Housing Crisis - SCS

From HP to the Haight, Sunset to the Mission

From greedy landlords to crooked politicians

From Geneva Avenue to the Golden Gate Bridge

Our city’s fast becoming a playground for the rich

Utterly clueless to the city’s history or fabric

Ask any local, the situation’s tragic

Billionaires like Ron Conway all up in the mix

How many square miles in the city, he said there were six

Naw Ron there’s 49 just ask Santa Clara

This techie takeover marks the end of an era

Real people with roots steadily getting displaced

At least now I can buy a ten dollar cupcake

Nothing sweet no matter how ya slice it

If you’re not rich you’ll get the short end of the stick

So hit the bricks quick slick is what they’re telling me

A wicked two tiered system: elite & the peasantry

Double, double toil and trouble

The city burns — technology bubbles

They’re ushering in new firms non-stop

What happens when that bubble goes pop

An Influx a Tech Bros in Luxury condos

Noses glued to cell phones guarded like ponchos

Cold shoulder no courtesy to even say hello

A techno hellhole devoid of any soul

If u talk to me like I belong to a lower caste

I’ll smash your demi-tasse right through your Google Glass

Do yourself a favor and show some respect

Lest when they see your face rest assured they’ll swipe left

I’m blessed not just gonna blame the techies

As lotsa responsibility falls squarely on Ed Lee

Who as an attorney after UC Berkeley

Was for affordable housing — oh the irony

But he paced the path paved by Newsome and Slick Willy

Repping big business not his constituency

Then he dropped the ball like Cam with Super Bowl 50

Now he’s cheating on his wife sleeping with Airbnb

The city’s housing being sold to the highest bidder

This digital rush for gold apparently just glitter

Capitalism uncontrolled as developers snicker

The city’s heart & soul is now cold & bitter

If ya can’t write code for dropbox or twitter

Your time here’s borrowed and ya better consider

A brand-new zipcode no more city slicker

Maybe Kosovo maybe somethin' nearer

Affordable rents are nothing short of a thing of the past

The middle class in the midst of a disappearing act

On the fast-track if you will to becoming artifacts

Need to find the escape route while being under attack

Imperative we break this class line that divides us

If not one day they’ll find us in the Academy of Science

As our rich-poor gap widens it makes me wonder

How our income inequality’s on par with Rwanda