Posted on 10/30/2020 4:15:42 PM PDT by karpov
San Francisco’s hotels and motels are slowly emptying of the homeless people that the city placed there during the Covid-19 pandemic. The city simply can’t afford the $260 per night, per person, price tag of housing approximately 2,000 people—just 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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the societal tent dwellers are dropouts, unequals, ner do wells. At the root, they are just lazy.
The tent dwellers, squatters no more, get California citizens to give them life and sustenance.
Back in Scott McKenzie’s day. Most of the street bums were only smoking weed , a few with added hallucinogens. Now, almost all the street beggars are on heroin, or worse. No flowers , either. It’s mostly a very grim scene. And the city enables and facilitates their hard drug habits by providing free needles and “safe injection sites”. Plus money
Luxury hotels!!!
I only go to Austin about once every two or three months, but I can’t get over how many more tent cities I see each time. It is disgusting; such a beautiful city being overrun with hobos.
Liberals ruin everything they touch.
I live about an hour north of Austin and we are getting panhandlers here who drive up regularly from Austin, apparently because they’ve worn out their welcome in Cedar Park, Round Rock, etc. No one wants that crap.
California, is good to the homeless
Peach
Well considering the fact that the hotel owners will have to burn their hotels down after the trash leaves, 260 ain’t to bad, the insurance should cover the rest.
How else are they going to get rid of the lice, crabs, bedbugs, and all the other critters and germs the scum bring in?
“...might finally be the breaking point for residents.”
Never underestimate stupid.
White, single, liberal female public school teachers are the biggest and most dangerous threat facing this nation.
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