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Seeing someone openly injecting themselves with something was not an uncommon sight within a few blocks of Valencia when I used to work in the neighborhood. Al
by colechristensen 1y ago
Seeing someone openly injecting themselves with something was not an uncommon sight within a few blocks of Valencia when I used to work in the neighborhood.
Also poop on sidewalks.
It was wild how the vibe changed over the course of 2 or 3 blocks towards or away from Valencia.
- bigyabai 1y agoCrazy how $350,000/yr residents will look at that and say "the city is the problem" and "get these homeless shelters out of my neighborhood" as a reaction.
- colechristensen 1y agoIn that general area it's more people living in tents on the sidewalk as the cause. But yeah, SF handles homeless issues poorly and spends a tremendous amount of money doing it. And you don't have to be a "get those people out of my sight and that's all I care about them" kind of person to think that SF has been doing a bad job.
- const_cast 1y agoPart of the problem of handling homelessness is that the better you are at helping them, the more visible homelessness there will be. I live in Texas, we're typically very hostile to homeless people in our cities. We have anti-panhandling signage everywhere, spikes under overpasses, anti-homeless benches, very few shelters, and we arrest homeless people for panhandling all the time. The result is that the city appears to not have that many homeless people. But they're all pushed to specific overpasses and highways where they can live without persecution. Many, I'm sure, either move to cities that better accommodate them or die. Point being, if I was homeless, I'd want to be SF. Not Euless.