Lennar drops another million on June electionThey say money talks. So what does Lennar's latest campaign expenditures tell you?
One day after our latest article about Lennar’s plans to takeover the Bayview came out, the developer’s most recent campaign filings show that between March 18 and April 19, Lennar Homes spent another million dollars to influence the Battle for the Bayview.
To date, this an out-of-state developer has spent a total of $2.23 million to defeat Prop. F (which requires that 50 percent of Lennar’s proposed 10,000 new units of housing be truly affordable to people living in the Bayview)supporting instead an initiative that would allow it to build at least 75 percent of these new units as luxury condos.
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SARAH !!!!
Way to go, please keep the real news flowing, their feet to the fire, makes me want to start singing that old Dylan ditty "Sarah, oh Sarah....".
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April 24, 2008 09:05 PM
Yeah, Lennar is evil! How DARE they want to build decent housing to replace SLUMS! How dare the Bayview progress.
Old style SF lefties are no better than colonists, keeping the populace poor and down.
Posted by Mike | April 26, 2008 12:30 PM
It's not an issue of progress. The most charitable thing it could be called is the much-maligned "urban renewal". They want to force the poor people out of the neighborhood for being unsightly and having the audacity to occupy real-estate in a real-estate starved city. The proposal, rather than improving anything for the current residents, is to try and build new luxury condos to encourage the wealthy to move in and displace everyone who currently lives there.
This isn't an issue of progress or even decent housing. It's about a very, very wealthy developer trying to buy up cheap land and turn it into an expensive, gentrified neighborhood that they can turn a huge profit on.
Posted by Belgand | April 26, 2008 03:08 PM
Were Mike to review the facts printed outside of Lennar's glossy mailings, he would be hard-pressed to label Lennar's land grab "progress."
Building 8,500 luxury condominiums would drastically increase property values throughout Bayview, and displace those who can scarcely afford things as they stand. Prop. F places safeguards on Lennar's land grab, making it affordable for those making under 75k, 50k, and 30k (approximately) to live in 1/6 of the units built, respectively.
Mike and Lennar appear to share these basic sentiments: our children should be taught by teachers who do their lesson plans on BART, and the people who feed, protect and beautify our city should have to commute 2.5 hours every day. I have more respect for working people, which is why I respectfully disagree. F is for FAIRNESS.
Posted by Chris Cassidy | April 26, 2008 03:42 PM
This project is 25% affordable. That is bringing a lot of affordable housing to san francisco. Forcing Lennar to go to 50% affordable would kill the project - as Chris Daly admitted publicly.
What kind of "progressives" would kill thousands of affordable units, in a city that desperately needs them?
I think a lot of this is fueled by suburban transplants who don't 'get' cities because they didn't grow up in one. A city is not a petri dish for your experiments in self regard.
Posted by dissent | April 26, 2008 03:55 PM
When you're receiving 1.3 billion dollars worth of land for $1, 50% workforce housing is quite affordable, according to the latest analysis from the Bernal Heights Neighborhood Association. As for Prop. G, there is no binding language that guarantees affordable housing above the legally required 15%. Promises, anticipates, encourages -- these are fluffy lawyers' words used to dupe a community.
Healthy democracy exists only where citizens think critically. Let SF be an example. What we face is a well-financed drive for the intentional gentrification of Bayview. As paid Lennar representative Micah Allen told the SF Labor Council earlier this month, "We need a new Bayview. What I would like to see in Bayview would be half Bayview, half Pacific Heights." Even he'll be disappointed when it's 85% Pacific Heights, I suppose.
http://yesonf.blogspot.com/2008/04/yes-on-f-lennars-fingers-are-crossed.html
Posted by Chris Cassidy | April 27, 2008 10:51 AM
Affordable housing? I love how those who can "afford" whine and whine and whine about the big bad greedy developer. What's wrong with greed? It makes me work harder.
Posted by antisocialist | April 27, 2008 05:14 PM
The point is that SOMETHING should be done to create a better environment all over the city (including BVHP). Building 50% affordable housing (AKA slums) isn't going to do it. That's one of the problems with SF "progressives"--they assume anyone with money is evil and needs to be extorted. The end result is that nothing gets done, neighborhoods don't get improved, and the poverty pimps get to keep riding the city-provided gravy train.
Posted by Mike | April 28, 2008 10:23 AM