Posted on 03/06/2019 10:58:39 AM PST by Salman
San Francisco’s homeless problem has become so grim that tourists wonder if they’ve just wandered into a seedy neighborhood. Last year, a Reddit user posted that he had “walked past numerous homeless” people who were “screaming and running all over the sidewalk near Twitter HQ.” He asked, “Is this normal or am I in a ‘bad part of town?’”
The City by the Bay’s homelessness problem is profound even for California, where as much as 30 percent of the country’s homeless live. Municipal officials estimate that 5,823 such persons live in San Francisco, but health-care workers say the more accurate figure is about 10,000, which would be nearly 72 percent higher than the 2010 federal count. Whatever the true number, the city’s homeless problem is unsustainable.
The “streets are so filthy,” National Public Radio reports, “that at least one infectious disease expert has compared the city to some of the dirtiest slums in the world.” ...
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Better living through chemistry. /s
California, where as much as 30 percent of the country’s homeless live.
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Open Borders work.
How many jobs could some fo those homeless be doing if it were’n’t for “cheap” labor?
Cheap? When the bulk of legal citizens pick up the cost... for both?
More Leftist solutions that just don’t ‘work’.
Cootiefornia
The Sewer by the Bay is spending $60,000 a year per bum. There are dozens of organization getting rich on not solving the “homeless” problem.
SF hands out 4.5 million needles a year.
A good reason to stay out of California.
Two Americas starts right there in San Francisco.....
Come to Hawaii, you’ll see the same thing, only worse.
Best thing for the country is the BIG One sliding half the state into the ocean.
“Come to Hawaii, you’ll see the same thing, only worse.”
Do they still have the homeless “sleepover” problem at the airport?
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Twitter’s in the Tenderloin.
Squalifornia?
The “homeless” (brain damaged) are everywhere at this point. I see 10 or 12 of them every time I walk out of my office building. The Walking Dead. They scream, they yell, they mumble, they steal, they shit, they shoot up, they smoke meth, or crack, or batu, or skunk, they attack people, sometimes fatally. The police have given up doing anything about it. The word on the street is they are tired of having to clean up their cars when the homeless shit in them after being arrested. That’s the new game the “homeless” are playing.
They just did the annual “homeless” count, and the executive director in charge of that then quit when the new study came out. The suspicion is he was instructed to cook the books to show there are less homeless than there actually are. (There was still an increase however.)
This is not an economic problem. This is a drug and collapse of society problem.
Put them in an institution or prison, and execute the drug dealers is the solution.
Journey needs to update the lyrics to their song...
“This is not an economic problem. This is a drug and collapse of society problem.
Put them in an institution and or prison, and execute the drug dealers is the solution.”
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I agree-——and a very frightening situation.
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60k per year per person???
What the heck??
So they could pay rent to house all these people for that amount and get them off the street, with such a budget for homelessness.
Where is the 60k per year getting spent?
Yes I know they still have other problems once you get homeless off the streets. Just saying if they have that sort of budget , 60k each, there’s a heck of a lot the could be doing aside from handing addicts fresh needles.
The “social programs” and easy access to drugs are the magnet. Take those away and the homeless population will dwindle.
Place is a slum, Oakland is worse and outrageously, San Jose allows two camps across the street from “The Childrens Discovery Museum”
That is effin nutz...
Turn SF over to the Singaporeans for a year, give them permission to do what they feel is needed, and it would all be cleaned up.
Bingo! We wouldn’t want all those “nonprofit” employees to lose their jobs.
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