San Mateo County is least compliant in Bay Area to state housing mandates

The state has determined that 21 cities within San Mateo County have to increase the number of market-rate and below-market-rate units. Here are the challenges in making this happen: abc7ne.ws/3Xy0bXE
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[@quesadilla79]

Nah marin county still has not abeided by HUD desegregation rules.

[@danielleweber8914]

I am a business owner and I have to decide whether to dramatically increase my prices or fold and move to another city before it is too late for me. My clients need me but I cant make enough money to get out of an apartment

[@Lakersman24]

That is a crazy notion. Sad to hear about that. Losing entrepreneurs is the last thing we need.

[@DemPilafian]

Charge what the market will bear. Do you deliberately give away your time at below market rates? Are you a charity?

[@Lakersman24]

@@DemPilafian Of course not. But, from 1856 to 1980s, San Mateo County did just that to its Black residents. Very similar arguments and actions were had. So there is recent precedent.

[@nicholasthompson7690]

Why I fled NY and moved to Ohio in 2022. It's more affordable here.

[@ciello___8307]

that is sad. but it proves that more housing should be built

[@joeycelis]

Low income but can’t qualify for SNAP.

[@keeshy]

For real. Social programs need their limits adjusted.

[@kyshac81]

Because that’s where majority of the Techies live. They don’t want people making $150,000 in their neighborhood.

[@BuhodePiedra]

😂 indeed you dirty under 7 figures/year peasants gross! 🤮

[@brosephbroman7564]

They also help create the homeless this way.

[@Lakersman24]

Yes and how many of those homeless have served in our armed forces? San Mateo has one of the lowest military volunteer rate in the country. And getting lower every year. We want freedom but want someone else to fight for it. Sad.

[@DemPilafian]

Wrong. As long as their neighbors are respectful they don't care. What they rightly don't want is to buy a single family home on a street of single family homes only to have their neighbors build cheap quad-unit multi-plex homes with 8 cars parked on the street for each lot.

[@BuhodePiedra]

@@DemPilafian but the multi million dollar Home owners can each have as many cars as they like in large driveways but normal people who are paying mansion prices for condos can’t have 1 car each? 😑. The older generation has weaponized government against the rest of us. They could show up, make a crappy footing, harvest river rocks and build something like whatever.. now it’s all fines permits fees taxes. The type of stuff that would have our grandparents rolling in their graves. But you got yours so now you’re one of the people making government serve the needs of the wealthy, not the majority. Funny how that works 🤷‍♂️. The only state with prop 13 happens to be the state with the highest home values and Americans equate wealth with power, status, intelligence etc. funny how that worked out also… but the folks that happened to purchase in California back when are not necessarily powerful intelligent or keen on anything other than keeping their home values up.. Which necessarily entails manufacturing scarcity in housing. Terrible game to be playing, let alone defending.

[@pimaxuma]

San Mateo officials have procrastinated for +50 years, and avoided building enough housing, due to pressure from wealthy residents (not all are techies), who want to keep their high property values. Lyanne Melendez is part of that socio-economic group (includes all major TV anchors and top reporters), that's why she agrees with the NIMBY. Competent local officials should have a blueprint for what a city might look like in 20-30 yrs or more. And then plan accordingly (plan enough infrastructure, utilities, etc), many years in ADVANCE. So it's obvious that San Mateo officials continue to drag their feet on the housing issue. It's ridiculous that they didn't know the Bridgepointe mall contract doesn't allow housing until 2056. ALL those interviewed residents are hypocrite NIMBYs who perpetuated the problem (opposed building projects) and now pretend to agree on TV, that housing is needed. BUT they said only if it's done "correctly". Why? because they want to give themselves an excuse to continue to oppose new housing projects. Just more BS crap nonsense from entitled wealthy hwites.

[@Trump-rv4nz]

If you can’t afford to live here go somewhere else

[@pimaxuma]

@@Trump-rv4nz Yes, all the hwite children of those entitled NIMBYs should move elsewhere.

[@mariusfacktor3597]

I thought, in this video at least, Lyanne Melendez did a good job exposing NIMBYs and blaming them for making housing unaffordable. I hope the state intervenes and decides that cities in San Mateo can no longer be trusted to zone for themselves. Their Housing Elements are dishonest because they say housing can be built where it cannot be built. That's unacceptable.

[@Trump-rv4nz]

@@mariusfacktor3597 if you can’t afford to live in SMC move somewhere more affordable it’s a big country

[@mariusfacktor3597]

@@Trump-rv4nz ^I found the authoritarian who wants to take away our property rights. If it's my land, I should be able to build the type of home that I want there. Get your grubby big government hands off my property.

[@propblast82nd]

San Mateo needs multi level public housing development

[@Trump-rv4nz]

Nope go live somewhere else if you can’t afford it

[@nicholasthompson7690]

@@Trump-rv4nz Why ? Nimbyism needs to stop.

[@Trump-rv4nz]

@@nicholasthompson7690 it’s a big country move to Wyoming or Montana

[@tjts1]

Get out of my county, peasant!

[@lutzfilor8253]

It will collapse. First the business go, then you can build housing, but nobody wants to rent at these prices. Too little to late.

[@ciello___8307]

rent prices will not go down unless you build more supply. its that simple

[@Jesse-gr2xo]

There are tons of new housing in Berkeley, mostly for UCB students and offices, and soon a bioengineering lab in North Berkeley. The new apt. buildings have fewer than the required # of affordable and low rent apts. by giving $ to the city's fund for building affordable housing (where?) Meanwhile foreign students have new places to live here, but tax paying Americans nada.

[@rahulat85]

Stop fear mongering. Those foreign students are paying may be 3-4 times more than californians/ locals.

