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Scrappy local paper takes on San Francisco's
homeless-industrial complex

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Posted By: DW626, 7/31/2023 7:30:54 AM

I got my start in journalism writing for the scrappy local community newspapers in San Francisco (The North Mission News/New Mission News), so I have a soft spot for these papers, given their capacity to ask questions the big papers never ask, not take activists' self-interested statements for answers, and report in minute detail what the mainstream papers never notice, or more likely, have too many conflicts of interest to "notice." Not these papers. The greatest of them is the Marina Times, and this week they have not disappointed.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Mizz Fixxit 7/31/2023 7:54:09 AM (No. 1524176)
I’d like to know the efficiency of Coalition on Homelessness —-- fundraising total compared to the cash delivered to their clients.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: pensom2 7/31/2023 9:15:32 AM (No. 1524221)
Homelessness is a leftist problem. As most of us have been saying for years, "If you build it, they will come." My own city, run by leftist mayors for forty years in the middle of a conservative county and state, keeps building more homeless shelters and funding more lefty NGOs to run the shelters and feed the burgeoning numbers of alcoholic and drug-abusing "campers" squatting in downtown tents. They also fund increasing numbers of low income housing units throughout the city. Large, new apartment developments cannot obtain approval for zoning and building permits without committing to include ever-larger percentages of their units to low income housing subsidized with taxpayer money from the state legislature. The local Catholic Church runs the best operations, but they are funded with money from government and donations from flush residents and companies eager to flaunt their "compassion" for the "less fortunate." Now the city is building hundreds of "mini-houses" which they claim will end the tent communities in the city. If you build it, they will come.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: Highlander 7/31/2023 9:41:01 AM (No. 1524248)
I have always wondered about this. You will very rarely see homeless in Mexican cities simply because it’s not supported by the local governments. Yes, there are pockets of extreme poverty, especially in the barrios (some have been around since the Conquistadores). But I have not seen tents on any streets. I bet there are no tents on streets in China.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: seamusm 7/31/2023 10:07:16 AM (No. 1524266)
Ah Hah! It's the ''Street Poop - Municipal Complex behind all this. I should have known.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: Bogasso 7/31/2023 11:00:23 AM (No. 1524307)
I was just wondering if someone had conducted a follow-the-money type investigation and this appeared. There’s probably even more devious method to their madness. The legitimate, tax paying inhabitants of these cities can’t possibly be happy about it, but are duped, like the billionaire in the article, into either believing that they’re helping or that Republicans somehow are the cause.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: felixcat 7/31/2023 11:42:46 AM (No. 1524325)
Yup - it's the Poverty Industry here in the USA. This country and all others have always had poor people, but in the USA - lots of money to be made "helping" the so-called poor who when compared to the rest of the world - have it pretty good.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: DanvilleBill 7/31/2023 2:05:15 PM (No. 1524459)
"Homeless Advocates" = the worst people in the world
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