San Francisco's unhoused count, and why you never ask if they are homeless
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- čas přidán 5. 09. 2024
- ABC7 News followed volunteers as they combed through the streets of San Francisco to find and count the number of people who are unhoused. The question "are you homeless?" was never asked. abc7ne.ws/3vYx6ZM
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"Unhoused" they are homeless...changing the name does not make it better or it does not go away..
Then why does it matter what term they use?
@@HicSvntDracones , here's another one "previously owned" for used. Or Patina for rust..they are trying to sound PC or try to make it sound better..problem is still there🤪🤪🤪
More like mentally unstable, lazy, druggies, and freeloaders. I know as I have worked in that career before.
lmao unhoused literally just means you are outside, it doesnt mean you are homeless. just more absolute ass backwards leftist jargon that puts emotions on top of facts.
@@RacerX1971 Thats just sales, every industry does, and has done that for centuries, I thought we were out of the "drink this, cures everything and makes you last for hours in bed" era, but looks like we are returning
The method that this annual count is conducted is assinine. Why on earth would you conduct it in the middle of January? During the coldest time of the year? Really? That’s when you have the best odds of homeless people finding their ways indoors during. It makes zero sense and the number is probably way higher than whatever number they end up reporting.
It could have to do with when numbers need to be turned in for grants and whatever federal/state funds, but lets be honest it's San Francisco, not Chicago or NYC, the middle of January temperature aren't that much different than the middle of July, in fact unless there's a particular rare cold front ("Polar Vortex" or some other newly made up weather buzz word) it quite literally never gets below freezing.
@@Mike__BSF is one of the few exceptions where the weather isn’t much different in January than say, July. Regardless, the government should recognize the failure in which the time of the year this count is conducted and perform it in the summer and re-arrange the deadlines for all reliant funds/programs this count relies on in order to get a true closer to reality count. Separately, you also have the issue of cities manipulating their counts and the fact that it takes almost 6 months for cities to release those numbers. I refuse to believe it takes 6 months to count numbers. There’s also a video out there from a previous high ranking Los Angeles Homeless Services official admitting that the point in time count is a failure and Los Angeles has manipulated the number in the past to reflect a “lower” number.
We literally spend a billion dollars a year. That’s enough to give every homeless person $60,000+ WHERE TF IS THE MONEY GOING??
yeah,this is how they get their funding
Wouldn't it be great if 700nm wavelength states would actually care for their poor, sick, & injured, rather than waiting for them to become homeless, and then giving them a "homeward bound" bus ticket to a place that was never home, like San Francisco..
A peer reviewed study @ super woke UCSF found that 80% of homeless are from California.
But of course you’ve never read any studies. You just repeat the lies that your masters tell you.
Get a job
They are already hurt enough by being outside and y’all won’t straight up ask them if they homeless ??? But beat around the bush ?? LOLLLL😂😂😂😂
Respect? How about respecting me and my tax dollars?
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The homeless advocates are also enabling their drug habits. Suing the city for tents on the sidewalks? Loose drug enforcement creating a hellscape for these people. How about preconditions: if you get tax funded monies you should 1) mandatory rehab 2) job .. clean up the streets that you defecate on?
The homeless or unhoused are the most important part of San Francisco!
Then take them all in and care for all of them if you care so much.
@@user-tz8mx4dh9l its gonna cost whole a lot of tax payer money
@@user-tz8mx4dh9l I wish as a city we would spend 10 times as much as we do now so we could really help the homeless out.
@@user-tz8mx4dh9l I would if I was rich. Go ask Elon Musk, Donald Trump, etc to take all of the homeless people in.
Waste of tax money.
I rather use my tax money on our american homeless population than spending it on those illegal immigrants who came to this country illegally
Homeless is huge business. They don’t want to solve it. Gavin has thrown billions and billions and it has only gotten exponentially worse.
