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That's kind of a silly thing to say given that the government of SF spends hundreds of millions of dollars on the homeless a year.
by arkis22 8y ago
That's kind of a silly thing to say given that the government of SF spends hundreds of millions of dollars on the homeless a year.
- LMYahooTFY 8y agoMy immediate reaction is incredulity at the notion a city could spend hundreds of millions on its homeless population and still have a homeless population... Are there further details/good articles you would be able to provide?
- xeromal 8y agoThe common trope in LA and SF is that more and more homeless migrate to the west coast every day due to the services and weather.
- mcpherrinm 8y agoAccording to [1], the city gets 40-50 people off the streets every week, but there are 100-150 new homeless people each week. So at that simple numbers game, the homelessness problem is not yet being solved. You can see the budget at [2]. Most of the budget goes to Supportive Housing, ie, paying for housing for people to keep them off the street. 1: https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/29-million-increase-for-San-Francisco-12902707.php https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/29-million-incre... 2: http://hsh.sfgov.org/overview/budget/ http://hsh.sfgov.org/overview/budget/
- d0lph 8y agoI feel like you could house and feed all the homeless in America with that much money.
- tripzilch 8y agoNow I kind of wonder how many homeless they have in SF. Because if it's 10,000 homeless people (that would be over 1% of its 800k population), they get to spend $10,000(s) on each one .. So either: they got a ridiculous amount of homeless people, or they got a ridiculous hole in their wallet, or the city doesn't actually spend 100s of millions on the homeless.