Sorry, but this isn't remotely true. The big investors are responding to a profit opportunity caused by a mismatch in supply and demand (meaning rent prices go up). The investors do not cause the price rises; they respond to it by moving units to rental. Immigrants do impact the demand side.

Julio's position obviously takes as a given that no serious person would ever cut spending identified as 'social'. But the voters knew that going in and voted overwhelmingly (against headwinds) to not approve the tax rate that would prevent those cuts. They knew. Do it!

It serves Julio's purposes as a semi-advogrifter to keep sounding Very Serious and insist Nobody Has A Plan On What To Cut but it's the same kind of dishonest that the establishment tried after Prop B. You may not LIKE what the voters said, but they were clear.

The voters saw tens of millions of taxpayer dollars spent on interventions purported to solve the homelessness crisis and that money was obviously wasted in ways that a two-year-old could see. That money should be drastically cut (CM budget did it, or so we hear).

Or just go back to the old AURA playbook of calling 65% of the electorate "ghouls". It'll work this time I bet.

Julio wants those social services dollars because he tied himself to publicly funded social housing, which, man, read the room. Or the state. Realize that the market is the only lever we're going to be allowed to use and grow up about it.

The average normie voter LIKES what Abbott did to finally clean up the Johnson Creek Hike&Bike Trail. Go ahead and call them 'ghouls' for it and see how far that gets you.

Your average normie voter made it very clear that if the cops and the griftocracy each ask for a dollar and there's only one dollar to give, the cops are going to get that dollar, because the grifters made the problem WORSE, not better.

can't wait

ps: I slept in 15 minutes this morning and went down the Green Lane at 7:15 instead of 7:00 and had to yell at a student stepping out into the bike lane without looking at 24th as per usual. put me in A Mood.

but, of course, it will be soon enough, probably worse in the long-run.

appreciate the m1ek-signal on this one though

it's not better than the status quo, which was a painted bike lane IIRC, which is what should be next to a bunch of driveways.

The tone-deaf statements by councilmembers and the mayor, and the effort to once again tie an unrelated issue to the Trump/MAGA guys also cemented it for me. Vote no.

for both the people without homes and, especially important, for the normal taxpaying citizens who are just trying to go about their daily lives safely and comfortably without having to completely avoid public spaces.

Especially relating to the tens of millions of dollars already budgeted, supposedly to help the homeless, which has instead enriched non-profit grifters while the actual problem has gotten much worse...