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Cake day: March 28th, 2024

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  • It’s not even the prices that are the biggest problem. There simply just aren’t enough places in the area for people to live and to come close to their prior standard of living. There are thousands of displaced families.

    We went to see a place in Monrovia today and within the 10-15 minutes we were there at least 6 other families came to see the place. Then you talk to some of them and in my head I’m thinking “you need this more than I do.”

    Idk how landlords are gonna choose and it seems like A LOT of people are gonna have to move pretty far away.

    Either way, fuck these people and fuck anybody sitting on multiple properties and not trying to help.










  • Unfortunately whether intentional or not I think it’ll play out that way specifically for those who could not afford, with time and money, to re-build their homes and buy a new place to live.

    For example, parts of Altadena, CA were exempt from redlining, so there is a majority black and brown homeowners in certain neighborhoods who have owned their homes for many years. They couldn’t afford their $1M+ house in today’s market. Insurance will pay them out, but there’s nowhere to live in Altadena now. Maybe some will lease while their home is being rebuilt, but I think many will cash out and buy a new home somewhere else, leaving a lot of opportunity for investors to buy up land and build for-profit housing.

    Of course, we now know that insurance companies will not cover some of these properties so may not be a valuable investment, but the community will be forever changed, and I would be surprised if that didn’t include further gentrification.