San Francisco's struggle to clear homeless encampments as hundreds wait for shelters
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- Опубліковано 25 сер 2024
- As demand grows, waitlists for San Francisco's housing and emergency shelters for individuals experiencing homelessness get longer. There are currently around 500 pending shelter waitlist applications. STORY: abc7ne.ws/49X9GDJ
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There's this homeless camp right in front of the non-profit homeless shelter, and it's just absurd! I mean, seriously, every single time we step out of our apartment, we're greeted with the sight of drug users openly indulging in their vices, right there in front of us! Can you believe that? I don't understand how this is even legal. It's just outrageous!
There are homeless who refuse shelter and help. They are unwilling to change or go by any rules.
The media needs to admit that the majority of this problem is drug use. You cannot solve a problem is you mislabel it. But I think the mislabelling is deliberate.
Do you ever feel threatened or worry about break-ins?
@@thatgirlwhousedtohavereall5549 I used to live on the ground floor in an apartment complex. We had a patio but we couldn’t use it because of the homeless. One time the homeless climbed inside and put up a tent. We woke up in the morning and was shocked watching these strangers doing drugs right outside our back door. Sometimes at night we saw shadow outside our door and they tried to open the door too… It was disturbing. Never rent on the ground floor in SF, especially near homeless area.
and pray tell, did you 'ever' vote leftist/democrat/progressive/liberal...
Oh. Suddenly we're having a hard time with homeless when just a few weeks ago it seamed easy to clear everything up.
They didn't struggle clearing out certain parts of the city when APEC was in town.
Yet some how the City did it for the SAN FRANCISCO APEC summit.
Against the law to move the encampments, except when kung fu panda arrives.
Expect Homelessness to double in the United States every year.
When's that going to start?
Pretty soon the US will become a developing county like India and the Philippines by 2030.
California needs to have a forensic OUTSIDE accounting of where all those BILLIONS in Federal dollars for the homeless are going!!
Make getting resources harder - I guarantee this will stop people from out of state, out of the city, flooding in for the resources.
Do the Chinese need to visit again? Would that help with the clean up?
Against the law? What happened to the APEC Summit time that you cleared them all out ???
san francisco struggles because the greedy real estate industry wants to make high profits. theres 60,000 empty units. they just dont want to let people who have drug issues, mental health issues or not enough money to give them. the national real estate industry just lost a case in court where they are fined billion for manipulating the market. and the real estate associations in sf and calif are the same. the city doesnt want to admit that they just dont want to give out "free" housing. the mayor is criminally negligent, not the courts.
I wish it was that simple, if you feel so strong about letting people who have drug issues, mental health issues, why don't you let some of them move in with you.
@@jamesdyer2234 oh my. i ve never lived with some one who had problems in their lives. i grew up in a very sheltered and in a social bubble. scared of homeless people. are they really people anyways. thats how you guys be.
the real estate market produces homelessness as a by product. or else housing would be free.
@@episdosas9949 They could easily move to a place where homes are cheaper, but the problem is the cannot easily get drugs there.
The first step to solving SFs problems is admitting that the root cause is drug abuse.
@@alansnyder8448 the root causes of drug abuse is even deeper. not all homeless people do drugs. its the ones on drugs that grabs peoples attention. all it takes to be homeless could be losing a job or a medical emergency.
@@alansnyder8448 moving isnt "easy". you think they re choosing to live on the streets and got a couple thousand stashed away to move somewhere. moving isnt easy for people who do have the mpney. some people are so priviliged and sheltered, they dont even understand other peoples struggles.
Rents are TOO DAMN HIGH.
It’s not just that but no jobs.
You need to ask these people where they were born, and when and why did they come to San Francisco. For example, housing is much cheaper outside the city, and people can move to places with cheaper housing. One common reason for many to be here, I've heard is the drugs are easier to get and cheaper in SF.
The people interviewed for this story were carefully curated, but I suspect those homeless due to drug use is 80% from my walks around SF.
Most of the homeless are locals. California hates there own children.
