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This is what struck me when I first visited SF - such a great country, all this tech and you have homeless people on your office doorsteps? " "The measure of a
by xchaotic 10y ago
This is what struck me when I first visited SF - such a great country, all this tech and you have homeless people on your office doorsteps?
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"The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens." - Jimmy Carter
- raldi 10y agoTo be fair, in a lot of cities where you don't see homeless people on office doorsteps, it's not because they take better care of their most helpless citizens, but rather because they crack down on them: http://www.nytimes.com/1999/11/20/nyregion/in-wake-of-attack-giuliani-cracks-down-on-homeless.html http://www.nytimes.com/1999/11/20/nyregion/in-wake-of-attack...
- azinman2 10y agoSF spends hundreds of millions of dollars on homeless and probably has more services than almost any other city on earth. Whether they're effective or not is a different question...