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Cactus Rose Mobile Home Park and the Elon/Rogan Austin Boom

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Continuing the Austin article, he reads about the Cactus Rose mobile home park being demolished for luxury apartments and blames Elon Musk and Joe Rogan for hyping the Austin migration that displaced longtime residents.

In this bit7 moments
  • Francisco Nunez lived at Cactus Rose Mobile Home Park for nearly two decades until developers bought it to build luxury apartments renting for double his old price.
  • Austin's metro area is on track to become the least affordable major metro region for home buyers outside California by year's end, already surpassing Boston, Miami, and New York.
  • Tim reads Twitter posts celebrating that they've turned Austin into a shittier LA, thanking Elon Musk, Joe Rogan, and Google for the transformation.
  • Elon moves to Austin, Joe Rogan promotes it as the world's biggest comedy scene, and then residents get kicked out of their mobile homes to make way for high rises filled with demons.
  • The article's claim that UT has a flagship campus is utterly meaningless and the phrase gentle rolling hills is gibberish for stupid people.
  • Austin has no vibrant music scene, literally none, despite what the article claims.
  • The solution to the housing crisis is to build affordable housing for the displaced low-income Black and Latino residents being pushed away from cultural centers and transportation hubs.
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Elon MuskJoe RoganGoogleAustinCactus Rose mobile home parkFrancisco NunezJob Hammond

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