Despite the spending? Has it ever occurred to liberals that the more of our money they spend on making life more comfortable for the homeless than for those doing just barely better but who work, the more rules they write that make rental property a bad (and annoying) investment, the more regulations there are making it harder, more expensive, and more risky to hire people, the more homeless people there will be?
That’s $165,000 a head!
One mental illness, leftist politics, trying to deal with another mental illness, in many cases, the homeless.
They could have bought EACH of them a $165,000 house (and a new one every year) for that money
Now That there’s some GOOOOoood Gub’mint!
I’ll bet most of the “children and young adults” are drug addicts. I have little sympathy for them but the ones who ran away from an abusive home deserve help.
This is the first time I’ve seen the term “homeless” in the MSM since Jan 2009.
The Baraqqi regime really is crumbling...
They are spending $25,000 per head for the homeless and they haven’t shrunk the herd? Sounds mor like a lefty jobs and graft program thAn actually helping anybody out of homelessness.
Round um up , clean um up , place them on farms in the San Joaquin Valley . Teach them how to farm , work the land , handle livestock , drive tractors , run irrigation , prepare and cook their own food from field and farm .
Also organize a civilian conservation corps , to deal with burned and damaged public lands , especially forests . Teach them re-planting , how to camp and survive in the back country . Make available free guitars , banjos and harmonicas
( no drums )
I they refuse to do this , draft them into special units in the Mil and send them to Afghanistan .
Bump
Transplant a pack or two of wolves out of the intermountain west and into SF.
The “homeless” problem will solve itself shortly thereafter.
I figure they are spending $22,449 dollars per homeless person, counting the teenagers, who are probably transient. Of that $22,449 per homeless person, the bureaucracy and infrastructure necessary for liberals to hand out charity soaks up $21,000 per homeless person. By the time incidentals and petty cash necessities are skimmed off by the actual people who work with the homeless, there is about $200.49 per homeless person that feeds them, maybe, and gives them second hand rags that are donated.
That money would be much better spent giving tax breaks to small business that create jobs. Let charities feed and clothe the poor, and help find jobs or institutions for them.
Let’s see:
$165,000,000 divided by 7,450 is $22,000 for each one of those homeless.
How much of that money is eaten up by all those do-gooders making those big salaries.
Want more pigeons?
Put bird seed out where the flocks are now.
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.