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The amount of tax revenue and budget is still insanely high. Need to be more efficient

paxys 3y ago
San Francisco spends more on homeless services than most cities its size spend on everything. And the homeless problem is getting worse every year.
- idlewords 3y ago
  At the same time, there is a large municipality right next to San Francisco (Colma) that consists entirely of graveyards. Homelessness in SF is not just a housing problem, but the housing crisis amplifies it and could be instantly ameliorated by just building the hell out of things.
  - whythre 3y ago
    Building ‘the hell out of things’ doesn’t fix drug induced psychosis.
    - idlewords 3y ago
      No, but it revitalizes your downtowns and increases density, which keeps city centers from hollowing out and getting taken over by homeless camps. High density also puts pressure on police and city authorities to deal with the violent mentally ill. And abundant, low cost housing gives you blue collar immigrant communities, which have little patience for angry junkies.
- brightball 3y ago
  That in itself might be a contributor.
- 0xy 3y ago
  It's all embezzled and frauded away. [1] [2] [1] https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/CEO-of-S-F-nonprofit-accused-of-mishandling-17596479.php https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/CEO-of-S-F-nonprofit-... [2] https://sfist.com/2023/02/11/saturday-links-lawsuit-alleges-scandal-plagued-bayview-homeless-services-org-funds-went-to-ceos-lavish-lifestyle/ https://sfist.com/2023/02/11/saturday-links-lawsuit-alleges-...
- Pigalowda 3y ago
  Well it’s an expensive place to live so of course you have to hire experts and social workers at $400k/y! Then they make powerpoints and present them to each other. It’s probably the police department’s fault so they better be defunded and that money should be rolled into the homeless social services program so they can hire more people.
marklubi 3y ago
It's the Homeless Industrial Complex
- raverbashing 3y ago
  Aided in no small part by the NIMBYs

San Francisco spends more on homeless services than most cities its size spend on everything. And the homeless problem is getting worse every year.

idlewords 3y ago
At the same time, there is a large municipality right next to San Francisco (Colma) that consists entirely of graveyards. Homelessness in SF is not just a housing problem, but the housing crisis amplifies it and could be instantly ameliorated by just building the hell out of things.
- whythre 3y ago
  Building ‘the hell out of things’ doesn’t fix drug induced psychosis.
  - idlewords 3y ago
    No, but it revitalizes your downtowns and increases density, which keeps city centers from hollowing out and getting taken over by homeless camps. High density also puts pressure on police and city authorities to deal with the violent mentally ill. And abundant, low cost housing gives you blue collar immigrant communities, which have little patience for angry junkies.
brightball 3y ago
That in itself might be a contributor.
0xy 3y ago
It's all embezzled and frauded away. [1] [2] [1] https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/CEO-of-S-F-nonprofit-accused-of-mishandling-17596479.php https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/CEO-of-S-F-nonprofit-... [2] https://sfist.com/2023/02/11/saturday-links-lawsuit-alleges-scandal-plagued-bayview-homeless-services-org-funds-went-to-ceos-lavish-lifestyle/ https://sfist.com/2023/02/11/saturday-links-lawsuit-alleges-...
Pigalowda 3y ago
Well it’s an expensive place to live so of course you have to hire experts and social workers at $400k/y! Then they make powerpoints and present them to each other. It’s probably the police department’s fault so they better be defunded and that money should be rolled into the homeless social services program so they can hire more people.

marklubi 3y ago

It's the Homeless Industrial Complex

raverbashing 3y ago
Aided in no small part by the NIMBYs