Comic Relief During The Housing Crisis
Apparently, wolves aren’t the only ones skilled at disquising themselves by sneaking into our backyards, breaking into our homes, and slipping into Grandma’s nightie to fool us! It appears that Alligators have an especially good knack for it too.
Keys to the Allegory:
- Disquise: “solution to the housing crisis”
- Backyard: state control over local planning
- Break into the house: foundation of SFR ownership cracked by SB 9 & AB 881
- Grandma’s nightie: “affordable” housing incentives on “accessory” dwelling units
- Alligators: predatory investors profiteering off affordable housing incentives and gobbling up our housing stock
**A Public Service Announcement from the Alligator Hunter**
A list of practical things you can do to avoid being bitten by an Alligator
- Rip Grandma’s ‘personals’ off the Alligators: quit calling apartment complexes being built in your backyards ‘granny-flats.’ There is nothing ‘accessory’ about ADUs. Quit lying to yourself that alligators are benign.
- Don’t be fooled by the Alligator’s disquise: Stop entertaining the myth that allowing alligators in our neighborhoods will somehow solve our housing crisis. Neither will piling ourselves on top of one another. Such things always turn out to be a cluster…
- Fix the Foundation: Join the Charter Cities that have sued the state over SB 9, and demand that single family homes remain exactly that, SINGLE-FAMILY HOMES. Refuse to obey AB 881.
- Fix the hole in your backyard fences (take control of local planning groups).
- Buy the Alligator Hunter a cup of coffee.
Alligator Allegory is my new ‘pet project’. I hope to write daily in order to put a smile on your face while we look for viable housing solutions in San Diego, the state, and the country. But there’s nothing funny about what’s happening to our LIMBYs. They need our support.
I need your support to keep up with the Public Service Announcements. I need more coffee to buy the helium in order to raise the red balloon over the last “road-kill” an alligator left behind (4601 Almayo Ave), March 29, 2025 12pm to 2pm).
Thank-you,
Jim LaMattery /Alligator Hunter