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Fuck this guy. Instead of trying to hide them you could try helping them, would go a lot farther than destroying their tents and handful of belongings they have bcz you don't like to look at it.
The mayor's pronouns are she/her. But I agree with your point, and so do a very great number of San Francisco residents. The current/upcoming mayoral election is being predictably pushed as a big fight over law and order issues by big-money organizations (a lot of the money coming from silicon valley, outside of SF) and also by corporate-owned local media. The mayor is cynically playing to that tune in her uphill battle to get reelected. As if that weren't bad enough she had to springboard this off of a cruel Supreme court decision at a time when her constituents are mostly disgusted with the court.
They have to want to be helped in order to be helped.
Pull harder on those bootstraps
Wow, how original... Waiting for the ACAB, bootlicker, etc. comments. You need a reality check.
You've already internalized them, so I think we're good
Just got to will yourself out of mental illness/disorder, easy as that. God damn why didn’t I try that
So do you support mandated drug treatment programs? I’m all for tax money being used for these programs, but some of these people need to be forced to go through them.
Ah, right, they want to sleep outside and beg for food and shelter. And the mental illness will just walk away if they decide they want it too.
Too many people lack compassion.
I almost became homeless myself recently because the landlord wanted his house back after me renting the place for 19 years. It wasn't my fault, and I simply cannot afford rent anywhere else with my SSDI income.
All the usual suggestions and arguments in favor of homeless sweeps and victim blaming fall apart for people like me: shelters are not an option because I don't always stay sane when exposed to too many people; I'm not on recreational drugs at this time, so I can't be dismissed as deserving of homelessness for that reason; I'm taking my meds as I should; I can't get HUD vouchers because I'm sleeping on a relative's porch; mental institutions are not an option unless I'm in imminent danger of hurting myself or others; etc.
The reality is that a person in need often faces roadblock after roadblock when trying to find housing, and there aren't enough funds handed out to solve the problem. I'm just grateful to be one of the lucky few who is stabilizing with a roof over my head, incomplete as it is.
I think most people just won't care until it happens to them.
Putting them in prison is also not a solution though...
Like wtf
They will never fix the issue. The amount of money SF spends on homeless per year and since 2000 I bet they could have built the 20k units.
Yes breed, go harder right, you'll definitely not alienate more of your voters and leave room for peskin. You'll definitely pick up votes to your right from the billionaire backed candidates that they really want.
Something needs to be done. It’s out of control.
NIMBY
Not sure about this.