Posted on 08/20/2019 7:09:24 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
San Francisco’s struggle to address its overwhelming homelessness problem is growing ever more dire, and residents don’t know what to do. Last week a homeless man by the name of Austin Vincent attacked 26-year-old Paneez Kosarian just outside her condo. He claimed he would save her from “robots,” and offered to kill someone else to secure her trust. Against the objections of the District Attorney, Superior Court Judge Christine Van Aken released him. On Monday, Vincent was arrested for another assault.
City officials have watched the problem escalate by 17% in the last two years alone. Hundreds of millions of dollars are supposedly being poured into resolving the issue, but it continues to worsen. Authorities blame big business, accusing tech companies such as Twitter of causing housing prices to skyrocket with a deluge of high-paying jobs.
Bay Area Rapid Transit worker Jose told Fox News that he is worried about precisely that. “What’s happening is that they are building too many condominiums and kicking the people out,” he said. “I’m lucky they haven’t kicked me out yet.”
“It’s impossible to buy a home here,” another resident told Fox News. “You’ve got these ridiculous housing prices, crime and these people crapping on the streets. Why would anyone want to stay?”
Former mayoral candidate Richie Greenberg agreed, calling out 2014’s Proposition 47 as a major problem for the city. The bill reduced some non-violent felonies to misdemeanors, with the aim of freeing law enforcement to pursue more serious crimes.
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“The bill reduced some non-violent felonies to misdemeanors, with the aim of freeing law enforcement to pursue more serious crimes.”
They missed.
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Gotta love politicians. Spent years making everything under the sun a felony now they pat themselves on the back for reducing felonies to misdemeanors.
“Why would anyone want to stay?” applies to the whole Left Coast.
“Homeless.”
“Illegals”
“Destitute” -— almost every resident in CA
Nobody, and I mean NOBODY saw that coming.
Keep voting to the left. And when it gets worse keep voting to the left.
Sad ...as it is perfect weather. Liberals ruined it. My family are farmers in California since immigrating in the mid-1800s. I cannot envision leaving ...
Start with enforcing rule of law. Arrest and deport illegals. Ask Rudy how he cleaned up NY City.
Try voting in more FredocRATS.
The liberals' drive to close down the nation's mental institutions for "humanitarian" reasons during the '70s and '80s has led DIRECTLY to this. They own it. This has NOTHING to do with whether apartments and townhouses are too expensive.
Make the judge liable the way everyone else is for major mistakes. This star chamber no fault judiciary encourages their “let them eat cake attitude.’ Not that I think this can happen, especially in Commiefornia. But it’s time to start looking at it. The judiciary is imperial.
The leftists Democrat Socialist Utopia.
Ick
I left my shit in San Francisco
High on a hill it calls to me.
Half of this sorry rock we call a planet is homeless;
Luckily all young and all can code to their little hearts desire
Code and code your silly goose way away
Thats the ticket
7 Billion coders to make that AI Blossom away
The homeless money is going right into the pockets of so-called homeless advocates who work fake jobs pretending to give a damn about the homeless.
State needs to suspend environmental laws and building codes and let developers fricking build sky-rise apartments.
Sic the EPA AND CDC against these cities. Fine the hell out of them for polluting and for creating unsafe living environments. Make money off these assholes!
The rat machines in place in all of these sh##hole cities have been made impenetrable now. It is no longer well you vote for these a##wipes you get these a##wipes. No matter what you say or do the result is the same because its rigged in their favor. Much like what they want to do with the presidency
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