Posted on 03/12/2014 2:40:57 PM PDT by george76
San Francisco spends $165 million a year on services for homeless people, but all that money hasn't made a dent in the homeless population in at least nine years.
And in fact, the city's homeless tally may have long been underestimated. In addition to the 6,436 homeless adults counted during one night last year, a separate daytime count specifically of homeless youth found 914 children and young adults living in San Francisco without parents or guardians and without a roof over their heads.
These findings are part of a new report by Harvey Rose, the budget and legislative analyst for the Board of Supervisors. The report was requested by Supervisor Mark Farrell in a continuing effort to better understand and tackle the city's seemingly intractable homeless problem.
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Jennifer Friedenbach, director of the Coalition on Homelessness, said nearly every program from supportive housing to mental health care to substance abuse services is at capacity or has a waiting list despite the millions poured into them.
"Pretty much every area that you look at, the services are totally overwhelmed," she said. "I guess I would say we need to be spending more
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
66%.
San Francisco spends $165 million a year on services for homeless people——
The $165 million is for ALL people, not just the teens.
Every summer a new crop of “youths” come to SF looking for adventure and pot. What they find is a buzzsaw of professional thieves and bogus drug dealers who rob them, drug them, abuse them and leave them on the sidewalks, lost and alone.
The media replays “Summer of Love” footage and the kids head west, filled with a nostalgia for things that never were.
I lived in SF for 25 yrs. - 15 of those in the Haight/Ashbury.
Spending that kind of ca$h is going to attract the homeless like dog poop attracts flies. Having lived there, I recall some of these homeless people digging in trash cans near the Ferry Building, eating the stuff people tossed away right in front of the public. Really nice image for the tourists indeed.
Liberalism and Progressivism at work! More epic fail!
$165 mil/year sure pays a lot of salaries.
I did the same calculation. The headline is misleading. The article describes 1000 kids and 6500 adults. So that works out to $22K per head.
Realize that this is in addition to State and Federal monies for the poor.
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