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I'm not aware of anybody being forced to leave -- I was under the impression they are offered help, and the busses are another voluntary option. You just don't get to monopolize public property anymore
I love it. If you don't want to accept help you don't get to ruin the city for everyone else, and SF shouldn't be the country's homeless shelter
I thought it’s hilarious that Gavin Newsom campaigned on solving this for decades, and now when he’s getting ready make his bid for DC, he orders state officials to address this, but at the same time immediately washes his hands off of it by saying it’s upto each of them to decide. If they succeed he claims credit, if they fail he can avoid the blame. This is also the same guy that vetoed a motion to allow audits of Californias homeless budget. It’s such reckless and irresponsible behavior but the retarded population of California keep voting for this bullshit.
We have ~10k in the SF city limits (8.5k documented + change). Per the SF govt data we spent ~$715M on Homeless budget last year and the Mayor has proposed ~$850M to be allocated this year.
The reason I mention the above is because as you posted about Breed’s efforts for relocation the real question is - WHAT IS THE PLAN?
- where did all the money go last year and the years before that? (~$24 billion spent 2019)
- what changes was brought about last year and what will be different this year?
- what does “relocation” actually mean and entail?
- are there clear and concrete laws against people squatting on public property?
- what are effective strategies that worked for relocation?
- what does it cost the people when the homeless are housed?
- how many of the homeless and addicts actually expressed an interest to want to recover and actually put in the effort? How was that measured?
- for those homeless that want to live off of the free resources and imposing their nonsense on the public, why tf are we spending public funds on it and where is the list of individuals that authorized that?
- why are there no programs for rehab and social reintegration being forced at the forefront?
Didn’t mean to rant but I’m an exhausted citizen of California and I’m tired of watching all the grifters in public office making a mockery of the hardworking and law abiding citizens of this state.
She’s not effective enough at rehousing homeless people. Next!
@SD1, i don’t think it’s a matter of who’s doing it well. I think it’s a matter of know what is available and how to work across agencies, be ready to introduce changes, and be accountable.
Let’s first acknowledge that she’s been in the office for 6 years and was previously a district supervisor. So there shouldn’t be a learning curve of how the city hall and agencies work or relationships.
On homeless issues only: (affordable housing, policing, and lost revenue due to businesses exiting are separate topics)
- She could have worked with the city attorney to redefine “homeless”. Other Bay Area cities enforce encampment regulation, but she falls back on the 9th Circuit’s decisions, like SF is held hostage with no tools.
- she could have worked with human services to re-assess criteria to qualify for SF’s homeless/shelter public assistance instead of giving sweeping SF residents funded assistance to all incoming homeless folk. Taxpayers pay for even non-SF homeless people, why?
- Sf’s FY23-24 budget is $360+M, and at a event i attended, she openly admitted that city hall is ineffective in tracking the budget and they don’t have KPIs to look at their spending (sounds like a consulting opportunity)
- SF already has a social program, Homeward Bound, which is used to help (one-way bus ticket) homeless who want to go home/relative/elsewhere, outside of California. Her predecessor, Mark Farrell, used it extensively. London Breed is just now, on her re-election campaign, indicate she wants to reallocate SF budget to support this program. But as a way to counter the fact that other cities ship their homeless people here.
She was very quick to clean up SF for APEC, so clearly , she knows where the resources are, but otherwise inaction. Acting now seems late, inly to preserve her seat. She reminds me of Chesa Boudin, great idea, poor execution and impractical.
I’ve attended a couple of her sessions as well as Mark Farrell’s campaign. Definitely no Peskin.
Meanwhile, everyone should understand how stack rank voting works and know all the mayoral candidates. Knowing just one candidate can put a less desirable candidate in the office. That’s how Boudin became the DA, and we ended up having to do a special election to vote him out.
I’d love to see less homeless related crime and safe neighborhood but moving an entire sub population of people out of the city feels too extreme? And some of the homeless are too old, sick or vulnerable to just send back to hometowns
She’s too late in enforcing most of her policies. For last year’s APEC, she very quickly worked with agencies to find resources to remove encampments because Xi was coming in town and she didn’t want SF to look bad. At the same time, she also had 6 years to work with the city attorney to redefine city laws and regulations to reduce voluntary homelessness (people who chose to be homeless and refuses to accept housing).
She’s not an effective leader until it came to last 3-8 months of her term.
She’s boasting her “homeward bound” tactic, but that’s an existing city program that her predecessor, Mark Farrell, had used to give homeless people bus tickets.
I highly recommend you to attend any of the mayoral candidate’s townhall and hear their vision for SF.
https://www.sf.gov/reports/november-2024/candidates-november-5-2024-consolidated-general-election