I live in Solano county and resent the way Billionaires think they know best for the "common people." I don't recall seeing them doing anything except focusing on generating more income. I haven't seen them work within their own community working to build more affordable housing, yet they come to us with the hope of a new utopia, because they "care." VOTE NO.
a new utopia? where did this come from? this is imagined and hysterial as for billionaires knowing best, why don't you focus on the arguments being made instead of who is making it like some rabid identitarian? do we need more housing or don't we? as for generating more income, are you a commie? do you think making a profit is bad? also, when was the last time you worked for free? drop the holier than thou absolute bullshit
Kara can see the growth in Palo Alto due to AI now that people are returning to California. In fact, the growth never stopped. A few whiny people stopped making as much of a killing as they used to make, so they made a big stink on social media and left for Austin. They were not missed.
Do they have things planned like an electrical grid, garbage collection and disposal, water supply, rental apartments for people who can’t afford to buy home but are needed to work minimum wage jobs?
No they don't. I live in Fairfield which is next door to the proposed city and has about 120k people. CA Forever is supposed to be a 400,000 person city...
@@eFiggidythey act like building a new city isn’t gonna have any negative impacts on black and brown communities that are already struggling. Typical WS’s.
It's called an environmental impact study... its how it's done ALL across the United States. Has to be done before anything can start. Roads, water, electricity, etc.
@eFiggidy that's BS... They are required by law to do an Environmental Impact Study. Before you speak on a subject you don't understand, you should educate yourself
Back in the 90s my supervisor, who lived in Hayward and got up early, could arrive at our job (UCSF) within twenty minutes. By the time we retired in 2015, it took her at least an hour to arrive at work, leaving Hayward at the same early hour. We desperately need more housing, but we also need more transportation infrastructure to accommodate it. I remember the bay area back in the 70s being really quick and easy to traverse, but now it's a horror show. Surely the planners of this fantasy city are thinking hard about this - yes?
i wonder what percent of people angrily saying no to california forever got their own place to live for a good deal over 5 and over 10 years ago? so many younger people missed the chance to get an affordable place to live in the last 10 years and are now massively suffereing and being taken advantage of. meanwhile anyone who got a place to live cheaply 10 years ago or more dont understand at all the hell people are going through with rising rents and rising home prices. absolutely a lot more homes need to be built.
@@kevdaag2523 you may want to do more research, you will find clips of Jan saying these homes (5 to 6 story studios and Condo type structures some distance away from the car charging warehouse that you must walk to) start at $1,000,000.00 , that's not a rumor, 1 million dollars is the starting price. In a walkable gated city of 400,000 people, how much are taxes and Home Owners Association fees going to be each month?
Solano County does not have the infrastructure or water to add a city the size of Oakland. The tax payers do not want to share in this so called visionary infrastructure costs. Our freeways are overwhelmed now. They have no plans to add a hospital. I could go on and on about why this is a huge NO for us.
California Forwver group is so out of touch with reality. They pitch $88k year salary as a good salary to buy a home, this is completely unrealistic. Jan also said in an interview with Business Insider that the the coalition against is not diverse people, who are 70 years old Sierra Club types. That couldn’t be further from the truth it is an ethnically diverse group of different age groups. The overwhelming majority of Solano County residents including me do not want his utopian city.
You're not understanding this project. Read up on it. IT'S AFFORDABLE... and they are also offering Solano County residents $400 million in Down Payment Assistance. So yeah... it's affordable.
@@Danny-bd1ch you won't see because people like you don't understand, talk against and then nothing gets done, meaning expensive housing that only the rich can afford
Was has SF developers not turned All this thousands of empty condos into affordable housing and solved the communt issue. How many building in SF sit empty. We would solve a lot of Bay housing issues and transportation problems if they did.
Really should do a story on how Scott thinks NYU professors speaking out against genocide should be fired, but he shouldn't be fired for going on CNN and calling for a continued genocide...
It is a free market. Real Estate is a good investment. It is great that more housing and a new walkable city under development. However, with the demand for more than 3 million houses in California, this needs to be a government initiative and multiple cities in development. America abandoned master planning after the Second World War it is good to see new communities being built.
