SF's Homeless Problem: How Did We Get Here?
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- Wilson Walker takes a look at San Francisco's homeless problem, and how it developed over time. (6/26/16)
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Where's all the big time Hollywood stars helping these people
tax hollywood 80 percent
They are enjoying their mansions and super cars.
I think what Louis Pulice meant was: Why are so many Hollywood actors dumping their money into causes overseas? Why can't they do both if they consider themselves philanthropists? They have a social responsibility. I feel that yes, it's their money to do with what they want but they shouldn't consider themselves philanthropists when they can't donate a portion of what they give to overseas causes to their own people. Yes, the government, VOTER elected, representatives are responsible for "fixing" the problem but more proactive, informed citizen involvement is needed. People need to lay off their Starbucks, movie tickets, cable, once in awhile and help out.
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Why should they help, its not their responsibility!!!! Its the losers that raised this garbage.!!!!
35 years and still they cant put their own people first
@NonyaBusiness! You wouldn't understand. Above your mentality.......
Basically
@NonyaBusiness! How about working to solve a huge racial divide between blacks and white people. How about working to get homeless vets off the street. But no, you fucking pieces of shit liberals think every illegal will vote Democrat and that they're entitled to every service if they plop out a kid on American soil.
@NonyaBusiness! Stop GIVING pity and START teaching them how to survive on their OWN. Wow that was real hard wasn't it. Give a man a fish he only eats for a day, TEACH the man how to fish he eats for a lifetime it's a very simple concept once you remove FEELINGS from the equation. They can do it, they just don't want to because they have bleeding hearts like you cupcakes to give them just enough to get by but not enough to get ahead. You are a carrot on a stick to them and the main cause of the problem, as long as ppl like you exist this issue will never end.
@NonyaBusiness! HUH? You soo lost me on that one care to try again? There's a joke somewhere in that I seriously missed it LOL.
There's no single person to blame. It's a symphony and we're ALL in the band. This is just another sad tale of a society that has completely broken down.
This is a chronic situation and has been like this for years
California Swede
Maybe you should change how it’s handled.
Not this bad.
Bingo! John Steinbeck protested in the 30s!
Bullshit it's only been a real problem since liberal wanted to kick open the border for votes.
Growing up we made trips to LA for this that and the other (military stuff). I remember seeing homeless sleeping on the streets because my Dad always pointed them out and told me " Son you better straighten up or you'll end up like this guy and I don't want that for you" That was 40 yrs ago.
$250,000,000 for 7,000 people? That's $35,714 per person... I know people that don't even make that in a year that live well. WTF?!?!?
Many, many choose the lifestyle. Many, many want government to take care of them instead of taking care of themselves. Studies were done in the 80's and 90's on this.
and many have disabilities/mental handicaps....most are down o their luck,.....give it 20 years and like half the jobs could be automated/computerized
How many Americans are in debt and how many are one paycheck from being homeless? What if we dont take out loans? lol
Sounds like a shmuck telling a guy who has no access to a shower... to get a job. Hmmm you going to buy a hamburger made from that guy?
Have a muscle guy slam a dirty big mac right in yo mouth
@@jayjohn9680 You've gotta be a f-n millennial.
Yes and no. The US closed most of its longterm stay psych hospitals under Reagan, leaving them for care in “the community”…with no budget. That meant…aging parents, or the street.
And it’s not a rare issue…1% of the US (over 3 million people) has schizophrenia, a true and debilitating neuropsych issue. And treatments helps some people, some degree, but often not enough to be fully functional.
They aren’t all of the homeless…..there are addicts who could work if clean…but the “but for the Grace of God go I” mentally ill are certainly a decent percent.
Common sense says you can’t have no longterm care for the worst neuro illnesses….then wonder why disheveled people wander city streets arguing with their hallucination.
It would be like closing all the nursing homes for elderly people with dementia, then complaining that “why don’t they just get a job and do right.”
