Welfare wrestling match Supes argue over stalled Care Not Cash

The San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 6/17/03 | John Wildermuth

[I_Love_My_Husband]

San Francisco supervisors spent five hours wrangling over the city's stalled Care Not Cash welfare reform plan Monday and finished with little more than finger-pointing, frayed tempers and the prospect of more of the same next week.

While Proposition N, which was approved by the voters last November, was scheduled to take effect July 1, court rulings have left it up to the supervisors to decide whether cash payments for many of the city's homeless should be slashed from as much as $395 a month to $59 and replaced with guarantees of food, shelter and other city services.

[randog]

...cash payments for many of the city's homeless should be slashed from as much as $395 a month to $59 and replaced with guarantees of food, shelter and other city services.

The liquor store owners must be fighting this one tooth and nail.

[jimt]

Costs of providing the new housing, meals and social services called for by Prop. N and promised by the city's Department of Human Services could far exceed the $13.9 million now spent on general assistance, Rose warned. It also could take longer than the city expects.

Find some vacant land and set up tents for the 2800. Feed them Army chow-line style. What they're spending now equals $4964.29 annually per bum.

Given free use of city land, it sounds very possible, at $2500 annually per bum.

[LNewman]

Not sure any of this matters. They'd just sell whatever was handed to them. Like a guy on the bus yesterday bragging about how much he received for his free monthly bus pass.