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Realistically, people single out San Francisco because it's hip to do so. It's easy to point to SF and say it's failed. Because of progressive politics, because

Realistically, people single out San Francisco because it's hip to do so. It's easy to point to SF and say it's failed. Because of progressive politics, because of gentrification or whatever else you want to say. But the actual problem is endemic. It's an issue in almost every city across the US, from Seattle to New York. From red states to blue states. Even here in Austin we have a large portion of homeless people and homeless camps that shuffle around as the laws shift and change. The problems started years ago, it's only recently that they became more visible because class stratification is getting worse. Not only that, but there's a strong tendency among cities to simply 'solve' this problem by buying homeless people bus tickets and shipping them off to cities in fairer climates. The actual solution to this problem is a federal one, understanding that our safety nets and healthcare systems are ineffectual for a large portion of our society but even then that would take decades to take effect.

shkkmo 4y ago
Cities like San Francisco have looked at the homeless crisis and our decades of failed policies and are trying to actually solve the problem. Unfortunately, it ia a national problem and attempts at creating better tools to solve the problems in specific areas mean that those areas naturally experience immigration of those in need of those tools. So while the types of approaches to homelessness that San Francisco have adopted are better for actually helping the homeless, they come with negative effects for the residents. I am sickened by the people effectively saying ”haha sucker" while they offload their people in need on San Francisco. I do have sympathy for the residents of San Francisco who are stuck between a rock and a hard place. They want to help solve the problem but are being put in a untenable position. This article is low on solutions besides ”arrest drug addicts so they get sober in prison" and "forcibly place mentaly ill homeless in institutions". These solutions don't help the target long term, but what they do accomplish is making life more difficult and driving the targeted population towards friendlier cities. This is just the same BS policy of not helping and competing to make life as misey as possible so these people go away.

shkkmo 4y ago

Cities like San Francisco have looked at the homeless crisis and our decades of failed policies and are trying to actually solve the problem. Unfortunately, it ia a national problem and attempts at creating better tools to solve the problems in specific areas mean that those areas naturally experience immigration of those in need of those tools. So while the types of approaches to homelessness that San Francisco have adopted are better for actually helping the homeless, they come with negative effects for the residents. I am sickened by the people effectively saying ”haha sucker" while they offload their people in need on San Francisco. I do have sympathy for the residents of San Francisco who are stuck between a rock and a hard place. They want to help solve the problem but are being put in a untenable position. This article is low on solutions besides ”arrest drug addicts so they get sober in prison" and "forcibly place mentaly ill homeless in institutions". These solutions don't help the target long term, but what they do accomplish is making life more difficult and driving the targeted population towards friendlier cities. This is just the same BS policy of not helping and competing to make life as misey as possible so these people go away.