San Francisco's Homeless Problem: Where's The Money Going?
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- Wilson Walker takes a look at just how San Francisco spends millions of dollars on its homeless every year. (6/27/16)
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The first thing to do is audit homeless advocacy groups. Someone is living it up on all that money.
Michael McConnell I guarantee it.
While you're at it, call in the DEA and have them arrest and prosecute the government officials who are drugging up people with meth and dumping them on the street. The government calls them "Safe Inject Sites". But it's really called conspiracy to possess, distribute, and administer a controlled substance.
You're just spreading more propaganda from the corporate mouthpiece media.
Most people don;t give the homeless any money nor are homeless getting welfare. You can't get general assistance unless you have an apartment at a residential street address. A post office box is not an acceptable address to obtain welfare.
Furthermore, there are no services to get homeless off the streets. In fact, the homeless problem is a deliberate plan to get rid of low rise apartment buildings (and their middle class residents) and replace them with high rises for the wealthy class.
Do a search for "Agenda 21" and you will see how cities are being gutted to build high rise housing.
illusionisteyes ....more akin to DELUSIONAL!!! How miniscule & warped of a mind you wittingly possess.... The AUDACIOUSNESS OF YOU PAINTING ALL HOMELESS PPL W/THE SAME BRUSH!!!! 😠
Gator Jordan
the more you incentivize any behavior the more of it you will get
A lot of people are making money off the homeless situation, and it ain't the homeless
"drug dealers"
I call them poverty pimps
When I fled San Francisco 10 years ago the city was spending around $100 million on the homeless problem. Today the figure is between $240 and $300 million, with no improvement.
David Sandler right it shouldn’t cost 300 million to support 8000 homeless who are still chilling on the street broke
Just because they are FUNDED the money for the homelessness problem, doesn't mean that's where it is being spent, clearly. But it has to be going somewhere. Sound like audit time....
Dems solution to a problem is to throw hundreds of millions of dollars at it and hope it magically goes away...
If you refuse to go to and stay at shelters and rehab services and stay on the streets you are clearly insane, in other words its time to bring the mental institutions back!!
@o zThey need to separate the vets with ptsd...let the VA handle them. They need to put people with extreme mental disorders in mental institutions..Schizophrenics etc. They are not safe on the street at all. Drug addicts...separate hospitals detox centers..after detox...1 year in therapy in lockdown. The ones left should be the very few on the streets who are displaced families.. them..housing, training. And work for welfare. Better for self esteem. Better to be able to say if your a kid in school: my mommy works for the government. And she would learn to socialize, parent, feel pride. Its a no lose. In my humble opinion. Oh yes, and the sociopaths who rob for fun and because they are just losers...go to jail for your crime. Thats it. DO IT AND SEE IF I AM RIGHT. I am a Democrat who has been pushed too far by both parties.
I visited San Francisco from Australia for the first time in May 2018. In fact, it was my arrival port and my very first experience of the USA. I have to say that San Francisco is a very beautiful city with lots of amazing attractions but your homelessness problem truly shocked me. You’d never see anything remotely like this in my home city of Sydney, a city of over five million people. I really hope you guys can get on top of the problem, both for the sake of the homeless and the future of your otherwise beautiful city.
NYC is 9 million and you can go a whole day without seeing a bum; go a month before one hits on you for free money. In SF, I was hit up 25 times........in one hour (I counted).
You.must live in the Rich area of NYC like most white democrats. Reality will.come to you one day...
TRUMP2024
Well you don’t have democrats like ours running Sidney.
@@99999myk liar
The year 2015 spring I lost everything
I lost my apartment, I got evicted from my place.
My car got repo, because I wasn’t making any payments
I was working at a gas station but I was chasing a dream so I quite my job.
I didn’t have no money or noting save up, I had no rich family members to help me.. so I end up homeless I move to someone house down south but they kick me out they place because they stole from our job.
