All Things Census

[1AngryTaxPayer]

Originally Posted by sdlife619

In the OC board, there’s a thread about how someone making 70-80k a year is actually considered low income in OC and how they would qualify for low income housing!!

That’s incredible if you ask me.

Not sure if that’s for a family of 2 or 4, but regardless it just goes to show how quickly expensive CA is becoming for a lot of people as wages aren’t going up fast enough to keep up with housing inflation. The math isn’t in favor for many people that live here anymore. The question is, is your job giving you a 6 to 8 percent raises every year? I am guessing no.

The homeless population has no choice but to grow as the housing shortage and a combination of greed from landlords has made matters worse. Driving downtown at night picking up drunk people after they party in the Gaslamp and EV really shocked me in terms of how dire the homeless population is becoming. It literally looks like a 3rd world country off imperial ave 16th and 17th st. The mental ones that are out of control yelling at nothing seem to be everywhere now. They’re like zombies from the walking dead. Not to mention the pungent odors of **** and **** driving down those streets almost makes me wanna puke!

So although SD does well in many stats, our city isn’t as rosy as we all might think it is. The lack of any political will seriously is crushing any hope we have to make SD a place for everyone to live happily not just the select few.

Every big City has the same problems. People have put up online cameras on homeless camps, it's crazy. It's like a nut case reality show. Tweakers sweeping the dirt with brooms, taking dumps in the street, harassing passing pedestrians.

[sdurbanite]

Preliminary Census estimates were released a few days ago and it shows that SD is still growing. Anyone notice more traffic on the roads these days?




https://www.census.gov/newsroom/pres...MTkyMzI4ODU3S0

[newgensandiego]

Originally Posted by sdurbanite

Preliminary Census estimates were released a few days ago and it shows that SD is still growing. Anyone notice more traffic on the roads these days?

That's what happens when most development is designed around auto travel.

[sprez33]

Originally Posted by sdurbanite

I can't be the only one interested in census data, right? The charts below show are metro rankings for income, poverty and health coverage. SD is above average in all 3 categories.

Interesting how San Diego and NYC are pretty much overlapping on all three measures. Would not have expected that.