Twenty Yards, Roll-Off, West Annie Street
A 1938 Bouldin Creek bungalow came down this week, and the only witness who kept the evidence was the twenty-yard dumpster parked out front. It has notes.
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Elevated Is Not a Square Footage
Three skinny townhomes went up where a lawnmower guy's bungalow used to be, wrapped in a banner of adjectives. I translated the banner one word at a time, with a ruler and a calculator.
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Nobody at 1312 Salina Street Signed Up for a Rooftop Fire Pit
The sagging four-bedroom at 1312 Salina rented for $1,950 total in 2012, split between a night nurse, a bike mechanic, a cook from Las Manitas, and whoever was crashing on the couch that month; last week I watched a woman in mirrored sunglasses pitch the new "Enclave" version to a prospective tenant while standing exactly where the barbecue grill used to live, now replaced by a $65,000 communal fire pit and mandatory Slack channel for "vibe alignment."
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Tech Bro of the Week: The VC-Funded 'Co-Living Experience' That Used to Be a Trailer Park
They removed 34 affordable housing units and replaced them with 34 luxury tiny homes with a communal kombucha tap.
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