I&#x27;ll second that, and include with San Francisco, beautiful  Marin county.  That liberal enclave north of SF.<p>My neighbor is renting out a studio apartment.(1&#x2F;4 of a basement.  One room.  $30 dollar parking tickets&#x2F; per night.)
He&#x27;s getting $2500 month.  That was one, or two years ago.  I don&#x27;t want to guess what he&#x27;s getting now.  I know there&#x27;s a procession of renters.  I can usually hear the wife of one of the victims begging for baby sitting work from their balcony.<p>He weaseled  the house from a very lonely lady.  &quot;I&#x27;ll remodel the house, if you give me half ownership, and give me your portion in your will.  She got cancer.  He got complete control of the house, and her kids got nothing.  Why did I out this guy; because the way he gets his money is immoral.  Getting money this way is immoral.  That it--it&#x27;s just wrong.<p>As to alternatives, section 8 is closed.  Even if you do get a voucher, and get put up in a ghetto, you need to sign the most one sided lease I have ever read, that&#x27;s 43 pages long.  Yes--43 pages of &quot;can&#x27;t do this&quot;.  Down to a covered lid on your garbage can that has to reside only under your sink.  Two, or three day notice if a relative wants to spend the night.  Absolutely no work on your vechicle in the parking lot.  I hope a lawyer eventually brings Marin Housing to their knees.<p>O.k. move!  Many people in my county have been here a long time.  The one, or two people who care if they are breathing live here.  Some are just old.<p>O.k. Pitch a tent.  Where?  There not one campground that accepts full time campers.  The minimum fee is, I believe $25&#x2F;night--no shower, just a out house.  Don&#x27;t stay more that three days!<p>I don&#x27;t have an answer.  These towns weren&#x27;t built to scale, and there&#x27;s a lot of NIMBY&#x27;s.  It not just the NIMBY&#x27;s, it&#x27;s small town code enforcement squads that make remodeling a room very difficult&#x2F;expensive.  Plus, traffic on 101 has not improved.<p>I can&#x27;t fight everything.  My  gripe is landlords whom are immoral.  It&#x27;s time to out them.  It&#x27;s time to call people out on their greedy behavior, in all aspects of life.
I&#x27;ve never bought this, &quot;If it&#x27;s legal--I&#x27;ll do it!&quot;.<p>I see you people daily, and don&#x27;t like you.  I see you in ties at work.  I see you with a stethoscope around your neck.  I see you going out of your way to screw someone.  Someone usually with not much power.<p>You are not fooling anyone.  We see whom you&#x27;ve become.  Ever wonder why you are so lonely?  Why people don&#x27;t give you the respect you think you deserve?