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The city has a limited ability to remove them. The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld Martin v Boise, which held that it was illegal for the city (of Boise, Id
by nwallin 6y ago
The city has a limited ability to remove them. The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld Martin v Boise, which held that it was illegal for the city (of Boise, Idaho) to remove homeless people from public spaces if the city has insufficient homeless shelters. This is a binding precedent in San Francisco, which is also in the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. The city of Boise, Idaho appealed to the Supreme Court, prodded by several cities including Los Angeles, but the Supreme Court declined to see the case.
San Francisco is still held to Martin vs. Boise. They need to either build sufficient homeless shelters for all of the homeless in SF, (lol) or allow them to sleep where they please in public places.
I am not a lawyer, but I got an A in Political Science 101 and I read the news. This is not legal advice, but my personal advice is that cities in California oughta build more homeless shelters.
- DoreenMichele 6y agocities in California oughta build more homeless shelters. Oh, please, god, no. California desperately needs more actual housing. That's a huge issue in California. More homeless shelters just drags out the problem. It doesn't solve it.
- natalyarostova 6y agoThe people who scream at me in a schizophrenic drug addled haze aren’t going to go away because cheap 1br housing pops up in an affordable neighborhood. They do need help though. They need homeless institutions.
- DoreenMichele 6y agoI spent nearly six years homeless and I have had a college class from SFSU on Homelessness and Public Policy. There are mentally ill people in housing. They don't generally follow you down the street and scream at you when they have housing. Being homeless is enormously stressful. It is itself crazy-making. Lack of sufficient housing supply is a root cause of high housing prices and of homelessness. California has been under building for decades.
- shuckles 6y agoCounterpoint: SROs are the most common location of overdoses in the city of San Francisco. Mentally ill people in housing probably don’t bother you, but that doesn’t mean they are safe and healthy.
- DoreenMichele 6y agoWhen you find the planet that has solved all personal problems, let me know. In the meantime, I will keep harping on best practices for this planet as I best understand them.
- shuckles 6y agoResidential housing costs $750k to build per unit in California, and most of those costs are unique to the process of developing infill in NIMBY cities with high costs of labor. We are two orders of magnitudes away from enough funding to solve homelessness with residential housing in San Francisco for the existing population, notwithstanding induced demand. Treatment outside of city centers for people dealing with mental health and substance abuse issues could be built far more affordably elsewhere by saving on the land and labor costs. They’d also be cheaper to operate. More generally, your comments come across and smug and sanctimonious — everyone has an interest in solving the problem, and falling back to “homelessness is a housing problem” amounts to tautology which is not particularly insightful.
- WWLink 6y agoPlus if you throw all the poor people in 1 building you're not solving anything.
- DoreenMichele 6y agoIt's a great way to help them share their diseases and fun stuff like that. I went to soup kitchens about six weeks and then began doing everything I could to stay away from that crap.