San Francisco Hotels Demand City Compensate
for Damage by Homeless
Breitbart,
by
Joel B. Pollak
Original Article
Posted By: Black Conservative Voice,
11/26/2022 5:01:34 AM
San Francisco hotels are demanding millions of dollars from the city to compensate them for damage incurred while housing the homeless under a municipal government program launched during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Under the program, known as “Shelter-in-Place” (SIP), hotels were used to move homeless people off the streets for fear of spreading the coronavirus in tent cities. Ironically, as COVID became better understood, officials began recommending against clearing homeless encampments, because the virus spread less easily outdoors.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
PChristopher 11/26/2022 5:09:01 AM (No. 1342381)
And what are you all going to do when the city guilt-trips you, expecting you to do it pro bono?
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
chumley 11/26/2022 5:30:58 AM (No. 1342386)
Does this surprise anyone? People who dont work for what they get do not value or take care of things. No doubt they stole everything that wasn't nailed down and destroyed what was. You cannot civilize a barbarian. Best bet is to keep him away from decent people and their property.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
F15 Gork 11/26/2022 5:52:31 AM (No. 1342390)
Invite cockroaches into your house and you are asking for a mess.
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My church had a similar experience with red cross. We took in 700 evacuees during Katrina and had to redo the entire children's building due to the bed bugs.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Msquared112 11/26/2022 6:51:03 AM (No. 1342409)
I see how this works: I am asked to pay for the lodgings and food and drugs of people I never met and wouldn’t want to invite into my home. I am then forced to take them in. Then when they destroy my home, I am asked to pay for the damages as well.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Highlander 11/26/2022 6:52:44 AM (No. 1342412)
Well, DUH! This is what idiocracy creates!
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Header; This is awful, but here goes. Why don't these brainiacs create a tent city out in the desert and move all of these people that will NOT work out there until they literally dry out and maybe become useful!
You can also limit the drugs if you search the guard too!!
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
MrDeplorable 11/26/2022 7:22:13 AM (No. 1342438)
It’s the hotels’ own fault for not putting a $2000 hold on the credit cards of the homeless at check-in— like they do with me and then I look like a fool next evening when my card is “declined” at the upscale eatery I took my date to impress her.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Jesuslover54 11/26/2022 7:28:03 AM (No. 1342442)
Am I the only one who hates the homeless?
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Mizz Fixxit 11/26/2022 7:28:42 AM (No. 1342444)
FTA: “ . . . hotels in San Francisco, which were commandeered by the SIP program . . . . .”
The “commandeered” word brings back memories of practice in Bolshevik times when homeless peasants knocked on doors of private homes. Residents were forced to take them in. The lesson is, you own nothing because government can seize all your property anytime they want.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Lucky5 11/26/2022 7:36:39 AM (No. 1342448)
When I read they forced the Mark Hopkins Hotel on Nob Hill to take in the homeless, I could not believe it. That hotel is so lovely. It has had the same wonderful doormen, and a few of the managers for decades. I dread to think what that time was like for them with these people. The "homeless" in SF are mostly hardcore alcoholics, drug addicts and mentally ill people. It is really bad in SF with the homeless and has been for years now.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
bigfatslob 11/26/2022 7:48:24 AM (No. 1342456)
Let those obese starving people eat the homeless, problem solved.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
JrSample 11/26/2022 8:04:45 AM (No. 1342480)
Who didn't see this coming. They should house the homeless with San Francisco's city officials who thought this idiocy would be a good idea. They surely have plenty of room in their homes.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
privateer 11/26/2022 8:10:25 AM (No. 1342484)
The beginning of the best hope of solving this problem is to stop calling them 'homeless'. Not all, but most, are actually bums, vagrants, addicts, moochers and parasites. And plenty deserve to be called criminals as well, since they commit theft, vandalism, shoplifting, harassment, intimidation or disorderly conduct...and public drunkenness, etc. The term homeless removes the blame for their lack of effort, plus excuses them from any responsibility for their OWN LIVES. I know, this sounds harsh. But remember 'Tough Love'? Yeah, the Commiecrats never heard of it, as far as this situation is concerned.The Evil Left loves Paternalism; it raises them up, while lowering others. And best of all! They do it with the money squeezed from the working, taxpayers they disdain.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
zephyrgirl 11/26/2022 8:20:35 AM (No. 1342492)
I live near a leftist city in the midwest. I quit going downtown several years ago after several encounters with vagrants - one pair camping out in the parking garage where I parked my car, and a steady stream of bums strolling by and gazing into the hair salon while I was inside. Unfortunately, they're moving out into the nearby suburbs. I may have to move out of state.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Strike3 11/26/2022 8:48:55 AM (No. 1342508)
Hotels in the blue cities took the big government COVID payments knowing that homeless drug addicts are going to destroy everything in sight so I offer you a big, hearty, "Rotsa Ruck."
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
udanja99 11/26/2022 9:10:09 AM (No. 1342522)
I don’t have any problem with SF taxpayers having to foot the bill for repairing these hotels. They are the ones who keep voting for their own destruction.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
NorthernDog 11/26/2022 9:23:51 AM (No. 1342532)
This should surprise no one. I wonder if they replaced the mattresses ? Those funky stains might not sit well with guests now paying $300/night.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
snowoutlaw 11/26/2022 9:42:34 AM (No. 1342549)
They were paid for the rooms, this is just standard maintenance. If they didn't charge enough its there mistake. The hotels were empty due to covid, it may have been better to just stay empty.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
mifla 11/26/2022 10:01:52 AM (No. 1342569)
Send the bill to the Pelosi family. They can afford it and they support the program.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
janjan 11/26/2022 10:13:56 AM (No. 1342585)
If these fools had any business sense they would have this agreement in writing before they housed even one drug addled and/or mentally ill creature. Good luck getting any compensation now. These people are doomed to a lifetime of consequences for their stupidity because they never learn.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
DVC 11/26/2022 11:06:19 AM (No. 1342620)
I said at the time that after a year or two they would need to bulldoze these hotels, the lowlives would literally destroy them.
Predictable and predicted.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Birddog 11/26/2022 11:29:03 AM (No. 1342644)
"smoke damage"...They outlawed and criminalized tobacco smoking in all areas, then legalized, encouraged, and subsidized Pot Smoking everywhere...In SF they even hired workers to bring food, beer,wine, pot, and cigarrettes into those hotels for the homeless...so they would not have to leave.
Did they maintain roomservice and housekeeping services as well?.
Expect similar claims to be made in NYC where the issue is exponentially larger numbers of hotels and rooms, at even hire costs.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
mean Gene 11/26/2022 11:34:01 AM (No. 1342649)
FTA: “ . . . hotels in San Francisco, which were commandeered by the SIP program . . . . .”
I wonder if these hotels can make a 3rd Amendment case against their city policies.
Sure, the Constitution says the gov't cannot force us to house SOLDIERS without our permission.
But, isn't being forced to house bums and addicts worse?
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I had to stop laughing before I could type. If they think they will ever see compensation for any damages, they better watch out for the flying porcine. That will happen before any compensation does. Besides, why on earth would you deal with the city without demanding compensation be a part of any contract you signed?
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Democrat “leadership” is too backward. They put up homeless people in expensive hotels, hotels that predictably, get utterly destroyed. And who’s on the hook? Taxpayers. And then the folks in the Bay Area keep voting for the same people who continue to perpetuate this nonsense.