Will never visit sf again
I use to feel bad for these people but not anymore. The majority of them are out there because of bad choices they made in their lives whether its drugs, alcoholism or another vice. The city will spend thousands of dollars to clean up after these idiots while negotiating dirty, used needles on the ground. You've read the story. How a guy tried to change a homeless guy's life. Gave him place to live. Bought him clothes for a job interview and work. Helped him get a job. That lasted a month and he was back on the streets. One time, I bought an extra sandwich from Subway just in case someone at my office didn't have lunch, but everyone either ate or had their lunch already. So I took that sandwich out and gave it to a homeless guy. He threw it at me and screamed he didn't want the fucking sandwich and that he needed money. I assume drugs were more important to him than food. Now, I don't give a shit about them.
The government created the meth and heroin problem in the first place. Do a search for "Safe Injection Site" and you'll see how the government is handing out needles and drugs. These government sponsored drug addicts are then dumped out on the street in conspicuous places where the public can see them spaced out.
Another reason to "Build the Wall".
I never got into meth or heroin. There's a thing called "Personal Responsibility", but these fuckups would rather be "VICTIMS".
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Shakester71 Bum Doctor AcuMagnet LIBERALS DONT CARE.. THEY WALK AROUND THIS FILTH EVERYDAY.. THEN HAVE THE NERVE YO LECTURE US IN THE MIDWEST??? YOU GUYS NEED TO WAKEUP.. STOP BEING TO ARROGANT AND HUMBLE YOURSELF. YOU MIGHT ACTUALLY LEARN SOMETHING
kansasthunderman1 Bum Doctor AcuMagnet LIBERALS DONT CARE.. THEY WALK AROUND THIS FILTH EVERYDAY.. THEN HAVE THE NERVE TO LECTURE US IN THE MIDWEST??? YOU GUYS NEED TO WAKEUP.. STOP BEING TO ARROGANT AND HUMBLE YOURSELF. YOU MIGHT ACTUALLY LEARN SOMETHING
Mayor Guiliani cleaned up New York City, it was amazing! Homeless hanging out and sleeping in the Paek and streets wasn't allowed. Trucks would go around and take them to shelters. San Fran mayor doesn't have the guts to do this. Now it's a health problem.
@Sunnydreamer: ha ha ha ha ha You really are a dreamer... So you think that idiotic Guiliani solved the homelessness problem by banning homeless from public view...? According to your "logic" then the way to fix your car is to put on your headphones aloud so you won't hear it, right??
That's the only way they're ever going to fix the problems. but now days everybody says that's inhumane, but it's better to just let them live on the street with mental illness and drug issues. Okay that's worked very well so far. They accept the help or they need to be forced only way unfortunately
And now, 2018 - SF's homeless budget is $305 million. Doesn't sound like the problem is lack of funding...
SF Deserves what they get. I love it.
lh Wun as a former resident of that city, I second that! Let it burn itself down!
lh Wun San Franshithole Mexifornia!
the medical community is a atrocity
If you just give 6,000 homeless a new house, guess what? 100,000 more opportunistic bums flood into the city wanting their freebies.
Golden Arrow much like the situation at the border.
Some homeless actually need the help. The rest are drug addicts and bad decision makers.
You think people want to be jobless? Though many are hopelessly stuck on druggs there are so many that want to do right.
I just heard a story of a woman that killed herself because she couldnt find work. Being jobless is hell
I think this video misses the point. A good part of the problem is due to drugs and bad policy by the city council.
Exactly! Every city has it's share of homelessness but in the last 5 or 10 years SF has had an increase of crystal meth, heroine, opioids, and crack users taking over. Those type of drugs usually destroys the person's chemical balance and that explains their bizarre behaviors and aggression.
See Jerry Brown Nancy Pelosi Dianne Feinstein and Maxine Waters
Capt777harris , see them for what they are. Charlatans all!
Brown, Pelosi, Feinstein and Waters could give a "shit", they all live in gated communities away from the "filth". Keep voting Democrats, it's never get any better.
and Kamala Harris
OMG, the four horsemen/women of the Apocalypse!