[@HKim0072]

Honestly was a bit clueless on the county line. Didn't realize it was Palo Alto and had all the wooded area down towards Santa Cruz.

[@alexi2460]

Sonoma county is building affordable apartments as mandated by law. The housing inbuilt in congested areas, bottom line is to pay attention to logical details

[@HKim0072]

Sonoma County is a bunch of nothingness up there. To be fair, I have no idea which part of San Mateo they are talking about. I'm assuming it's where people live though.

[@BuhodePiedra]

Monterey county! They sit on their thumbs! Need help down here

[@catabyte]

It's also worth noting that many cities in San Mateo county are in high-risk fire areas.

[@Lakersman24]

There risk in every community. We are temporary people and so we need risk management, not avoidance.

[@d.Arbelles]

Yep and Allstate just cancelled a friends home insurance because.. their fence is of combustible material and trees are behind them

[@thegoldengatesound]

So surprising…

[@Unknown22745]

What about arresting everyone who involving in street takeover last Saturday in Redwood City?

[@rahulat85]

Yup that's gonna help with housing, rihgt?

[@tjts1]

​@@rahulat85prison is a form of subsidized housing

[@nopenope1186]

They should build in East Oakland. They need redevelopment

[@Irene94087]

There’s a large mountain between San Mateo and the ocean that they can build on

[@Sixrabbbit]

Not so. Its mostly state park, county park, open space and state game refuge land.

[@Irene94087]

@@Sixrabbbit they will just have to change that

[@angelasalgado5069]

They are like the Bay areas antiquities best.....ALCATRAZ a gangster mansion that no one could escape from😢

[@robynvirts1387]

Oh please! 1.9 million for a house?

[@Trump-rv4nz]

Go live somewhere else if you can’t afford to live here

[@agarcia8571]

More housing for who? They are NOT going to be affordable!!!

[@felipenunez2058]

This the problem people don't want affordable housing around them becuase their property value goes down and than they get mad when the taxes come around cause their property value goes up. You complain is not affordable and complain when the problem wants to get fix. The whole country suffers from bipolar disorder.

[@timeout...4nva]

Infrastructure to support growth. No place to add more of everything to accommodate population growth.

[@mikehagmaier3949]

California didn’t used to suck. Even if San Mateo built what the state is mandating, how long will that help when the major issue is an overgrown population and lower quality of life. .

[@tjts1]

So leave the state. Don't worry, we won't miss you.

[@brosephbroman7564]

This state is insane. People literally vote for more taxes. That is insanity.

[@Me97202]

No one “votes” for more taxes. You’re being silly.

[@brosephbroman7564]

@@Me97202 Well yeah it happens regardless. But the blue hairs check the box still, then get mad when they see their paycheck. Then they blame everyone else lol.

[@SecretMountainTroll]

​@@Me97202of course they do. People want government regulation and services, so they vote to increase taxes

[@ciello___8307]

what has taxes got to do with this? this is a problem caused by rich stuck up nimbys, who are often conservative and don't want housing to be built in their neighborhoods

[@charlesdorsey8767]

The same county that has yet to remove a ban on black people owning and renting in the city. Not enforced but still a law

[@Positivitypapi]

Shoutout that Joe Lanam individual, really looking out for our future generations!!

[@d.Arbelles]

How about getting the vacancies rented first. So many in San Mateo county.

[@DemPilafian]

That's a myth. People love saying that because it justifies their sense of rage against the wealthy, but the hard cold truth is that residential vacancies are quite low here.

[@h_3_x_]

@@DemPilafian u are a liar. bunch of vacant properties everywhere. just overpriced so a corporations buys to rent it overpriced. u are a joke of a human being

[@Roblas69]

They don’t want the poors in their community

[@tjts1]

Let's put the poors in your community

[@SecretMountainTroll]

Stop with the regulation, let the free market bring down rent costs

[@ciello___8307]

free market ain't doing shit with all these nimby's. The lawsuit is needed

[@Me97202]

This is economic segregation.

[@Trump-rv4nz]

If you can’t afford to live here go somewhere else

[@TejanaDama]

Leanne you’re awesome! Keep it up!!

[@CL-rm6sb]

Here's to hoping they get even less compliant. Imagine signing up for state planned housing mandates and thinking "yeah, we're totally a democratic republic, guys!"

[@ciello___8307]

they are taking state benefits and funds. they should follow the law

[@doriangray4937]

There are no two sides to this story. There is the liberal point of view and then there is the Democrat point of view which of course is one in the same. This is pretty much the case throughout the super majority Democrat Legislative state of CA.

[@user-bg7km4ij7f]

Yup… it’s all communist ideology

[@user-wv2fy1jk9k]

Nunca alcanzarás los precios de los narcotraficantes o el crimen organizado para la vivienda como renta también

[@DavidHo-nq7np]

😂

[@airops423]

Lmao at the NIMBY who is against new construction because he likes the walkability and downtown... that is literally what increased density will improve. The state should be much more aggressive about forcing counties and cities to build more housing, upzone, approve permits quickly, allow building on parking lots (regardless of whatever BS contracts exist), no environmental impact assessments, etc.

[@Trump-rv4nz]

Go live somewhere else if you can’t afford to live here

[@mrswolls]

Just build it all in Oakland we don’t want that shit here

[@Lakersman24]

You are a sad person. Demonizing others makes you a lower level person.

[@Victor-it6bv]

Isn't that where the rich white Democrats live

[@harlock75]

Have you ever been to San Mateo?

[@bigfishy7816]

Mandate house prices … only in Commifornia 😆🫵 💙🐓💩😷

[@mariusfacktor3597]

??? I think you're confused. In California cities have been violating property rights by making it illegal to build the type of home the owner wants to build. The state is cracking down on cities who do this. So the state is actually pro-freedom in this particular case.