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San Francisco, Homeless Encampment


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2020 Oct 31, 10:02am   1,541 views  12 comments

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San Francisco’s hotels and motels are slowly emptying of the homeless people that the city placed there during the Covid-19 pandemic. The city simply can’t afford the $260 per night, per person, price tag of housing approximately 2,000 people—just a portion of the estimated 8,000 people who live on the street. Where will they go? Elected officials have come up with a new plan: turn the whole city into a network of homeless encampments.
In June, city officials and departments developed a list of 42 potential sites that could be equipped with spaces for tents and mobile bathrooms. The urban campers, most with addiction and mental health issues, would be provided with free delivered meals and other services. Several sites were erected, including one outside City Hall and one in the Haight Ashbury neighborhood. Among the other proposed locations: 25 public elementary, middle, and high schools, as well as a Boys and Girls Club, city parks, and recreation areas.

Could San Francisco really turn school grounds and other public spaces into dozens of city-sanctioned homeless encampments? The prospect sounds inconceivable, but the ball began rolling last week, when Supervisor Rafael Mandelman introduced “A Place For All,” legislation that would establish Safe Sleeping Sites around the city. The Department of Homelessness and Supportive Services (HSH) would create the sites and figure out the funding. Although touted as a temporary measure, they would remain for two years, then reevaluated annually. The long “temporary” timeframe can be explained by the failure of a site that had already been attempted at Everett Middle School. The intended occupants wanted a more permanent place to stay, so passed on the offer.

https://www.city-journal.org/san-francisco-proposal-homeless-camps

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1   RWSGFY   2020 Oct 31, 10:03am  

Beautiful, fucking beautiful:

"For example, a site in the Haight, at 730 Stanyan Street, was proposed in May 2020. Supervisor Dean Preston swiftly approved it, assuring residents that it would be temporary. Today, 40 “transitional youth” (up to age 29) live inside the site of a former McDonald’s, while older people spill out in tents along the perimeter. Fighting, screaming, violent crime, drug sales, and drug use are ever-present. Tax revenue is dropping as businesses in the commercial corridor close, while renters and homeowners pack up and leave."
2   casandra   2020 Oct 31, 10:31am  

what do you get if you feed pigeons?

more pigeons!
3   Ceffer   2020 Oct 31, 10:33am  

San Francisco wanted to ship out its homeless to Alameda County Fairgrounds. Great Socialist Paradise, both section 8 PLUS homeless encampments in Tri-Valley.

Talk about both the cities of California exporting their Progressive diseases to the suburbs and the State exporting the California disease to other states with its various tax and regulation refugees.
4   B.A.C.A.H.   2020 Oct 31, 11:37am  

Maybe they can be housed on Alcatraz or Angel Island or Treasure Island.
5   Ceffer   2020 Oct 31, 11:56am  

Wherever they go, they will not stay unless the drug dealers, alcohol and tobacco are available, plus a close by pool of crime victims. That's why they want to put them in the suburbs. The drug dealers with their egregious profits and their 'rolling pharmacies' staffed by ex-cons and stolen cars, and the 'homeless advocates' (drug co-dependents by another name) will infiltrate the local politics and your insta-ghettos just got accelerated. You'll have the rich cartel dealers rolling around in Taliban Toyotas exfiltrating the crime.

Santa Cruz literally has one penny bail now for repeat offenders. Only weapons and direct interpersonal violence (usually repeat) qualify for jail and bail, all property crime and vandalism are in play.
6   zzyzzx   2020 Oct 31, 12:05pm  

Please stop referring to Bums and Winos ad "Homeless".
7   theoakman   2020 Oct 31, 12:06pm  

Can we setup an encampment outside Pelosi's house?
8   Patrick   2020 Oct 31, 12:11pm  

casandra says
what do you get if you feed pigeons?

more pigeons!


That's it exactly. People come from all over the country to do meth and be homeless in SF, because they know they will not only not be prosecuted for breaking various laws, they will be given benefits like free housing in hotels.

No hard winter around here either.
9   Onvacation   2020 Oct 31, 1:28pm  

FuckCCP89 says
Among the other proposed locations: 25 public elementary, middle, and high schools, as well as a Boys and Girls Club, city parks, and recreation areas.

Why not? They're not teaching kids and who really needs recreation areas.
10   SunnyvaleCA   2020 Oct 31, 2:54pm  

casandra says
what do you get if you feed pigeons?

more pigeons!

Open the borders and we could bring in 50 million per year, easily!

Time for a replay of the famous gum ball talk:
www.youtube.com/embed/KCcFNL7EmwY
11   Patrick   2022 Jul 27, 9:32am  

https://www.westernjournal.com/trump-calls-moving-homeless-cities-camps-tough-crime-speech/?seyid=13392


Trump Calls for Moving Homeless Out of Cities to Camps in Tough-on-Crime Speech

By Richard Moorhead
July 27, 2022 at 4:29am
Former President Donald Trump outlined a policy proposal to combat surging levels of homelessness in American cities in a Tuesday speech.

Trump delivered an address to the America First Policy Institute, a pro-Trump nonprofit based in Washington, in which he discussed increases in crime under the administration of his successor, President Joe Biden.

The 45th president shared his specific policy for the homelessness epidemic. Trump called to centralize the homeless in areas outside of major cities where inexpensive land is available.

Trump on addressing homelessness in big cities: “Open up large parcels of inexpensive land in the outer reaches of the cities. Bring medical professionals […] Build permanent bathrooms. […] Create thousands and thousands of high quality tents.”


OK, but how are you going to keep them there? They will go right back to city centers because that's where the drugs are, and the businesses that the drug addicts steal from to pay for the drugs.
12   richwicks   2022 Jul 27, 9:36am  

zzyzzx says

Please stop referring to Bums and Winos ad "Homeless".


I've know a few good homeless people, they are employed.

One guy I knew had cancer, which bankrupted him. He lived in his van. He worked as a security guard, had a gym membership to shower and clean himself. Parked his van next to a Safeway so he had free Internet.

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