So I got fire, funny thing is the same person who fire me call me later on down the line and ask if I wanted my job back but it was way to late.. but back to the story
I end up sleeping at a Grey hound station and I had to leave a lot of my clothes behind..
I smell bad like old sweat and dirt I look bad, I wasn’t eating food I ate when I can but it wasn’t the best food to eat.
My clothes was dirty and I slept on Grey hound station floors..
i detox my body too I shave all my hairs off my body and head and throw away all my old dirty clothing. I had to shower for a hour to get the smell off me.
Fast forward I end up getting a job at McDonald’s and a car wash and fast forward again I end up getting my real estate license and now I’m a sales broker also.
I have my own place now and making good money now, I have a new car and a good career.
I end up gaining 55 pounds by eating well and hitting the gym also, I have a lot of new clothing and underwear.. I shower twice a day and get haircuts every week and wear very good cologne.
Went from wearing rags to wearing name brand clothing and suits to work.
When people look at me you wouldn’t know I use to live on the streets. I am very grateful and thankful now
And being homeless made me humble and very strong.
Your literacy is sub par, I doubt you make any kind of good income
duffffman83 what a dumb ass you are. People can make good morning if they have certain skills or talents that are independent of what you have been indoctrinated to believe is a good education. I know people with no college degrees making good
money. People that have social game, mouth piece, they are good talkers, and networkers. Those kinds of people get by just well not doing much writing. This guy I have in mind he rubs elbows with The Who’s who’s of our industry and city, yet ask him to document it is not the best. However he has a skill set upper management can utilize.
Encouragement on your new journey!
duffffman83 oh I bet your just the cream of the crop yoursef now aren’t you? It’s people like you who keep people like this guy down. Asshole.
Oh the lib poverty pimps despise you.
Problrm? What problem? This is apparently what the people of California want. Stop complaining, you voted for this. Enjoy.
The "majority" of those types of Californians, are brainwashed, believe the mainstream media and celebs, and think as a "Hive". Unfortunately, you are absolutely right as the rest of us seeing it get worse :(. But I meet more and more fellow Californians (here in SoCal) that are fed up, I've even met a few Dems that say "We HATE Jerry Brown" :p. But the Bay Area/San Fran, I think its hopeless, their "progressivism" poisons everything :/.
aww come on democrats only care about the poor hahahaha if you believe that one I got a bridge to sell you
They've been in power here since 1988, they haven't done ANYTHING (or any real solutions for those homeless). Many of us didn't vote them in, and those that DID, are now leaving to infest YOUR states and cities (not all are Dems/Progressives though, they're running away from the wackos here). But WE can't let them win, why should we leave?
Scott Link yup
This seriously does not make sense! Notice there's no homeless Mexicans or foreign people. How do the illegal immigrants manage to get in this country jobless, no money and live a successful life, but these people can't?
two years later, in summer 2018 and the situation is WORSE
3 years later and its even worse. Seems like he failed on tackling the problem thats for sure
@@HHurtado-Jiren` Pasadena officials declared a TYPHUS epidemic in November 2018. Thanks to the Nancy/Chuck/ACLU medieval-disease-of-the-month club.
I went there yesterday...it's worse than its ever been and I went to the tourist parts!!
Check out 2020
@@charlespeterson348 I know really. Jesus Christ. And people were complaining 4 yrs ago.
you dodged the $241 million dollar question...where does the money go?? and don't say it goes to house 9,000 or are you really spending $1300 per month per person?? WOW! Does any of that include jobs training? Out of that 9,000 are ANY of those employable? Are there GED programs?? Job Training? Drug Rehab? What results are you experiencing? And how do we know its really 9,000? Are there 9000 hotel vouchers accounted for?? Why aren't people asking these questions of you? are they afraid? lazy? apathetic??
The Department Of Homeless services is just like Muni. You can throw all the $$$ at the problem, but it just get's diverted into administrators pockets.
have u been to hunters point? those new apartments look nicer than the ones techies paying $6K/mo lol.