Panda Express pays $23 an hour like Tesla .
I moved out of NYC because of stuff like this. San Francisco is another city that is just as bad, & with no control of it at all. Not doing things properly either.
Oh, & humans are humans. Would you want this to happen to you? Living homeless with no control of it or the situation you're going through. I never understood how a lot of people don't get that. Although, obviously a lot do thankfully.
Let's go Newsome ......your chance to shine tonight in the debate! Tell America how you will wreck all the states, Cali is done.
Cali is done hahaha. Highest GDP in the nation by a wide margin and you say we're done. Keep whining
@@tru6029 hahaha done. If Cali was done, houses along the coast wouldn't be selling for millions of dollars and have huge lines of people in bidding wars for them, driving up the prices. My current apartment, there were about 40 people in line for it. Maybe if so many people want to live in Arizona, prices there will rise too, but there will never be lines to buy homes in AZ like there are in CA.
@@tru6029 the GDP of California is nearly ten times that of Arizona. Get to work, AZ!! You have a lot of catching up to do
San Francisco has the second highest population density of any city in America. So there is no room in San Francisco to accommodate tens of thousands of transients that are too mentally ill or drug addicted to be employable. The State needs to build simple and cheap housing units for transients outside of the city.
Any housing used to accommodate transients in the city should only be used to provide rent controlled housing-- for working people.
Atlanta is slowly becoming like this.
San Francisco was my favorite place to spend the day when I was growing up.
That was then and this is now. I avoid going there if at all possible.
The politicians are so corrupt and self serving that it is deteriorating into
chaos where the homeless have more rights than the residence who pay
their taxes and expect to live in a safe clean city.
Non bcz of that, u just grew up, kid
If you cared about SF do something instead of commenting. Those who ruined it are obviously doing something while you're sitting there giving opinion, no one cares and Your fav spot as you grew up is gone. Take actions, stop talking.
It's always been bad. I'm not saying it's not awful now, fentanyl really helped make it worse. But it's been bad for the 25 years I can recall going there
@@Dr_KW, common yo, u didnt see all the places, if u know what Im talking about)))
@@Mr3344555bra you think he super man or something the fuck is he supposed to do? Get a poop scooper and start cleaning for free
These bums just need to get a job and pay their bills like normal people
One person had a job only paid 200 to 300 dollars she couldn’t pay rent and had to move out to live in a RV.
then in that case needa get 2 or 3 jobs like the "new normal" ppl who pays bills so the maths adds up
about it, when one works to make money to buy food there ain't much time leftover to engage in this bum lifestyle...
Most homeless people (75%) don't want to work. They'd rather get free money from the government.
I hope you never get in a situation where you loose everything, be grateful, be compassionate, many of the homeless end up in the streets for different reasons, and believe me, many of them pray and try to get out of that horrible situation.
SF should look into civil rights violations for these homeless folks. Majority of them got exiled from their states and got dumped here, if this is about money sue their home states, make money and send them back or help them. Other states need to start taking responsibility for those they've left behind or given up on.
They don't want homeless solutions. Homeless is big funding and endless funding, so unregulated...millions just pouring in. Much like the pentagon, no oversight. We have 567 000 homeless people look at the amounts spent, we could give each 500,000 dollars and be over this shit in a day or build those amazing tiny houses that assembly in 3 days. But they won't.
BS. Just because you see a few cases you claim it's the majority. The problem is primarily due to the policies and the nice weather in SF. You want homeless and illegals, you get more homeless and illegals, period. Just ask yourself where do you want to be if YOU were homeless? A place that makes it comfortable for you or a place that doesn't?
This is pitiful wait weeks to get a shelter ashamed 😢
What do you expect when an apartment is 3000 a month for one bedroom! The homeless should be sent to other states so they can afford to live. If you make 300 a week, why would you pick SF to live in?
The people interviewed were carefully curated, but the reason is SF is where you can get drugs easily and I'm told cheaply. So the users are flocking to be where the supply it located.
And the media deliberately mislabels the cause, instead of just admitting it is a drug abuse issue.
