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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]San Francisco is NEVER going to solve the homeless crisis because if they house 10,000 people overnight by some miracle, then 10,000 more will arrive from across the country. This is why places like California, New York, DC, Portland, etc. are going to always have homeless people. Lax laws such as no drug enforcement, cheap cost of drugs - fentanyl is cheaper in SF than other areas, plus generous handouts means people from across the country will continue to pour into SF and other cities like it. [/quote]

Doesn't help that all of the western red states are sending their own homeless, their own drug addicts and so on to San Francisco rather than dealing with it themselves.  And then they have the gall to point at the people THEY SENT THERE and say "oh look, how disgusting San Francisco is with all those homeless and drug addicts on the streets."[/quote]

This is just false and is being pushed as a narrative to try to somehow make excuses for the homeless problem in SF.

[quote]Seventy-one percent of those surveyed reported living in San Francisco, 24% in other California counties and 4% outside California.

Of those with a prior residence in the city, 17% said they had lived in San Francisco for less than one year, while 35% said they had been in the city for 10 or more years. The remaining 52% of those respondents said they lived in the city between one and 10 years before becoming homeless.[/quote]

https://sfstandard.com/public-health/san-francisco-homeless-people-from-the-city/#[/quote]

The chief of police just said out of the last 45 people arrested for public drug use in SF (there behavior must have been atrocious to get arrested ) only 3 out if the 45 had SF addresses. Even the article states:
 Others argue that the data is flawed because it’s self-reported and that it still finds that more than 2,200 people of the city’s total 7,754 unhoused population were homeless before they moved to San Francisco.

My brother lives there and says must residents know that homeless are encouraged to say they are from SF even when they are not. There are plenty of journalists who have filmed themselves asking homeless where they are from and if the response is SF. But then they ask them what high school they went to and they don’t respond or then admit they aren’t from SF and recently arrived. Often they add how easy it is to be homeless there 650 dollars in general assistance plus $250 in food stamps every month. To get that money you have to be a CA resident, so of course people are going to report they are from CA.[/quote]

The homeless go to SF on their own free will because it is a magnet for homeless people.  They receive benefits that other states don't provide.  They have access to free drug paraphernalia and they know they won't be arrested for public vagrancy.  It is the policies there that is making this problem worse - not other states "sending" their homeless there.  
When you make it "comfortable" for homeless to stay drug addicted and to live the way they want, more homeless will come.  [/quote]

There are also many many instances that have been documented where mentally ill people and drug addicts were sent to San Francisco and Sacramento and other places.  Here is an example where a Nevada mental institution was dumping patients on the streets of San Francisco.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/08/21/nevada-california-patient-dumping/2681593[/quote]

That piece is 10 years old.  Any more recent pieces?[/quote]
dp... even if it was 10 yrs ago, do you think these homeless people have since left SF?  And there are probably more of these incidents than this article found.[/quote]

That was just one of the more known and notorious cases of a psych ward being shut down and all of the mental patients just dumped onto the streets of San Francisco.  There are many more instances.[/quote]
pp here.. I grew up in LA, and very well remember all the mentally ill patients being dumped in skid row when Reagan stopped funding the mental hospitals.[/quote]

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