Controversial rent-free boat living in the Bay Area

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Once you have a fancy house with a view over the water, you don't want poor folk in shabby boats messing up the view.

Or, as the article indicates, crashing/breaking a vessel on your property 16 times, presumably leaving you in charge of cleanup/restoration, whether the statement is of a true event or not.

I realize you're saying this in a sarcastic, mocking tone but...yeah? If you worked hard to build your own life up to the point where you can buy a million+ waterfront house, wouldn't it seem unfair to have shabby boats sitting there for free and crashing into your property?

Waterfront house doesn't mean you get to own the ocean as well

Those boats were always there, and waterfront property doesn’t mean you own the waterway.

Throwing in “environmental concerns” is no different from woodside spontaneously becoming “concerned” about the well being of mountain lions when they were going to lose their ability to block new construction.

I agree that the pretense of "environmental concerns" is complete bull.

Well, no. As a property owner you don't get to own the bay or the ocean as well.

If an asset (i.e. land) is 4 billion years old, then the whole idea of "fair ownership" of it is a dubious legal fiction rooted in violence.

I was looking into boat living when I had graduated college and was thinking about taking a job in LA. Unfortunately, a non-existent credit file at the time meant that I was out of luck getting anyone to finance me.

Financing a boat is kinda crazy, unless you are already somewhat rich and buying weekend boat.

These boats are $2000 derelicts.

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