SewSumi 5 жыл бұрын

@@wesleyp3024 And even he sold up to a hotel brand.

@kaliplaya86 5 жыл бұрын

Of course. Why else would they do it? No motivation otherwise.

@andrewzuo86 2 жыл бұрын

"When the choice's between expedited development and the health and safety of a child's life the answer should be a no-brainer." Oh, no, not the shadow! Someone please think of the children. 🤣🤣🤣

@mattrowan2680 3 жыл бұрын

If you live anywhere in California you need to be medicated and brought to a red state for therapy. Exception: If you live in L.A. or S.F., STAY WHERE YOU ARE...you cannot be cured. If you should escape CA and actually move to another state you are not permitted to vote for 10 years so that we may be sure of your newfound sanity.

@vajoynus 3 жыл бұрын

I'm from California and I approve this message.

@Timasion 5 жыл бұрын

I was a Real Estate development attorney for several years and can attest that California is literally the worst and most expensive place to develop anything. I jokingly (not so much) refer to these laws as employment laws for attorneys and environmental consultants. They literally will make up things to study. When I left the field, the big thing was to study the "global warming impacts" of your project. Now, by any reasonable standard, that is impossible to quantify for any single project. By their own admission, California itself has a minimal impact on global warming and that's the entire state. How can you measure the impacts of a 10-unit apartment? But, you have to hire a specialist to study it and discuss the potential impacts. And then, they wonder why housing is so expensive in California.

@mephosto 5 жыл бұрын

never trust anyone that uses "inclusive".

@josephmoore4764 5 жыл бұрын

They're being inclusive by preventing new people from coming in or doing what they want. Got it

@gfox5237 5 жыл бұрын

@mephosto Why exactly shouldn't I. That seems like a fairly blanket statement

@bskee001 3 жыл бұрын

Normally the ones who use “inclusive” are the most non-inclusive and live in the least diverse neighborhoods with the least inclusive and diverse friends.

@siddbastard 3 жыл бұрын

@@gfox5237 because it's newspeak

@wolfy1987 3 жыл бұрын

Inclusive means even supporting the people that hate you and your way of life. I think its bullshit

@maxmustermann-zx9yq 3 жыл бұрын

if they want it to be "their city" they should have bought the land lol

@jasonrevelation1582 3 жыл бұрын

How much do you want to bet the city council members either directly or indirectly own or invest in real estate and benefit from higher prices caused be their obstructions?

@Kingfish179 5 жыл бұрын

Wow - this is actually really hard to watch. It was particularly cringe-worthy to hear the supervisor criticize the developer for "exploiting the system for personal gain." I'm not sure why anyone thinks that those in government are driven any less by self interest.

@Mbeluba 5 жыл бұрын

It's like she thinks that any personal gain is by default evil. Disgusting, pathological ideology of altruism.

@Sovereign_Citizen_LEO 5 жыл бұрын

And it's not like this guy is going to have any personal gain. If it ever happens for him (or his children), it will be 40 or 50 years, and he will be long dead. It has already cost him $1.25 Million and nothing is even built. Then he has to go through the permitting process and all the other bureaucracy. It could be a decade before anything is actually built.

@TheMacFreack 5 жыл бұрын

Says the council official that gets paid over 200K a year

@davidlafleche1142 5 жыл бұрын

That's the whole point of development! The guy wants to put up an apartment building so he can make money! What's wrong with that?

@davidlafleche1142 5 жыл бұрын

@@Sovereign_Citizen_LEO That's Marxism for you.

@AreCatsGay 5 жыл бұрын

These people make my blood boil

@shadynail4723 5 жыл бұрын

I wanna strangle them, and cats might be gay

@lendluke 5 жыл бұрын

@Sheldon Cooper Don't so easily give up the moral high ground. When you say stuff like that, you are no better than the "activists" that told Bob Tillman they wish his daughter died in the Boston Marathon bombing. Watching this makes me angry too, but saying you would kill them all is not helpful.