Those apartments are not for the homeless. They're most likely reserved for Syrian "refugees" who are being resettled in the U.S. at $10,000 a person. These "refugees" are getting free housing , health care, and affirmative action for job placement so they "blend in" and look like legitimate citizens.
If you want to call someone a parasite, then Syrian 'refugees' are an excellent example.
Scott Williams this is common with democratic policies. The money goes in the pockets of government officials and these so called do gooder non-profits. These homeless people are just an excuse to squeeze more money out of the failed state that is California.
This is staggering. Nearly $16K per person per year for "supportive housing". That's more than my house payment for a 2500 sqft house, which is almost paid for now. So, good question. Where is the money really going and if you are really giving away that much money, what is the incentive to not be on this assistance?
The corruption is organized and the people involved are rewarded for their participation and silence.....
so true !
Q: Where's The Money Going?
A: Life long corrupt Democrats pocket
Yeah let the hunting begin
Socialists hunt for social problems and if they don't find any create them and stick the bills to tax payers all the while filling their pockets to the hilt.
And it's still is !
NANCY PELOSI. NANCY PELOSI. AND NANCY PELOSI. RICH B__CH.
"meeting the demands of the people on the street" ..if a homeless person wants to live on the street the government says they can't stop them....but if I don't want to pay taxes...the government will make me pay.
The money ends up in Sea Cliff, Pac Heights etc. - but always in the pockets of the politically connected 'fighters' for justice, equality, and other humanity. Those scoundrels should be all thrown in prison.
bay area is a cesspool of corruption! some good people there though!
This is great...a clear example of those so-called California "values" we're always hearing about. So march on liberalism!
nothing to do with liberalism, but all to do with economics.
Mister Mood everything to do with liberalism. Look at conservative areas vs liberal areas. Not a surprise that liberal majority votimg areas and high crime correlate.
except many conservative parts of south has even worse measure of poverty and lack of jobs.
Wasn't it the alt right and occupy wall street that said it was both parties to blame!
Here we go another person who wants to put a political label on everything.
Here is why:
1. A living wage is rare.
2. Inefficient and under funding of social programs
3. Overpriced housing
4. Warmer climate. Easier to be homeless
5. Homelessness is about the only opportunity for people to stabilize economically
6. Outsourcing and the flooding of illegal immigrants for cheap labor
7. Lack of job security
8. "Charitable" organizations profit off the homeless
9. Many shelters worse than being homeless
10. Jobs that pay a living wage require expensive and inefficient "education"
11. Modern society is self destructive
12. Most of the economic "growth," is imaginary.
13. Political interest steal money from taxes.
#9 how are shelters worse than living on the street? I hear this all the time mostly from Liberals (not saying you ARE one) who appear to be making excuses for these people.
Totally wrong. Most of the visible homeless in SF are drug addicted or mentally ill. Most of your points don’t apply to them. I’m a long time SF resident and have been walking amongst them for years…
Forgot a couple of BIGGIES from your list. Drug addiction that makes many unemployable (free needles for a reason). Those that do not want to live within the system so they don't have to follow any rules that aren't of their making. Taxpayers are subsidizing these BIGGIES. WHY?
You summed I up, 💯 truth. Universal health care and affordable housing is a start.
@@mikeoshea9451 if a person gets $15 an hour can't survive in San Francisco, the USA is getting to expensive for working class to survive
YOU ARE GIVING THEM DRUG MONEY EVERY MONTH PRETTY SIMPLE THEY WILL NEVER GO AWAY
@mindless monk NANCY PELOSI. NANCY PELOSI. NANCY PELOSI.
They should give them a card that can strictly be used for food and essentials
@@Christian-mn8dh so that they will sell (the card or the items) and buy drugs?
It's 2019, and it's even worse.
2020, in a month, much worst..
No 💩 🥖-tracy..