@@skolvikings354 no matter how much money the government spend it will never solve the homeless problem more and more people are going homeless by the day
Unhouse = homeless 😂
Same thing
We call them bums
@@LosFlyingTurntablesoh damn
I hope this doesn’t happen to me
Clue: don’t vote democrat
Unhoused? You mean homeless. Sugarcoating everything is exactly how the city has gotten to the low point that it is. Start calling out the hard truths.
Homeless and drug users emerge more frequently after dark when drug dealers are more active.
no, that isn't the case
Not from my experience, especially over the past few months, once the sun goes down, the drug dealers and users tend to go poof. Probably because the city & community shut down a LOT of encampments, replacing them with big steel planters, forcing people into shelters that don't let them come and go as they please.
im not gonna lie San Fran looks like such a pretty and diverse place to live that genuinely used to look wonderful.. i feel bad for you guys in San Fran as well as Cali in general. Such a pretty place flooded with idiots.
No those aren't dwellings it's the sidewalk with drug addicts on it
Interesting.
Why would you sleep outside on a street unless you were homeless?
Lol
I saw a lot of "unhoused" they were "experiencing homelessness". Come on, these woke words won't change anything about the local government's shitty management of this situation, throwing away billions of our hard earned tax dollars to the homeless industrial complex.
Do u know why they start at 8 its dark and most people left to bed down allready. Wake up sf, it's half ur population!
2:00 A person would have to want to be homeless for 18 years. These are the grifters from the homeless industrial complex. 😂
Someone once claimed on YT that he'd been homeless for 30 years because he'd gotten a "bad judge" in his divorce case. Talk about not accepting blame for one's own failures...
This was a greater story than most. I felt the realness in with the people in the story. The honesty also in Forrest Bine as well.
1. Get a job 2. Increase your income 3. Fix your credit score.
Homeless count must be going up. Pandemic laws have caused many who refused the poisonous vaccine to lose their jobs like me. Now the City must pay to support these people.
Does "compassion" solve the homeless problem? Or does it just make YOU feel better while driving by in your Tesla? Well, at least you "care"
S.F. really?, I'm sure they are very good at this, can they pick up poop while they are there too?. Oh, the number IS going up, FYI .......
Where's your Mayor????
Why not go to the General Assistance centers and figure out how many are homeless… so that they get funds based on who they’re helping, not counting. Cus if you’re not helping them they will definately be on the streets. They literally got million dollar homeless counts… so they can get millions more.
Because that would be the smarter approach that doesn’t involve hiring additional “volunteers”.
Yes they get food stamps and 197 a month day one on the streets then when your houses you get a lot more a in month
Making something very simple overly complicated
its like counting in circle that’s they are doing
How about using the actual money that is for housing the homeless and actually house the homeless? Taxpayers are paying their property taxes for protection and no one is being protected if the homeless are still on the streets! And they pay no tax!
"I've learned a lot from being homeless and my journey is just as important as anyone else's". As if he's proud of this accomplishment. This "journey" of being homeless and addicted to drugs isn't important. The journey of getting off drugs and into housing is. Somehow we've enabled these people into thinking that what they're doing is acceptable and we even encourage it. (looking at you Coalition on Homelessness and Harm Reduction Coalition).
I have never had their problems
I assume you are totally cool with letting them catch dirties that don't wash off, then touching door handles, public toilets, benches & chairs, seats on subways & buses, and who knows what else.. because taking away clean supplies totally makes them stop using..
@@HicSvntDraconesnot sure what you mean but they’ll be getting dirty and touching anything no matter what. If you also live downtown than you see them picking through trash and setting things on fire. I think needle exchange *EXCHANGE* and giving out narcan is vital. I don’t see why we should be providing crack pipes, foil, Brillo pads, smoking supplies, etc and most of it ends up in piles of trash on the sidewalk.