All caused by the Democrats
Blame your beloved Fienstein for no help!
As long as you keep voting Democrats it's never going to get any better.
S M: I don't love Feinstein,but she did create a homeless hotel program, I mean, she tried. There is just only to much a mayor can do to stop a antionwide problem.
Politicians are not to blame for the poor decisions that individuals make in life this is not homelessness this is drug's addiction
How are you supposed to end homelessness without force when the homeless make more money than the average worker?
What?? Stop smoking that shit man!
oh yes such a 'beautiful city'. A beautiful cesspool.
Thank the government party that runs the city.
Keep voting Democrat...
I will.
Len Black Then you’ll get more of this.
www.google.com/amp/s/www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/matier-ross/amp/Those-needles-littering-the-streets-The-city-12898656.php
Len Black don’t continue to vote for a party that subsidizes drug use and homelessness, is weak on crime, and harbors illegal immigrants (felons). SF harbors illegal immigrant felons who under the 3 strikes rule should be in state prison for life, but non-citizens get a pass.
Len Black
www.google.com/amp/s/www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/amp/S-F-spends-record-241-million-on-homeless-6808319.php
SF should use the money for temporary housing. Only allow admittance to those individuals who are sober. Also institute a clean the streets program with the homeless, for pay of course.
www.google.com/amp/s/www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/amp/S-F-spends-record-241-million-on-homeless-6808319.php
Weak on crime? You must support the failed "war on drugs" right? How much $$$ have we wasted on that?
I went to Frisco and some homeless guy hit the hood of my vehicle with his fist, 700 dollars in damage, walked away and I was stuck with the bill. The place really sucks and stinks, and it’s the fault of the city council and Mayor.
How is it we can quickly solve the homelessness problem for foreign refugees flooding our shores, but somehow just can't do the same for our own people?
Because liberals run Cali.
So? They're still Americans, and the foreigners are still foreigners. Show a little loyalty to your own, dude.
@Sam Smmith: Chill Sammy, Its not about illegals. All empires go through this natural process. The U.S. has overspent and overextended itself, it became lazy, fat and stupid and now there's no way to prevent its collapse. This collapse process includes not only the hoards of immigrants you see all around, but also: bankers and big corporatons swindling the people, voting apathy, mental laziness, emasculation of men, shootings every week, ritalin-loaded kids, feminism, punishment of normal human and male behavior, lack of female sensitivity to keep a family together, divorce rate up the ass, police brutality and idiocy, anger all around you, metoo movements, water pollution, incarceration rate highest in the world, etc, etc, etc, It's not only about immigrants. Machines and software are stealing jobs away from American workers way, way above immigration.
Liberal policies are a magnet for the unemployed.
Wilson Walker the Legend!
As a strong critic of self-serving homeless advocacy I must say that this seems to be a remarkably sincere attempt to look at the problem, for the news media. However, I'm concerned that the focus here is on housing rather than jobs and income. When I first became homeless people still thought I was a professional. They were dumbfounded when they learned I was homeless. Even on the streets, I blended in with professionals more than "the homeless". Now, two years later, with all my resources gone and still no means for maintaining my hygiene, they look at that very same individual as a "useless bum". All I've asked for all along was a JOB, and a way to maintain my hygiene so I could keep that job. But Minnesota has an utterly dysfunctional "housing first" policy, and I cannot work in Minnesota unless I commit perjury - a felony. So I end up with no job or housing. Is it any wonder that so many homeless give up, and just become what is expected of them (a useless bum)? There is a fundamental misunderstanding of what the real problem is here, and throwing any amount of money at it won't solve it. First, you must distinguish between the hard-working involuntarily homeless and the voluntarily homeless. See my Homeless Consultant channel here for a thorough analysis from a competent homeless man's perspective.
give it 20 years and at least a third of north American jobs will be automated/computerized
The Homeless Consultant You are absolutely right! There are no jobs. There is a huge gap.
