Posted on 04/30/2018 4:54:16 PM PDT by Mariner
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) —
Though known for its compassion to the needy, San Francisco may have hit peak saturation with tent camps, stinky urine and trash littering the streets, and the new interim mayor has vowed to do something about it.
In the last few weeks, Mayor Mark Farrell has promised $750,000 to hire more people just to pick up discarded needles and $13 million over the next two years for more heavy duty steam cleaners and pit stop toilets. He also had workers dismantle sprawling homeless tent camps in the city's Mission District.
The city famed for its picture-perfect views of the San Francisco Bay has long tolerated overflowing trash bins and homeless people camped out on sidewalks. Commuters routinely walk past people slumped over in transit stations, sometimes shooting up in public.
But Farrell and others say the squalor has gotten out of control, and that everyone should feel safe using city sidewalks. It is not humane to let the mentally ill or houseless fester outdoors, he said.
"The trash, our homeless, the needles, the drug abuse on our streets, I've seen it all in our city and it's gotten to the point where we need to really change course," Farrell said in an interview. "We've gone away from just being compassionate to enabling street behavior and that, in my opinion, is a shift that's unacceptable."
It's not just the mayor who's fed up. Cleaning up the city and getting people off the streets have become key issues in the upcoming mayoral race. Many of the problems are in the city's downtown shopping and South of Market corridors, but elected officials say complaints have rolled in from across the city of 850,000 residents.
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But, they are too stupid to fix it.
They'll try to fix it with more services.
Send all the illegals there where they can live in the streets too. Oh ... I am sorry. We provide housing and food for them.
Pan-handlers
Poo Poo
Parking Tickets
THAT is SanFran.
Fed up. But will they vote any different?
Well......duh.
The SF cops moved in last week and dismantled an “encampment” that literally took up several blocks of sidewalk downtown. Immediately, they were attacked in the media for doing so, and the homeless industry representatives were screaming their heads off.
Farrell is going to find it very hard to get past the city’s professional “friends of the homeless “ (the “homeless” should also be referred to as raving lunatics and substance abusers), because they have a stake in keeping all this squalor going.
Obvious solution - more spending, more taxes, and more illegals. Go for it SF. Yes you can!
“Farrell is going to find it very hard to get past the city’s professional “friends of the homeless “ (the “homeless” should also be referred to as raving lunatics and substance abusers), because they have a stake in keeping all this squalor going.”
Correct.
There are several hundred, if not more than a thousand, that make their living “servicing” the homeless.
And they are loud. And all their friends are lawyers, and embedded commies in government.
Interesting figures. 850,000 residents. over 10 billion city budget. That is almost $11,764.70 for every man, woman, and child in San Francisco every year.
The budget for Phoenix, Arizona, is $2,476.78 per year per person. 1,610,000 residents, 4 billion city budget.
San Francisco spends almost five times as much per person as does Phoenix!
TFB! Tolerance only gets you so far. Then not.
This is an unforced error on their part. They did this to themselves.
Idiot liberals.
I left my stink, in San Francisco...
The elitists aren’t affected by this assault on common folk sensibilities. They are far removed.
Are you trying to disenfranchise voters?
“The elitists aren’t affected by this assault on common folk sensibilities. They are far removed.”
They like to go downtown to eat, and for Opera and Symphony.
WELL when they give a single janitor nearly $250,000 for 1 year, you can see they are pissing away tax dollars.
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