Posted on 07/10/2019 3:56:42 PM PDT by C19fan
Over the last several months, cities and counties across California have been releasing homeless counts. The results have been grim. San Francisco was no exception. In May, the city released data that showed homelessness had jumped 17%. That was bad enough. Last week, a more complete accounting, known as a point-in-time count, showed the problem was even worse. The count revealed that homelessness in a city that’s become a caricature of wealth inequality in the U.S. had actually increased by about 30% from 2017, when the last count took place. The new numbers use a broader definition of what’s considered to be homeless that goes beyond what’s mandated by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. They include homeless people in jails, hospitals and residential treatment facilities.
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Californication gets what it pays for
I would like to see Trump, and Republicans in general, make some campaign issues about conditions in places where Democrats have been in charge for generations. Many of our big cities have no Republican or other political opposition to Democrats.
And the idea I had is, if Democrat policies are so great, so wonderful for society, then places where Democrats are in charge should be shining cities on a hill. But look at the reality of Democrat rule in city after city.
Hopeless homeless horny homo hobos
Try saying that three times fast.
Human excrement is used for fertilizer in Asian countries, pretty soon these homeless people can grow their own food on Frisco sidewalks. Winning, gosh I love winning.
You feed them, free medical care, give them free needles... you’re basically putting bait on the back porch calling the raccoons in. Then you’re surprised they’re there.
30 percent is huge for a city like San Francisco.
It’s not that big of a territory.
And all the time California govs present and past have been bragging about surpluses. The govt through is overflowing.
Gosh, do you think being a sanctuary city,legalized pot, free needles, decriminalizing petty crime, gay magnet utopia has anything to do with this?
I think it’s only the size of Disney World...about 51 square miles.
When you subsidize something you get more of it. Econ 101, California politicians fail.
I suppose LA is crowing about the SF inundation?
Honey draws flies. I am perfectly happy to see California becoming a laboratory of the cities trying to deal with this problem.
$hit happens.
I see opportunity here. My idea that combining all of the homeless waste on the sidewalks and the hills, I want to start a sluge company. A sluge is sh!t + luge. Free hazmat suit rentals.
It seemed bigger on that Quinn Martin show.
Republicans do. It’s how Bruce Rauner got elected here in IL as governor. Unfortunately, he couldn’t accomplish anything because the D majority left him with no actual power. Vetoes were overridden easily, and budgetary concessions were refused.
Yet Chicago is still as violent as it ever has been, gangs have control of the streets, and CPD has been handcuffed by the government. We recently had two officers try to make an arrest and have to retreat because they were outnumbered 3:1 and were at gunpoint.
We’re more broke than ever. On top of it, my fellow Illinoisans (AKA: Cook County) saw fit to elect Pritzker; a trust fund baby who evades property taxes and has never actually had a real job. Brilliant.
All because Rauner took all of the blame for our state’s financial situation in the past five years or so, even though he was not in any way at fault.
Only 7,100 acres of Disney World’s 30,000 acres is developed.
tons of welfare money, free health and medical care, free clothing, free hot meals, free boxes of groceries, free transit passes, free schools, free colleges, free this and free that. free free free free free free!
i might move there, too
free free free!
If you house them, feed them, clothe them, pamper them, give all the free needles and drugs they want, let them do as they please, including sh**ting on the sidewalks.... they will come.
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