+Polly the Pearlclutcher + Edited hor header KOut
Record low unemployment, are you just deluded, or even employed? He said he could get a job, but some fuzzy excuse about committing perjury on job applications. I call BS and you should too. He sounds logical, and knowlig able [sic] about the inner world, and difficulties of homelessness. His point about separating those willing to work, and reestablishing real lives, from the addicted, mentally ill, anti-social, the predators, criminals, illegal aliens, and those who choose this as a lifestyle. Tax breaks for one year if you hire from the good pool, and placing them {only these} in housing with 3 months support would be a good idea. The $500,000,000.00 SF spends every year on the homeless, has made the situation much worse, and wastes that amount of money every year. KOut
+ Captai666harris + Thank You Cap, for your comment, which I believe was directed "at" me. When you start a reply with, "Oh Yeah" it;s probably not, "to," or "towards," ....me, I assume. I apologize, for like you, I had neglected the header "to" ms. Pearlclutcher, which I have since corrected. Now, it is not only your manner, and your tone that I find troubling, but your faulty assumptions. You claim I'm ignorant of this situation.
Well Cap, After dashing out my comment, I visited the YT channel of the intentionally homeless, professional complainer, who started this thread. My calling him on his BS story, and Ms. Pearlclutchers, delusion, and gullibility, turned out to be ,....... GUESS? What do you think? Was I right or wrong about them? Since, " I Don't know what I'm talking about." Right? (Having grown-up, worked and lived in the Bay Area, til this very day.) {I've probably worked there longer than you've lived there, or even been alive possibly, & I didn't move there until I was 5). Guesses? No? Maybe? Anyone? Ok.
Well Cap. humility would normally prevent me from informing you, But, you're CALLING ME OUT!
HAHAHAhahaha was a good one, and earned you a , "Yep, Kel, right again, How do you do it?... I mean, E V E R Y frickin T I M E !! ...How DID you know there was something wrong with these stories?
...and Mr. Homeless was just full of it.?" Well, Cap, like I warned ms. Pearlclutcher, his story about committing "Perjury," on a job application.... this is a self-victimiser, complain about a free-lunch type, who couldn't hold a job if you stapled it to his hands type. People wont hire him because of the vibe he gives off, and are rightly afraid of being sued, by the unhinged wing-bat. He admits in one of his videos
he insists on telling prospective employers, "Hey, I'm homeless and have problems with my higene.[sic] I hope you wont have any problems with that. I insist on being honest and will not lie on any form no matter what."
So Cap, other than you and ms. Pearlclutcher feeling "ENTITLED" to live in areas, where you find yourselves, unable to support yourselves, let's see how far gone you are. ok>
I couldn't afford to live in Pacific Heights, with Pelosi & Feinstein, right! I didn't marry Mr. Money, like both of them did, and few unattatched women have that much dough, if you know what I mean. So Cap, what right do I have to complain, about educational & lifestyle choices, I've made, that make it difficult to support my living in, Pacific Height, Marin County, or East Palo Alto? Is there something in the US, or california constitutions, that guarantee me the right to live, work, and pursue HAPPINESS,
in the expensive Bay Area? I came here wqhen I was 5, but I could leave, and move back east, or Texas
sounds nice...no state taxes, huh? imagine that, rents, and houses are 1/10th the price, LOTS of jobs &sun. Right? No homeless, drug addicts, and feces all over the streets. Can you believe that?
Would you hire the homeless advocate guy, if you had built up your own business, big enough that you need employees, I mean, before I told you the details about him? Would you ? Be Honest! We'll see
how much you've learned. KOut
What bothers me is some these people don't want to work they want to hand out
+Capt777harris That is San Francisco's problem. The best thing the rest of the country can do is not support that bad structure with our welfare dollars. They use federal welfare bucks as a crutch to support their failed system.
As for those who can't afford a house, why not just move? Most homeless are there because they believe it is a better deal for them to live there in terms of benefits.
I will have to check your numbers on the welfare California provides to the rest of the nation... a state with some of the highest taxes in the nation that is still very much in the red...
Anyway the video itself was bemoaning the loss of federal housing program bucks. So that is why I bring that up.
