San Francisco, Homeless Encampment
City Journal,
by
Erica Sandberg
Original Article
Posted By: StormCnter,
10/31/2020 9:05:28 AM
San Francisco’s hotels and motels are slowly emptying of the homeless people that the city placed there during the Covid-19 pandemic. The city simply can’t afford the $260 per night, per person, price tag of housing approximately 2,000 people—just a portion of the estimated 8,000 people who live on the street. Where will they go? Elected officials have come up with a new plan: turn the whole city into a network of homeless encampments.
In June, city officials and departments developed a list of 42 potential sites that could be equipped with spaces for tents and mobile bathrooms. The urban campers, most with addiction and mental health issues, would be provided
Reply 1 - Posted by:
mobyclik 10/31/2020 9:17:24 AM (No. 590523)
I understand lovely Nancy has a very large gated estate, perhaps she can help out San Poop City by taking in 20 or 30 of these nutjobs...she CARES. And dish out very expensive ice cream, too!
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
DVC 10/31/2020 9:32:23 AM (No. 590544)
It seems so obvious that mental hospitals or asylums for the insane and addicted would be more cost effective, less disruptive of life for the sane, ordinary citizens and safer, more healthy for these people. The violent ones need to be either in prison or in mental asylums under lock and key.
Closing mental health hospitals or asylums was one of the great evils done in the name of "doing good" by the soft hearted and soft headed people who were in charge many years ago.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
DARling 10/31/2020 9:48:26 AM (No. 590566)
My husband and I visited San Francisco in the late 1980s and we had a wonderful time. We toured Fisherman's Wharf, Ft. Point and even walked halfway across the Golden Gate Bridge. Hubby keeps pestering me to go back but I said no, not while it is inhabited by homeless addicts who leave all varieties of waste on the sidewalks. I do not want my earlier magical experience to be tainted by what the liberals have allowed to happen there.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
HPmatt 10/31/2020 9:58:17 AM (No. 590587)
Denis Miller was interviewing VDH the other day as was saying he had a honorary job driving a SF-shit zamboni in streets of Frisco....
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
planetgeo 10/31/2020 10:11:41 AM (No. 590605)
San Francisco is Exhibit A of a place where the inmates really are running the outdoor asylum.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
padiva 10/31/2020 10:28:48 AM (No. 590635)
Subliminal message:
Hey, World. Send your homeless and undesirables to San Fran.
Remember when Castro sent the Cuban prisoners to the USA?
Yeah, how did that turn out?
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Strike3 10/31/2020 10:50:42 AM (No. 590662)
Plenty of open area and campsites over in Death Valley. Why bring further ruin to a once-beautiful city? Better yet, build it in Mexico where the drug dealers would not have to cross the border to service their customers?
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
HotRod 10/31/2020 10:54:54 AM (No. 590669)
How are the hotels and motels going to be made safe and sanitary for tourists now? Although, most tourists are likely to be democrats, so they may not mind conditions...
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Lazyman 10/31/2020 11:08:32 AM (No. 590692)
I'm not sure why conservative areas don't advertise this to encourage their bums to go there or help them get there.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Sunhan65 10/31/2020 11:29:51 AM (No. 590718)
Desert. Tents. Work to eat, or you don't. Any drugs found, you are dropped in the mountains with no tent. Find your own food. Find your own way home.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Venturer 10/31/2020 11:47:43 AM (No. 590736)
San Francisco is what Nancy Pelosi wants for the whole country.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
FLCracker 10/31/2020 11:48:19 AM (No. 590737)
Does anybody know what the have done with/are planning to do with the Presidio of San Francisco?
Last I heard, they opened a museum of modern oriental art in old Letterman Hospital, but there is lots of housing there.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Proud Texan 10/31/2020 12:07:54 PM (No. 590773)
Her's a novel idea. Send illegals home and you'll have plenty of places for Americans.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
kono 10/31/2020 12:50:41 PM (No. 590817)
Question in #2 is reasonable in a place with common sense. But the root problem with those is who decides what sane is? And what right does anybody have to declare that somebody else's freedom can be taken away unless the other has committed a crime. Is it a crime to think differently than others or not to desire what others desire (like a home and a job and a family)?
Yeah, you see it, too. A lot of radical Dems dream of having the power to lock up anybody who rejects their societal vision. Human rights, in their view, aren't uniform. Their different way of seeing things must be tolerated by us; but our different way of seeing things can't be permitted Freedom, for the 'squad' folk, is a one way street. Tragically, most proposed solutions require everybody to have the same way of life. Universal diversity is a pipe dream.
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Ok, city government. Who is going to be paying property taxes to support this homeless Eden?