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Don't you think OccupySantaCruz should dissolve itself due to it's assimilation into mainstream Santa Cruz middle class society?
Cribbed from something I posted at their site:
One Response to “Stop “Fraudclosures” Here & Now Event”
Razer Ray on May 13th, 2012 at 10:34 am #
Stop PANDERING to property owners here and now.
Or is your little cabal just codependent to people who gambled and lost? Who told them they could afford to buy a home in one of the most expensive places to live in the US?
Let me know when you have something to say about displaced workers, AKA the homeless of Santa Cruz, renters in a state where renters have virtually no rights (California… Where you have no recourse if the landlord’s ‘Uncle Louie’ needs the unit more than you no matter what your rental agreement said), and the downtrodden in general.
People who could, AT ANY POINT, afford to buy a home in Santa Cruz, are not a cohort I’d consider either ‘at risk’ of houselessness (they can STILL afford a rental at fair market rates), or very interested in social change, unless it’s to their benefit and the benefit of the status quo that supports them in a much finer fashion that 99%(snigger) of other citizens in America.
Cribbed from something I posted at their site:
One Response to “Stop “Fraudclosures” Here & Now Event”
Razer Ray on May 13th, 2012 at 10:34 am #
Stop PANDERING to property owners here and now.
Or is your little cabal just codependent to people who gambled and lost? Who told them they could afford to buy a home in one of the most expensive places to live in the US?
Let me know when you have something to say about displaced workers, AKA the homeless of Santa Cruz, renters in a state where renters have virtually no rights (California… Where you have no recourse if the landlord’s ‘Uncle Louie’ needs the unit more than you no matter what your rental agreement said), and the downtrodden in general.
People who could, AT ANY POINT, afford to buy a home in Santa Cruz, are not a cohort I’d consider either ‘at risk’ of houselessness (they can STILL afford a rental at fair market rates), or very interested in social change, unless it’s to their benefit and the benefit of the status quo that supports them in a much finer fashion that 99%(snigger) of other citizens in America.
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Over 50% of the people in Santa Cruz are homeowners.
Yet none of them, according to Ray, are interested in social change. At least, not the type of change the 99% are interested in.
By this logic, Ray is proposing that half of the people in Santa Cruz, who are homeowners, live at the 1% level.
Conclusion: Ray don't do math. Either that, or he's suggesting that Santa Cruz has a bizarre hybrid of humans who aren't in the 1% but think and act like them.
Yet none of them, according to Ray, are interested in social change. At least, not the type of change the 99% are interested in.
By this logic, Ray is proposing that half of the people in Santa Cruz, who are homeowners, live at the 1% level.
Conclusion: Ray don't do math. Either that, or he's suggesting that Santa Cruz has a bizarre hybrid of humans who aren't in the 1% but think and act like them.
Out of that "50% homeownership" how many of them are absentee owners who simply rent out their investment properties and have no intention of living in them ?
Many have never even lived in the county.
You do the research and the math... Then get back to me with more than dis-informational crap.
Many have never even lived in the county.
You do the research and the math... Then get back to me with more than dis-informational crap.
Don't take my word for it though; do your own informal survey.
Pick 3 or 4 neighborhoods in town (no fair cheating and focusing only on beach flats or lower ocean. Let's say a composite of Seabright, Westside, Cedar or Walnut or another downtown street, and then Lower Ocean.)
That exercise will prove the fact: there's no question that over half the residents of Santa Cruz are living in homes they personally own.
To pretend otherwise is nothing but self-delusion.
Pick 3 or 4 neighborhoods in town (no fair cheating and focusing only on beach flats or lower ocean. Let's say a composite of Seabright, Westside, Cedar or Walnut or another downtown street, and then Lower Ocean.)
That exercise will prove the fact: there's no question that over half the residents of Santa Cruz are living in homes they personally own.
To pretend otherwise is nothing but self-delusion.
"After identifying the four neighborhoods of your choice, pick a block at random, and walk down it and ask at every house if they own the home they.".... half or more are going to say yes.
Did it on my street for starters: 8 of 13 on my block are owned by the occupant. And mine isn't a fancy upscale neighborhood.
Did it on my street for starters: 8 of 13 on my block are owned by the occupant. And mine isn't a fancy upscale neighborhood.
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