And if San Fran has such great welfare programs then what are you on about? You say they can't make it on 8 or 9 bucks an hour, well if you can't make it work even with all that welfare then what?
The Democrats want it that way, keep everyone "equally poor".
Programs not working? Wow! How a about taking a new approach. “Personal responsibility “
Humans do if things if it benefits them, being homeless in San Francisco is a big benefit to those who chose that lifestyle
Work hard and stayed out of trouble and you will be a good fellow neighbor in your community
It’s called liberal incompetence running a state.
I was screaming!!!!
Wilson Walker is an underrated reporter
This is so heart breaking!!!!GOD Bless U all.. Peliso take ur ass home and help the homeless people...
Time for work camps for all these bums. Fenced in and forced to work for their own food and housing. All in isolated areas far from cities.
This is the most unamerican solution possible.
The only ones to blame are the bums themselves who enjoy being homeless. Work camps is a great idea. Growing crops or tilling soil for booze.
In Brazil there was a serious discussion to create a “city” deep inland where to send all the criminals from favelas to be self sustainable
punitive sterilization....more humane, but they can loose the right to procreate
You ever see The Running Man? I think we found some new contestants!
Give me a minute while I digest this. Homelessness is actually caused by a lack of tax-payer subsidized housing? All this time I thought homelessness was caused by individuals not making wise and productive choices with their time and effort. Boy do I feel foolish.
yeah man, you went to college and have a nice job for nothing. what were you thinking? homeless is the new American Dream.
Right on!!!!
I saw a report 5 yrs ago that is eye opening. The budget then was 240 million dollars. Part of the problem is not enough affordable housing that mirrors wages
As a SF native I have seen and lived through the changes there since the 1950s.
Some significant features.
1. The cultural/sexual 'revolution' during the Summer of Love years.1960's.
2. The influx of the gay mafia, living in the Castro district I saw my rental on a one bedroom flat skyrocket to over 250% after the gays took over the neighborhood.From $80/month to over $300.
3. The concessions to the bath house pervs during the ensuing years. supported by DiFi; Rock Hudson was king of the bathhouse contingent.
3a. Epidemic of AIDS hits hard.
4. Diane Feinstein's putative assassination of then mayor which brought her to political prominence, as her husband Richard Blum fortified his monetary collusion with China.
5. The rise of the Lesbian sub-culture in the '80s.
6. The influx of hi-tech corps and startups, which accelerated during the '90s.
7. Chinese establish cultural hegemony in North Beach, Sunset and Richmond district neighborhoods.
8. Population of city composed of over 65% Chinese...officially, but realistically much greater.
9. Alcatraz prison closure.
10. CA government goes total Democratic as the Browns-Willie and Jerry- capture the flag.
11. During Obama years immigrants given preference over natives in housing, welfare, all social perks.
12. SF becomes a certified SANCTUARY CITY...no one cares.
13. Kate Stienle shot and killed in broad daylight in public; killer goes free after having been previously deported 5 times.
14.Start of early morning liquid chemical hose-down in downtown areas as fecal matter accumulates beyond control....the rise of Cholera a palpable threat.
15, to 500. I could go on ad infinitum...SF is dirtier than an East Indian village and twice as dangerous, even without the elephants.
I left 7 years ago now living in Asia...
This is the only comment I've read with any real substance. I've lived in the bay area for over fifty years and have seen the last twenty being the hardest on our communities. Thanks for your pure honesty.
THANK YOU DEMOCRATS THANK YOU SO MUCH. tHEY CANT HELP THE HOMELESS THERE TO BUSY GIVING THE ILLEGALS EVERYTHING. THANK YOU NANCY PELOSI
Sin will bring a man down to a very low life . One sin today and another tomorrow and before you expect it destruction comes and it will hit hard . What homeless people need is to recognize their behavior before God and man has brought them to their condition .Unless there's a change of heart there will never be a change of lifestyle . Money and material things will not change the homeless problems . It starts with a change of heart , and only Christ can help these people . The hardest thing to do is to change the heart of men . Dear God have mercy on us .
