Posted on 05/16/2019 8:15:46 PM PDT by Olog-hai
A federal count shows the number of homeless people increased by double-digit percentages in three San Francisco Bay Area counties over two years as the region struggled to tackle the growing problem, including 17% in San Francisco and 43% in the county that includes Oakland.
More than 25,000 people were counted as homeless during an overnight tally conducted in San Francisco, Alameda and Silicon Valley’s Santa Clara counties in January. Detailed reports are expected later this year.
“The initial results of this count show we have more to do to provide more shelter, more exits from homelessness, and to prevent people from becoming homeless in the first place,” said San Francisco Mayor London Breed.
The San Francisco Bay Area is grappling with a homelessness crisis driven in part by too little housing stock and a raring tech economy that has widened the inequity gap. In San Francisco, the median price of a two-bedroom home is $1.3 million and a family of four earning $117,400 a year is considered low income. …
(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...
This warms the cockles of my heart...
San Fagcisco - where dogs worry about stepping in people poop.
gosh, i don’t suppose unlimited illegal immigration of ignorant peasants that can’t read or write, have not skills, and don’t have a pot to piss in has anything to do with it?
Anything subsidized always increases. Look at
Los Angeles, homeless capitol of the world. They put a tax on the ballot to “solve” the problem. All it does is make it an entitlement, a never-ending problem. They are everywhere, under and over freeway overpasses, downtown streets, outside the gates to the LA Times on Olympic Blvd., on every corner or sidewalk where there is enough room to pitch a tent or cardboard boxes they call “home.” Where did the money go? To the bureaucrats that administer the useless program. Insanity courtesy of the fool named Garcetti, and all the liberal fools who voted more taxation for nothing. Wake up fools!
Sanctuary City. Dump them all there.
“God sets the lonely in families, but the rebellious dwell in a sun-scorched land.”
I dwelt for a season on the cusp of homelessness after having traveled far from home for the sake of a short lived job, and found this bible maxim to be quite true. Lefties would characterize this as an economic problem, when it really is a spiritual, moral, and social problem. If it was economic only, these persons could dwell, say, on the outskirts of San Francisco, rather than in the pricey areas.
One of the best homelessness ministries I saw brought those street dwellers together into family style dining and sleeping arrangements under the auspices of a church. Just because someone hasn’t gotten along with their biological family doesn’t mean they won’t get along just fine in other family style arrangements.
Can’t they house them all at UC Berkeley?
Handouts right in the middle of Extravagant Expense City would have a tendency to do this.
What is needed is a hand up, not a hand out.
And the view is just as good on the outskirts.
Mayor London Breed, I know you’re sort of new to the job, but not that new. San Francisco is starting to lose big dollar conventions because participants no longer feel safe there.
Are you just going to stand and watch your city continue to rot on the Tourist’s vine?
You aren’t making it easier for the next black female who wants to run that formerly world class city. This is NOT inevitable! And don’t even think about throwing more money at programs meant to help the homeless. That only attracts a greater multitude of parasites.
1) Provide free housing to be trashed.
2) Provide free cash, food, utilities including cable tv and cell phones.
3) Provide free medical care
4) Permit unlimited numbers of visitors, drugs and booze.
SF’s on track to do this cure, the rest of the Silicon Valley had best start taxing the ever living daylights out of anything that used to make money to follow in their lead.
For those cities/counties which aren't on track to cure the transient problem, now’s the time to advertise that you don't tax the ever living daylights out of anything that makes a profit. Bonus points if you're well away from California.
Ahhh...Socialism. Ain’t it great?
Surely this is irony.
Societies based on classical Christian principles would be a far better answer.
Socialism is spiritless.
25K. That’s about the number of people in the 2 adjoining towns I’m in. I wonder how many of these folks have dogs.
With a name like San Francisco....
And so does their $hit.
That is quite an irony, for a town that was named by Christian (Catholic) missionaries for St. Francis.
Not to argue about where the Catholic church has gone institutionally, but that couldn’t affect a city which has long ago gone utterly secular anyhow. With Silicon Valley, they aren’t thinking of St. Francis, but St. Silicon.
Dictionary: Tackle, v.: To hold open the door and invite someone in and give them stuff so more people will show up whom you can tackle.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.