lifted from the Chronicle, a series of comments about Randy Shaw, who was featured in an article about a new uptown Tenderloin museum
zip6
5:52 PM on August 6, 2010
I have no idea where Randy Shaw lives, but for those of us who do live here in the Loin, he can go elsewhere. We’re managing to have our own scene grow without the need for millions of dollars to be pumped in to one singular project. In fact, that’s the problem in this neighborhood in that there is so much “fight homelessness” money put here that the bulk of those with less in this city have flocked here. Take it out. Spread it over the city and let us continue to support our businesses and grow our own local economy in this vibrant neighborhood. In other words, we don’t want your museum or tours Mr. Shaw. Anyone who says otherwise either doesn’t live here or just wants a piece of that tasty tasty pie you’re chasing.
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Shaw lives in a big house in the East Bay hills.
The largest industry in SF in the “Not For Profit” industry, of which homeless and drug services are a massive portion.
Shaw is a major reason that the Tenderloin is as terrible as it is. He uses City grants and the insane criminal aspects of the Rent Control laws to extract large sums from landlords. He uses the proceeds to prevent any one from gentrifying the Tenderloin.
While at Hastings I saw a revolving door of hard luck cases move in and out of the neighborhood. They just kept coming and coming.
As for violence? I was held up twice at gunpoint, and more than once threatened with violence. Incidentally it was never by a homeless person or a drug crazed addict, it was by black kids.
I have seen no other major modern city this backwards. I’m stunned when I go to NY or any European city. The Tenderloin is the apotheosis of Shaw’s failed 70’s era liberalism and it is nothing to be proud of. His is a special kind of evil.
Randy Shaw is San Francisco’s biggest poverty pimp. No one has profited more from prolonging the misery of the city’s poor and indigent. He has made money off of SRO hotels, which are the worst hell hole anyone can imagine, now he wants to give people tours of the same places for kicks. It reminds me of the Dead Kennedy’s song “Holiday in Cambodia” where rich white kids tour other people’s misery. Read all about one of Randy’s joints, the Mission Hotel:
http://www.sfweekly.com/2007-10-10/news/the-vice-hotel/
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ChristineBeatty
11:43 AM on August 7, 2010
Eddy & Leavenworth? It’s going to take far more than a storefront museum to “revitalize” that area. I used to live at 455 Eddy a half block away. Across the street, the notorious Kinney and Jefferson hotels. I used to cop heroin on Leavenworth. Before the TTF police station moved across from Boedekker Park at Eddy & Jones, that stretch of Eddy used to be wall-to-wall dealers. All the TTF did was disperse them. Shaw can’t erase forty years of this with his little project.
I got clean & sober on my own, pulled myself up on my own, though I did have the advantage of being white and two years of college on my side, plus being a vet I cleaned up in the VA. Nonetheless nobody gave anything to me to turn my life around. I consider myself something of a liberal but a practical one. My compassion for down and out people only extends so far because I have been there and seen the attitudes of entitlement and sloth.
If Shaw wants to do something useful, let him build drug and vocational rehabs.
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update, Randy Shaw apparently doesn’t like comments on SFgate. Unfortunately, many people are personally affected by Randy Shaws personal choices to take large amounts of public money