Milton Soto Right on, Milton!!!!!
I don't think that money can solve all the problems of homelessness,.but definitely it can help some people that still fighting to get back on their feet.
Lol
Looks like Seattle 🤨
Another liberal stronghold
Welcome to Liberal America AKA San Francisco
*How did you get there?*
*One word answers that question ... "DEMOCRATS"*
The only change is that tearing down tents and striping off blankets at 4am and killing people is no longer tolerated. The tents are a visible sign of how many are really out there when before people were scrambling from place to place for food and it hid the problem.
The problem is there are to many people living their, PERIOD. Moving to some place with no housing is just stupid and the City needs to kick these people out.
they spend 37,000 per homeless person a year. just give them all the cash at once. im sure 1/2 will od and the other half will be robbed and klLLed. problem solved
Vote republican. That's your only hope San Francisco.
The republicans like Nixon and Reagan who cut public housing?
Jake Cosenza yes. Nixon and Reagan were mayors of San Francisco for so long.
Stop looking to a presidents to fix local problems.
If you see a crime being committed do you call the police or the FBI?
why are the republicans still so extreme? Republicans haven't changed since 1982. I know this is probably a generalization but their solution to poverty is to blame people that are poor, and say that it's they're fault. That they chose to be poor.
But the reality is, poverty is a result of circumstances.
If you're born into a poor family with parents minimum wage, and you try to get educated, first of all your parents probably aren't educated. They might try to get you to work hard in school, but they don't know how to help you with your homework in a serious way. This is a generalization, but most of the time you would probably live in a poor neighborhood, and go to a local school, where most of your peers also don't have help from their parents. There is upward mobility in America, and it's much better than the rest of the world, but we still have work to do.
The Republicans like Reagan who closed the State Hospitals that were then forced to just drop the chronically mentally ill on the streets?
The Republicans like the politicians in Arizona and Nevada who made it their policy to give their mentally ill and homeless bus tickets to San Francisco?
DoctorWeeTodd that was 40+ years ago, bud. Come up with a different excuse for your city's failure, bc that one doesn't work anymore.
Prosperity and lack of affordable housing have its casualties. The most vulnerable.
Like any other issue that was kept on the shelves ( healthcare for example ) the untreated problems got worse and worse. Anything left unchecked will eventually get worse, it's just common sense.
I prefer to stay out of the City now, due to the homeless population...
If they hung out in Pacific Heights a solution would be found by the end of the week, or a gate would be installed, with armed guards. Coit tower WTF....what is your point....or are you reading off of a tourist guide. Jeeeesus! KOut
Just one word, "Democrats". Y'all Enjoy, Hear!
This is why I am here. Oklahoma State. The cost of living is very cheap. I don't think I'll ever move back to Sacramento. Let alone try to move to San Francisco.
You've made some of the most intelligent comments of the group.
Thirty million Mexicans moved to California in the time we're talking about. That certainly had an impact.
So the homeless problem was caused by not enough free money for bums?
And the solution to the homeless problem is more free money for bums? How about they go get jobs?
Varuna: In order to get jobs they first need some basic infrastructure in their lives: a shower, some new clothes, three meals a day, a haircut, some loose change for the bus, an ID, an address for one or two months before they get their first pay check to rent a place of their own and finally get back on their feet. Why don't you help one instead of complaining and hating? You are the bum. Or is it "Dumb"?
This could happen to you. You never know what the future has in store for you
@@harriet677 Oh, this could happen to anybody, yes.
The homeless dude with the white beard looks like he arrived on the street 30 years ago. What, couldn't help himself in all those years? Couldn't leave the area to find work, cheaper housing? I feel a lot of what they say sounds like an excuse.
seemed a bit off kilter to me. Mental illness comes in all shapes and sizes. Psychiatric hospitals usually have a limit stay for about 2 weeks for folks that are a danger to themselves and others. If you aren't a danger, but just odd and unable to function in a work environment then there really isn't a place for you to go. Even if he wanted longterm therapy to get more comfortable being a part of society, it costs money that he doesn't seem to have.
