Posted on 09/26/2023 11:39:07 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
San Francisco Mayor London Breed has sensationally blasted homeless activists in the city, complaining they are keeping people on the streets and enabling them.
She claimed advocates get in the way of city workers and discourage those most in need from going into shelters and getting help.
“These activists are the same people who hand out tents to keep people on the street instead of working to bring them indoors, as we are trying to do,” Breed wrote on the online platform Medium.
“And they are the same people instructing and encouraging people to refuse shelter — to remain on the street instead of going indoors. Their agenda is clear.”
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If homeless activists succeeded in eliminating homelessness, they would have to find a new career.
Isn’t San Francisco a homeless camp already
On this, Mayor Breed is correct. There are several non profit busybodies actively making things worse by discouraging homeless to move off those dark and sticky sidewalks.
Ironically, those individuals are likely to live in a stylish condo with armed security.
1999-04-28 04:00:00 PDT San Francisco -- Advocates for San Francisco's homeless started giving people their own shopping carts yesterday, hours before a city task force proposed cracking down on stray carts by getting retailers to do more to block their theft in the first place.
Five homeless people were the first to receive carts in an effort intended to counter the get-tough policies of Mayor Willie Brown and Supervisor Amos Brown. Many more people eventually will get the big used carts, painted black and clearly identified as property of the Coalition on Homelessness. Stark yellow letters say each one is a "Free Kart."
If these activists really wanted to send a message they would pitch the tents on the street in front of Breed's house and demand she take them inside.
This has been going on in SF for 40 years.
The ONLY reason SF even mentions it is businesses are demanding action.
I've seen higher estimates, but it's still at least 50% who prefer the streets because they don't have all those rules about drug use and ripping people off.
Leftists encouraging mental illness? Checks out.
Is she trying to kiss up to normal people? Or is this a ploy of some kind?
This should be exploited by our side. The two factions of the left should battle it out.
“If these activists really wanted to send a message...”
They would each take about a dozen homeless into their own homes, take full legal and financial responsibility for them, and get them cleaned up and back into being a productive, tax-paying citizen.
Never going to happen. These soft-headed busybody do-gooders are more interested in moral preening with their friends.
Governor Gavin is heavy breathing down Mayor Breeds neck (figuratively!) about the homeless, since he suddenly seems to be ‘getting his own affairs in order’ for whatever reason.
So now she decides to come down hard and publicly on those pesky non-profits who seem to want the continued disorder of homeless dope addicts sprawling in all directions.
Stuff flows downhill.
Sounds like we are moving into “interesting times” as the ancient Chinese curse.
Indeed!
Agree-that should be mandatory for everyone of these virtue signalers whether 'advocating' for the homeless or illegal aliens.
Exactly. With Biden clearly on the outs with the Democrat hierarchy Slick Gruesom is gearing up to be the next in line to be selected the RAT nominee!
Shaming these fools is a good idea. They are harming the homeless and need to be told so.
During the pandemic, San Francisco distributed 262 tents across six locations. These tents are sheltering just over 300 people. I don’t know how much the city paid for these tents, but one can purchase a perfectly fine, very large tent from REI for about $400. The annual budget for these tents is $16.1 million, which comes out to about $61,000 per tent per year. This includes meals, bathroom facilities, and security.
City supervisors were taken aback when the interim head of San Francisco’s homelessness department handed them the bill and reported that the cost wasn’t eligible for FEMA repayment. If they had been housed in a hotel, FEMA would have covered the expenses, but apparently not for tents that flap in the wind. Whoops. As in a double whammy, $16.1 million whoops. And as if it were OK for supervisors to waste taxpayer money from the rest of the country had it been FEMA eligible. You know the old saying about playing with other people’s money.
On this, Mayor Breed is correct. There are several non profit busybodies actively making things worse
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Also N.G.O.s that aren’t actually N.G.O.s. simce they are funded by federal/taxpayer money. The one that comes to mind is Catholic Charities. I know there plenty of Protestant organizations in on the scam too. C.C. is, as I said, the one that comes to mind.
I’m a life long Baptist and for years, I donated regularly to the local Catholic Charities because they were the only ones who were helping unwed mothers and counseling pregnant girls/women.
They should also be handing out toilet paper ...
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