You provide food and services and the homeless people come and stay. It's like when humans feed the bears and the bears become dependent on the humans.
once homeless ppl found out they can get services they will show up and keep coming
These aren’t bears, THESE ARE HUMAN BEINGS!
Get rid of their food stamps and free food. They'll go somewhere else.
To the guy who sees a problen with fingerprinting to get into a completely free home as a burden, this entitlement is exactly why you have homelessness in the first place. If a fingerprint is too much work for a rent free room...Well there's your problem.
nifepartie the majority r mostly drug addicts!!! U can't bring drugs & needles into shelters & free rooms! Drug people r no good!!!
nif: the fingerprinting was just to get into a shelter for the night.
This is what democratic policies gets you!
2019 nothings changed and kamala harris wants to be pres
She's got a nasty persona, doesn't she? I remember her when two cops were shot down, murdered, while she was DA in SF. She refused to ask for the death penalty, because it was against her "moral" principals. This didn't go over well with the police and others who had their heads screwed on straight. Next I heard she was a senator, and still nasty,
PEACE LOVE UNITY PROSPERITY CALM WISDOM HAPPINESS HONESTY
well you got your wish horseface harris is president
Its all amusement and discussion for most people but for some people here in San Francisco who have been assaulted or know loved ones who have been assaulted, it is really personal. The people in charge who have allowed this to happen to put so many innocent people's lives in danger need to be held accountable. A minimum of 10 year jail sentence with hard labor for the city officials most directly responsible for the homeless problem. A mass roundup of the homeless. And public shaming for all the people working in the non-profits catering to the homeless.
How many people have been assaulted by a homeless person? I used to work in downtown S.F. and I've never seen a homeless person assaulting anyone. Nor do the police have any records of assaults by homeless on the general public.
Don't forget the syringes and people tweaking everywhere!
@@kansasthunderman1 You must live in lala land. Come to downtown L.A if you wanna see some fights on the local metro bus
It's called 'homeless advocate job security'.
Keep enabling the homeless to remain hopeless.
lol where's the money going? In Mayor Ed Lee's pocket.
QuangTran27 every homeless program I've ever seen there is theft and corruption from those who administer these programs. often times employees of homeless shelters are bigger dirtballs than those who use these services.
Glad he's Dead.
NonProfits
e james that isn’t what happened
EVERY demoKKKrat ran city is a DUMP!!!
Mexican-Americans in Northern Tijuana (formally SoCal) for Trump & the Wall.
You provide extensive homeless services in a temperate climate, give them needles, and you get an ever-increasing influx of homeless. You're perpetuating the problem with drug addicts, not just the mentally ill or those who are down on their luck.
And in 2019 the budget is $400M. So that should be enough to house the remaining 7,000.
Typical California beauracratic government .
liberal ideas
This seriously does not make sense! Notice there's no homeless Mexicans or foreign people. How do the illegal immigrants manage to get in this country jobless, no money and live a successful life, but these people can't?
I love it when you find these 2 year old stories and can go "ha! It's gotten even worse!"
I love when you see these 2 year old comments about 2 year old videos and the situations gotten even worst.
My personal favorite is when you see these almost year old comments about a two year old comment about a two year old video and the situation has gotten even worse
You can't seem to organize your departments to work together, but the 💰 gets distributed around via quick pay every friday.
It's the government I'm sure they wait untill the 1st and 15th.
According to the math, SF spends $15,500 every year to house ONE person. Why not construct a 20-story high-rise filled with bunk beds and dorms, then charge the residents a nominal rent (maybe $300 a month) to cover the costs? Singapore does it, and it seems to work fine ...
Same here in Los Angeles. Tons of money, taxes and no results. In fact, the numbers climb. The system is totally broken and no one has a clue. What leaders we have.
Gee. I wonder if San Francisco becoming a 'sanctuary city' is going to make this situation better, or worse??????
We need more illegal immigrants. That will solve the homelessness problem.
