While I completely agree they shouldn’t being throwing taxpayer dollars at illegals, throwing money at the homeless has been useless. The state has spent over $800 million for homeless people during the pandemic. San Francisco already spends over $300 million each year, even outside of the pandemic. That money is utterly wasted on the legions of homeless people who don’t WANT to live a normal life. Giving them money doesn’t do anything for them except enable them in the short term.
If they wanted to actually put a dent in that problem and the violence problem, they’d invest that into mental health programs for everyone.
“they’d invest that into mental health programs for everyone.”
Reopen the Mental Heath Institutions for the ones who can not be on their own. The same ones that were shut down in 70s, but with better management. I was told the homeless population increase when those were shut down.
A lot of the mental people I know in my area is due to brain damage from drug abuse. They rotate in out of Jails here and sleep under bridges.
I understand there is a population of homeless people with famlies that live in campers that do work, but can not afford housing. Those people need to be encourage to move to other States were the cost of living is lower.