S.F. Super Bowl BUST!!!!! By: KB 1.21.16

I want you to think about this story as you gather with friends and family at the local sports bar to celebrate  and cheer for your favorite team on the 50^th anniversary of the Super Bowl ……

I’ve been working with a cousin on the East Coast sharing video to expose the dubious complicity of the NFL and the city of San Francisco. Now don’t get me wrong San Francisco is a beautiful city but years of political corruption and cronyism has definitely changed the vision and beauty of the city. The days “Summer Of Love” and “Gay Mecca” are long gone and we now have the city of Conspicuous Consumerism.com.

The city of San Francisco began to erode when Ronald Reagan closed all the long term mental health facilities; one swipe of his pen created a mentally ill homeless population. Reagan also created a health and housing crisis with his steadfast refusal to acknowledge the AIDS epidemic. On a local level political favor mongering and cronyism also created an internal weakness in the city’s political infrastructure. I can’t tell you how long it’s been since I’ve seen any movies or television shows filmed in the city (this is important to note because television and movies generated revenues and created jobs.)

Fast forward to 2015 and 2016….Mayor Ed Lee has sold the city’s soul to the dot com devil. Companies like Twitter, Google, Zynga, Uber, Adobe and Yahoo have been given massive tax breaks to headquarter themselves in the city. I bet you didn’t know that the first 3 floors of the San Francisco Chronicle, a onetime powerful Hearst newspaper, is now occupied by Yahoo! The overpaid coders and techies have now created a serious housing crisis…it’s a buyers’ market…name your price. A burnt out “tear down” house just recently sold for over 400k. So, what do the politicians do? They create a craptacular system for new buildings and construction…each new unit must have so many units of “below market” units for “affordable” housing. Sounds fair right? WRONG!!!! If the market is over inflated what’s the below value? It’s double talk….and families are being evicted because of greed and consumerism….yeah we need more bars, coffee shops and condos that no one can afford. Oh that family is there….Ellis Act or no fault eviction!

Now, let me get to the Super Bowl… the game is not even being played in the city because the old Candlestick pack is not a construction site for condos and a strip mall. The football team is now in the city of Santa Clara who has recently declared that they will not pay 1 cent for hosting the game. The cost is solely on the city of San Francisco.  For all you die hard Niner’s fans in the Mission think about this as you watch your friends and neighbors being displaced….cheer about your tax dollars going down the drain for something that is NOT in your best interest.  The Super Bowl is a completely different ball game when you’re homeless in San Francisco.

http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/matier-ross/article/S-F-mayor-Homeless-have-to-leave-the-6465209.php

http://sfist.com/2015/11/12/super_bowl_50_committee_requesting.php

http://www.sfexaminer.com/mayor-lee-vows-improved-homeless-response-with-homeless-department/

http://kron4.com/2015/11/24/graphic-video-only-on-kron-homeless-woman-gives-birth-at-bus-stop-in-san-francisco/

I have been video documenting a growing homeless encampment along the route to the freeway in hopes that my cousin a journalist can light a fire under someone to expose the fraud perpetrated by both the NFL and the city of San Francisco.

http://kron4.com/2015/11/24/graphic-video-only-on-kron-homeless-woman-gives-birth-at-bus-stop-in-san-francisco/

I want my city back. I want to know that I can afford to live here. I want to know that my options are not limited because some entitled dot com “f” is leaching off the land.