@petro devo: In order to get jobs they first need some basic infrastructure in their lives: a shower, some new clothes, three meals a day, a haircut, some loose change for the bus, an ID, an address for one or two months before they get their first pay check to rent a place of their own and finally get back on their feet. Why don't you help a homeless? What's your excuse...?
Yes
A phrase, comes to mind - 'The more things change . . . the more things remain the same !'
And also due to the drug problem.. 2 thirds of them
On hooked on drugs.
It's a Democrat sanctuary
State California voters created it
"How did we get here?"
LIBERALISM.
Because as Michael Savage says, LIBERALISM IS A MENTAL DISORDER.
5 years later..... how is it now?
SF's Vagrant Problem: How Did We Get Here?
Wilson Walker takes a look at San Francisco's vagrant problem, and how it developed over time. (6/26/16)
Simple question, simple answer: It has been made suitably profitable to be a bum. Give free housing to bums and you end up with more bums, not fewer. Which is what is currently seen.
People voted for Obama, not one, but two times, yep that's how we got her!
1) It’s too expensive to live there, which creates more homeless.
2) largest amount of social programs, which is nice to people who are homeless.
3) the weather is nice, so you wouldn’t want to leave.
Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.
Actually build some small garden shed type shelters and move them toward
societal re-entry as is happening right now in Sacramento and other cities!
and many have disabilities/mental handicaps....most are down o their luck,.....give it 20 years and like half the jobs could be automated/computerized
Brigitte Beck With you’re money?
Ya, we could install one in your backyard. How's Saturday sound? Is that good for you? The morning OK?
....or afternoon.......the early bird....and all that.... Great! !0am it is. We'll bring some extra sacks of Virtue for you can pour all over your front yard where EVERYBODY SEES IT. KOut
Tent cities in the middle of cities is relatively new. The overwhelming scale of all this is new. My eyes do not lie. I know what I saw 10 to 30 years ago compared to now. It’s worse now
The average rent for a one bedroom is $4,250 a month. Real estate around the Tenderloin has been sold off as "minutes from downtown" and expensive and desirable real estate. The 250 million dollars would go further if you took the money and built housing for the homeless in Modesto, but then you would be loading up the homeless in busses and moving them out of San Francisco and people would complain about mistreating the poor. I don't know how social workers can find anyone housing with the prices in San Francisco. I moved to Los Angeles. People complain about the cost of housing down here, but it is not as bad as San Francisco.
🇺🇸♥️‼️ Only in San Francisco I was There That's Y I'm here My City by the Bay I miss Tenderloin district , AND FRIENDS I left Behind As Always Diamond Dave ♦️♦️♦️
F of Parts A-F The homeless-shelters are powered and heated with butane and solar-panels, depending on how well the infrastructure held up, which are integrated into the construction of the _homeless-shelters._ Which are a dry, clean, safe place to sleep, and store their stuff. People from the city drive out to the *Homeless-Shelter-Villages* [HSV] to pick up food bank food; because that is where the food banks and free-ice machines are located.
they stoped people from going in the TL to rent a room u have to be on a waiting list that takes forever the city bought a lot of these hotels and east indian own the rest catch 22 Patel i new him personally
36 years ago I left N California. The homeless problem was the worst I'd ever seen then.
These are the component to create *Homeless Shelter Villages* [HSV] using _Pallet Shelter's_ existing HSV products: the _Community Room_ sells for $37,000, the _Bathroom_ costs $35,000, and the _Services Office_ costs $9,000. So for only $81,000 a city can establish a HSV. The two person _Shelter 64_ costs $7,000. 100 X $7,000 = $7,000,000. For $7,201,000 the city can establish a HSV for 200 residents. For $160 million a city can establish 22 HSVs to shelter 4,000 residents.
its to hot for homeless where i live. if you touch the sidewalk or street with your bare feet it will burn your skin and it stays to hot and humid at night for sleep. mosquitos eat people alive. i love it
Even if/when "they" decide to Clean Up San Francisco...I honestly don't think people will Ever want to come back or visit. This CRIME against humanity has left a HUGE scar on what was once a Beautiful and Thriving City by the bay. I can't imagine the masses taking an interest in coming back.
