Fraudenbach: How the Coalition on Homelessness is holding San Francisco hostage(The article is pretty damning with more details)

Marina Times ^ | August 2023 | Susan Dyer Reynolds

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When CNN announced that former Bay Area reporter Sara Sidner would be coming to delve into San Francisco’s lethal cocktail of fentanyl and homelessness, I knew what to expect.

For the May 2023 special, Sidner asked people living on the streets why they came to San Francisco to be homeless and got the same answers I’ve gotten for years: It’s easy. Easy to get drugs, do drugs, put up a tent, steal to support your habit — and San Francisco will pay you more than $600 a month for the pleasure.

It may not come as a surprise, but cities that offer general assistance payments have more than twice the rate of homelessness as cities that don’t. For example, San Francisco and New York City have the highest rates at 10.4 and 10.9 per 10,000 people respectively, while Las Vegas has the lowest (2.3), with Columbus, Ohio, and Indianapolis tied for second lowest.

When Sidner sat down with former mayor Willie Brown to ask why he believed San Francisco couldn’t make a dent in its catastrophic homeless problem, Brown was succinct: “It is not designed to be solved. It is designed to be perpetuated. It is to treat the problem, not solve it.”

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Needles on Division Street in San Francisco

[Rattlesnake_Snook]

The organizations “helping” the homeless make a ton of money so they never actually want to solve the problem

Just like so many anti abortion politicians never wanted to make abortion illegal otherwise they could not use the issue to get re-elected

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If you house them, feed them, let them do as they please, including pooping and peeing in the sidewalks, give them needle to shoot up, pay them..., they will come!

As for the “homeless coalition” it should called the homeless and druggies pimps. To expect them, who make millions from the homeless industry, to solve the “homeless” problem would be the same as expecting pimps to solve the prostitution problem.