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San Francisco airport sees surge of homeless people seeking shelter
NY Post ^ | 17 April 2019 | Janine Puhak

Posted on 04/17/2019 10:04:46 AM PDT by oh8eleven

Earlier this week, Fox 2 KTVU reported that SFO is experiencing a recent “surge” of homeless people taking refuge in the busy airport; many are said to arrive in the middle of the night via BART trains south from the city, as per the San Francisco Chronicle.

“I mean, there’s just nowhere else for people to go,” Freidenbach told KTVU. “So, we’re going to see them at the airport, we’re going to see them on the busses we’re going to see them out. There’s just literally nowhere else for people to go.”

Though the exact impact of the critical homelessness situation on San Francisco’s billion-dollar tourism profits remain unclear, things are reportedly not looking good. In June, a major medical association withdrew from hosting its annual convention in San Francisco, claiming its members no longer felt safe there. The cancellation of that one five-day trade show represented a loss of $40 million to the local economy.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: california; homeless; sanfrancisco
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To: gaijin

And Signature SFO, where the private jets land, is completely separate and far apart from the airport to the east. It’s a beautiful setting and the last time I was out there I walked right out and got on a Gulfstream V, to visit with the pilot. We were waved through without going through any security checks at all. It really is different for the 1%.


61 posted on 04/17/2019 10:57:27 AM PDT by atomic_dog
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To: oh8eleven

Run SF airport by an admission fee of say $10 for a three-hour pass.


62 posted on 04/17/2019 10:59:36 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: Ann Archy
"LOL!!! YOU WANT THEM??? YOU GOT THEM, YOU DUMBASS LIBERALS! EMBRACE THE SUC"

And don't ask federal taxpayers to pay for your inability to properly manage a political subdivision.

63 posted on 04/17/2019 11:08:53 AM PDT by frog in a pot (Forget the Electoral College, with both House and Senate, the D's will "Ballsy Ford" an R pres.)
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To: frank ballenger

Speaker Pelosi, Tear Down That Wall!

I you don’t we will go to Home Depot and buy hundreds of ladders to get your beloved ones over your fence.


64 posted on 04/17/2019 11:13:21 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Anyone trusting the media has failed a competency check or/and is a paid troll for the lefties.)
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To: Mears
This also happens in Honolulu.

Interesting. The first time I flew commercial to Hawaii was an intro to a land with internal passports. One would think most squatters in Hawaii would be related to a local. Everyone else better hold a job or be on vacation with a round trip ticket.

65 posted on 04/17/2019 11:15:29 AM PDT by frog in a pot (Forget the Electoral College, with both House and Senate, the D's will "Ballsy Ford" an R pres.)
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To: oh8eleven

They should set up a tent city on the tarmac.


66 posted on 04/17/2019 11:24:58 AM PDT by Cowboy Bob ("Other People's Money" = The life blood of Liberalism)
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To: oh8eleven

Oh no. That sucks. Mayne they lefties would be willing to take them into their homes, you know since they claim to be so compassionate.


67 posted on 04/17/2019 11:29:41 AM PDT by matt04
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To: oh8eleven
there’s just nowhere else for people to go

?? The entire city is where they all "go".

People already understand that airplanes function as disease vectors, now it's the airports themselves, starting with SFO.

Diseased policies lead to diseased infrastructure. Birds of a feather, wings of abomination..

Is it the collapse of the wave function when metaphors become the reality?

68 posted on 04/17/2019 11:30:52 AM PDT by Ezekiel (The pun is mightier than the s-word.)
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To: oh8eleven

Soon the airports will be filled with sleazy people as the bus and train stations were from the 1920s-1960s. Watch your pockets!


69 posted on 04/17/2019 11:44:54 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: lee martell

**I stopped using my local library for that reason long ago.***

There was a time when museums and libraries were open to the public, and clean and free. Then the vagrancy laws were thrown out. To keep the bums out the museums started charging a small fee, but the libraries were still available.

