The Farm, Soquel California:
Tannery Arts Center, Santa Cruz California:
The second one is especially egregious. They used $15 million of Federal money to build the place. To live there, you have to interview with a board to prove your "artist" cred.
Needless to say, your political bent and connection to the local Beach Bolsheviks is also part of the wink and nod qualification.
Most of the "art" that comes out of there is garbage resembling the Socialist Reality trash of 1930s Stalinist Russia when Proletarian Artists were prominently featured everywhere.
In the end, it's a political scam to entrench a voting demographic that keeps the otherwise worthless college Liberals in power, passing out the goodies to their under-achieving constituents, who want to live in the nice parts of the U.S. but uh, don't want to do the work that would get you there on your own.
So when do I get my free apartment in Bel Air??