I live in SF, I am watching this unfolding for the last 30 years and despair... "Housing first" with millions dropped into it is pure madness. May be it's my "tech" logical mind, but the first step I see is to sort homeless people out and proceed depending on their needs. Families "out of luck" - housing and help with finding jobs, menta…
I live in SF, I am watching this unfolding for the last 30 years and despair... "Housing first" with millions dropped into it is pure madness. May be it's my "tech" logical mind, but the first step I see is to sort homeless people out and proceed depending on their needs. Families "out of luck" - housing and help with finding jobs, mentally ill - evaluated and treated, drug addicts - given a choice of rehab or prison for all multiple laws they are breaking (SF is ignoring most of the crimes).
For years I see city gov people getting elected on common sense platforms like above, do you know what was happening as soon as any city hall discussion started? Those poor, harmless disfranchised homeless zombies were suddenly getting together with the help of multiple non-profits, of course, storming meetings and screaming "you cannot criminalize poverty!" and so on. End of discussion. Never ending cycle of dependency, self-serving NGOs and young unexperienced childless idealistic so called adults full of naïve ideas. They are voting for the worst candidates (progressives, of course) and moving away after few years to start real life.
And don't blame COVID - I was coming to downtown for work for decades, 2 years ago I realized that I saw homeless/drugged out/psychotic person while on public transportation every single day! How would you like to get stuck underground with someone screaming and jumping up and down right near you...
People are mentioning voting - some of disasters we have are directly related to rank voting, please read on it and never-ever allow it to happen. This is how we got out infamous DA.
Some people on the thread are asking for compassion (which includes giving pocket money somehow). We are taxed in CA and in SF beyond reason already.
I live in SF, I am watching this unfolding for the last 30 years and despair... "Housing first" with millions dropped into it is pure madness. May be it's my "tech" logical mind, but the first step I see is to sort homeless people out and proceed depending on their needs. Families "out of luck" - housing and help with finding jobs, mentally ill - evaluated and treated, drug addicts - given a choice of rehab or prison for all multiple laws they are breaking (SF is ignoring most of the crimes).
For years I see city gov people getting elected on common sense platforms like above, do you know what was happening as soon as any city hall discussion started? Those poor, harmless disfranchised homeless zombies were suddenly getting together with the help of multiple non-profits, of course, storming meetings and screaming "you cannot criminalize poverty!" and so on. End of discussion. Never ending cycle of dependency, self-serving NGOs and young unexperienced childless idealistic so called adults full of naïve ideas. They are voting for the worst candidates (progressives, of course) and moving away after few years to start real life.
And don't blame COVID - I was coming to downtown for work for decades, 2 years ago I realized that I saw homeless/drugged out/psychotic person while on public transportation every single day! How would you like to get stuck underground with someone screaming and jumping up and down right near you...
People are mentioning voting - some of disasters we have are directly related to rank voting, please read on it and never-ever allow it to happen. This is how we got out infamous DA.
Some people on the thread are asking for compassion (which includes giving pocket money somehow). We are taxed in CA and in SF beyond reason already.