Why is San Francisco's homeless problem so atrocious?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We will be on northern California later this month. Already aborted the plan staying downtown SF and using BART. However, I will take my kids through the city for their first taste/look of a sanctuary city running by "progressives".

Sanctuary city refers to turning a city into a refuge for illegal/undocumented migrants regardless of federal policy, not poor choices made by everyday Americans who choose to be able-bodied and without work while living on the streets.

Learn your terms.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We will be on northern California later this month. Already aborted the plan staying downtown SF and using BART. However, I will take my kids through the city for their first taste/look of a sanctuary city running by "progressives".

Take them to fishermans wharf, the exploratorium, the golden gate bridge. They will then want their own town to become a sanctuary city.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:New job creation vs new housing in the Bay Area is something like 8:1. There are so many homeless people, because there isn't enough housing. Sometimes it really is that simple.

I don’t get this. Any normal person would MOVE to another city before becoming homeless. It’s not like a google employee moves to SF, can’t find housing and chooses to live in a box on the street.

I understand that you are so effing brilliant that you are too brilliant to eff but if you don't have a job, you don't have the money to move to another city. Too bad that you have flushed all your common sense down the toilet.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We will be on northern California later this month. Already aborted the plan staying downtown SF and using BART. However, I will take my kids through the city for their first taste/look of a sanctuary city running by "progressives".

Take them to fishermans wharf, the exploratorium, the golden gate bridge. They will then want their own town to become a sanctuary city.

Fisherman’s Wharf? Really?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:New job creation vs new housing in the Bay Area is something like 8:1. There are so many homeless people, because there isn't enough housing. Sometimes it really is that simple.

I don’t get this. Any normal person would MOVE to another city before becoming homeless. It’s not like a google employee moves to SF, can’t find housing and chooses to live in a box on the street.

I understand that you are so effing brilliant that you are too brilliant to eff but if you don't have a job, you don't have the money to move to another city. Too bad that you have flushed all your common sense down the toilet.

DP. The idea that what’s stopping the homeless from moving to a more affordable city is that they don’t have enough money for a bus ticket is laughable.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not familiar with SF's homelessness problem but I can't imagine how it could be worse than Portland's.

Because CA has decriminalized petty offenses so there is no incentive for drug addicts to go into treatment. Before prop 47 was passed in 2014 instead of giving addicts the choice of treatment instead of jail now there is no incentive for addicts to get treatment.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/national/2015/10/10/prop47/?utm_term=.50ff5fa08da8&noredirect=on#

But how many are drug addicts, vs. people with mental illness?

A significant percentage of drug addicts are people with mental illness who are self-medicating.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:New job creation vs new housing in the Bay Area is something like 8:1. There are so many homeless people, because there isn't enough housing. Sometimes it really is that simple.

I don’t get this. Any normal person would MOVE to another city before becoming homeless. It’s not like a google employee moves to SF, can’t find housing and chooses to live in a box on the street.

I understand that you are so effing brilliant that you are too brilliant to eff but if you don't have a job, you don't have the money to move to another city. Too bad that you have flushed all your common sense down the toilet.

DP. The idea that what’s stopping the homeless from moving to a more affordable city is that they don’t have enough money for a bus ticket is laughable.

Agreed. The homeless could 'move' from D.C. to Baltimore for a literal $8 MARC ticket. It has the cheapest COL for a city on the eastern seaboard. Food is cheap. Housing is cheap. Transportation is cheap.

However, nobody likes living in a sh*thole by choice and they also know if they move all the great services they get for free from foundations and charities and non-profits goes bye-bye.