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San Francisco spends in excess of $34,000 per homeless per year already, with nothing to show for it except needles on streets. Where's the money going? Who kn
by 0xy 5y ago
San Francisco spends in excess of $34,000 per homeless per year already, with nothing to show for it except needles on streets.
Where's the money going? Who knows, probably a mix of graft and incompetence.
- xrd 5y agoIt would be amazing if that $34k was just handed out as cash for a month. I heard LA was spending $900k per person to build housing. I'm a bit skeptical it is graft but imagine it is just the long tax inside a big bureaucracy that siphons a penny here and a penny there, all in service of codes and permits, and there you go, that's hundreds of thousands of dollars gone before it reaches the streets. Imagine if those tax dollars were just handed back to people as cash. Starting to sound like basic income.
- hedora 5y agoMost of the homeless in California are mentally ill, and (as a direct result) refusing medical treatment. We used to forcibly put them in psychiatric wards, and many responded well to antipsychotics, etc. That was deemed inhumane, so now we make them sleep on the streets, where they get assaulted, robbed and worse.
- sytelus 5y agoHomelessness is mere reflection of massively risen drug epidemic. You cannot solve it simply by giving free housing etc. Even if you remove all homeless people today, you will see new ones arrive in short order.
- water-your-self 5y agoIm sorry but your claims make very large assumptions, I have to ask that you provide something other than ethos. Where would new homeless people come from? Are all drug addicts homeless? Are all homeless people drug addicts? Yes they may act in a way that you percieve them as being on drugs but often they are mentally ill.
- throwmeariver1 5y ago"many responded well to antipsychotics" citation needed because if there is something most humans don't do is respond well to antipsychotics. Especially because antipsychotics only work on a really really small subset of mental illnesses. What an uninformed comment.
- hedora 5y agoParanoid schizophrenia and manic depression are common among that group. The antipsychotics (or similar) help them distinguish reality from fantasy long enough to consent to further care. There are many types of mental illness, but most don't (usually) lead to living on the streets in the long term.
- water-your-self 5y agoUnfortunately, giving most visibly homeless people cash does not actually help them.
- rdbell 5y agoSounds like a recipe for the cobra effect.