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The press conference from Gavin Newsom is also pretty incredible to watch, based on these snippets: https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1724093441519341573 h

The press conference from Gavin Newsom is also pretty incredible to watch, based on these snippets: https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1724093441519341573 https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1724093441519341573 https://twitter.com/VivekGRamaswamy/status/1724168673076605034 https://twitter.com/VivekGRamaswamy/status/17241686730766050... Why are locals defending this? Don't you feel you have a right to a clean and safe city and community to live in, all the time, instead of just when fancy people turn up? Especially given your tax and cost-of-living burdens? Is this just an information problem? If SF destitution defenders actually had lived experiences in other global, world-class cities, which are clean, safe, and good to live in, they wouldn't be so forgiving of this? Or is it cognitive dissonance and just circular, SF is the best so SF is the best?

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ZoomerCretin 3y ago
There is political support for clearing homeless encampments, but some elected judge decided that they cannot force them off the street until there is shelter space. At which point you reach the current impasse. How do you get enough shelter space? By building more. San Francisco is faced with two options: 1. Allow open-air drug markets, mass homelessness, rampant and organized property theft, and mass defecation on the streets, OR 2. Building more housing If you know anything about San Francisco, you know that they will NEVER allow more housing to be built, no matter how egregious the alternative is. Too many people have too much equity and rent income that depends upon their self-inflicted housing shortage. Even their so-called "socialist" members of the board of supervisors are multi-millionaire landlords.
- mleonhard 3y ago
  This is correct. San Francisco, and the whole SF Bay Area, has a staggering housing shortage. People earning minimum wage cannot afford housing and must move to cheaper areas and lose their community relationships. So more of them turn to crime. Here's a video on the topic: https://www.ted.com/talks/richard_wilkinson_how_economic_inequality_harms_societies https://www.ted.com/talks/richard_wilkinson_how_economic_ine...

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ZoomerCretin 3y ago

There is political support for clearing homeless encampments, but some elected judge decided that they cannot force them off the street until there is shelter space. At which point you reach the current impasse. How do you get enough shelter space? By building more. San Francisco is faced with two options: 1. Allow open-air drug markets, mass homelessness, rampant and organized property theft, and mass defecation on the streets, OR 2. Building more housing If you know anything about San Francisco, you know that they will NEVER allow more housing to be built, no matter how egregious the alternative is. Too many people have too much equity and rent income that depends upon their self-inflicted housing shortage. Even their so-called "socialist" members of the board of supervisors are multi-millionaire landlords.

mleonhard 3y ago
This is correct. San Francisco, and the whole SF Bay Area, has a staggering housing shortage. People earning minimum wage cannot afford housing and must move to cheaper areas and lose their community relationships. So more of them turn to crime. Here's a video on the topic: https://www.ted.com/talks/richard_wilkinson_how_economic_inequality_harms_societies https://www.ted.com/talks/richard_wilkinson_how_economic_ine...