I just can't believe that it's cheaper to keep people in prisons than in mental hospitals. And at least before 1963, there were no bat**** crazies doing mass shootings.
Posted on 02/08/2016 3:24:11 AM PST by bugseye
'...Visitors may wonder why one of the wealthiest cities in the world can’t cough up enough money to alleviate homelessness, but, in fact, San Francisco spends tremendous amounts of money on the problem. The city is allocating a record $241 million this fiscal year on homeless services, $84 million more than when Mayor Ed Lee took office in January 2011.
But the city struggles to track exactly how all that money is being spent and whether it’s producing results. Eight city departments oversee at least 400 contracts to 76 private organizations, most of them nonprofits, that deal with homelessness.
No single system tracks street people as they bounce among that galaxy of agencies looking for help.
That’s a major systemic weakness that’s been noted before: Fourteen years ago — a lifetime in politics — the city controller called for a single information network to ensure better tracking of homeless people as they seek services and better tracking of money spent to help them. There’s still no network and still no plan for one...'
(Excerpt) Read more at sfchronicle.com ...
And Mayor Ed Lee just announced that he wants to spend $1 billion over the next four years.
They struggle to account for the expenditures because if they really did that, it would show the graft, greed, corruption, kickbacks and favoritism that is going on which siphons off a majority of that money before it even gets to “the homeless.”
OTHER PEOPLES’ MONEY - it’s what Democrats are all about.
I venture to guess that not one -homeless- person moved back into society. Instead, the money goes to helping them maintain their addictions. They aren’t homeless because they have no home, though most probably do not. They are homeless because they spend all of their money, time and energy pursuing their addiction.
Ahhh, the wonders of socialism.
Suck up the money from all those tax paying saps and pass it through to your buddies.
Many of the homeless are, in fact, mentally ill and incapable of caring for themselves. But liberal lawyers (e.g. the ACLU) argued that committing the mentally ill to institutions for indefinite periods of time is the same as incarcerating them without a trial. So the mentally ill are left in the streets, where they cannot take care of themselves—are they really better off than they would be in an institution?
I just can't believe that it's cheaper to keep people in prisons than in mental hospitals. And at least before 1963, there were no bat**** crazies doing mass shootings.
If you build it, they will come.
And far fewer loonies to twist police into shooting them. Looks like 0.6 percent is still the number.
——homeless services,——
are in fact homeless promotion
sometimes you get exactly what you pay for
Isn’t that the Truth...
If people think SF is Eff’ed up, know that LA is even more so
LA housing - Los Angeles Times
www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-state-homeless-f... Proxy Highlight
Jan 4, 2016 ... California legislators propose spending $2 billion to build housing for homeless ... Above, homeless people’s tents in downtown Los Angeles.
New cost estimates for homeless plan put L.A. officials on the spot ...
www.latimes.com/local/cityhall/la-me-homeless-plans-2... Proxy Highlight
Jan 7, 2016 ... Los Angeles has struggled for decades to conquer homelessness, only to see ... ( Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times) ... The report also notes that the estimated $1.85 billion the city must spend to combat homelessness includes ...
RE: “If you build it, they will come.”
How many bowls of soup are served in the lobby of the San Francisco Chronicle?
With the effectiveness of govt (sorry, I peep a little from laughing there) UNKNOWN even 14yrs ago (I’d bet YEARS before that)....and never ‘resolved’.
Can anyone think of any biz that would allow a program to continue, let alone for 14yrs, with NO accounting, NO measure of success, NO provable results??
Only in govt. But, what do they care, they can just steal more from the taxpayers.
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