Why San Francisco Is a Homeless Mecca
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#3Interesting this article primarily cites federal policies that have led to the current situation and then vilifies Democrats in Sacramento and Progressives in SF.
No comment on the politics, just seems like an inconsistent and thin argument (probably one that has no business on HN).
>San Francisco is under a federal injunction that bars officials from enforcing laws against camping or sleeping in public spaces as long as its homeless population exceeds available shelter beds. As we recently explained, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that the Eighth Amendment’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment creates a right to vagrancy.
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#4Man, I did not sign up to subsidize the homeless of the entire western US, and neither did my fellow Californians.
We definitely need to reduce the social programs and put that $20bn somewhere else.
No matter how you slice it, $609,000/yr per homeless person is simply absurd.
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#5600k per year per person?
With that amount of funding you may as well buy every homeless person a house
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#6Man, I did not sign up to subsidize the homeless of the entire western US, and neither did my fellow Californians. We definitely need to reduce the social programs and put that $20bn somewhere else. No matter how you slice it, $609,000/yr per homeless person is simply absurd.
Who do you trust to put twenty billion dollars "somewhere else?"
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#8Man, I did not sign up to subsidize the homeless of the entire western US, and neither did my fellow Californians. We definitely need to reduce the social programs and put that $20bn somewhere else. No matter how you slice it, $609,000/yr per homeless person is simply absurd.
Where should the money go if not the social safety net? Will your suggestion get people off the streets? Or should they just rot there?
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#9Interesting this article primarily cites federal policies that have led to the current situation and then vilifies Democrats in Sacramento and Progressives in SF. No comment on the politics, just seems like an inconsistent and thin argument (probably one that has no business on HN). >San Francisco is under a federal injunction that bars officials from enforcing laws against camping or sleeping in public spaces as lon…
So you're implying SF Democrats would solve the problem, if not for those Sacramento and US Democrats tying their hands?
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#10Man, I did not sign up to subsidize the homeless of the entire western US, and neither did my fellow Californians. We definitely need to reduce the social programs and put that $20bn somewhere else. No matter how you slice it, $609,000/yr per homeless person is simply absurd.
I didn't sign up to live in a world where someone's wellbeing is tied to their ability to work for someone else's benefit. We all have unchosen obligations.