S.F. has an unprecedented $1.1 billion to spend on homelessness

[Yuri]

Originally Posted by bossabreezes

This will do a grand total of nothing. Nice try but this money would be way better spent doing something productive but why be productive when you can virtue signal, ya know?

I know SF homeless problem has not an easy solution, so I won’t risk to say those efforts will work or not. Probably the latter.

However, out of curiosity, what would be your approach? What they and other cities should do with their homeless people?

[Camelback]

Originally Posted by Pedestrian

I think you are onto why SF is so swamped with them in spite of offering any who want it a free bus ticket to Phoenix.

That's a huge reason why SF has tons of homeless.

They attract them and then when they arrive in the city, they're coddled, allow open drug use in public, and don't prosecute thefts under $950 in value, so the result is the population increases, and the homeless issue isn't solved, it gets worse, requiring more money budgeted toward the issue.

^Wow, that is a long run-on sentence.

[urban_encounter]

Originally Posted by Crawford

They really purchased 94 hotels? Geez.

IMO most money directed towards "homeless services" is money thrown down a rat hole.

Unfortunately you’re 100% correct. It’s an industry with a lot of money being thrown at it, with very few results.

[ocman]

Originally Posted by urban_encounter

Unfortunately you’re 100% correct. It’s an industry with a lot of money being thrown at it, with very few results.

As long as we continue to turn a blind eye running up $700K per single unit of homeless housing, a billion goes fast.