Posted on 10/30/2020 4:15:42 PM PDT by karpov
San Franciscos hotels and motels are slowly emptying of the homeless people that the city placed there during the Covid-19 pandemic. The city simply cant afford the $260 per night, per person, price tag of housing approximately 2,000 peoplejust a portion of the estimated 8,000 people who live on the street. Where will they go? Elected officials have come up with a new plan: turn the whole city into a network of homeless encampments.
In June, city officials and departments developed a list of 42 potential sites that could be equipped with spaces for tents and mobile bathrooms. The urban campers, most with addiction and mental health issues, would be provided with free delivered meals and other services. Several sites were erected, including one outside City Hall and one in the Haight Ashbury neighborhood. Among the other proposed locations: 25 public elementary, middle, and high schools, as well as a Boys and Girls Club, city parks, and recreation areas.
Could San Francisco really turn school grounds and other public spaces into dozens of city-sanctioned homeless encampments? The prospect sounds inconceivable, but the ball began rolling last week, when Supervisor Rafael Mandelman introduced A Place For All, legislation that would establish Safe Sleeping Sites around the city. The Department of Homelessness and Supportive Services (HSH) would create the sites and figure out the funding. Although touted as a temporary measure, they would remain for two years, then reevaluated annually. The long temporary timeframe can be explained by the failure of a site that had already been attempted at Everett Middle School. The intended occupants wanted a more permanent place to stay, so passed on the offer.
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Where are the *free* meals for the tax payers of the city?
They treat the derelicts better than any other group of people.
Are they doing this for the blacks they claim they are for?
In Austin, it seems every overpass is the roof for a homeless camp.
The problem isn’t as bad as it is in California. Not yet, but they’ll get there one day.
I hope they’re going to supply their drugs and booze also!!! After all, if they can’t live in a hotel any longer, the city has to make some concessions to them!
“No. No! Wait, please! Wait, wait! You can have all the strawberry, Neopolitan, and praline you want. No! Nooo!!! My staff will hand it to you!”
I think it’s cheaper to stay in the Biltmore.
“Liberal women are the ones destroying this country.”
That’s a VERY strong statement. One I AGREE with 100%! :)
I’m s woman...and I totally agree.
The citizens of San Francisco could always send the homeless to live at the Pelosi mansion.
After blocking any exits from the Bridges out of the city and put Trump Walls south of the poopy city so no one can leave.
Also, seal up/close any BART tracks into and from Poopy City!
If that happens Poopy Pelosi might lose her district for a double win.
“...turn the whole city into a network of homeless encampments....”
Rehab the camps where they interned the Japanese during WW2 and stick them in there...permanently.
“Every homeless person in the country could head to San Francisco.”
We got a mess of ‘em in our little town we’d be glad to ship out there.
It would be a good way for us to clean out our jails too. If our criminals are out there, it is not a risk to us.
San Fagcisco Voters deserve all the misery their Democrat masters can buy with their tax money.
L8r
This is my pet peeve. They are not campers. Camping is a recreational activity taken on voluntarily for fun and relaxation. Stop calling them campers.
There are way more than 8,000 piles of human excrement deposited daily on the sidewalks of The City.
Antifa is a subset of Liberal women...
Arthur Hailey’s (not) Hotel.
Chump change to California.
Can't they get some state aid for that? They can take it from the repair and maintenance budget for PG&E (the power grid...).
Progressives, the enemy of civilization everywhere...
It is only $215 per year per resident of San Fran... but not all residents pay taxes, even if very few of them are children in San Fran.
That is $23,750 per year per "homeless" person.
Cheapskates...
It probably cost the "homeless" at least 100K per year just to feed their drug habits!
No wonder they are forced to steal stuff...
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