And higher taxes for the people who work for a living
yep more illegal immigrants, to share the streets with, then the homeless wont feel so bad
DONT VOTE FOR DEMOCRATS.
They are coming in faster and faster and the Liberals deny it, because it is a treasure trove of future voters.
I can go im a mexican with the american dream.. Not the american dream of being able of shit in tha streets.. I mean the Real American Dream
I am flabbergasted that the same f____ story continues regarding the SF budget for the homeless and the city's inability to account for expenditures due to the multitude of different departments and programs that provide services. The plan (not sure of date) at least 6 months ago was to consolidate services so it would be easier to track. And nothing has been done yet? Nothing at least started yet? If the people responsible in city government were held to some resemblance of accountability when it came to expenditures and promises, I think we would see some successful problem solving in one of the greatest cities on earth (or once considered to be). I am prone to suspect greed, laziness, lack of empathy ( many psychologist agree that a large portion of politicians suffer from some level of sociopathic personality disorder) and misappropriation (theft) of public funds. As usual....the talking heads keep reporting what amounts to a lot of talk and no action, and they actually believe that the public won't notice.
Liberals and accountability...ROFL
More $$, more homeless.
San Francisco's Homeless Problem: Where's The Money Going? a report by the progressively gullible
no one here seems to realize that you cant help these people. they don't really want help
..just food. it's a lifestyle
Your post sounds just like more propaganda from the government/corporate mouthpiece media. Do some research on your own instead of looking on someone else's paper like a cheating strudent.
replace food with drugs and alcohol lol
See the post directly above the one you wrote.
it's very hard for me to have sympathy for the homeless in SF like I once did. I invite a homeless man to my apartment, I feed him dinner, buy him even more food and he sleeps at my place for several hours. because I didn't give him $50 that he asks for, he takes my scissors and cuts up almost every item of clothing I have and takes off while I am briefly away. I could've just let him starve.
Alan Tolbert Reminds me of an incident that happened to me. An off and on homeless guy I knew was a really good artist so I paid him $75 to paint a portrait of my dog. So when I paid him he asks if I can come up with a bit more. The "do-gooder" glow I was feeling vanished of course.
That was stupid.
Alan Tolbert mental illness is a big part of homelessness, so I'd advise prior to playing good Samaritan and taking a homeless person home, or even awarding them cash, unless you're certain of their sanity, won't help. offer to provide a meal, and if you possibly have information for centers that help the homeless, pass it on. homeless are Americans too.
How is mental illness a cause of homelessness?
If your rent is increased 30% and you're evicted, it doesn't matter whether you're insane or perfectly rational. The booming economy and rent increases are a hoax that is crated by the government shoveling tons of money into big cities.
Furthermore, did you know that the government is actually creating so called "mental illness" by intentionally drugging people with methamphetamine and dumping them on the street in plain view of the public?
Just do a search for "Safe Injection Sites" and you will see that the government is actually perpetrating a cruel hoax on the pubic to make it appear that cities are being overrun with mentally deranged people.
kansasthunderman1 the housing bubble busting is a new phenomenon, homeless have been with us since the 1980's, so all these updates in rent is fairly new, yet homelessness persist.
I believe it's just your white ass attempting to lay the misfortune of homelessness at the feet of those suffering, when in fact I believe it's a government plan to usurp all real estate and put it in the hands of white drug addicts.
This system looks like a cash cow for bureaucrats, contractors, and managers, and a total miss for half the homeless
It's just like San Francisco's transit agency that guzzles up over $800 Million/year, but it takes an hour to ride a bus across town.
This is so sad. Cost of living is so high, we can’t barely pay rent, bills. Running out of resources to keep up that’s why I understand the homeless.🙏
3 years on from your comment, and cost of living is the highest it’s been in decades. I hope you’re doing ok!
That money goes into the Administrative cost and their pockets.
2 years after this broadcast in July 2018 the SF homeless situation is far worse so this so called fixit guy has failed.