@ReeseL4D 5 жыл бұрын

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@ryang2573 5 жыл бұрын

The maddening thing is when this whole mess collapses - as it is almost certainly will - all of these people will flee from the consequences of their actions. They will then set about doing the exact same things that led them into the mess the fled from in the first place. They never, ever learn.

@cjay2 5 жыл бұрын

Just wondering where people will go to do their laundry then. San Francisco has become unlivable because developers (who do NOT even live in the city) are seeking always to build rental properties. They'll take over the parks soon and build on them. San Francisco is a small place. If there is no more room, live elsewhere. You don't all HAVE TO live in the city. It is NOT a human right to be able to live there. I left SF after 38 years there because it has become a disaster area. Homeless everywhere, developers ruining the city with their garbage apartment buildings from hell. The city is already ruined. And they continue. This laundry owner is just trying to cash in on the development trend. He has no implicit 'right' to build the apartment. Just sayin'.

@jmdelapp Жыл бұрын

That is like Santa Fe, NM. Lots of complaints about lack of affordable housing and lots of opposition to new housing.

@mr.bearry6575 3 жыл бұрын

4:06 "This has been especially exacerbated by the influx of high paying jobs..." Upward mobility strikes again!

@totenkray 5 жыл бұрын

Poor people will vote and pay for their own bondage as long as they get the government to subsidise the cost of the chains.

@watchlearn1167 5 жыл бұрын

Impressive line. Have a happy New Year :)

@donalejo1889 5 жыл бұрын

True

@kenetickups6146 5 жыл бұрын

Steve La Dedha nah the rich will give them the chains for free

@ValidityJ 4 жыл бұрын

Well....I would say replace the word "poor" with "stupid". True that many poor people are low IQ, but I have met some intelligent "poor" people. I wouldn't call those people poor though. I'd call them simple & anti-world. They chose the poverty. It's the stupid people that are too stupid to understand the modern day slavery that they demand that are killing our country.

@henrynenjamin3273 5 жыл бұрын

As soon as he sells it a non profit organization they'll turn around and sell for millions more

@shpazhist 5 жыл бұрын

and also the people who are behind this charade also dont want anyone to be wealthy or have any financial resources as one of their goals is financial domination over everyone

@lyndagruen2047 3 жыл бұрын

It is for reasons like this that I remain a Conservative. Man, what sense of entitlement, lawlessness and hypocrisy! But I guess that's what the locals want. I get wanting to keep communities intact. I'd prefer that, myself. But times change. When Progressives destroyed my family's communities, they didn't care about how they had destroyed our quality of life and displaced us. I guess our lives don't matter - we're just white Conservatives. Although culturally what that means, is that so long as we can find a new place to go, we will move, rather than demand rights we don't have. The homes and communities we've been driven from, remain in our hearts, as we remember them, while making new homes elsewhere. That's what it means to be a Conservative.

@kaimccoy7142 3 жыл бұрын

I used to be a dem socialist then I actually researched politics now I’m ima Christian conservative in a democratic stronghold in New York cause I also see the mess that de Blasio has caused us

@ed4096 5 жыл бұрын

When the "partial shadow" argument came up, it was as if that part of the segment was a joke on a skit from SNL.

@mandude7266 5 жыл бұрын

Straight out of the Parks and Rec townhall meetings lol

@GenocideOwl 5 жыл бұрын

Especially god damn stupid because if anything I would WANT my playground in the shade. Don't have to worry about sunscreen or any of that bullshit then.

@basspig 4 жыл бұрын

Fordham university radio station WFUV could not upgrade their tower because it would cast a shadow on a nearby botanical garden.

@ksc1406 4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, cause we all know it's shade that's the problem, not the fact that an elementary school is completely covered in spray paint.

@ksc1406 4 жыл бұрын

@@basspig lol but that actually makes sense.

