not much of that 200M is of direct benefit to the homeless. i dont belive the numbers either, but since san francisco was a place you came to just get by and h

not much of that 200M is of direct benefit to the homeless. i dont belive the numbers either, but since san francisco was a place you came to just get by and have a good time for many decades. there are a lot of people who used to live on couches or had a squalid rent control from the 80s that got gentrified onto the street. or who got out of prison and everything they knew was gone. there are still leftovers kicking around that used to do odd jobs at the shipyard - i think that closed in the 60s. but i can also guarantee you that the huge rows of busted up beige trailers with cardboard in the windows aren't locals. and they aren't here because they are getting handouts, but because there is a kind of under-economy of trash/scrap handling, prostitution, meth dealing, heroin, and barter on those sidewalks.