{"id":1591,"date":"2012-11-03T13:40:08","date_gmt":"2012-11-03T13:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/?p=1591"},"modified":"2024-09-04T06:03:54","modified_gmt":"2024-09-04T13:03:54","slug":"crackheads-of-the-day-70","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/03\/crackheads-of-the-day-70\/","title":{"rendered":"Crackheads of the Day #70"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s the reason why the new tech sector in Mid Market San Francisco barely notices what goes on in their own doorsteps and why tech and crackheads are the perfect match<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2011\/05\/12\/foursquare-sf-hires-hr-manager-morgan-missen-is-closing-in-on-a-new-soma-office\/\">Morgen Missen<\/a> who has at least three strands out of place in that photo<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/9640932@N04\/8150489905\/\" title=\"morgan.missen.hair by auweia, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8323\/8150489905_007d8a6013_n.jpg\" width=\"320\" height=\"159\" alt=\"morgan.missen.hair\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>More Tenderloin Housing Clinic residents doing and distributing crack in the corrupt Twitterloin<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/9640932@N04\/8150213181\/\" title=\"IMG_2538 by auweia, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8187\/8150213181_54621677c2_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" alt=\"IMG_2538\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s Karen Martinez. She lives at 34 6th Street #617 (Seneca hotel) around the corner and  has been housed at one of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/index.php?\/archives\/1589-Mid-Markets-highest-crime-building.html\">Randy Shaw&#8217;s buildings for years<\/a>. She is not homeless and hasn&#8217;t been for a long time. Both Randy Shaw and the Chronicle <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/opinion\/editorials\/article\/S-F-Mayor-Ed-Lee-must-confront-homeless-problem-2439445.php\">perpetuate the myth<\/a> that simply housing these people will &#8216;get them off the streets&#8217; when the exact opposite is true. They are in fact, on the streets much longer now as a result of being housed<\/p>\n<p>update &gt; This is a screen shot of Karen on Anthony Bourdain &#8211; Parts Unknown, Season 6, episode 4 (Bay Area 2015)<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/9640932@N04\/34210060900\/\" title=\"anthony.bourdain.parts.unknown.SF.karen.martinez\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/5\/4177\/34210060900_310a7eb5ea_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"424\" alt=\"anthony.bourdain.parts.unknown.SF.karen.martinez\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>This is the same Karen inside the building and she wants her crack pipe<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DOv79zHQeNI\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/9640932@N04\/8150212701\/\" title=\"IMG_2535 by auweia, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8470\/8150212701_97bd8f15d9_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" alt=\"IMG_2535\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/9640932@N04\/8150238878\/\" title=\"IMG_2528 by auweia, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8335\/8150238878_7430380ce5_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" alt=\"IMG_2528\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/9640932@N04\/8150240274\/\" title=\"IMG_2546 by auweia, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8056\/8150240274_07ac057c77_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" alt=\"IMG_2546\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>this is all courtesy of Randy Shaw who runs this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/23\/mid-markets-highest-crime-building\/\">highest crime building in Mid Market<\/a> and is the same Randy Shaw who <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfbg.com\/politics\/2011\/03\/22\/does-tax-break-promoter-have-conflict-interest\">has helped to push the Mid Market tax break for Twitter and tech companies<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/9640932@N04\/7841124360\/\" title=\"thc.twitterloin1ab by auweia, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8282\/7841124360_35d87dee4c.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" alt=\"thc.twitterloin1ab\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s the reason why the new tech sector in Mid Market San Francisco barely notices what goes on in their own doorsteps and why tech &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15,16,6],"tags":[21],"class_list":["post-1591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-15-crackheads-of-the-day","category-18-mid-market","category-6-Tenderloin-Housing-Clinic","tag-mid-market"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1591"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4149,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1591\/revisions\/4149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}