twas ever thus in the new revitalized mid Market area of San Francisco
buzzman 1:20 PM on December 30, 2011
Rodo--the TL has the highest concentration of non-profit, low-income, subsidized housing of any place in the United States. That housing is earmarked for addicts, ex-cons, and the mentally ill. They are the ones who give the TL a bad name, and there are tons of them living in the neighborhood because the City has purposefully structured its housing policies and tax credit agreements to locate so much of that kind of housing in the TL. (Some of it is in SOMA, the Mission, etc.) The buildings are basically run like public housing projects in terms of eligibility for residency, but are technically owned by the private sector. This housing, and the Hotel Conversion Ordinance, are what have been keeping the TL down for decades. Mid-Market will NEVER improve without changing the surrounding housing component. The poverty pimps will die fighting to keep it the way it is.
Randy Shaw and Tenderloin Housing Clinic recently filed lawsuits against hotel operators and described it in his article. The lawsuits contain two parts, one is about the Hotel Conversion Ordinance and the other is about the North of Market Special Use District and Planning Commission Code
What Randy Shaw doesn't mention is that the terminology used in the second part is described as 'nuisance'. Randy Shaw via his THC attorney is essentially saying that 'tourists are a nuisance'. Nowhere is this word mentioned in his press release/article
this is the except from one of the lawsuits (700 Jones, THC v Fard)
This is the legal definition of a nuisance in California
Anything which is injurious to health, including, but not limited to, the illegal sale of controlled substances, or is indecent or offensive to the senses, or an obstruction to the free use of property, so as to interfere with the comfortable enjoyment of life or property, or unlawfully obstructs the free passage or use, in the customary manner, of any navigable lake, or river, bay, stream, canal, or basin, or any public park, square, street, or highway, is a nuisance.
Randy Shaw is saying that the mere existence of tourists in the Tenderloin neighborhood of San Francisco is offensive to the senses and demands compensation. The tourists don't have to do anything. They just have to be in the wrong place. This the same Randy Shaw who complains publicly on the same blog about the Tenderloin being a containment zone. The irony would be amusing if it wasn't so insulting. Even more insulting is that Randy Shaw gets public money to conduct Tenderloin historic tours presumably for the very same tourists he finds so offensive
Here is a copy of one of the lawsuits at 700 Jones. Three others filed are nearly identical in form
Here's an example of a real 'nuisance'. One of Randy Shaw's own clients grabbing the tip jar at Mythic Pizza on 6th Street. Mythic Pizza went out of business because of this nuisance
It's beginning to look a lot like normal in San Francisco
rude_boy
11:27 AM on December 11, 2011
If your leaders won't take action there is a solution. Embarrassment. Make a wicked video and post it. When it goes viral the politicians will then take action.
When people ask me about SF I send them over to the "crack alley" web cam site and that takes care of that.
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The former senior property manager for Randy Shaw's Tenderloin Housing Clinic, James Holland, has been convicted of embezzlement and the article is in The Chronicle
You can see photos and video of James Holland, at tenderloin Housing Clinic headquarters, while he was still property manager here
However, it is the top two comments that are most telling. In fact James Holland himself was cornered in a court deposition that is also very telling about the way Randy Shaw and Tenderloin Housing Clinic operates
The whole "non-profit" sector in San Francisco is a half a billion dollar criminal enterprise, with money stole from taxpayers.
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The entire organization should be held accountable. They're all thieves and liars. There's no such thing as affordable housing. Taxpayers end up coughing up their money to fund these ridiculous organizations who claim to be helping people. Helping them so much that you can walk by any one of their properties and see loitering, drug dealing, and downright filth. It's called neglect and exploitation. James Holland, I hope you burn for your crimes. And, that goes double for the rest of you who haven't yet been caught.
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