If homeless activists succeeded in eliminating homelessness, they would have to find a new career.
Isn’t San Francisco a homeless camp already
On this, Mayor Breed is correct. There are several non profit busybodies actively making things worse by discouraging homeless to move off those dark and sticky sidewalks.
Ironically, those individuals are likely to live in a stylish condo with armed security.
1999-04-28 04:00:00 PDT San Francisco -- Advocates for San Francisco's homeless started giving people their own shopping carts yesterday, hours before a city task force proposed cracking down on stray carts by getting retailers to do more to block their theft in the first place.
Five homeless people were the first to receive carts in an effort intended to counter the get-tough policies of Mayor Willie Brown and Supervisor Amos Brown. Many more people eventually will get the big used carts, painted black and clearly identified as property of the Coalition on Homelessness. Stark yellow letters say each one is a "Free Kart."
If these activists really wanted to send a message they would pitch the tents on the street in front of Breed's house and demand she take them inside.
This has been going on in SF for 40 years.
The ONLY reason SF even mentions it is businesses are demanding action.
I've seen higher estimates, but it's still at least 50% who prefer the streets because they don't have all those rules about drug use and ripping people off.
Leftists encouraging mental illness? Checks out.
Is she trying to kiss up to normal people? Or is this a ploy of some kind?
This should be exploited by our side. The two factions of the left should battle it out.
Shaming these fools is a good idea. They are harming the homeless and need to be told so.
During the pandemic, San Francisco distributed 262 tents across six locations. These tents are sheltering just over 300 people. I don’t know how much the city paid for these tents, but one can purchase a perfectly fine, very large tent from REI for about $400. The annual budget for these tents is $16.1 million, which comes out to about $61,000 per tent per year. This includes meals, bathroom facilities, and security.
City supervisors were taken aback when the interim head of San Francisco’s homelessness department handed them the bill and reported that the cost wasn’t eligible for FEMA repayment. If they had been housed in a hotel, FEMA would have covered the expenses, but apparently not for tents that flap in the wind. Whoops. As in a double whammy, $16.1 million whoops. And as if it were OK for supervisors to waste taxpayer money from the rest of the country had it been FEMA eligible. You know the old saying about playing with other people’s money.
They should also be handing out toilet paper ...
Whats the matter, Breed?
You don’t like the competition?
How dare NGOs give away stuff to pander to the dregs of society..... That’s the Government’s province at the expense of taxpayers at gunpoint, not private donors voluntarily giving.
London Breed? Is that a dog or some kind of steak dish??
Why is this so Hard?? You have the Police stop and check all their ID’s, fill out their FI cards then after dark take all the Homeless and their new tents to these peoples Houses.