Posted on 01/22/2022 6:51:21 PM PST by KingofZion
Kevin Dublin, a San Francisco-based poet and writer, is doing everything he can to keep the city’s literary culture alive. He leads a number of writing programs, including the Elder Writing Project, which brings creative writing classes to retirement communities across the Bay Area. He also hosts a community-building reading series, mentors under-resourced kids, spends his summers teaching writing at various youth camps and dreams of founding his own writing youth camp in San Francisco. He is exactly the kind of guy you would want as your neighbor. He’s also exactly the kind of guy the city of San Francisco is least hospitable to.
“There’s so much opportunity here, but a lot of people are holding on by a shoestring,” says Dublin.
The community of artists and writers to which Dublin belongs is fighting to hold on to their place in the most expensive city in America. In 2015, the same year Dublin moved to the Bay Area, the San Francisco Arts Commission surveyed nearly 600 local artists and found that more than 70% of them had either already left San Francisco or were about to be displaced from their work, home or both. The pandemic has only intensified these problems. A report by Americans for the Arts found that 53% of artists have no savings whatsoever as a result of the pandemic.
In an effort to mitigate what appears to be an existential threat to the arts, in March 2021, the city of San Francisco partnered with the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts to launch a guaranteed income pilot, called the SF Guaranteed Income Pilot for Artists, or SF-GIPA, that gives 130 local low-income artists who have been severely impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic $1,000 a month, no strings attached, for 18 months. Dublin is among them...
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
Nice puff piece but the reality is that $1k/month doesn't make a dent in San Francisco, particularly when there is no demand for your product.
I live in Commiefornia for about 10 years total and if I were still there a thousand dollars would not even pay my electric bill.
Sounds like a Supply Chain failure issue...
That sucks. My last electric bill was $26.96.
$1000 about covers my senior park lot rent and gas/electric bill.
He also hosts a community-building reading series, mentors under-resourced kids, spends his summers teaching writing at various youth camps and dreams of founding his own writing youth camp in San Francisco.
Y’know who gravitates towards jobs being around children?
Pedophiles and pederasts
Keel my lanlord...
Keel my lanlord...
I want there to be a vibrant functional livable San Francisco where the indigenous can think their SFO thoughts, live their SFO lives, and speak their SFO words, and not relocate into my small city of 100K in the middle of the country.
That’s a red flag. But if he’s a minister, less so. However, there are still some shady ministers out there as we all know.
Steinbeck, Hammett, Woolf.
Which of those NorCal writers needed money from the taxpayers to create their works>
“under-resourced kids”
That’s a new euphemism on me. I think they have a factory that spits out new ones every couple of months.
That's about how it works. And then the "factory" is able to collect more in food stamps and welfare checks.
A $27.00 electric bill? Seriously? Where do you live and do you have any electric appliances besides a computer?
FWIW, I’m in California but was temporarily relocated to Iowa for a year and was renting a small 1 bedroom home with only an electric frig, microwave and washer/dryer and was only home at night for about 9 hours which means I used very little electricity but my typical monthly bill was $70-$80.
Do you supplement your power with solar?
C-I-L-L
😜
(I think)
Nope, no solar. I live alone, and am at work most of the day. When I have a day off, I open the blinds during the daylight hours.
Under-resourced kids are found in marginalized communities.
It’s all about inclusion, diversity, and equity.
My energy conservation plan takes a somewhat different tack. I blast the air conditioner day and night in order to keep the female residents comfortable and content. That also serves a second purpose: to reduce the sometimes unwieldy balance in my checking account.
He could go out and get a real job and actually work for a living.
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