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Tuesday, May 21st, 2013
This was the scene down on MACALLISTER Street in the Western Addition PJs last year, on govmint land of course.
…and here’s the same scene these days:
Let’s see here:
“When flags of states, cities, or localities, or pennants of societies are flown on the same halyard with the US flag, the US flag should always be at the peak.”
NOPE! Believe it or not, that rat tail you can see at bottom is our Stars and Stripes. Above it is the flag of the State of California. (You can still see the bear a little bit.)
“The flag may be displayed twenty-four hours a day if properly illuminated during the hours of darkness.”
NOPE!
“The flag should never be fastened, displayed, used, or stored in such a manner as to permit it to be easily torn, soiled, or damaged in any way.“
NOPE!
I could go on…
There’s a little black spot on the sun today
It’s the same old thing as yesterday
There’s a black hat caught in a high tree top
There’s a flag pole rag and the wind won’t stop
Tags: 2012, 2013, America, bay area, bear, Blue, california, central subway, code, drug free, drug free zone, flag, Housing Authority, mcallister, old glory, patriots, red, San Francisco, San Francisco Housing Authority, SFHA, stars, street, stripes, tattered, The Fillmore, torn, United States, western addition, white, zone
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Thursday, May 2nd, 2013
Well here’s the statement:
“The San Francisco Housing Authority does not transfer any family to any particular apartment, community, neighborhood or development because of race, color, sex, religion (creed), disability, familial status, national origin, ancestry, sexual orientation, marital status, source of income, or age.”
Of course it’s not true, but that’s the statement.
The point of it is to discourage transfer requests, that’s true.
But they could have phrased it differently, that’s all.
Alemany (938 Ellsworth Street)
Alice Griffith (207 Cameron Way)
Bernal Dwellings (313 Kamille Street) (HOPE VI)
Great Highway
Hayes Valley (401 Rose Street) (HOPE VI)
Holly Courts (100 Appleton)
Hunter’s Point (90 Kiska Road)
Hunter’s View (112 Middle Point Road)
North Beach (455 Bay Street) (HOPE VI)
Ping Yuen North (838 Pacific Avenue)
Ping Yuen (795 Pacific Avenue)
Plaza East (642 Linden) (HOPE VI)
Potrero Terrace & Annex (1095 Connecticut Street)
Randolph & Head (200 Randolph/409 Head)
Robert B. Pitts (1150 Scott Street)
Sunnydale (1654 Sunnydale Avenue)
Valencia Gardens (390 Valencia) (HOPE VI)
Westbrook (90 Kiska Road)
Westside Courts (2501 Sutter Street)
Public Housing Project, McAllister Street, Western Addition (aka The Fillmore), San Francisco, 2012:
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Tags: 2012, 2013, America, American, asian, bay area, bear, Blue, california, central subway, chinese, drug free, drug free zone, Family, flag, Housing Authority, mcallister, old glory, patriots, race, red, San Francisco, San Francisco Housing Authority, SFHA, stars, street, stripes, tattered, The Fillmore, torn, transfer, United States, western addition, white, zone
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Monday, April 29th, 2013
Dude’s been here for a while:
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Tags: 2013, bay area, california, City Hall, civic center, mcallister, San Francisco, shopping cart, Shopping Cart Tent City, sidewalk, street tarp, tent city
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Thursday, January 3rd, 2013
Hey Twitter! You’re worth $20 billion now or something?
Great!
So why not pay your share of your fucking taxes now? You know, pay them assuming the Newsom tax of 2004 is still in effect. You remember him, right? That Al Jareera correspondent and Lt. Governor Gavin Newsom who signed the “job-killer” Twitter tax into law less than a decade ago? (If you need help on figuring the details, I’ll provide it no prob. And yes, before he was against the Twitter tax, he signed it into law. But then a few years later he used a certain building for his campaign HQ for free ‘n stuff. Can you guess which one, Twitter? Hint: It’s a big boxy thing in the Twitterloin!)