Last time I was at my favorite city library I noticed every spot on the couches and chairs was taken up by an unshaven dirty bum. Not long ago it closed for cleaning as some bum had brought in and infested the place with bedbugs.


70 posted on 04/17/2019 11:50:58 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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If I was a billionaire, I would pay as many homeless and illegals as I can to breach Nanzis walls and give them all tents and food and repeatedly pay their bail to return to Nanzis


71 posted on 04/17/2019 11:52:05 AM PDT by dsrtsage (For Leftists, World History starts every day at breakfast)
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To: oh8eleven

I live in Marin County and Marin County fight tooth and nail to keep BART out for many years and you can probably see why

San Rafael where the railroad and the buses all show up has major homeless problems

In Fairfax we have like three homeless guys and I know them all by name and where they live in the woods


72 posted on 04/17/2019 11:52:13 AM PDT by Truthoverpower (The guvmint you get is the Trump winning express !)
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To: cuban leaf

Ahh...

San Francisco and Seattle.

The two prettiest cities in the United States reduced to stinkin’ piles of sh!t.

I remember when...


73 posted on 04/17/2019 11:53:03 AM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: blueunicorn6

I was voluntarily quasi-homeless in Hawaii couple summers in my misspent youth it was some of the best times I ever had


74 posted on 04/17/2019 11:53:21 AM PDT by Truthoverpower (The guvmint you get is the Trump winning express !)
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To: blueunicorn6

***I guess the homeless like nice scenery and climate, too.***

I remember an old joke from the 1930s about two bums deciding whether or not to go to California. One bum said there were no jobs in California, and the other said “At least we can enjoy the climate while starving!”

Maybe the same for Hawaii. How did they get there?


75 posted on 04/17/2019 11:54:57 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Mariner

I read an op-ed article about Seattle in a San Francisco newspaper around 30 years ago. The female author had just visited Seattle and loved it. She lamented about how nice it was compared to what SF had become (even back then) and I remember this line (I paraphrase): Seattle is wonderful, it is what SF was like ten years ago.

My gut response: uh oh...

And here I am now in beautiful rural Kentucky, and so’s one of my daughters and her husband now. :D


76 posted on 04/17/2019 11:55:45 AM PDT by cuban leaf
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To: oh8eleven

Don’t get me started on airports or any other gathering place for that matter. There should be alw that says if you don’t have ticket you cannot enter the building...PERIOD. I hate having to get past the goodbye/hello crowds at airports.

Same with stores. Quit bringing in all of your kids and elderly relatives shopping with you except young babies who remain in the carts. Costco is so bad in the Eastern Washington stores as they are flooded with immigrant families and their half a dozen or more kids and their elderly relatives that you can’t hardly get into the stores let alone down the aisles, and then they let them run amok and out of control..

Sorry about the rant but this is one of my pet peeves as I have developed as I have gotten older..


77 posted on 04/17/2019 11:57:36 AM PDT by shotgun
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To: oh8eleven

If you’re going to San Francisco
Be sure to wear
Some flowers in your hair
If you’re going to San Francisco
You’re gonna meet
Some gentle people there

For those who come
To San Francisco
Summertime
Will be a love-in there
In the streets of San Francisco
Gentle people
With flowers in their hair


78 posted on 04/17/2019 11:58:02 AM PDT by Old Yeller (Auto-correct has become my worst enema.)
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To: Old Yeller
For those who come To San Francisco Summertime Will be a love-in there
I was in the SF airport July of '68 on my way home from VN. Could not believe the wall-to-wall dirty hippies.
79 posted on 04/17/2019 12:06:23 PM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: oh8eleven

IT’s a unique kind of migratory mutation of the human species.. extensive studies should be done.. or just provide flights outbound with homeless to sanctuary countries, warm ones like Honduras, Guatemala, Venezuela.. Cuba


80 posted on 04/17/2019 12:14:03 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - Monthly Donors Rock!!!)
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