![]() Police will access people’s rooms without warrant. “So there’s all kinds of scandals that happen over hotels. “People in SRO hotels are heavily, heavily criminalized,” Bryant said. SRO residents both inside and outside their homes exist in a constant state of surveillance. What once was a heavily utilized public transit plaza for SRO residents in the heart of the Mission has been emptied, thanks to a continual police presence. Gentrification has brought more police into the area as well. With social services diminishing in the city due to gentrification (victims since the Great Recession “recovery” include a queer and transgender mental health nonprofit, a homeless youth drop-in center, and a recycling center that provided poor people with a source of income), residents squabble over weekly deliveries from the food bank and face constant harassment from police, with whom SRO managers actively collude.īut take a 10-minute walk outside the Altamont’s heavy glass doors, and you could be standing in front of a multimillion-dollar house owned by the likes of new arrivals such as Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and Google executive Jack Halprin, who is currently using the Ellis Act (a California state law that landlords have been abusing to evict tenants for no fault of their own) to empty out seven units in the Victorian building he recently purchased in the Mission. ![]() “There are a lot of queer people that live in the SROs who’ve been alienated from their families because they haven’t had access to the safety net and support,” Bryant said. SRO residents both inside and outside their homes exist in a constant state of surveillance.Īnd San Francisco would certainly be less of a gay mecca without affordable housing. You have people in there with four or five kids, mother and father living in the hotel.” “There are also families that live in the hotels. “A lot of undocumented people live in the hotels,” Sanyika Bryant, a housing counselor with the Mission District-based group Causa Justa/Just Cause, told Truthout. Ampu’s story is echoed in the countless experiences of SRO tenants dealing with the same problems of housing insecurity. In contrast to the homogeneity and wealth of mostly white males of the tech industry’s gentrification, occupants of SROs are largely comprised of marginalized people at the bottom of the social and economic ladder, including many queer, trans and people of color. “They’re in the microwaves, they’re in the elevator,” said Ampu, whose floor is currently bedbug free, but not roach free. There’s a history of having roaches, too. According to the Mission SRO Collaborative’s last survey in 2009, the number’s nearly 75 percent. A place like Centereach or Selden has some nicely kept blocks of houses even though the schools are below average and some areas are ugly.Like most SROs in the Mission, the Altamont has a history of bedbugs. Look for streets bordering on good districts but that actually reside in the neighboring "bad" one. If you don't care about school district your options open up a lot. My advice would be to sit with a lender and review your finances to see exactly what you can afford, and then revisit this.there are many creative ways to get the house/area you want.as long as you can afford it on paper, and are comfortable with the terms presented. Thinking under 400k by the time I'll have enough for a down payment. I like Nassau County but I am probably priced out there, too. ![]() Just a nice 3 bedroom, 3 bathroom home with a lawn. Open to any area of LI as this will be a long term home that I'll keep. I don't have kids and will not have kids, so school district is not important to me. What are some areas of LI that are still affordable to first time home owners? Sound Beach and Rocky Point come to mind. Recently I've been debating whether or not to purchase a home, and if I did I realize that I am completely priced out of the city unfortunately. I am from Queens but my parents have a summer house in Sound Beach so I know that area of LI fairly well. ![]()
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