@mychevysparkevdidntcatchfi1489 5 жыл бұрын

Supply and demand, if you build more housing, that will increase supply and reduce price. People in charge (ie, rich people) won't easily let their real estate value decrease by some laundromat owner. Their use of useful idiots is really a shining example of how politics should be done.

@eggory 5 жыл бұрын

How do you figure the laundromat owner's building will reduce real estate value in the area?

@mychevysparkevdidntcatchfi1489 5 жыл бұрын

@@eggory Supply and demand, the very first 3 words in my post. If a shiny new building pops up, what do you think will happen to cruddy old ones in the area, especially with rent control in place?

@Cerberus984 5 жыл бұрын

Well said, I typically point at Texas for reference to the California housing debacle. While Texas has a higher population growth rate it has lax zoning laws which according to Zillow home value index of $191,900 in Texas versus $547,900 in California. A tiny home manufactured home community named Palm Canyon Mobile Club in Palm Springs, CA 600 sq ft will cost you $115,000 with a monthly lot rent of $650. Keep in mind 10 years is the max loan term for mobile homes which always come with higher interest rates due to higher risk attempting repossession. So the monthly mortgage alone would be $1,395 + $650 monthly lot rent = $2,045 total monthly cost. While in Austin, TX at Lakeside Crossing $60K will get you 1,152 sq ft with $300 monthly lot rent. Mortgage monthly costs $728 + $300 = $1,028 total monthly cost. Both of those calculations do not factor in any down payment as I wanted to remove the variable of initial investment costs.

@SteveB-nx2uo 5 жыл бұрын

they weaponize stupid people

@calvertbriand 5 жыл бұрын

This is the irony. The rich are letting this happen to secure their property.

@tommysteve7881 3 жыл бұрын

I have heard these arguments in every city, every town, regarding any kind of new construction, new business, and even in other fields like cars and entertainment. It all boils down to one attitude: "This is new. And I don't like it because it's new."

@sirnikkel6746 Жыл бұрын

"This will affect the price of my house"

@hahahahaahhahahaahah 3 жыл бұрын

the most irritating part to me was the fact he is transforming a laundromat, he is not eliminating any existing housing in order to renovate. he's literally just adding a positive contribution in terms of number of units available. These people are braindead. It would be funny if the consequences weren't so horrifying and far-reaching. "We have to streamline the bureaucracy that prevents us from building housing!" it's literally you. YOU'RE the bureaucracy.

@sarahbank9365 3 жыл бұрын

I think the worst part of this is that his building would've added affordable units to the market. Four years that some families could've found an affordable place to live in that neighborhood and instead Calle 24 blocked them.

@chunkchips4554 3 жыл бұрын

Now he has to raise the cost to make up for the lost money spent during that time!!!! Wild

@multanemo 5 жыл бұрын

One good earthquake and they’ll have a chance to remodel.

@ThekiBoran 5 жыл бұрын

If San Francisco was completely destroyed by an earthquake why would the gays be the first ones out of the city? They already have their shit packed.

@kyledavis4202 4 жыл бұрын

That made me laugh so hard I farted

@ThekiBoran 4 жыл бұрын

@@kyledavis4202 Which comment, mine or Michael's?

@kyledavis4202 4 жыл бұрын

Kroban3 the original comment

@ThekiBoran 4 жыл бұрын

@@kyledavis4202 Mine is funnier.

@Zen-hk5rt 3 жыл бұрын

This is why you have to sue to get anything done... he should sue 24 until they're broke, why aren't you suing San Francisco? You don't need permission, the city is supposed to be working for you, what's wrong with you people? The standards vary with their whims, who gave these idiots this power?

@natfoss5031 3 жыл бұрын

Lol. He's submitting paperwork when he should have been submitting bribes

@HD20204 5 жыл бұрын

This is obviously because wealthy locals in the area want to keep their own house/property value up by capping supply.

@nikolasirovica3250 5 жыл бұрын

No it’s not. It’s abour keeping the historic core of the city in tact and not allowing developers to come in and destroy the city’s history and all its old buildings the way it’s happened in every single other American city.

