Posted on 08/29/2022 10:09:28 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Business owners in the Castro are attempting to take matters into their own hands when it comes to the San Francisco neighborhood’s unhoused population.
The Castro Merchants Association sent a letter to city officials outlining three demands: 35 shelter beds designated for “mentally ill and substance-abusing individuals who have taken up residence in the Castro,” a request for monthly metrics on the services offered or provided to unhoused people in the neighborhood, and a plan for what to do after people decline services.
Dave Karraker, co-president of the Castro Merchants Association, told SFGATE that businesses will potentially stop paying taxes if the three demands are not met.
“We're just seeing constant vandalism, constant drug use in public, people passed out on the sidewalk, people having psychotic breakdowns, and it's just not something a small-business owner should have to deal with,” Karraker said.
But some unhoused people say they come to the Castro because they feel safer there as LGBTQ+ people.
In 2009, the Journal of LGBT Youth published a study by an Associate Professor of Sociology and Sexuality Studies at San Francisco State University, called “No One Likes Street Kids – Even in the Castro.”
The study focuses on homeless gay and transgender youth of color in San Francisco, particularly a group of teenagers who used the Castro as a place to seek safety and community.
“The Castro was especially important to these youth because, as gay and transgender homeless young people, other public and private places did not feel safe to them,” the study said.
“No matter who it is, we can't accept the idea that someone can come to the Castro, do drugs and be mentally ill to the point that they're a threat to themselves or a threat to residents or tourists. This can't continue,” Karraker said.
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San Francisco is just getting what it voted for.
The plan for what to do when people decline services is the big deal.
So many ask me, why all these tent cities? Why all these people on the street. Is San Francisco so poor, why don’t they help?
Because they don’t want a clean shelter bed where they have minimal behavior standards. They want to get high, be loony, and be abusive.
oh gay homeless
thats different
their sh*t doesnt smell
In my opinion if you are sleeping on the street (not accidentally napping, but, crashed out), publicly intoxicated and that means with any drug, abusing others, holding or using illegal drugs (and they should be illegal), publicly urinating or defecating, in possession of stolen goods - you should just do jail time. Involuntary psych for those who are assessed as seriously crazy.
Any sincere and responsible mayor would have started this years ago. The voters keep electing Democrats, who have no intention of changing anything for the better in terms of safety and a profitable local economy. They don’t ‘do’ capitalism if they can help it. What they will do is pander , pretend and patronize, since that impresses the biggest donors.
Cry me a river! Vote LibTard.... get slums.
In year’s past, they’d be taken to insane asylums for their and the public’s safty.
But homeless crazies have “rights” to be cray cray.
“homeless gay and transgender youth of color”
Add in “single parent” and you’ve got ALL the boxes checked!
“Homeless gay and transgender youth of color hardest hit”
Was Sodom even as bad as San Fransisco?
When criminals take control of society.
Don't they have an animal warden in San Francisco? Get these things to the animal shelter, then put them down when no one claims them.
Mightly intolerant person in America's most tolerant city. No wonder the alphabet crowd cannot tolerate Karraker.
Karraker says "this can't continue." Ha! I've got news for you, bub. It WILL continue until you stop electing Democrats and elect a law and order city government. In other words, it will never stop until the city looks like Hiroshima after August 6, 1945.
If you’re going to San Francisco,
Be sure to were some flowers in your hair..............
“Unhoused population”?!!!!!
Exactly.
They need to get it, good and hard.
A trifecta of victimhood.
Send them all to Marin County. Will get fixed fast
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