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From Wikipedia: In 2014, the City of San Francisco spent $167 million annually on housing homeless residents.[64] By 2016, total spending (including housing an

From Wikipedia: In 2014, the City of San Francisco spent $167 million annually on housing homeless residents.[64] By 2016, total spending (including housing and treatment) was believed to be $241 million annually.[65] However, much of this spending is focused on housing the formerly homeless, or those at risk, and not the currently homeless. The city's shelter program has approximately 1,200 beds, and several hundred people are on a waitlist to be housed.[65] Even with 1,200 shelter beds and several hundred on waiting list, most homeless avoid the shelter for various reasons such as: overcrowding, safety, and rules that, among other things, separate people experiencing homelessness from their possessions, pets, and loved ones. In 2015, the Navigation Center shelter was created to address these issues.[65] -------------------------------------------- How much money is going to solve this problem ? This reminds me of extending roads to tackle congestion, 5 years after the extension, the roads have same congestion conditions because of the sprawl. At some point, spending more money and making it better for being homeless in SFO will attract even more homeless and creating the conditions similar to today. I do not have enough information about Prop C and what each of them are coming from, but I am leaning towards Jack simply because the holier than thou smugness from Benioff.

wbronitsky 8y ago
Just to make sure I understand your argument: You are going to vote a certain way on a proposition because tech a CEO was smug about why you should vote one way or another? Regardless of which way you are voting, there has to be a better, more informed and analytical way to decide how to vote.
- sremani 8y ago
  It never occurred to me but I think as a non-resident of SFO I should have refrained from commenting on this issue. Consider my post as an observation of a curious mind.
  - wbronitsky 8y ago
    I don't think your feelings on this are invalid at all! In fact, I think anyone should contribute here. I was just pointing out that a more rigorous system to figure out who/what to vote for would probably benefit you and everyone who lives in the community that is governed by the voting outcomes.
jdavis703 8y ago
Somewhere between 70-90 percent of unsheltered people became homeless here. This shows there’s a displacement crisis. It’s root cause is a lack of housing. But we can’t only build our way out of this problem while people with jobs are being forced to live on the street, their car or an RV. SF needs to do something until they can build enough housing to stop low income tenenats from being evicted. Measure C is one such way to stem the displacement crisis. If the homeless census ever starts to indicate a majority of unshelteted people are from out of state then we can talk about different ways to tackle the problem.
- pound 8y ago
  SF is not going to build any housing and for all the local NIMBYs all these propositions are the way to feel good about problems they are causing - let's "address" it with someone's else money while preserving the current state of properties values. Prop C is about getting 0.5% of business revenue (if it's over $50million) towards homelessness. And we already are spending ~ $250million a year. This is not the case of an effective program that's just underfunded.
TomMckenny 8y ago
People are homeless because housing is expensive. Drive housing prices down and you reduce homeless problem. But I'll bet that's pretty close to a forbidden idea.

wbronitsky 8y ago

Just to make sure I understand your argument: You are going to vote a certain way on a proposition because tech a CEO was smug about why you should vote one way or another? Regardless of which way you are voting, there has to be a better, more informed and analytical way to decide how to vote.

sremani 8y ago
It never occurred to me but I think as a non-resident of SFO I should have refrained from commenting on this issue. Consider my post as an observation of a curious mind.
- wbronitsky 8y ago
  I don't think your feelings on this are invalid at all! In fact, I think anyone should contribute here. I was just pointing out that a more rigorous system to figure out who/what to vote for would probably benefit you and everyone who lives in the community that is governed by the voting outcomes.

jdavis703 8y ago

Somewhere between 70-90 percent of unsheltered people became homeless here. This shows there’s a displacement crisis. It’s root cause is a lack of housing. But we can’t only build our way out of this problem while people with jobs are being forced to live on the street, their car or an RV. SF needs to do something until they can build enough housing to stop low income tenenats from being evicted. Measure C is one such way to stem the displacement crisis. If the homeless census ever starts to indicate a majority of unshelteted people are from out of state then we can talk about different ways to tackle the problem.

pound 8y ago
SF is not going to build any housing and for all the local NIMBYs all these propositions are the way to feel good about problems they are causing - let's "address" it with someone's else money while preserving the current state of properties values. Prop C is about getting 0.5% of business revenue (if it's over $50million) towards homelessness. And we already are spending ~ $250million a year. This is not the case of an effective program that's just underfunded.

TomMckenny 8y ago

People are homeless because housing is expensive. Drive housing prices down and you reduce homeless problem. But I'll bet that's pretty close to a forbidden idea.