Posted on 03/12/2014 2:40:57 PM PDT by george76
San Francisco spends $165 million a year on services for homeless people, but all that money hasn't made a dent in the homeless population in at least nine years.
And in fact, the city's homeless tally may have long been underestimated. In addition to the 6,436 homeless adults counted during one night last year, a separate daytime count specifically of homeless youth found 914 children and young adults living in San Francisco without parents or guardians and without a roof over their heads.
These findings are part of a new report by Harvey Rose, the budget and legislative analyst for the Board of Supervisors. The report was requested by Supervisor Mark Farrell in a continuing effort to better understand and tackle the city's seemingly intractable homeless problem.
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Jennifer Friedenbach, director of the Coalition on Homelessness, said nearly every program from supportive housing to mental health care to substance abuse services is at capacity or has a waiting list despite the millions poured into them.
"Pretty much every area that you look at, the services are totally overwhelmed," she said. "I guess I would say we need to be spending more
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
Despite the spending? Has it ever occurred to liberals that the more of our money they spend on making life more comfortable for the homeless than for those doing just barely better but who work, the more rules they write that make rental property a bad (and annoying) investment, the more regulations there are making it harder, more expensive, and more risky to hire people, the more homeless people there will be?
That’s $165,000 a head!
One mental illness, leftist politics, trying to deal with another mental illness, in many cases, the homeless.
I can smell the stench from here in SC.
They could have bought EACH of them a $165,000 house (and a new one every year) for that money
Now That there’s some GOOOOoood Gub’mint!
But it makes the Libs feel good, that's what counts.
I’ll bet most of the “children and young adults” are drug addicts. I have little sympathy for them but the ones who ran away from an abusive home deserve help.
This is the first time I’ve seen the term “homeless” in the MSM since Jan 2009.
The Baraqqi regime really is crumbling...
They are spending $25,000 per head for the homeless and they haven’t shrunk the herd? Sounds mor like a lefty jobs and graft program thAn actually helping anybody out of homelessness.
Round um up , clean um up , place them on farms in the San Joaquin Valley . Teach them how to farm , work the land , handle livestock , drive tractors , run irrigation , prepare and cook their own food from field and farm .
Also organize a civilian conservation corps , to deal with burned and damaged public lands , especially forests . Teach them re-planting , how to camp and survive in the back country . Make available free guitars , banjos and harmonicas
( no drums )
I they refuse to do this , draft them into special units in the Mil and send them to Afghanistan .
You aren’t including total homeless people. It comes out to $22448.98 per homeless person.
Bump
A house in SF? Hell that would barely get them an efficiency apartment.
The headline is misleading. They found about 7300 homeless, so that’s “only” $22k EACH!
My church ran a homeless shelter for a while. I got to talk to them. The chronic homeless are all homeless by choice. The only ones who deserve help are the ones who are in transition.
Transplant a pack or two of wolves out of the intermountain west and into SF.
The “homeless” problem will solve itself shortly thereafter.
No. That thought has not occurred to liberals. That's why they're liberals.
I figure they are spending $22,449 dollars per homeless person, counting the teenagers, who are probably transient. Of that $22,449 per homeless person, the bureaucracy and infrastructure necessary for liberals to hand out charity soaks up $21,000 per homeless person. By the time incidentals and petty cash necessities are skimmed off by the actual people who work with the homeless, there is about $200.49 per homeless person that feeds them, maybe, and gives them second hand rags that are donated.
That money would be much better spent giving tax breaks to small business that create jobs. Let charities feed and clothe the poor, and help find jobs or institutions for them.
Let’s see:
$165,000,000 divided by 7,450 is $22,000 for each one of those homeless.
How much of that money is eaten up by all those do-gooders making those big salaries.
Want more pigeons?
Put bird seed out where the flocks are now.
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