SF tolerates a level of behavior not tolerated elsewhere. Thanks for taking one for the team tho. Sincerely NYC.
You can thank Seattle too
I’d like just once for those who suggest kicking the homeless out to suggest where to kick them to.
Detroit. Literally buy them a house. Seattle at least spends $90k/year/homeless person on this problem. That’s enough to buy them a house, transport to Detroit, multiple changes of clothes, and enough money to live on for a year without a job.
And who pays for this? If this is the solution, (I think this is nuts and no one believes this is even remotely realistic) why don’t people propose buying homes for the homeless in “Detroit”, rather than simply kicking them out of where they are? Seems like the overwhelming argument is always “not in my backyard” rather than offering any solution. And 90k per year? You could house them in Seattle for that.
Back where they came from. There aren’t that many homeless natives.
SF already gives free bus tickets to anyone trying to gtfo that can prove they have a place to stay , clearly hasn’t helped
this thread comes to mind Check out this post! "What can a vigilante do against SF’s social decay? (SF Bay)" https://us.teamblind.com/s/DQep3Mw5
Medical convention attendees afraid to walk around due to people using drugs and having mental illness. Ironic.
Wow, not really. Typically doctors who practice with those individuals have on-site security of some kind. 🍎!=🍊
Glad to see this. SF ignores their problems instead of handling them. It’s nice to visit town and see some crazy-ass homeless guy moon us with his literally shitty ass while standing in line at Mensho Tokyo. And these kind of encounters in and around Moscone and those more popular areas is not uncommon, and it’s not good. Everyone knows all you smell downtown is piss, especially anywhere near a BART station entrance - we laugh about it on here, but seriously, WTF? I’m not sure why all of this is okay, but that’s jacked-up SF politics for us. Then everyone who visits San Diego is like “it’s so clean...”. Maybe talk to your neighbors to the south on how to handle it!
What’s the solution? Are there any laws to protect homeless ? Can’t we kick them out ? Why SF is hub for homeless ? I mean if I don’t have money , SF will be my last place to be around
Homeless people don’t exactly have the resources to just relocate wherever they’d like. In cities, they help each other. Anywhere else, and they’re on their own. The solution is ensuring they have their basic needs for survival and dignity met, but people feel repelled by that idea, so we’re stuck with solutions that either don’t work, don’t treat them like humans with rights, or both.
Kick them out and transfer the problems to others states with even fewer resources? This is a national problem and needs to be dealt with at the national level. Time to start pressuring state elected officials