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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I live in SF, and actually live in SoMa, one of the neighborhoods considered worst for homelessness after the Tenderloin/Civic Center. I live a few blocks from Moscone Convention Center.

Other cities are (were?) bussing their homeless here.  I believe there were lawsuits about this.
We have the lure of good weather sure, but also the lure of the hippie counter-culture in the Haight. People come to be near Janis Joplin's spirit or whatever and get stoned, run out of money and stay.
[b]There's a lack of personal responsibility that didn't used to be a problem.[/b]  DD and I walk by so many people who look 16-26 with signs begging for money to get home. I've told DD numerous times "You don't leave for a trip unless you have the money to also get home AND emergency money for things that may come up. 
Homelessness is worse all over the U.S. - mentally ill people don't have health insurance or have a lot less.  They can't get medication or therapy they need.
Gulf War - homeless vets.

If you're homeless for too long, you become more comfortable on the street than housed. 
In SF there's a law that you can't arrest a homeless person who has a pet dog unless you can bring the dog to a no-kill shelter. So many homeless people here have dogs as companions and as a way to avoid getting arrested, yet if they DID get arrested they might get some of the help they need. 
Homeless shelters don't allow dogs. [/quote]

[b]How can you say that thought when people have been complaining about homeless in San Francisco since the 80s?[/b]

[i]For weeks, a tent city for homeless people flourished in the middle of San Francisco's Civic Center Plaza as city officials withstood mounting criticism for the highly visible eyesore while trying to find a humane solution to the problem.[/i]

http://articles.latimes.com/1989-07-21/news/mn-4233_1_tent-city

[i]Richard Hunter, a 22-year-old from Boston who has been hustling in the area for three years, said in a sidewalk conversation that he worries about friends who are ruining their minds with the drug. But he continues to use it himself.[/i]

http://articles.latimes.com/1986-07-27/news/mn-1497_1_polk-street

[i]Homeless people, encouraged by generous local welfare grants and the fine climate, have long gravitated toward San Francisco and are believed to number about 10,000 in a population of about 730,000.[/i]

https://www.nytimes.com/1996/05/20/us/homeless-in-san-francisco-a-new-policy.html

[i]After months of charges that he was waffling on the matter, Mayor Art Agnos has ordered the police to break up a sprawling encampment of homeless people just outside City Hall.[/i]

https://www.nytimes.com/1990/07/06/us/san-francisco-s-mayor-ousts-homeless-camp.html

[i]More homeless people died in San Francisco in the last 12 months than in any year since tracking began in 1985, an increase that has alarmed and frustrated advocates for the homeless and city health workers.[/i]

https://www.nytimes.com/1998/12/21/us/homeless-deaths-are-rising-in-san-francisco.html[/quote]

Before the 80's.  The Summer of Love was in 1968.[/quote]

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