If you like high rent prices, poor living conditions and being complicit in neighborhood displacement, then we’ve got just the place for you:
Great location. You could be in the hub of the Mission’s nightlife in fewer than 10 minutes by Uber. Added bonus: the rent is only four times what the last tenants paid — a steal!
Happy Birthday, Harvey Milk! Here’s What Could Have Been
“From Milk’s era onward, the city government had decided to remake San Francisco to give it prime access to international markets, and thus sought to centralize it with a flashy downtown and a series of highways cutting through working-class neighborhoods, displacing families in their wake. Down with duplexes in the Mission and the Haight, up with the Transamerica Building.” Read more…
The landlords can be, um, challenging. But they’re totally fine with us jamming 12 people into a three-bedroom space, so we can’t complain. Plus, if the lack of running water ever gets to be too unbearable, that’s what gym memberships are for.
Poor Students, Rich Landlords: How Santa Cruz’s Housing Shortage Turned into a Crisis
“The landlords of Santa Cruz can smell desperation and inexperience. Scams, lies and even broken laws don’t scare the greedy money-grubbers that are Santa Cruz landlords. They know they can get away with just about anything when almost no one knows their rights, and when even fewer actually exercise them. Landlords look at a hopeless student and see a spring of money that they can — and will — bleed dry. It is, after all, mommy and daddy’s money that the students are spending — or so I’ve been told.” Read more…
The downside: come the next election cycle, your vote will count less here than it would if you lived in, say, Wyoming. (But we still have prime access to the Whole Foods down the road, so it’s really up to you to weigh your priorities.)
While Democrats Whine about Russia, Republicans Are Hacking Electoral Math to Secure Minority Rule for Decades to Come
“Nixon et al. applied Southern Strategy 1.0 in the 1960s to harness racism and win support from Southern Dixiecrats. Building upon this foundation, Southern Strategy 2.0 is a data-driven approach — a sort of political moneyball toward maximizing the electoral value of white, rural (and not necessarily Southern) voting blocks while minimizing the electoral value of diverse, urban voting blocks.” Read more…
If our home sounds like a fit for you, email us a detailed résumé and autobiography. We probably won’t get back to you, but if we do, it will be to invite you to an open house with our top 300 applicants. Stay tuned!
