Just how much are those "luxury" apartments?
"$2,575 to $3,000 for a one-bedroom, $3,775 to $3,900 for a two-bedroom, $5,350 to $6,300 for the penthouses," writes Carol. She added, "Entirely smoke-free, except that somebody was smoking on the penthouse floor." Who can afford these place? "The single-room occupancy housing which once ensured shelter for the traveling or working poor in Berkeley is slowly, steadily being demolished in favor of high-end housing, with a few 'affordable' unites for the $80,000-a-year crowd as matter of policy."
-Carol Denney (Writer/Human-Rights Activist)
Carol can see the inequities of this situation, as she continues pointing to obvious gaffes in policy, "But we are in a housing crisis. The Downtown Berkeley Association tried to outlaw sitting down on the sidewalk,
for the sake of the largest property owners. The money spent on that
campaign would have funded a drop-in homeless center for at least three
years."
Again, pouring bad money after good. And, again, ending up back where we all started, and still haven't addressed the actual cause, but have instead decided to pretend they're (city council) looking into it... I have so much faith in them already!
I do realize Kriss Worthington busts his hump for us out here... I always see him riding his bicycle, all over town, all hours of the day and night. He puts his money where his mouth is... the rest of them, though, are not. Jesse is supposedly on our side, but I don't see it that way. I see his duplicity a mile away. He says things, depending on who is in the room. Just like Block By Block slide steps the city who slide steps the Downtown [Berkeley] Business Association (DBA) just like they slide step into the Business Improvement District (BID)... so seems Jesse.
And this is why we keep going in the same moronic circles concerning this issue. It never does get close to fixed because that's not the intention. If it were, you would see way more improvements out here. There would be some sort of evidence of this... and it's just not there. The mayor claims they spend "$8-million dollars a year on this problem"... no you don't. And if you do, you're not spending it on the correct things or in the correct areas, or you have no oversight on how the money is spent... or someone is pocketing a large portion of it, maybe, allegedly?
"All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth."-James Richard Armstrong II
-Friedrich Nietzsche
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