@@lyndsay4153 right... except that by not providing clean needles and pipes, they spread a LOT of dirites between themselves, (the actual term is blocked by moderation)then go out and touch everything, increasing the chance they spread it to us... I am more than happy to let them have things that ultimately help to reduce the chances that I catch something ...because they will do it regardless.. I also have a condo near Van Ness and Willow, so I encounter these people a lot, though a lot less as of late, keeping them disease-free helps to keep me healthy.
@@lyndsay4153 Now, the Drug dealers of like 10 years ago, yeah, taking away needles and stuff might have deterred them a little bit, the stuff was harder to find, and they seemed to have a bit more of an urge to live. I use to see a lot of them take treatment when offered, they were happy when they got a shelter bed. The current group of drug users are completely different and don't give a crap about anything except getting high and getting free stuff, you can tell them a needle is full of blood from a guy with Ebola, but it might have a little bit of fentanyl left, and they will shoot it up. It basically comes down to protecting the public.
why cant they ask them directly? cause it will offed someone? dwellings?!?! just mandate to disclose the number as they do with the census.
Wouldnt you think - much like Florida - people would be making their way to Cali from all over the country in the Winter months? I would. I get that kids are an issue, but it seems silly not ask. What are those tents for? Urban camping in SF...
Lazy drug addicts*
Time to inflate the numbers by 5x. 😂
Unhoused dehoused nohoused, keep up with these cute euphemisms KGO. Use of soft pedal terms makes the underlying issues of drug addiction, criminal behavior, mental health a non factor.
Betcha they at least double the count for extra funds....
We respect the disrespectful people? don’t be hypocritical!
The state needs to get rid of ceqa racists law and California epa and relax and expedite housing development
Corruption state.🤬🤬
This is a uniquely compassionate report. May there be more.
No, compassion is what made SF a vagrancy, crime and druggie magnet.
Lmao homeless people have pronouns now? 😂
4:37 oops she said it 😅
Respec
Not volunteering!!!
Technically, who really is housed, in a legal sense? What about Couch Surfers, van or motor-home people, live-in girl or boyfriends, jet setters, snow birds, spouses not on a lease or mortgage, long or short term renters, people with mortgages, or are the truly non-homeless only those who own their home outright?
Okay bro 🤪😞🤟
Technically, your word play is nonsense.
Exactly. Thats know as Hidden Homeless and has long been difficult to estimate.
O no, she said homeless. Woke violation. Have to say unhoused.
Send mirgrants to San Francisco
Don't worry they are already here
Go for it, how do you think we are able to contribute double of the US GDP than any other state in the Union? Your Dairy, Your Nuts, lettuce, wine, grapes, strawberries, carrots, and more are all available to you at affordable prices because of Migrant workers, so keep em coming..
Perhaps there are more important things than produce@@HicSvntDracones
All.out of towners
Homeless or the comments? Both are true :) Red states bus homeless here, and then people on the right just sit on the site of a news channel in a city they don't live in, just hitting refresh constantly, hoping to find a story that can make them feel clever by typing "You voted for it".. Sort of explains why we contribute over 14% to the US GDP, 5% more than the next highest contributor in the country, and why we are in the top 10 list for highest min wage at $18.07.. while some other states are still around $7
@@HicSvntDracones I didn't vote for this woke agenda. Nice try but you got me mixed up with something else
@@Nonenone23 What is woke exactly? And when was it voted on?
Woketey words 😂😂😂😂
The government s role should be focusing on the individuals responsibility for the circumstances they find themselves in. Then information and possibly Temporary , financial and housing assistance. Certain individuals might be suffering from mental illness requiring longer term assistance. Also because of the fluidity of our population no state or local government has any hope of solving this. But I believe some government programs have inadvertently contributed to the problem. Instead of individuals growing stronger standing on their own two feet some have grown to dependent on the government and less reliant on themselves.
I have been sleep in the car for 2 years i came here in 1991now I'm black home THAILAND 4 years already my sister lives in Hayward brother in law kick me out so I have to live in the car nothing better than come back home Let's go niners 💪💪🙏