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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

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.