Respect the wishes of our communities!
San Francisco is home to communities of people living in RVs due to the city’s housing crisis. While there are currently some allowances available to these communities, Mayor Lurie wants to strip people of them. His proposed plan is to impose a strict 2 hour parking limit on RV homes, but allow commercial vehicles longer parking time. The Board of Supervisors, except for Supervisors Fielder and Walton, supports him in this plan and a proposed buy-back program where RV home owners can sell their RV to the government for cash and support finding housing. RV home owners have expressed their concern and distaste for the harsh conditions Lurie is creating for them.
The Mayor insists on framing this policy as beneficial to families living in RVs and the general public of San Francisco. However, when he says he wants to make the streets safer and cleaner, we know he means to wipe out the poor families of color for big business gentrifiers. By placing 2 hour limits on RV homes, he is making the city uninhabitable for these families. The buy-back program is a sick insult to RV owners who were able to house themselves in their RVs during times of crisis. A small lump of money and entering shelters that are already overwhelmed, have stringent rules, and are often short term or unreliable, is not a risk families should be facing. If he truly cared about every San Franciscan, he’d respect the wishes of our communities instead of bulldozing us for the sake of his ‘image’. In order to create sustainable programs that actually give folks the resources they need, we should start by reforming Prop. 13 and making corporations pay their property taxes. If he won’t do it, then we need our Board of Supervisors to do what is right and stand by the people. Reform Prop. 13 and create revenue for more affordable housing, not more R.V. bans!
Gabrielle Lurie/S.F. Chronicle
San Francisco sets parking limit on RVs to clear vehicle dwellers off streets
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