Or, in the alternative, why not just cut a check for $20 million (or $50 million) and send it off to San Francisco’s General Fund? Wouldn’t that be more effective than the half-assed $2,000,000 Supervisor Jane Kim slush fund that was supposed to be used to provide WiFi to all the Twitterloin by now? I think so.
What’s that, no you say? No? OK, well, instead, why not just come out and say that you don’t support the unnecessary MUNI bus Twitter Line betwixt the Twitter Building and CalTrain? At least that would save us some money, right?
San Francisco’s Twitterloin Enterprise Zone, Market Street sidewalk near 6th Street, 2013:
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Most people in San Francisco don’t want you here, Twitter.
Just saying…
Microsoft: Not Evil
Amazon: Not Evil
Google: Not Evil
FaceBook: Evil, from the beginning
Instagram: Started off not Evil but Evil now.
Twitter: Started off not Evil but…
Tags: 2012, al jazeera, bay area, california, Gavin, gavin newsom, hoimeles, loin, Mayor, Newsom, rents, San Francisco, SHOPPING PLACE, SLEEPING PLACE, tax, taxes, twitter, twitterloin, yaxes
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Friday, November 30th, 2012
Ah mem’ries from all the way back in aught-eight – let’s hear from Angelo ”Father of Rent Control” Sangiacomo from back in the day:
“Who the hell is building buildings today, 440 rentals in San Francisco, and paying all cash? With rents down there at $500 and $700?”
Now, what are the chances that hundreds of people will be renting $500 studios in a new building at Eight and Market anytime soon?
Absolute zero.
Oh well.
Oh, here it is, the old Trinity Plaza at Eighth and Market and its replacement, the new Trinity Place, just behind:
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Speaking of which, the existing tenants of Trinity Plaza need to move out soon, you know, for the soon-to-come implosion of the old building, but what’s up with all of these cleaning demands coming from Management?
Let’s hear from a youthful tenant who’s losing his place:
“Now we get forms with detailed instructions on everything that needs to be cleaned before you move out. In my mind, vacuuming, cleaning the bathroom / toilet / sinks / oven etc should be enough. There are some pretty weird demands in here considering this building is being demolished. Some examples:
All carpets must be vacuumed and shampooed
Wood or linoleum floors must be mopped, waxed or polished using appropriate cleaning products.
Clean sink(s). Hardware should be clean, free of water spots and shiny
Cabinets must be cleaned inside and out. Scrub fronts clean to remove fingerprints and food.
Clean baseboards and coving. Clean, mop and wax linoleum floors with appropriate cleaning products.”
I cry foul.
On It Goes…
Oh, and for the record, this is the Senator Carole Migden Law - it’s in effect statewide:
“If the tenant and landlord cannot reach an agreement on the amount of the security deposit returned, the tenant can file a lawsuit against the landlord for return of the security deposit. The tenant can sue for:
- The amount of the deposit, plus
- Twice the amount of the security deposit in damages. The judge may give the tenant these additional damages if the landlord retained the deposit in bad faith.
The tenant can sue the landlord in small claims, which is informal and inexpensive, as long as the total amount sued for is $10,000 or less. Click for more information on Small Claims.”
Tags: 2012, 8th, Angelo Sangiacomo, apartments, apt, bay area, california, Carole Migden, central market, civic center, deposit, eighth, Father of Rent Control, implosion, law, market, mid market, rent, San Francisco, Senator, Senator Carole Migden Law, street, studio, studios, tenants, trinity, trinity place, trinity plaza
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Wednesday, November 21st, 2012
Now, is this a photo of the City That Knows How or of ”The World Capital of Innovation?”
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All I know is that we were making progress four years ago…
Tags: 2012, 55 lagune, bay area, california, campus, housing, San Francisco, UC, uc extension, unused
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Friday, October 19th, 2012
A wind-blown box sloping uphill in two directions, while facing the big E.R. for the Western Addition.
