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Poverty is cyclical. It continues because it's expensive to be poor, and one road block multiplies to many roadblocks. You're upset about the SF homelessness b

Poverty is cyclical. It continues because it's expensive to be poor, and one road block multiplies to many roadblocks. You're upset about the SF homelessness budget and homelessness activists, but what is your solution? break up homeless camps and throw all their earthly possessions into a dumpster, then tell them to "elevate themselves" at the shelter where they're more likely to be assaulted and stolen from? Or maybe send as many to prison as you can to "teach them a lesson"? Can you point to a study where safe injection sites make drug problems worse? Can you point to anything where its physically possible to "pull oneself up by their bootstraps"? Look, I get it, you don't like looking at them, they make you feel bad, you don't want to see them as human. But you can't just solve poverty by telling the diseffected masses to become an entrepreneur.

prottog 4y ago
You're attributing a lot of intent to the GP ("you don't want to see them as human") that wasn't written. I don't think there's anything wrong in asking what kind of results the nearly $700m that San Francisco has budgeted for the homeless has gotten the city, and why the idea persists that more money would alleviate the problem. It's ipso facto sensible that giving people addicted to drugs an upside to continue their addiction (i.e. a safe place to consume said drugs) and no downside (i.e. no threat of jail time) will make them in fact continue to be addicted and unable to become productive members of society. If you're asking for studies, it's incumbent upon you to prove why it would be otherwise.