Comments on: Massive Hunters Point Shipyard Brownfield Project Primed to Set Sail in San Francisco http://inhabitat.com/massive-hunters-point-shipyard-brownfield-project-primed-to-set-sail-in-san-francisco/ Green design & eco innovation for a better world Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:26:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: David Bois http://inhabitat.com/massive-hunters-point-shipyard-brownfield-project-primed-to-set-sail-in-san-francisco/comment-page-1/#comment-347683 David Bois Fri, 29 Jul 2011 03:27:35 +0000 http://inhabitat.com/?p=281596#comment-347683 I'll offer up the observation that it's increasingly the people who teach in San Francisco's public schools, who work to maintain public safety, who tend to its parks and public spaces that are among those priced out of the housing market in the city they serve. I don't share your fear of damage to property values. For starters, this is San Francisco. Property will always be dear. And in particular, this specific (south east) part of the city has suffered real neglect. Property values here have pretty much nowhere to go but up. So one of the real challenges that this redevelopment will face is embracing the opportunity to reimagine and realize a community's infrastructure in which active pride can be taken, and with luck sustained, while not gilding it to the point where those who have for long toughed it out are forced to leave it. I'd be happy without apology to see my tax money help support community diversity; it's a far more meritorious use of public resources imho, as compared to, oh, say the billions in subsidies we're forking over to oil companies who are currently enjoying record profits. Ymmv. I’ll offer up the observation that it’s increasingly the people who teach in San Francisco’s public schools, who work to maintain public safety, who tend to its parks and public spaces that are among those priced out of the housing market in the city they serve.

I don’t share your fear of damage to property values. For starters, this is San Francisco. Property will always be dear. And in particular, this specific (south east) part of the city has suffered real neglect. Property values here have pretty much nowhere to go but up. So one of the real challenges that this redevelopment will face is embracing the opportunity to reimagine and realize a community’s infrastructure in which active pride can be taken, and with luck sustained, while not gilding it to the point where those who have for long toughed it out are forced to leave it.

I’d be happy without apology to see my tax money help support community diversity; it’s a far more meritorious use of public resources imho, as compared to, oh, say the billions in subsidies we’re forking over to oil companies who are currently enjoying record profits. Ymmv.

]]> By: caeman http://inhabitat.com/massive-hunters-point-shipyard-brownfield-project-primed-to-set-sail-in-san-francisco/comment-page-1/#comment-347503 caeman Wed, 27 Jul 2011 19:08:32 +0000 http://inhabitat.com/?p=281596#comment-347503 Below market level to encourage socioeconomic diversity? So...the tax payers are going to foot the bill for someone that cannot a home anywhere else in SF, to live in SF, in a place that if market force were allowed to play, the city could easily profit from its investment? This will negatively harm the resell value of homes and apartment all over SF. Below market level to encourage socioeconomic diversity? So…the tax payers are going to foot the bill for someone that cannot a home anywhere else in SF, to live in SF, in a place that if market force were allowed to play, the city could easily profit from its investment? This will negatively harm the resell value of homes and apartment all over SF.

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