December 10, 2007
Day Around the Bay
-- Smell that? It's the stench of awards season underway. And the San Francisco Film Critics Circle nominees are... [Hartlaub, Maximum Strength Mick]
-- Rincon Hill? Is fit to be tied. [Curbed]
-- The Hayward fault is coming to get you, us. [The Snitch]
-- Mark and Carole and Tim and SFist. [SFBG]
-- "[C]od sperm crostini." (Also: barf.) [Eater]
-- Will you buy us this incredibly well lit house? [The Front Steps]
-- That Giuliani guy was in SF. [SFGate]
-- Sandoval to support... [FCJ]
-- ...Daly's affordable housing measure. [Daly Blog]
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If [I mean when] there is a big quake on the Hayward fault, it will likely cause great devistation on both sides of the bay.
Say it pops near Oakland- you can bet it will cause major damage in sf.
There are at least 500 pre mid 1970s concrete buildings that can pancake in SF.
Most help resources will go to the east bay [hope there's still a bridge, so plan to be on your own 72++ hourss with a prayer book and pills.
Doomsday whatever. I walked by Moscone yesterday morning and them geologists were hott! Check out my fault line whenever, nerds.
Chris Daly makes well over 6 figures and is living in BMR housing -which was intended the those of us who don't make 6 figures.
It's an old story, but it's a good one that needs to be rehashed often.
http://thedalyshow.blogspot.com/2006/11/chris-dalys-remarkable-house-buying.html
People complaining about Giuliani should STFU and listen, at least when he talks about crime, homelessness and quality of life offenses. He got results.
Maybe when he loses the presidential election he could come out here and run for mayor when Newsom terms out?
aj, are you a New Yorker? Guiliani got results alright - more lawsuits than any other mayor in history. My city paid out more under his watch than in any other time, too. Quality-of-life campaign? He never managed to "clean up" (i.e., move the homeless population around a few miles) anywhere other than where tourists go. Hey, now that I think about it, he and San Francisco politics *do* go hand in hand...
@Professor,
Give this tired, incorrect line a rest. You are wrong in every way.
http://mission.sfgov.org/cgi-bin/dhr/findClass.cgi?MyID=0720
Do please inform us how your man Daly "makes well over 6 figures".
Katy, you don't have to be a tourist to see that NYC has made a lot of progress that SF has not, unless you are in favor of people sleeping on the streets and getting away with littering, urination, aggressive panhandling, and worse. (But it prevents gentrification!!!)
Jt, the BoS salary was reduced to $94K by the Civil Service Commission since the daly show blog was posted. However, you would have to be pretty pro-Daly to argue that he is "low income" now, or has been anytime in recent years - unlike the low income homeowners he beat out to get one of those condos.
Correction, *would be* homeowners (whom I hope are homeowners now, despite Daly's best efforts).
aj, you sound like you have only ever visited Manhattan. Try coming out to the other 4/5ths of the city sometime and see what Giuliani did for us there. That is, nothing.
No, I've been all over NYC.
Aj - I'm well aware of the history of the salary adjustments of the BOS over the years. And I never stated, nor believe, that his current salary qualifies him as low income.
My point, if you're not too blinded by anti-Daly rage to understand, was that this propaganda is tired, incorrect, and not worth anyone's time. Chris Daly is hardly the first person to qualify for BMR housing to have later earned a pay raise. Give it a rest.
If you honestly believe that Supervisor Daly has not made significant inroads to improving the current affordable housing crisis in this city you are sadly misinformed.
My sister-in-law is ED of a homeless advocacy group in the NY area. One of her associates in the field was here a couple of months ago and said she was shocked.
"I've never seen anything like this. You people are ignoring the proplem and making your city disgusting. I'll never come back to SF."
not satire.
Kathy G, be specific. Where in NY did all the homeless go?
BTW NYC does not allow sleeping and camping in public parks, and arrests and prosecutes those who pee in public.
This is at least the fourth time the same lie about my home has appeared in the comments section of SFist. On May 13th I responded with this...
"During my first reelecion campaign, I was attacked on the internet for my home purchase. The attacks died when I had the deed restrictions on my unit and related paperwork from the Mayor's Office of Housing posted.
101 Valencia was built as a below market rate first-time homebuyer development in the 90's, but the resale restrictions related to cost were lifted before my family purchased in 2001. We paid the market price. While the Mayor's Office of Housing retains the right to match any accepted offer for purchase at 101 Valencia, I don't believe they've ever exercised it. My family qualified for the City's second mortgage program, but we did not utilize that or any other program."
See what you did, guys, now Chris is pissed.
WAY TO GO.
"the resale restrictions related to cost were lifted before my family purchased in 2001. We paid the market price."
Nice carefully worded statement, Mr. Supervisor.
Would someone of a higher income (say, $94k) have been able to buy that unit in 2001? That is the real critique, that Sup. Daly benefited from an income restricted property, and then voted to raise his salary.