Are you still on Twitter or X or whatever? I’m still hanging around watching it slowly dissolve into a slurry of racists and porn spam, but that’s a post for another day. I was on there and saw this post by Joel Engardio, the supervisor for District 4, which is basically the Sunset. I guess if you pay Elon the $8 a month you can post really really long posts and Joel Engardio is getting every penny of his $8:

It goes on (and on and on) from there, but the gist is that Sunset Residents are FED UP with homeless people generally being homeless and taking up space and wanting water and shit like that. I have no beef personally with Joel Engardio, who, in the same post says good things like “To tackle our homelessness crisis, we must build all types of housing that meet a variety of needs — shelter beds, navigation centers, permanent supportive housing, tiny homes, and regular housing.” That is true! But Sunset Residents probably don’t agree.

‘No Slums In The Sunset’: Backlash over affordable housing development intensifies in western S.F. neighborhood

So we’re all on the same page, the “slum” that Sunset Residents didn’t want was a 7-story, 90-unit development on Irving Street that was planned to be 100% affordable housing (“affordable” in SF terms, which means shockingly expensive). They threw up every roadbloack they could to get housing built in their neighborhood, but thankfully they failed and it looks like the slum is gonna get built.

Here’s the point, Sunset Residents: you can’t want to ban the homeless and homes. Pick one. You know how you keep people from becoming homeless? Provide them with housing they can afford. A 100% affordable building is one way of doing that. But you don’t even want that.

More recently, there was a proposal for this fucking beautiful work of art, a 55 -story tower in the Sunset:

I can’t tell if the developers or trolling or serious, but either way, I LOVE IT. If they’re serious, fantastic, we’re supposed to build about 82,000 new units to comply with the state housing mandate and we’ve rejected more than we’ve built so far. If it’s a troll, fine, it just points out how Sunset Residents (and, for that matter, almost every other neighborhood) will protest ANYTHING.

The tower, of course, got shot down by the Planning Commission, but I hope these developers shoot their shot again.

So anyway, Sunset Residents, you can bitch about homeless or bitch about housing, but not both.