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Converting Audi Dealerships Into Apartments

from Den Of Snakes | The Tim Dillon Show #378 · #378

4 min

Tim mocks the plan to convert defunct car dealerships along Wilshire into low-income housing, contrasting it with the city's massive homelessness and drug crisis, and quotes a Municipal League spokesman's odd "sardines" metaphor.

In this bit9 moments
  • Tim describes LA's plan to convert Audi dealerships and car lots to low-income housing.
  • Converting an Audi dealership into seven apartments is the response to 110,000 people on the street suffering from drug addiction.
  • Tim mocks the idea of poor people living in Beverly Hills low-income housing and bragging about their ZIP code.
  • The logic of placing low-income housing in one of the country's most expensive cities—where resources and plastic surgeons matter—doesn't make sense.
  • Thomas White of the Municipal League opposes the plan with a metaphor: too many sardines in a can becomes inedible.
  • Tim offers Beverly Hills residents a blueprint for opposing the housing plan the right way.
  • He claims to know the Audi dealership location well and can explain how to get the plan killed.
  • The quote from Thomas White about sardines in a can is exactly what the LA Times reported.
  • Low-income housing policy requires understanding facts and truth, Tim insists.
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