Here’s what it looks like north of NoPA and south (and also west) of the projects:
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Little boxes on the hillside,
Little boxes made of ticky tacky,
Little boxes on the hillside,
Little boxes all the same.
There’s a green one and a pink one
And a blue one and a yellow one,
And they’re all made out of ticky tacky
And they all look just the same.
And the people in the houses
All went to the university,
Where they were put in boxes
And they came out all the same,
And there’s doctors and lawyers,
And business executives,
And they’re all made out of ticky tacky
And they all look just the same.
And they all play on the golf course
And drink their martinis dry,
And they all have pretty children
And the children go to school,
And the children go to summer camp
And then to the university,
Where they are put in boxes
And they come out all the same.
And the boys go into business
And marry and raise a family
In boxes made of ticky tacky
And they all look just the same.
There’s a green one and a pink one
And a blue one and a yellow one,
And they’re all made out of ticky tacky
And they all look just the same.
Tags: 2012, anza vista, bay area, california, car, house, housing, Kaiser, little boxes, NOPA, panamera, porsche, Projects, San Francisco, western addition
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Thursday, August 30th, 2012
At the very least, you owe it to yourself to read the Yelp and ApartmentRatings reviews before you move in.
Oh look, they have a shuttle bus – it’s a like a private MUNI #38 Geary just for you and your fellow victims:
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But even so, Whatever You Do, DON’T Move Into the Fillmore Center Apartment Homes at 1475 Fillmore in the Western Addition.
In closing, Whatever You Do, DON’T Move Into the Fillmore Center Apartment Homes at 1475 Fillmore in the Western Addition.
PS: Whatever You Do, DON’T Move Into the Fillmore Center Apartment Homes at 1475 Fillmore in the Western Addition
Tags: 1475, 1475 fillmore, 2012, apartment, bay area, building, bus, california, center, district, fillmore, fillmore center, Fillmore Center Apartment Homes, financial, geary, homes, japantown, mall, o'farrall, rating, ratings, rent, safeway, San Francisco, shopping, shuttle, street, webster, western addition, yelp
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Friday, June 15th, 2012
And please remember, “Use your key now 6/13/12″
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The newly-arrived Twitter people are already calling this place “Hotel Chasing the Dragon.”
“Chasing the dragon” (a slang phrase of Cantonese origin from Hong Kong, Traditional Chinese: 追龍, Simplified Chinese: 追龙, Cantonese Jyutping: zeoi1 lung4, pinyin: zhuī lóng) refers to inhaling the vapor from heated morphine, heroin, oxycodone or opium that has been placed on a piece of foil. The ‘chasing’ occurs as the user gingerly keeps the liquid moving in order to keep it from coalescing into a single, unmanageable mass.[1] Another more metaphorical use of the term “chasing the dragon” refers to the elusive pursuit of the ultimate high in the usage of some particular drug.”
Tags: 1278, 1278 market, 2012, bay area, california, chase, Chasing the Dragon, Employees, gold, goldwn, heroin, hotel, hotel chase, market, mid market, monthly, morphine, nightly, nitely, nitely weekly monthly, Opium, oxycodone, residential, residential hotel, San Francisco, st., street, tenderloin, twitter, twitterloin, use your key, weekly
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Thursday, April 12th, 2012
Here’s the beef against the poorly-rated Golden Gateway Apartments:
“Golden Gateway, which was built in a redevelopment area as middle-class housing, is now renting out apartments as short-term tourist or corporate rentals. There are dozens of examples right now on Craigslist. City law bars the owners of rental housing from converting it to hotel rooms, but a loophole in that law makes what Foo’s outfit is doing technically legal. But he’s clearly violating the spirit of the city ordinance that seeks to protect rental housing from hotel conversions.”
And here’s what it looks like on the ground, with yet another van out front:
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Is this what Redevelopment was all about?
Tags: 2012, 8 Washington, apartments, bay area, building, california, corporate, gateway, Golden Gateway, illegal, rental, Rentals, San Francisco, tax, taxes, the gateway, van
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