Unless you give these people a place to live and put them in school to learn a trade everyday to learn how to get a job, write a resume, get them some clothes, it will never go away
Many of Frisco's homeless are from the midwest. They love Frisco's mild weather.
It's interesting that the more money budgeted and spent on the homeless has resulted in the problem getting worse! Wouldn't it be great if KPIX would investigate how and where the money is being spent? That's where you may find answers.
How?...compassion tolerance and understanding.
Anytime there's a place that is nice to live, it will attract the dead beats. It happened in the LA area in the Sixties so I left. San Francisco was my favorite city in 1953, then the hippies discovered it in the Sixties.
For thirty years my policy has been to tell homeless people who ask for money that I will buy them a meal of their choice at the restaurant of their choice. To date, only one homeless person has taken me up on the offer. And all he wanted was a chili dog.
They need to look at the people in state and these hurting people and help them
If the cause is the lack of funding for public housing, then why are only democratically run cities affected?
So liberal so trendy so green so cutting edge so progressive
Was recently at San Fran... for the last time . Will not be going back due to the flood of homeless, needles, drugs, and human shit every where.
This makes The 60s and Haight Ashbury look like a teenage slumber party!!! LMFAO!
The problem is that every time there's a proposal to open a new homeless shelter, or build affordable housing in SF, the locals fight it tooth and nail. They're super in favor of helping the homeless, but just not in their neighborhood! And they keep re-electing the same politicians and voting against their own best interests, resulting in the hamster wheel of squalor and ineptitude.
It starts with workers comp.
Rent Control reduces the amount of housing. At all levels. Add that to Liberal folly.
And people are moving out of CA in droves. There's only so much crapping on the street in public without prosecution, that a business owner or resident can take.
Nope, sorry, I was living in Park Merced in San Francisco in 1995 and it was a clean beautiful city with just a handful of homeless you would see one once in a while now it's a s*** hole I wouldn't visit if I had to.
I don't even live there and never have but it's obvious,even to me.Good weather,always hot if not warm and lots of liberal hand outs.
What will fix the SF homelessness problem, IMHO, is a good ol' housing market bubble crash. Stop the State from subsidizing housing in any way, shape, or form. Especially regressive methods such as FHA, where the poor subsidize the middle.
Nice
Just a wild idea, but if you take the cost factor of the bay area....why keep the homeless folks there? It'd be more economical to move them 300 miles east, into some sanctuary city erected in the middle of the desert, and just give them three meals a day and all the rehab treatment they want, with a bunk in some unfancy shelter?
Get it together grouch.
And Gavin Newsom wants to run for governor? NO! Get out there & vote my fellow Californian. Don't let him turn California into a giant SF!
No, homelessness is on a huge uptrend and there was enough progress to make it look stagnant. When you plan and budget, you have to account for the increases in homelessness and the government does not do that. They only deal with the here and now.
D With subsidized for the homeless electric-cargo-bikes at all bus stops from companies like: _Wheels, Lime, Link, and Veo_ in the city and at the homeless encampment; so the working homeless can get to work. *Which are large 1,000 people disaster relief centers.* With trucked in water. Shared laundry, toilet, cooking, and shower-facilities. With restaurants, post office, and stores; just like a large campground.
How many people commenting here still live at home with their
Parents?
Its grown....the thing that sucks is the price of housing
Constantly approving for higher and higher property taxes on ridiculous bills that you vote on. As well as constantly raising the value of your home, as this also results in higher property taxes.
This results in people literally losing their homes because they cannot pay the property taxes.
And this also results in people losing their Apartments because rents go up. Because the property value and property taxes on land the apartments are on also increase.
A once beautiful, first class city has degenerated to a dystopian nightmare.