It's sad when I am writing these again for my dad

"CCC (formerly CyclistCarCoexist)" (ccpbb)
01/17/2016 at 15:14 • Filed to: None

It’s miserable when I have to do these for my dad, and to be part of the genrification problem. It fucking sucks, and out right depresses me thinking about this at times.

DISCUSSION (21)

Birddog > CCC (formerly CyclistCarCoexist)
01/17/2016 at 15:23

“Gentrification problem”?

You don’t want to see the area change or improve?

CCC (formerly CyclistCarCoexist) > Birddog
01/17/2016 at 15:26

It’s the rent hikes. I guess so, but it seriously can displace people as well as fuck over a lot of minimum wage people....

Rykros the Disdainful - Supposed Petulant Capitulant Junkie > CCC (formerly CyclistCarCoexist)
01/17/2016 at 15:27

Speaking from someone in the SF Bay, not even all that close to SF.... I WISH my rent was under $2k, and only went up $150 :)

Bytemite > CCC (formerly CyclistCarCoexist)
01/17/2016 at 15:37

Ah SF.

Be glad you’re on the winning side of the homeowners, not renters. Raising rent whenever you please, kicking people out and forcing them into morgan hill and gilroy to commute 2 hours to their low wage jobs. The rich get richer, the poor get poorer.

XJDano > CCC (formerly CyclistCarCoexist)
01/17/2016 at 15:47

Type me up one of those. There hasn’t been a rent increase in the 4.5 years I’ve been renting it out.

Birddog > CCC (formerly CyclistCarCoexist)
01/17/2016 at 15:59

It’s unfortunate but it’s a part of life.

Bytemite > XJDano
01/17/2016 at 16:00

Do you live in an area with the country’s biggest mass gentrification going on?

If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > CCC (formerly CyclistCarCoexist)
01/17/2016 at 16:05

Gentrification is a word used by people who are scared of change.

CCC (formerly CyclistCarCoexist) > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent
01/17/2016 at 16:12

It’s change that often creates some positives but very startling negatives. If it was a perfect world, gentrification would work. But this isn’t a perfect world.

smobgirl > CCC (formerly CyclistCarCoexist)
01/17/2016 at 16:18

If I hadn’t bought when I did here I’d be in a world of hurt right now, especially working for a company that refuses to see the cost of living disparity between their corporate office and their satellite office. That’s a one bedroom in a decent part of town.

Chasaboo > CCC (formerly CyclistCarCoexist)
01/17/2016 at 16:21

If they don’t like it there, they can move.

Graflex > Birddog
01/17/2016 at 16:57

Change isn’t equal to improvement.

A neighborhood is built by the people that live in it. They’re the ones that give it character - the people you meet, the sense of community that they foster. The business you support - I don’t care if its the local sub shop, or the dunkin donuts that you go to every day - people will still remember your face, and have your order on it’s way before you say “good afternoon.” That single grandmother in 6B? She’s been there 40 years. That yearly block party? Yeah, that was her idea 40 years ago. Ask about what happened last time the city tried to get rid of the bus stop. . . . You don’t have to have money to be an important member of your community. Those older people on fixed incomes? They’re the ones that BUILT the darn neighborhood. They’re the ones who moved in as the average joe, working class. They raised their children there. They’re the ones that took pride in their homes, their community - they made it what it is today. And now, years later, what do we do? We kick them out because they can’t afford the rent in the neighborhood they created, and made “desireable” and “trendy.”

Change is when new people assimilate IN to a neighborhood - they become a part of it. They rally around its traditions, culture, values. Change is when a new family buys the tired house on the corner - and the porch gets fixed up, the house gets painted, and some flowrs appear in the garden. Gentrification is when a neighborhood and population is REPLACED. Rent skyrockets, and people are picked off one by one, and a neighborhood dies. Then, once its dead, some new developer comes in, bulldozes the entire thing, builds condos with no character, charges 5x the rent, all while touting the benefits of the “community” and the “neighborhood” - while that community, and its former neighbors, are long gone.

Don’t kid yourself that these increases in rent EVER go towards actually improving the building. They go straight into the pockets of the building owners. These aren’t people buying these buildings so they can live in them themselves - these are development companies looking for the next way to make a quick buck.

So what happens now, when people start looking for communities to put down roots in? We can’t afford the stupid, new, overpriced condos. So you try and find some new, cute little neighborhood - but the threat of gentrification is there, too. Houses are impossibly expensive to own. If condos sprout up across the street, your neighborhood value rises - so does YOUR property value - and so do YOUR taxes - and you haven’t lifted a finger, but you now OWE more! House values are only important to people SELLING - if you plan to stay, a more expensive home just equals more taxes.

Manny05x > CCC (formerly CyclistCarCoexist)
01/17/2016 at 17:38

Fucking rent is crazy everywhere. What state if you don't mind me asking.

Manny05x > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent
01/17/2016 at 17:39

Maybe so. I just find it ridiculous for one to pay 1500 to live in a jail cell.

CCC (formerly CyclistCarCoexist) > Manny05x
01/17/2016 at 17:51

California.

Alex > Birddog
01/17/2016 at 18:44

I find that gentrification is maybe, less beneficial for an area than most people seem to realize. I work in RE investment in New York and gentrification is short hand here for “white people moving in” in the NY real estate market this is sad but true.

Unfortunately the people who have lived in these areas for decades and put time into trying to make them better don’t get to reap the rewards of all their hard work. They get priced out of the area and some young art kid gets to move into this “hip” and safe new neighborhood that has been drained of it’s original culture in favor of overpriced lattes and vegan cheese shops.. It would be great if there was a way to develop these neighborhoods, without the original tenants being collateral but alas “money talks”

His Stigness > Birddog
01/17/2016 at 20:41

But it doesn’t have to be. Life should not consist of fucking over those that are less fortunate.

His Stigness > CCC (formerly CyclistCarCoexist)
01/17/2016 at 20:41

And I fucking hate receiving them, especially when no work has been done on the house. God I hate me property management company.

Nick Has an Exocet > CCC (formerly CyclistCarCoexist)
01/17/2016 at 21:00

I’m kind of just waiting to get one of these. The house I’m living in has 4x’d in value since I moved in and they haven’t raised it yet.

Burn-Spaz1966-Burn > Chasaboo
01/19/2016 at 14:54

Nice

JQJ213- Now With An Extra Cylinder! > CCC (formerly CyclistCarCoexist)
01/20/2016 at 14:41

Is it messed up? Yes.

But its economics at work.

We are having the same crazy rental market down in Florida right now. It’s actually cheaper to own than to rent.