The citizens started planning in Solano County 25 years ago for keeping these billionaire developers out of our pristine area. If you support this and Travis Closes down like Mare Island did, we can likely look forward to the same crime wave, blight and unemployment numbers as Vallejo went through. Evidently you enjoy the torture of sitting in traffic , because Cal Trans cant build out the roads like 113 and 12, we have endangered shrimp and Willis Lynn Jepson Prairie out there. Our current population for all of Solano County is just over 400,000, A yes vote in November says you want to double the size of Solano population by squishing another 400,000 people up against Travis and build out toward Rio Vista. I don't think you've actually studied this proposal, it seems you don't know what they are really proposing.
From what I gather, I can cautiously accept that Jan Sramek has a good intention and a decent plan. The question is, who are the investors? and how is this vision sufficiently protected from the investors wanting return? As in, what will happen if at some point the investors say "enough with this good urbanism thing, start making money so that I can get a return on investment". Does Jan Sramek have a controlling stake of California Forever? Will he retain the control if California Forever needs to raise more money?
The residents of Solano County do not support this. They have a track record of not being forthcoming and we have no trust in their intentions other than I’m sure their end goal is merely to line their own pockets.
I’m a nurse, a $400,000 home is a stretch. To live in the community comfortably, at lower middle class, you’ll need two incomes and hopefully childcare close by.
the only ones hating on this guy are older people like boomers. Jan is younger is genuinely seems concerned about the younger generations suffering right now due to lack of housing.
I live in Solano county and resent the way Billionaires think they know best
for the "common people." I don't recall seeing them doing anything except
focusing on generating more income.
I haven't seen them work within their own community working to build
more affordable housing, yet they come to us with the hope of a new
utopia, because they "care."
VOTE NO.
Absolutely will be voting no!
💯 NO! I'm attending a dinner to discuss this with community members in the area and why they should vote 👎
a new utopia? where did this come from? this is imagined and hysterial
as for billionaires knowing best, why don't you focus on the arguments being made instead of who is making it like some rabid identitarian? do we need more housing or don't we?
as for generating more income, are you a commie? do you think making a profit is bad? also, when was the last time you worked for free? drop the holier than thou absolute bullshit
Kara can see the growth in Palo Alto due to AI now that people are returning to California.
In fact, the growth never stopped. A few whiny people stopped making as much of a killing as they used to make, so they made a big stink on social media and left for Austin. They were not missed.
Do they have things planned like an electrical grid, garbage collection and disposal, water supply, rental apartments for people who can’t afford to buy home but are needed to work minimum wage jobs?
That's a great question. Where are the school teachers going to live? Police officers? Garbage collectors? Firefighters?
No they don't. I live in Fairfield which is next door to the proposed city and has about 120k people. CA Forever is supposed to be a 400,000 person city...
@@eFiggidythey act like building a new city isn’t gonna have any negative impacts on black and brown communities that are already struggling. Typical WS’s.
It's called an environmental impact study... its how it's done ALL across the United States. Has to be done before anything can start. Roads, water, electricity, etc.
@eFiggidy that's BS... They are required by law to do an Environmental Impact Study. Before you speak on a subject you don't understand, you should educate yourself
I love Kara’s grilling.
this is such a bad idea, just build more housing in SF
The Nimbys won't let them
Back in the 90s my supervisor, who lived in Hayward and got up early, could arrive at our job (UCSF) within twenty minutes. By the time we retired in 2015, it took her at least an hour to arrive at work, leaving Hayward at the same early hour.
We desperately need more housing, but we also need more transportation infrastructure to accommodate it.
I remember the bay area back in the 70s being really quick and easy to traverse, but now it's a horror show.
Surely the planners of this fantasy city are thinking hard about this - yes?
Love this
i wonder what percent of people angrily saying no to california forever got their own place to live for a good deal over 5 and over 10 years ago? so many younger people missed the chance to get an affordable place to live in the last 10 years and are now massively suffereing and being taken advantage of. meanwhile anyone who got a place to live cheaply 10 years ago or more dont understand at all the hell people are going through with rising rents and rising home prices. absolutely a lot more homes need to be built.
When rich people create enclaves rather than be decentralized, it just makes them easier to find and capture all at once. Just kidding! Sort of.
This guy is talking about building houses for 400k. It's not a rich enclave, at least that's what he's saying. .
@@kevdaag2523 you may want to do more research, you will find clips of Jan saying these homes (5 to 6 story studios and Condo type structures some distance away from the car charging warehouse that you must walk to) start at $1,000,000.00 , that's not a rumor, 1 million dollars is the starting price. In a walkable gated city of 400,000 people, how much are taxes and Home Owners Association fees going to be each month?
where do you get the idea that this is for rich people or an enclave? you should listen more instead of being prejudiced
❤❤❤ I totally support California Forever
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@@eFiggidy Of course... because it's not what you want to hear 🤣🤣🤣 Run along child.
