We like to say California is 10 years ahead of the other states and Berkeley is 20 years ahead of the rest of the country. However, and it is a big however, for the past 10 years Berkeley's city council has been taken over by carpetbaggers who have no connection to the city and who are on the payroll of property developers. I can remembe…
We like to say California is 10 years ahead of the other states and Berkeley is 20 years ahead of the rest of the country. However, and it is a big however, for the past 10 years Berkeley's city council has been taken over by carpetbaggers who have no connection to the city and who are on the payroll of property developers. I can remember when this happened before and we fought them off, but they're back and using the high price of rents and housing to pretend they want more housing/rentals and they forget to say at MUCH higher prices. We bought our foreclosure at $112,500 back in 92, but every house on our block sold in the past eight years has sold for over 1M. And this is below San Pablo! Our new state senator, Jesse Arreguin is a P-I-G and our state assemblywoman Buffy Wicks, is of the same ilk. And our city council woman was chased out of a meeting recently (my husband was there) and since then has been sending him emails about how important civility is in city government. Ugh.
We like to say California is 10 years ahead of the other states and Berkeley is 20 years ahead of the rest of the country. However, and it is a big however, for the past 10 years Berkeley's city council has been taken over by carpetbaggers who have no connection to the city and who are on the payroll of property developers. I can remember when this happened before and we fought them off, but they're back and using the high price of rents and housing to pretend they want more housing/rentals and they forget to say at MUCH higher prices. We bought our foreclosure at $112,500 back in 92, but every house on our block sold in the past eight years has sold for over 1M. And this is below San Pablo! Our new state senator, Jesse Arreguin is a P-I-G and our state assemblywoman Buffy Wicks, is of the same ilk. And our city council woman was chased out of a meeting recently (my husband was there) and since then has been sending him emails about how important civility is in city government. Ugh.