Believe it or not, not all homeless people are drug users. Maybe they were priced out by a landlord. Maybe they've applied for help but the waiting list is 1 or 2 or more years long. That woman's paycheck is 300 dollars. The price of gas is restrictive to traveling very far. It's not as cut and dried as you think.
What are all the people who grew up in Cali supposed to do, we ALL have to leave the state we know and have friends, and go live some place else? Most of the poor people in California grew up there and can't afford to live there.
You really should comment unless you know what's going on, like Blackrock buying up the properties and jacking rent way up. Commenting from the security of your moms basement...
Wow, you don’t have to be so mean. You must be a Republican.
Many working class people are moving out of San Francisco because they can’t afford it. Making $300 anywhere a week is poverty. But the question is why come here? Sanctuary City… that’s a big topic and we all pay for it. it’s a very sad situation for many who feel they are stuck here.
And thousands of future homeless are coming in every day...🤷♂️
If "pity" was job classification in 🇺🇸 , for sure; covered wagons would be the way to go.....
2:12 long term family shelters…. I’m all for helping people when they are in a tough time but some of these long term shelters I have seen folks there for years. Like 5+ years in different shelters. What’s the plan to help folks transition? We need better leadership within these organizations so they can actually make a difference instead of maintaining beds full so they can keep getting grants and other government funds. More worried about maintaining profits then helping the people unfortunately
Families should be top priority
my co-worker came back from Laos and visited Thailand and don't remember seeing homeless people there.
this is more than SAD for all the $$$$$ that SF has
Yeah, communism is the answer.
Yeah but lots of very poor people in those countries, many thousands live in tiny shacks in massive slums
Where did your Co-worker go? I went to Thailand a few years ago for a week, and they took us to the tourist area. I have family still in Vietnam, and there are homeless/ slums in the world.
Japan also has a homeless issue; it may not be as a massive issue as in the States, but it is swept under the rug.
The mess Gavin newsome made and left behind good old Reed
Yeah, London Breed "The Shopping Queen" she'll do something about it LMAO, they make money off the fact that there are homeless families, so why would they fix the problem?
They have gotten 80k for everyone on that list.
There are many abandoned towns across the US that have infrastructure in place. Maybe it's time to revitalize those towns. Presumably cost of living would be extremely cheap.
yet they take care of the immigrants an leave the people who were born here on the streets what a shame
Stop confiscating property…you mean all the shit that they stole? Is that how it works now? How can these activists look at those encampments and think that’s okay?
Have a DA that doesn’t dismiss charges against a transient “in the interest of justice” and hold them accountable for all the shit they do and see how fast those streets will clean up.
I'll be visiting SF soon, what area would you recommend I visit to see the extremes of all this first hand?
Tenderloin. Civic center at night.
You have to start addressing that a lot of these people are coming from outside the state. West coast states get stuck with a migration of bums, then get criticized for being overwhelmed. Give them bus tickets back to where they came from.
You won't even kick out those that entered the country illegally but you want to kick out people from out of state? I really don't understand the thought process, can you explain why illegals are better than Americans from outside of CA?
As I said, most of the homeless in California were born there. Most of the rich people are from someplace else. That is a fact!!!!!!!
watch videos of San Francisco's homeless and crime problem when we are eating dinner. I cast it to the TV. Keep making these good videos.
some are talking about "BURNNING THEM OUT" make it illegal to be homeless and a fin of 500.00 dollars + court fees ..
Bidenomics 😱
There were no homeless in California 4 years ago?
@@micv5654 Do the math genius
@@propblast82nd well, if you remember after the hurricane Katrina the displacement of people from New Orleans just throw in different cities with not a chance to go back 🙄 they may had "some help for some time" and then: "forget about it, you are on your own" that's the government solution for cases like that instead of trying to rebuild their homes and take them back to where they belong.
