Trump’s fault.
What’s the problem? Everybody wants their problems solved for free, or have the other guy pay for it. They could always start an “El Diablo” tax, and charge people with certain styles of large moustaches to fund the homeless thing. Look up Bill Richardson’s old face for reference.
Doesn't anyone on the left every sit down an simply 'think through' their policies?
We lamented the deaths, but it was easier to criticize the warehouse owner and operator than face the desperation that drove so many to live there.
Desperation did not drive folks to this place. Most of the victims were attending an event on the second floor.
The ones who lived there chose to so that they could persue thier art.
People in the Oakland warehouse were desperate to live there?? Really??? It was desperation, and not a desire to live in a loft, and mix living there with taking artistic license and being free from the rest of society?
Were there hard core homeless in the warehOuse, or was it people with Alternative lifestyles who wanted to be alone to do their own thing? I’m confused.
Let them camp out in front of Nancy Pelosi’s house. They can take a crap on her front porch.
“but it was easier to criticize the warehouse owner and operator than face the desperation that drove so many to live there.”
Oh spare me. I’ve been to places like that when I was much younger. They are hip slick and cool. People live there to be hip slick and cool.
So I could retire to SF and get free housing? Count me in.
Then again, a few recent trips into Los Angeles to drop off people for Uber has really been an eye opener, there are tents everywhere across the city now.
Here's a thought, liberals: There are very few cities anywhere in the country which wouldn't have enough money to handle their entire homeless population and clear the streets within hours if it weren't for previous councils voting to NOT fully pay for retirement funds and medical expenses for existing employees.
They saddled these current budgets with billions of unpaid bills, and since you're going to kick the can down the sidewalk, it will just get worse.
Solve the public employee embezzlement train and then make real budgets based upon taxes and emergency funds. Then you can tackle all the other issues in the world. In the mean time, destroy all the red tape that prevents actual charities which are funded by donations rather than taxed. They don't cost as much, they are more flexible in actually handling the situation, and at the end of the day, will always do a MUCH better job than you ever will.
The californication political hacks keep asking for more and more street bums - from all over the country. SF already has a tilting 52 story building that they let go up
On soft wet gooey bay mud. If the politicians just hike the freebies one more notch, they’ll attract enough street bums to tip the whole filthy circus over. Problem solved
No doubt Quinn would spin in his grave though.
Work in SF, live a bit south, but I’ve been really thinking lately about the lib/GOPe position that working class people in “dying” towns in middle America should just move to where the jobs are, like “San Francisco or New York!” What a joke, what awaits them here is a minimum wage job at Starbucks, splitting the tip jar with ten other people, hoping to make rent on a $3000 a month apartment, no hope of every owning a house. Oh, but, “well, that’s because you’re not educated, you should go to school!”. Great, waste four to eight years doing that, and at the end of it, the same scenario as above except add $100K in debt that can’t be bankrupted.
Don’t get me wrong . . . for those with a high level of skills, education, experience, life is good here. Double income families, one or both spouses making north of $200K, get with a start up and maybe make millions. But that’s 10-20% of the total tops, and it’s not available to anything less than a savant from Peoria.