The Role Of Renters In San Fransisco

In America’s finest city, vivid thoughts of beaches, sunshine, and excitement all come to mind. Pictures that do not come to mind are the streets that are lined with tents, trash bags full of clothes, old sleeping bags, and items that have value to the owner. All across America, homelessness perpetuates to expand and worsen. Homelessness has been a growing issue these past few years in San Diego and residents are finally speaking out about it. This is a concern that requires to be taken care in one way or another. Components of homelessness include lack of shelter, food, and medical care. One’s who suffer from homelessness are all different ages, races, and have a unique story of their own. It is time for the city of San Diego to find a solution to this matter of contention and pursue to put an end to homelessness.

In short, lack of motivation in exchange for more red tape causes investors and landlords to move towards more profitable options. This movement of money and resources tends to negatively impact people trying to find a place to live, most notably the poor. The National Multi Housing Council (NMHC) states that prospective customers must pay finder fees to find a rental property due to a presumably growing scarcity of available housing. As if this were not bad enough, in some communities rental properties are handed down to friends and family, so they never quite leave the market. In order to obtain housing, new consumers are forced to pay “key money” and other fees. These costs tend to impact young, single, and poor families the most.

The Lack of Affordable Housing in California Lowers the Quality of Life for its Residents

“I took a trip to Oakland, California and fell in love with the area. We stayed at an Air B&B for the three days of our stay and the house was absolutely beautiful, it looked like my dream home. Despite all the glitz and glamour around us we noticed a large amount of homelessness compared to Columbus. We found out that this property is not someone’s home but a house used strictly as an Air B&B. When you hear something like that and see the amount of homelessness it makes you wonder how many of these homes are strictly for show? So after researching I found out, the reason for the rampant homelessness can be attributed to large increases in rent. Even worse, the cause for the increase is due to Silicon Valley” (Kasongo, 2017). Unfortunately, rent increasing virtually overnight is the reality of many low-income families. This situation is called gentrification and is felt throughout the world, from the Midwest, East coast or even Western Europe, no region is immune to this process. Gentrification in the Midwest is extensive and wide causing the displacement of many low-income minority residents which can lead to even bigger issues.

      This is my third year living in San Francisco, I’ve been traveling to different cities and the homelessness is a serious issue that I concerned about. Especially the homeless problem in San Francisco is serious than other cities that I visited. According to the Data Shows San Francisco Has Second Highest Homeless Population in United States by Kristen Sze published on ABC7news, there are 795 people per 100,000 residents in San Francisco are homeless, and ranks to second to New York in homelessness.

of rent will not increase as quickly as inflation. While the moral side of rent

In 2008, the American population saw a large wave of home foreclosures during the Great Recession that created an economic crisis that displaced millions of homeowners. Unable to recuperate from the terrible financial situation, these persons found comfort within the rental property industry. These previous owners, unable to purchase new homes, began renting property and living as tenants, contributing to the 4% growth record of the rental industry as published in a study that was conducted by Harvard University. With the growth of this industry, rental property owners began to devote more of their time to the development and marketing of their rental properties. These owners began providing lower rates for their properties, and they began making improvements that allowed them to increase the net profit that they received. With the continual “boom” of the industry and the popularity that it is receiving due to young adults needing places the live, rental property owners need an effective program that allows them to oversee their properties and communicate with their tenants.

Gentrification is an existential threat in the Bay Area due to urban renewal, spatial capital, and inequity. This threat can best be described as the process of residential or commercial use of an urban area shifting towards higher economic classes (Center, 199). The process of gentrification has caused many native residents to be displaced from their homes, as well as being forced to move further out of the area or become homeless. Neighborhoods that were once oasis’ for the working class are shifting and becoming too expensive for the people who live there. Food and job insecurity are two forms of inequity that contribute to gentrification practices. These three factors are key in the gentrification that is threatening Bay Area residents.