@@micv5654 actually they many were bused to Texas and actually got nice public housing and money
renting an RV to live in should be illegal to the RV owner unless the RV is on private property but these RVs are dumped on the side of the road
They cleared out all the junker RVs from the east side of Lake Merced blvd near SFSU - there’s a new bike lane there and no more parking
Now all that’s left is the west side along Harding Park and the road leading up to Stonestown
That’s a bike lane I can support - those clowns make riding very dangerous because their junk sticks out too far into the traffic lane. Not to mention all the garbage/trash/refuse they leave behind. Totally disgusting!
Gavin Newsom doing a hell of a good job 😂😂😂😂
Just bring back China's President.
I wish I had the money to build a good shelter & some affordable housing.
Democrat Utopia….. clean during APEC but back to normal now….
They are not homeless. They choose this life!! The Families are few and far between. How do I know? I live in the TL.
Who told you that? That's the oldest line in the book!
“And we’re taking population reduction seriously”
It’s nothing that some fuel ⛽️ and lighter won’t take care of.
This is so sad.
Maybe vote Republican next time.
Red blue government mess always the same.
republicans dont want to house people or give them health care. they are the leaders of causing social dilemmas like homelessness.
Vote Blue get Screwed
Shelter ,they make you pay
Blaming Covid lol
Maybe it’s just time to build a modest town somewhere in California and provide supervised / policed housing, food, basic necessities, alcohol and drugs to all of the burnouts and yes even counseling for those who want to transition back into society so the working, tax paying citizens who are trying to manage their homes, families, and careers can be at peace. Everybody wins.
Welp.. we all know the only person Newsom will clean it up for.. ofcouse just a temp fix ..
They've been voting for this for decades. You reap what you sow.
A losing battle. Make housing affordable again. Delist realty and REITs from the stock market.
Come on why are they not changing lives of our own yet changing the llife of migrants..
Thank god I am not a U.S. citizen.
It was easy to get our homeless to move along, the city is finally fixing the sidewalk and street along Taylor, all the noise has run the homeless off.
You must not live near the ocean on the west coast
@@frankmacleod2565 Um I live in San Francisco so yes I am very near the ocean.
Tell your Government to Amend the citizenship of all citizens,
A1 citizenship for local white english origin and give them job and place to stay. they cant even go to any other country, this is their home country their forefather's Faught for.they dont even have a place to go, whats patriotisms'? and where is it?
A2 citizenship for all chirstian,
A3 citizenship for other religion/ethnic group. africans, indians, chinese and others living here , they always have a choice to go back to their country of origin if they are jobless or homeless.
homeless cause by drug use a but drug is free in this country !!!
Is this where gavin vame From???
Is this where nancy came From
gavin, nancy do do job
🙏🙏🙏
SF just needs to welcome Xi JinPing as its new overlord.
There will never be enough money or shelter when you incentivize people to be homeless. Do you know what people did in the past when they couldn’t afford to live here? MOVE Somewhere else!!!!!
I sell my body to supplement my extra income.
What a dump! California is pathetic. Thank God I left
Zombies, got cash for to do drugs? Got poo latrines? Got free support for using drugs? So san Francisco CA, a place to be, a go to area to be zombies?
Hmm.,.,
So why not advertise to the world? "Zombies, be on San Francisco CA" to have all the free goodies, free stuffs and all tax free & paid?,..
😂-,,you voted 4 Obama
Simple: Require every SF Resident by law to house 1 entity who identifies as a person experiencing homelessness and/or unhoused, whichever term the media prefers these days. Next year, bump it up to 2. We can solve homelessness in 2 years, people!
Can I sue the city when these individuals that I took in, stole our money and value items in the house to buy drugs?
next time vote republican
Ship them to other States,I mean come on so more of the issue is shared
Where did you grow up? Do they say that to you?
What is the difference from homeless and houseless aren’t those the same thing ?
Keep voting Democrat Gavin and London have the solution to fix the problem .. maybe invite Xi 🇨🇳 back and live in San Francisco.. they did cleaned it up for a week then back to the shitty by the Bay
never see in my life homeless like this in America, every year more and more homeless, I never see homeless like this in Asia