@@eFiggidy lol Of course, because my opinion differs from yours. HAHAHAHA I SUPPORT CA FOREVER!
Thank you Prof and Kara for giving this "practical visionary" man a platform to speak.
Solano County does not have the infrastructure or water to add a city the size of Oakland. The tax payers do not want to share in this so called visionary infrastructure costs. Our freeways are overwhelmed now. They have no plans to add a hospital. I could go on and on about why this is a huge NO for us.
Absolutely NO TALK OF INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT. Ugh.
California Forwver group is so out of touch with reality. They pitch $88k year salary as a good salary to buy a home, this is completely unrealistic. Jan also said in an interview with Business Insider that the the coalition against is not diverse people, who are 70 years old Sierra Club types. That couldn’t be further from the truth it is an ethnically diverse group of different age groups. The overwhelming majority of Solano County residents including me do not want his utopian city.
@pivot, why have my (not impolite, information sharing) comments been deleted?
Look at cities that have encroached on military installation and impacts.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 this guy is a joke and no Solano locals want him near this area. 🙄
$400, 000 does not sound " affordable" to me for a home. Are tiny homes such as boxable and zennie homes part of this new community ?
Good luck to you if you are looking for work in Solano COUNTRY
More housing for the well to do rich. What else is new!
more housing means cheaper housing, which benefits the poor more than the rich. get a clue
You're not understanding this project. Read up on it. IT'S AFFORDABLE... and they are also offering Solano County residents $400 million in Down Payment Assistance. So yeah... it's affordable.
@@tanyaburt1449 I will believe when I see it. Talk is cheap.
@@Danny-bd1ch you won't see because people like you don't understand, talk against and then nothing gets done, meaning expensive housing that only the rich can afford
@Danny-bd1ch lol I guess you'll see then. But you should still read up on it... understand it.
Was has SF developers not turned All this thousands of empty condos into affordable housing and solved the communt issue. How many building in SF sit empty. We would solve a lot of Bay housing issues and transportation problems if they did.
Equity? More like tech bro fascism. Big Mark Andresson = fucked.
Kara goes to all the right parties, surprise she isnt in ra-ra dress and waving her pom-poms around
it would be really funny if they got acquired by WeWork's Adam Neuman's new real estate company Flow where a16z is also an investor
Really should do a story on how Scott thinks NYU professors speaking out against genocide should be fired, but he shouldn't be fired for going on CNN and calling for a continued genocide...
It is a free market. Real Estate is a good investment. It is great that more housing and a new walkable city under development. However, with the demand for more than 3 million houses in California, this needs to be a government initiative and multiple cities in development. America abandoned master planning after the Second World War it is good to see new communities being built.
The citizens started planning in Solano County 25 years ago for keeping these billionaire developers out of our pristine area. If you support this and Travis Closes down like Mare Island did, we can likely look forward to the same crime wave, blight and unemployment numbers as Vallejo went through. Evidently you enjoy the torture of sitting in traffic , because Cal Trans cant build out the roads like 113 and 12, we have endangered shrimp and Willis Lynn Jepson Prairie out there. Our current population for all of Solano County is just over 400,000, A yes vote in November says you want to double the size of Solano population by squishing another 400,000 people up against Travis and build out toward Rio Vista. I don't think you've actually studied this proposal, it seems you don't know what they are really proposing.
I’m rooting for them, as long as they don’t plan to erect a statue of Aynd Rand in the town Square.
From what I gather, I can cautiously accept that Jan Sramek has a good intention and a decent plan. The question is, who are the investors? and how is this vision sufficiently protected from the investors wanting return?
As in, what will happen if at some point the investors say "enough with this good urbanism thing, start making money so that I can get a return on investment". Does Jan Sramek have a controlling stake of California Forever? Will he retain the control if California Forever needs to raise more money?
The residents of Solano County do not support this. They have a track record of not being forthcoming and we have no trust in their intentions other than I’m sure their end goal is merely to line their own pockets.
I’m a nurse, a $400,000 home is a stretch. To live in the community comfortably, at lower middle class, you’ll need two incomes and hopefully childcare close by.
Vote NO! It’s 10 years too late.
Does Jan the scam get money for every lie he tells?
the only ones hating on this guy are older people like boomers. Jan is younger is genuinely seems concerned about the younger generations suffering right now due to lack of housing.