Don’t forget about dice
Sir… That’s a coffin
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This is the intro Dave gave to the skit:
“The only thing that I would say is that if we do ever get our reparations, which I doubt, but if we do… we black people have got to get together and come up with a plan for the money. This is a consumer based economy. You can’t just give black people this money and turn 'em loose on the streets. That could be a potential disaster. I wonder what would happen if someone actually did that?” fade into sketch
Are you doing a bit about how the Z word is absurdly misunderstood and misapplied as a cause for things it really has nothing to do with?
In LA the fancy downtown areas are very close to the poorest neighborhoods and rich people live far away. In SF, the tenderloin is walking distance to lots of rich places and high paying jobs. For the most part the hiring committees aren’t giving a ton of weight to living in the neighborhood. A big commute for the $50k worker in SF trying to raise a family outside of the tenderloin is a problem for sure, but I don’t see how that’s why they aren’t a software developer or investment banker.
? Zoning policies absolutely exclude multi-family dwellings (where lower income people often live) from lots of residential districts, especially more “desirable” ones.
I think the market favors expensive housing in rich areas. Where I am anyway higher density lower quality housing that exists and is allowed is torn down and lower density expensive housing replaces it all the time.
Yes, I am aware. I have spent years and years trying to push back on land use discussions because it’s a subject I’ve always found very interesting, and also because most of the online resistance to it is bullshit manufactured by reason dot com for the benefit of wealthy property developers and often has very little to do with actual zoning laws. Z word brain worms have been endemic ever since.
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Economic integration in schools is good for this and I suppose there’s some of that in some places, but it’s certainly not what the free market wants.
This is probably true in a lot of markets, but “are low priced MFDs financially viable in this neighborhood” is a different question than “are MFDs allowed in this neighborhood”. And in both cases, there’s almost certainly some cyclical effect where property owners are paying a premium to live in a neighborhood with no apartment buildings.
Makes sense - I haven’t read many (any?) zoning takes online
I’m with Louis on that one. The intro is part of the joke.
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Even though the tenderloin is kind of shitty, does it actually have affordable rents for low income people? Seriously asking. I have no idea.
They both end up with no affordable housing in expensive neighborhoods though. In the West Coast cities anyway affordable housing isn’t getting built in expensive areas unless it’s required, not just allowed, and heavily subsidized.
You’re just wrong here. Dave literally quit his show and walked away from $50 million because he wasn’t comfortable with a staff member taking one of his jokes the wrong way in a similar way to you now.
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By SF standards. One bd apartment in a decent condition building for $1500 for my daughter’s bf before moving out because of covid.
I guess the worse buildings are less expensive, but maybe not. A lot of them are weekly.
Yeah, the two sides in the zoning fights are the existing NIMBY wealthy property owners vs the wealthy property developers who want to build high rise luxury condos. Neither side GAF about affordable housing. The reason so little affordable housing gets built is because affordable housing isn’t very profitable.
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Yea i always read the chapelle bits as lampooning white people and not punching down. He does punch down at some groups though, particularly recently to the trans community. That act was really tasteless and not even funny. It MAYBE would have been funny 20 years ago.
This isn’t a hill I’m going to die on, but like - y’all are inserting stuff into that bit that is not there. It’s a five minute thing with an intro and a sketch. None of it communicates in any way “lol this is how white people think black people would spend reparations checks”. It starts with Dave telling jokes about how black people can’t be trusted with the checks, and saying “I wonder what would happen if we gave it to them” followed by a bunch of like minstrel show jokes about fried chicken (like 3 different fried chicken jokes!) and watermelon and liquor stores.
The fact that Dave is now an openly transphobic anti masker who lives in rural Ohio is not surprising imo.