That city and state is run by DEMOCRATS. They created EVERY ghetto in America. They got what they vote for. DEMOCRATIC POLITICIANS.
A lot of Government "Hands" in between the taxpayer and the people who need it.
well, its been two years... where is your progress?
The problem could simply be fixed in California by electing a Republican instead of a Democrat. As long they continue to elect Democrats the problem will never be fixed.
"This is my great district and I approved the $600 for every American because it is significant." - Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House and Congress millionaire, 2020
That’s what happens when you crown one single political party, who promised so much but deliver so little. Bottom line. I’ve lived in California my whole life, so if you think I don’t know what I’m talking about....
People who are high in emotion gravitate toward the left side of the political spectrum (leftists, democrats). Emotional people are not problem solvers.
A n g e l o women are naturally emotional people. Look where all of our problems in politics start...with a woman. There is a reason why they were once not allowed to vote, why they have no rights in Islam, why they shouldn't be in politics.
CALIFORNIA SHIT HOLE
I know but I have never met a republican who actually has a full plan for a simple issue...
@sao Salazar. Lame. What republican plans have you even read? None. Then you would have to comprehend the plan. Based on your ethnicity, you are likely so biased for the left you couldn't embrace a common sense approach to anything anyways.
@@ronniebaxter7221 lame is your cousin and dead town. But please enlighten me what is a solution other than TREATMENT which is the only thing that has been attempted???? Can you Without braying your usual banter
As soon as you get a handle on the homelessness in San Francisco, more homeless people will head to San Francisco to reap the benefits. When you offer free anything, expect the line for those freebies to grow in perpetuity.
Willie Sutton said when he was asked why he robbed banks, that's where the money is. Now ask a homeless In SF why he came to SF, what would he say?
Glad I left that stinking city back in 2013. Never looked back.
mx472000 good for you, hopefully you left the state all together lol. Sad how policial agendas have ruined one of the coolest cities in the world.
It's now May, 2019. It's much worse, not just in SF but all across America, especially the west coast.
And now 2022 😳
Drugs and alcohol.
More money means more money for addicts.
how so?
The greatest, most powerful country in the world. Yea, right.
I don’t know why, but this story made me get tears in my eyes for these people who need real help. I live in Florida but was homeless in Los Angeles for three years. Then I got help, went to college and life is better now. But I completely understand the feeling of homelessness. It’s very draining physically, emotionally and it causes despair.
141 million dollars "houses 9000 people per year" ...thats $15,000 per month per person. nothing to see here folks.
3 years later and the problem is getting worse
I stayed 3 days in San Francisco a month ago -- near Union Square. Will never visit the city again. Homeless people everywhere, urine and stink all over sidewalks, had to do the 'bum hurdle" every night going to restaurants. (I live in LA. ) Also will not be voting for Newsome for governor.
Pelosi is worth 100 million+........figure it out. ......Great photo opp for the Mayor btw.
Yeah, this is her district. How come MSM is not going after her?What is she doing about it?
Nasty Pelosi blames trump. That's the dems answer to everything.
many in the city are taking long trips around the world living good
on money that was to go to the homeless
Ask Mrs Pelosi ! She’s worried more about her 46 flavors of Icecream
Mmmmm. Socialism.
Taste so sweet, when I have all my treats.
LOVE ONE ANOTHER
Always love the question; "Where is the money?" In politics; the "Money" NEVER gets to where it was intended, but just allocated to a bill the city/ county/ state needs money for that week.
Wow!
I left sf 2 years ago and still same problems. Get it together guys...
Shelters, you can't do heroin in those. lol.
Metatron's Cube not one word about all those needles laying around
That's right! I see mostly young, white millennial drug addicts! Drug addicts don't need treatment. They're just no good! The problem will solve itself with them, they'll die from over doses, blood infections, etc.! Good ridence!!!
The shelters SUCK...its Open dorm. thats NO way to sleep
Thank you. Great report and information. I learned something today.
