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Actually, in SF, SRO is one step above homelessness. Residents of Chinatown gave up living in big houses in China for these tiny SRO or caged homes in HK. They can always move back to China right? But they chose not to. I wonder why.
The Chinatown ethnic enclave doesn't have to be a ghetto but under the SF democratic socialist leadership for the past several decades...Chinatown continues to be a ghetto. That's because to local politicians "Chinese lives don't matter" because we don't get dirty corrupting money from the CCP unlike BLM. Maybe San Francisco needs a Republican leader for once because unlike Democrats, Republicans "give out fishing poles" to make people sober while the Democrats only "give out fish" to keep people sedated. The democratic socialists are all about raising the minimum wage but with all things being relative, inflation also increases with rising minimum wages affecting everyone like lowering the living standards for middle class earners while the quality of life still remains the same or sub par except that now it is too expensive to do business in San Francisco where manufacturing jobs flee elsewhere and will never come back so now the socialists have this much bigger problem to deal with which is much more hungrier people on the verge of homeless. Socialism only works until the capitalist money runs out and with the pandemic...the capitalists are heading out to places where wages are lower like Texas because California under democratic socialist leadership is trending towards being a failed state.
I totally agree with you that it truly is a disgrace. The local Democrats could have given tax breaks to manufacturing companies in Chinatown like sewing factories and electronic assembly lines like they did to hi-tech start-ups (which many folded because the funding ran out and it is a chronic repeat pattern with these overpaid start-up CEOs who scam investors with the same "wash rinse repeat" pitch). But they didn't, so in the end, Chinatown bled jobs to China and now there isn't a diversified work environment anymore for monolingual Chinatown residents to give them the needed skills to lift themselves out of poverty and start the the journey towards the middle class.
I wonder how would you do away with the ghetto? What would you do with the residents? As far as I know, middle class to upper class Chinese communities aren't doing anything to help these ghetto residents transition out. I wonder what would your solution be to fix this problem. I think Buddha and GuanYin would wonder too.
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All ghettos should be done away with in a modern civilized society.
I'd prefer upper middle class to upper class Chinese communities like the new "Chinatowns" of the San Gabriel Vallley.
I used to see these cage homes of Hong Kong and think how the UK (this was when she was still a colony of Britain) could allow this. Where people are living in cages. Like chicken coops.
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You'd think now that HK isn't under Britain, something would have been done to end this.
Now I see with covid, news reports on San Francisco's Chinatown and they're just one step above the cage homes of HK.
With their SROs (single room occupancies).
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This is a disgrace.
Kobo.
