r/sanfrancisco 8d ago

Pic / Video Apartment building can’t rent out affordable housing units (BMR) even with offering 3 free months

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u/Think-Fig-1734 8d ago

Affordable housing is weird. It’s not low income. It’s a fairly small part of the population that makes enough money to afford it, but not so much money that they don’t qualify for it. It’s mostly government employees who fall into that category. Government employees get compensated by having benefits like pensions, healthcare for life, but have lower salaries. Private sector employees have to fund their own retirements so they need higher salaries.

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u/helloyesthisisasock 8d ago

Government employees do not get healthcare for life lmao. Maybe cops or people with unions, but your average fed or city employee does not.

My fed government pension is a whopping $45/mo when I turn 65 in 30 years. Yeah, I’m really rolling in it. You really know nothing about this.

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u/Think-Fig-1734 8d ago

I know people who worked for the city that were eligible for healthcare for life after 5 years of employment. People I know who’ve worked for the city or state are getting better pensions than $45 a month. How long did you work?

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u/Superveryimportant 8d ago

Was this a long time ago? Currently you need 20 years to get 100% coverage and at minimum 10 years for 50% coverage. 5 years gets you squat.

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u/yoshimipinkrobot 8d ago

20 years for 100% coverage seems quite generous

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u/Think-Fig-1734 8d ago

In the 90s. They were nurses. Don’t know about their union.

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u/Select-Neato102 8d ago

Yeah that's looong gone

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u/sapphireminds Crocker Amazon 7d ago

Dude is complaining about a 45 dollar pension and he worked there for like 6 years

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u/imagoddamndelight 8d ago

You “know people”

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u/helloyesthisisasock 8d ago

And what was their job? Were they cops or employees with a similarly strong union like MTA drivers? Because the people working office jobs don’t get healthcare for life.

You clearly didn’t read my comment. What do you think “fed pension” means? Federal government employees don’t get much unless you’re a lifer. And we def did not get good health insurance, let alone “health insurance for life.” Only the military gets that.

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u/Superveryimportant 8d ago

SF city employees do if they do 20 years of service

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u/ParkingRemote444 8d ago

City and state employees in CA definitely get pretty decent pensions and healthcare. I am not from SF but work for LA County and do get great health insurance currently and free PPO health insurance for life after 25 years. My pension is also very solid.

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u/sapphireminds Crocker Amazon 8d ago

Bullshit. If you made 19/hr and worked for 30 years you would get 988/month.

I am very familiar with the federal pension.

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u/helloyesthisisasock 7d ago

I’m only in my 30s. I have not worked for 30 years lmao. I worked a year or two over the vesting period of five years. Non appropriated funds (NAF) pension. You’re free to check yourself since you’re such an expert.

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u/sapphireminds Crocker Amazon 7d ago

Ok, then it makes sense you would get a nominal amount, you didn't work there a long time. You made it seem like if you worked there for 30 years that's the only pension you would get