@lorissupportguides 5 жыл бұрын

@@nikolasirovica3250 smoke less crack thank you

@nikolasirovica3250 5 жыл бұрын

@@lorissupportguides Read a history book. American cities looked no different to European cities with trams, trains and narrow historic streets all the way up until WWII. Then the car lobby and developers came in, dismantled America's rail network, tore down the historic centers of most American cities to build huge highways running through downtown and convinced wealthy white Americans through a propaganda campaign that driving to work in and out of the city and living in the suburb and buying a house was the american dream. In the process, most American cities were utterly destroyed as skysrapers were built downtown, highways were built to the suburbs and the American phenomenon of car dependence was born. All thanks to developers and a short-term trend of car ownership. You want to destroy a city, then you let developers come in and tear down all of the historic old buildings. But if you care about the history of San Francisco, then you fight to have as much of the city as possible be declared as historic and off touch for developers. Europe saved its cities in the 1950s from such a fate, and it was the smartest thing they ever did.

@HD20204 5 жыл бұрын

@DefinitelyNotDan Building high-rises would be lucrative for developers. I'm talking about single home owners with 30 year mortgages. Their equity it their retirement plan but they also don't want property taxes to increase or the city to change. There are also other factors such as the we were here first mentality, being wary of outsiders and fearing change.

@HD20204 5 жыл бұрын

@@nikolasirovica3250 But European cities are much more densely populated and walkable. The U.S actually stopped investing in cities after ww2 and built low income sky scrapers isolated from jobs, and wealth. Investing in mixed income housing with access to jobs, transportation and increasing walkability scores would make us more like Europe.

@azureocean8 5 жыл бұрын

"So these children can live & play & grow in sunlight..." ......amongst gang signs, cement walls, garbage...LOL

@xSINxDOVE 5 жыл бұрын

Terri Suggs playground was covered in trees too lol

@peppermintgal4302 5 жыл бұрын

I'll take a gang over Walmart any day.

@richardscathouse 5 жыл бұрын

Making California Mexico Again!

@GyroZeppel 5 жыл бұрын

Don’t forget literal human shit all over the ground and used drug needles all over the place.

@CallsignVega 5 жыл бұрын

Ya have you ever been to a Mexican neighborhood before? Talk about a shit hole.

@emilysmith9049 3 жыл бұрын

I’ve watched many of these videos from reason tv and every single one has said that the opposing viewpoint declined or didn’t respond to their interview request. Also, I think that school should be more concerned with the graffiti on its walls rather than a slight shadow in the morning.

@steviewonder580 3 жыл бұрын

WE NEED AFFORDABLE HOUSING!!! **prevents someone from building housing on his own land** **proceeds to protest housing costs** WE NEED AFFORDABLE HOUSING!!!

@eligoldman9200 5 жыл бұрын

This is accurate. I live in the mission and it’s rare to see anything be built. The shadow thing is actually a common excuse. Politics in San Francisco are stupid.

@hpd633 5 жыл бұрын

I wonder if the Giant Dildo known as Salesforce Tower casts a shadow?? Marc Benihoff just paid the bribes and did what he wanted.

@accc9090 5 жыл бұрын

What's stupid is you thinking you could continue to afford to live in SF if more was built. Because that wouldn't be what you could afford. If you live in the Mission, you obviously can't afford what's happened in other parts of the city. I've had friends who had great jobs who had to leave because they couldn't pay the rents anymore. Too high.

@eligoldman9200 5 жыл бұрын

Ac Cc I’m not saying that if we build more we could afford it. It’s already too late. If spent more money sooner the price of rent wouldn’t inflate as much as it did. But now market rate is so fucking high already that yeah you are right. I legit was just complaining. Lmao

@eligoldman9200 5 жыл бұрын

Knightmonx it’s not really democrats fault... it’s just certain lobby groups fault.

@luciferangelica 5 жыл бұрын

the shadow excuse has been a common excuse since they banned buildings over 6 stories in ancient rome