Posted on 10/30/2019 4:29:15 AM PDT by simpson96
Everyone’s on drugs here . . . and stealing,” an ex-felon named Shaku explains as he rips open a blue Popsicle wrapper with his teeth. Shaku is standing in an encampment of tents, trash, and bicycles, across from San Francisco’s Glide Memorial Church. Another encampment-dweller lights a green crack pipe and passes it around. A few paces down the street, a gaunt man swipes a credit card through a series of parking meters to see if it has been reported stolen yet.
For the last three decades, San Francisco has conducted a real-life experiment in what happens when a society stops enforcing bourgeois norms of behavior. The city has done so in the name of compassion toward the homeless. The results have been the opposite: street squalor and misery have increased, even as government expenditures have ballooned. Yet the principles that have guided the city’s homelessness policy remain inviolate: homelessness is a housing problem; it is involuntary; and its persistence is the result of inadequate public spending. These propositions are readily disproved by talking to people living on the streets.
Shaku’s assessment of drug use among the homeless is widely shared. Asked if she does drugs, a formerly homeless woman, just placed in a city-subsidized single-room-occupancy hotel, responds incredulously: “Is that a trick question?” A 33-year-old woman from Alabama, who now lives in a tent in an industrial area outside downtown, says: “Everyone out here has done something—drugs, you name it.” On Sutter Avenue, a wizened 50-year-old named Jeff slumps over his coffee cup at 7:30 AM, one hand holding a sweet roll, the other playing with his beard. A half-eaten muffin sits next to him on a filthy blanket. “I use drugs, alcohol, all of it,” he tells me, his eyes closed, as a pair of smiling German tourists
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Ditto Seattle.
uh............democratic sh##hole, I meant strong hold. The cancer is the people who vote these rats in. They destroy the city and or state and those who voted them in move away from the very thing they themselves help create, settling in another state with the same agenda and beliefs and it starts all over again
All the major cities in the USA are run by democrats. They deliberately DON’T want their people working at real jobs! They want them below the “poverty level” so the cities can beg money from the state and the federal government, and so the administrations can promise them a solution in return for votes. The solution never comes.
They want their people jobless and homeless.
Austin is up next. All of its KKKaliforian refugees long for the way things were back home.
IN other words, if you don't recognize that the problem is really addiction, you'll never solve the housing problem, no matter how much money you throw at it.
https://hotair.com/archives/john-s-2/2019/03/18/komo-news-seattle-dying-special/
I’ve seen the show from KOMO. Well done.
Our son recently moved out of West Seattle to an area well away fom this crap.
good read. very long but for once it was worth it.
There’s a sequel...
“KOMO News’ sequel to ‘Seattle is Dying’ looks at homelessness along the entire west coast”
“there was lots of interest in how Providence, Rhode Island is addressing the homeless problem. The city held a two-day seminar for leaders from around the country, but no one from Seattle or King County attended it. “
“The west coast’s progressive leaders are at war with reality and human nature. Not surprisingly, reality is winning. Hopefully, news reports like this one will ensure that mayors and city council members in these cities aren’t able to retreat further into their progressive bubble where the only problem they can see is a lack of affordable housing”
I have friends & relatives outside Seattle. Not too many years ago, it was a nice, fairly safe city to visit. It’s really changed even in the past 7 or 8 years.
You can go down the street on Google street view and see what it looks like near Glide Church.
What a mess.
Tonight’s Episode : Hostage To The Homeless.
BFL
San Fran is hostage to low IQ politicians.
In Austin, TX, the homeless have been ordered by the highway dept. to clear out from the underpasses in the next few days or else. They’re being furnished garbage bags to clean up their mess but you know how that’s going to go. If they need to have their stuff stored, the city will provide storage space for a few months. Yeah, like they have anything of value that isn’t diseased and rodent infested. I pity the person who next rents that storage unit. Nothing but lunacy.
Either put them in jail or the loony bin, send them to rehab and train them for jobs but do not let them live on the streets and harass passerbys.
Low IQ Voters too
Yep. We used to have means to keep the stupid from voting. Now the polidiots count on it.
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