[ppaul]

This is what happens when the socialists in charge of our government locate all the "social services" - the give-away programs for bums and winos - in the nicest areas of our downtowns. Then, instead of letting cops walk the beat, twirling their nightsticks and telling the riff-raff to "move along", the "leaders" pass "compassionate" ordinances which allow the human vermin to loiter, sleep on the choicest spots of grass and park benches, and defocate and urinate on the sidewalks. And we, the public, just put up with it in the name of the two 21st Century dieties - Tolerance & Diversity.

[cinFLA]

The "homeless" on welfare get a "cost-of-living" adjustment if they file in San Francisco. The state takes the federal guidelines and puts a multiplier on it based on the higher cost of living in SF.

[SR71A]

I grew up in and near the City (that's how I'll always refer to San Francisco, but never as "Frisco"). In the late 50's and early 60's it was such a beautiful and, yes, classy city. I remember that women, even middle class, by an unwritten rule, nearly always wore a hat and gloves when they went downtown to shop.

Now, it is a cesspool, and I couldn't stand to be there any more.

Of course, in those days they had laws against vagrancy, and involuntarily committed crazed people. Nowadays, that's just not PC, of course. The "reforms" in the 70's and 80's that emptied the mental hospitals didn't help either.