Homelessness is often a result of drug addiction, alcoholism, and mental disorders that cannot be helped easily.
Well when Jerry Brown’s train is completed they can all get on board for a continuous loop.
the average rent on a vacant one bedroom apartment in SF is now over $4200/month
SF area is prime target for money from Communist China nowadays
perhaps it is simply not very realistic to try to provide “free” or subsidized housing, food, medical care, transportation, utilities, Obamaphones and all the rest to “all comers” ... at least, not in a place where the basic shelter alone is pushing $60,000 a year and up
just a thought. if we are to pay for a welfare state ... maybe it can be more successfully implemented somewhere OTHER than one of America’s top Cost Of Living major cities
It started with the hippie panhandlers in the late 60s and became a viable industry for the lazy, drug addicted and alcoholics. By the 90s they were sleeping in the doorways of prestigious downtown buildings. The stench was unbearable and you had to step over the bodies to get to work there. The tourists complained so they camped out at City Hall. Then they tried shelters and spending money. But the folks just want their freedom to beg and sleep where they want. A coddled selfishness.