I feel safer homeless on the street rather than a shelter
if San Fran is Getting 240 million dollars a year for the homeless and they say there 6,000 people on the streets . u can give those people at least 100,000 each to change their life around and there would still be money left over this is disgusting and just plain wrong
If you gave them 100k the only lives youd better is heroin dealers. They're waste. They can either work or starve. Only way to fix this problems. I would say man up but there's not a man left in that shithole.
thats 100k worth of drugs lol
Wouldn't work as their 17,000 homeless which 9,000 in supported housing.
You would need 1.7 billion dollars to give each person $100,000.
Poverty is where the money is.
is so that nancy pelosi can buy her ice cream for 15 dollars a tub
I stayed in a homeless shelter once. I got bit by a spider and ended up with a massive lump. I also got sick. Plenty of disease and bugs floating around those places. The streets are actually somehow better.
2 years later... and it’s worst.
The California middle class leaving will bring this to other states.
The city also steals tax revenue that is supposed to be used for fixing roads.
Yeah and the stupid voters keep approving more taxes for the government to squander.
What a wonderful Liberal City---🌵🌵🏃🏃🌵🚶🏃🏃🌵🌵
Nancy sure does have a lot of choclolat icecream.
Its nice to help the truly needy. For sure. The difficulty is that many of these folks won't lift a finger to do any work. Some of us are working our asses off to pay taxes to feed and coddle the lazy ones. They always seem to have enough money for drugs, cigarettes, and alcohol.
Hose them down or make them useful - there must be plenty of tasks to do around the city, GET TO WORK!
Mandatory Workfare!
IT goes to the Politicians!!! Simple
You're starting to nail the problem down here, but I worry that you're still missing the point. We have 360 Communities here in Dakota County, Minnesota, to coordinate so many agencies. Yet I am still preparing to die soon from hunger and exposure despite being a sane, sober, well-educated and very hard-working (former) professional. I lost everything I owned by attrition while being bounced around from one agency to another shelter to yet another non-profit - all of whom proved worse than useless to the *competent* homeless. Meanwhile, the churches that formerly had dealt with this problem effectively have been liberalized into an apathetic, dysfunctional, ineffective servant of government. (Churches now merely refer me to govt. agencies, rather than helping directly). This is why the newly homeless become "the homeless", rather than simply going through a temporary setback in life.
Again, we need to focus on getting the newly homeless back into jobs and housing (not "shelter" - a HOME) as quickly as possible. Then identify the competent involuntarily homeless and do the same thing. What remains are the homeless people who are a bona fide "problem" - the mentally ill, drug addicts, lazy bums, etc. But most important of all, this needs to be removed from the government as much as possible. Rules, regulations, policies, procedures, bureaucracies, biometric shelter access, the tendency toward "nannyism", the weaponization of personal data, and forcing requirements onto *other* people is a recipe for disaster. The only people who can solve this problem must do so without concern for paperwork, next year's funding, or maintaining their own jobs - it needs to be done by people who simply do it without question, because it's the right thing to do. That was formerly the church's function, before religion was liberalized into utter nonsense.
GOD BLESS YOU
Ok, so I was homeless for three years after my dad lost his job during the recession. Here’s what happens with homeless: for me, I left my dad, he moved to Georgia with a women. I stayed behind, but was not addicted to drugs. I had an eating disorder and I used alcohol to forget the disorder. I did not want to sleep on a mat on the ground next to stinky, drug abusing, bug infested thieves in a shelter. The ONLY reason to stay in a shelter was to get a shower in the morning. I slept behind a dumpster behind the Wendy’s that I worked at. A shelter means, long lines, sleeping next to strangers, bed bugs and scabies, waking up early (5am) and chores. It also means free food, showers, warmth, a pad to sleep on, and safety. You don’t always have the time to get to a shelter before they are full, and you don’t always have the transportation. I’m a nurse now. I ended up in a fishing cannery and made something of myself. Please understand that shelters are not what all homeless want to sleep in. It’s actually nicer in a tent
I use to enjoy vacationing in California with my family. No more. Looks absolutely disgusting.
