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These 95 Apartments Promised Affordable Rent in San Francisco. Then 6,580 People Applied
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/12/upshot/these-95-apartments-promised-affordable-rent-in-san-francisco-then-6580-people-applied.html

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SAN FRANCISCO — For $1,200 a month, Patricia Torres and her family were renting a bedroom, a share of time in the bathroom, one vegetable drawer and one shelf in the fridge, and two cupboards over the stove. They rented not so much a home as a fraction of one.

Karen Calderon had even less: a single room in a homeless shelter where she was not allowed so much as a hot plate to cook for her family.

Adrian Caratowsa had a studio he’d remade as his own, repainting the walls and wallpapering over the kitchen cabinets. But every day for five years, he walked out into a neighborhood he found depressing.

Leftist San Francisco has a serious housing shortage. A shack in the Bay Area costs more than a house in New York City.
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These 95 Apartments Promised Affordable Rent in San Francisco. Then 6,580 People Applied

Leftist San Francisco has a serious housing shortage. A shack in the Bay Area costs more than a house in New York City.

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nancy pelosi's problem for nancy pelosi's voters.  I no care...

It'd be interesting to see, however, of those 95 who get the apartments, who they are, perhaps pets of the local political bosses?
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Ms. Calderon and her husband had been looking for a home for two years, since the last landlord learned of the third child on the way and told them they had to go. They could afford a studio, a one-bedroom maybe, but no one Ms. Calderon called would rent such a small space to a family of five. So they slept in their car, with a newborn, for months. They entered one homeless shelter, then another.

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I have GOT to get ahold of the weapon that is being used on these people to make them stay in a situation like that.  I could rule the world!

Yep, the average reasonably smart person would have figured out that if you can't afford to stay where you're at -- MOVE.
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That averages out to 69 people per apartment, so each has to pay$17.39 per month in rent. Now that is reasonable!! :-)

That is what I don't understand, if you can't afford to live there why not move? When I see the stories about the homeless living and deficating in the streets , cars being broken into , panhandlers etc, it seems the quality of life is pretty poor. I sure wouldn't want to live in a place like that.
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Yep, the average reasonably smart person would have figured out that if you can't afford to stay where you're at -- MOVE.

Dang man, don't give them any ideas... these are undoubtedly all filthy leftists. Nobody wants them infiltrating the American zones.
I like them suffering right where they are, not over here voting for a democrat.

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Dang man, don't give them any ideas... these are undoubtedly all filthy leftists. Nobody wants them infiltrating the American zones.
I like them suffering right where they are, not over here voting for a democrat.

Good point, and yes -- let them suffer on the Left Coast where they belong.

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