In San Francisco, around 48% of the Latino communities are involuntarily moving out of the city because they can no longer afford living in their neighborhood. This is due to the increase of something called gentrification. Gentrification is when buildings renovated to create more urban looking neighborhoods by wealthy people, which lead to a mass influx of a more affluent society. The purpose of this research paper is to explain the reasons why gentrification occurs and answer the question: How is the gentrification of San Francisco diminishing the culture of other races and how is it affecting the minorities of the city?

The rate of homelessness in California is quite higher than other states. A homeless is defined as a person “sleeping outside or in an emergency shelter or transitional housing program” (The State of Homelessness in America, 2015). Twenty two percent of California residents are homeless coming out to 136,826, there were 91272 unsheltered and 66.7 are homeless and unsheltered, in an overall population of 38.8 million. That quiet high compared to other places like New York that are at 13%, Florida at 8%, Texas at 5% and Massachusetts at three percent. Los Angeles is amongst one of the largest cities in California with the second highest rate of homeless with 53798 people, San Diego ranked fourth with 8879 residents, San Francisco ranked 7 with

As Super Bowl season draws near, many of the homeless living in San Francisco are being encouraged to head away from the vicinity of the recently built Super Bowl City in San Francisco, California and move towards local homeless shelters nearby. Home to nearly 7,000 homeless people and growing, San Francisco is ranked 8th in the nation for its substantial homeless population city. According to “The 2014 Annual Homeless Assessment Report to Congress”, “...Most (69 percent) [of the homeless living in the USA] were staying in residential programs for homeless people, and the rest (31 percent) were found in unsheltered locations.”(Henry, 5). However in San Francisco, “64 percent [of the current homeless population in San Francisco are] living outside of shelters”(Veckshin, 2). San Francisco cannot and should not just keep turning a blind eye on the men, women, and children harming their health by living on the streets.

What is San Francisco, California known for? Well, anyone would say that it is known for its architecture, the cable cars, the steep rolling hills, and even landmarks such as Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary and the Golden Gate Bridge. Did you know that San Francisco is also one of the most expensive cities to live in? Maybe you didn’t know that as you’re looking up at all of the beautiful murals and architecture, you might be stepping over used needles and/or human feces. Residents of San Francisco face more issues than we can even wrap our heads around. This avalanche of need is what causes organizations that help alleviate the stress and pain of the lower and middle classes of San Francisco so important.

As the population of the Washington Metropolitan Area increase vastly due to immigration from various part of the nation and other part world, the unemployment rate seems to also increases simultaneously. The inability of someone of working age to not be able to get a job or the difficulty of getting a befitting job has increased extraordinarily. As of the 2015, U.S. Bureau of Labour statistics illustrated that, majority of the cities in the Washington Metropolitan Area are currently experiencing an extreme awful unemployment rate. The District of Columbia has the highest unemployment rate of 6.9 percent, Prince George’s County with a rate of 5.1 percent, while majority of the counties in the Washington Metropolitan Area supasses the United

People who have low income are all willing to pay their house rent at a reasonable and affordable price, in order to accommodate public’s wishes, the New York City regulated the Rent Control law in 1947. The rent control is originally designed to against the potential increase of house rent, and also protect citizens’ personal property. This is an empirical example of the implement of the price ceiling, which is the maximum price set by the government, any price beyond this price would be considered illegal. (Microeconomics) But after the rent control was enforced, does it really help the public as it was supposed to do? The answer can be either yes or no.

Land has been necessary for human survival since early civilization. Man has used rent in order to produce vital items for survival. Land has served as the backbone for producing clothing, food, and a place of living. We may take advantage of these commodities that wouldn’t have been possible if it wasn’t for land. Land holds great contribution to humankind and has played a great part in many generations before us. The hunter-gatherer role is a simple example of how man has used land as a tool for his own growth. Rent was created out of the need for land. Rent has been around before any economic theory was used to theorize it. The Latin word rendita was used to refer to a return (Keiper, 1961, p.3). The first theory of rent was seen in the late seventeenth century. The mercantilist economists created some central theories to theorize rent even though it wasn’t one of their more important worries. The history of the theory of rent can start with the mercantilists.