I know, give everybody a trophy...
The money goes to the “Tenderloin” drug dealers.
Here is a little tender"loin"🥖
Seriously, are you kidding me! The entire homeless population and those in temporary housing could easily be in safe secure places within a month and at less cost than what they've stated herein! They would just have to make some tough decisions on some of the details!
President Trump also figured this out and many other things. Now you know why the Rino's are against him: Trump will make them look like fools.
A director of the Department of Homelessness?! There's the root of the problem. I'm sure he's making over 100K per year managing fat contracts for all of the city departments. Who would want homelessness to be solved when it's a booming industry with many making a handsome living from it. Just like Wayfair providing migrant furniture for border detention centers, San Francisco has suppliers for homeless furniture in the shelters.
What amazes me is that this is so prolific in a city that has some of the highest concentrations of wealth of any city in the country.
the cost of housing aka real estate is the problem. the only current solution would be jail or deportation since homeless can choose not to accept help.
So I get robbed by 20 homeless people all with knives and cops see it and do nothing so am I wrong to burn them and their tents down. I am homeless too. This happened on 7th and Irwin is morning. Give me an answer before I do it please
You're homeless but somehow have a UA-cam account and internet connection...hmmm
yeah, phones and wifi are not just for some elite bitch bro how judgemental of you you need to evolve
Have you ever been to a public library? A lot of homeless hang out there all day and use the internet. Plus, a youtube account is free. Also, California lifeline program gives away free smart phones with 500mb free internet.
Clarence Witzel 7 th and Irwin 20 homeless people all came and robbed you?what did you do?Your incriminating yourself saying your going to burn their tents down along with them that's attempted murder.And documenting it on UA-cam.Smart no that wasn't serious.I doubt your story.
Im not scar ed of the truth online dude
Goes into the pockets of the far left
B.$....someone has their hand in the cookie jar.
The mayor and Board Of Supervisors rake in 1000s in contributions from nonprofits who get huge subsidies from the general fund. It's a case of the Poverty Industrial Complex.
This was more than 3 years ago. San Fran is doing great today! Yippee.
The problem with all this is you assume that they want help..... They don't. They like their free life. They like that the state passes out 400,000 needles a month for them to do drugs.
Most honest folks will tell you they don't want to stay in a "shelter", with its rules and drug testing. The system is set up to provide shelters with rules and drug testing. Of course there is never enough shelter space to fill the need, the system works to keep things that way. Small number of shelters with static homeless folks and junkies who hate shelters.
Ah a socialist paradise
"Poverty Inc." Is big$$$Business Romans 12:20/13:10 - Love
Keep voting democrat this is what you get
That’s easy. Consultants, management fees, administration fees, distribution coordinators, “private” IT contractors, third party audits, data gathering and processing, field managers, security, meetings and conferences in Chicago, New York and Paris, employee meal and vehicle reimbursement, and foremen, managers, superintendents and directors. Any questions?
What does the San Francisco’s congress woman do to help this situation? How does she respond to the situation?
Where is ocasio kotexx
She can help..San Francisco. ..dump city
This is the same question that seems to be increasing all along the West Coast all the way up to the the worst place to be homeless, Alaska.
2 problems rent is thru the roof in SF and on top of that you are allowing illegal immigrants in your city adding to the problem. Why not fix the homeless problem first before you let more people in from another country illegally.
They are still spending roughly 20K per homeless and sheltered individual. What a waste of resources. Someone is getting rich. It's time to declare a defeat in the war on poverty. Subsidizing this type of behavior just gets you more of this type of behavior. This country is getting stupider by the day.
The thing is these homeless people are still lucky cause there not homeless in a frozen country! Here in Toronto, homeless people die in the winter!