There’s a difference between people that want to change and people that don’t. I’ve been homeless saw all the resources offered an got out. Of course it doesn’t happen overnight. They embrace the life and refuse help. Heck when I was homeless you couldn’t even tell I was homeless. I didn’t look homeless. I also volunteer a lot so I’ve seen plenty resources people are offered . There’s no reason to be out there like this, there’s plenty of resources offered.
Its really difficult to have empathy for people who don't have any interest in changing their situation. Give them two choices; pay an occupancy fee for their sidewalk space or move to a shelter for free.
I was homeless for 3 years and I can tell you they don't go to a shelter cause you can't get high and tweak in there most of the mental problems comes from the constant drug use the day I went to rehab was the last day I was homeless I'm all in favor of them making them get help by any means possible no one deserves to be forgotten and left to live that way
The people in San Francisco have the wrong type of “compassion”. San Francisco’s “compassion” is equal to enabling self destructive behavior for vulnerable people with severe addiction.
Deserve. Very Telling Choice of words. I get up. Go to work. I SERVE the public. I don't think of what I DESERVE. Perhaps entitlement is where these people are wrong. Went wrong.
A useful use of public money would be to expand treatment. If they don't want treatment, prison is the other option. Do not give them a choice. Stop letting the homeless run the city.
A really stupid idea was that distributing free needles to these junkies. What did the city council think when they passed that? Our city is a real joke thanks to these people.
God’s kingdom is the only solution. The experiment in self-rule has proven what we see today. Soon. Daniel 2: 44. It will remove homeless problems. All will have a home and a garden soon. But not all behavior will be allowed. Isaiah 65: 21,22
@@XM2X901 Not true. Cancer cures are most successful if applied early. Homelessness in Calif has been growing for a long time, and officials have delayed dealing with it. We're in a Stage 4 homeless crisis now. Time to find a real cure(s).
Curious how you vote. 30 years ago it would not have affected how I would have replied (with sympathy). Today, my reply is based on whether you voted FOR this to happen to you, or against it. And recently changing your mind is totally valid to me, I am a former loyal Democrat who will never vote blue again.
@@mikeg3439 What does voting have to do with it? You are aware this has been allowed to happen because this country refuses to acknowledge they have a problem with Mexican drug traffickers
They want a way to be distracted from their reality, same as most Americans that use pills or injections do...especially the Americans that have insurance to pay for those pills or injections. In the absence of any REAL help from the state or federal government, you bet the unhoused want drugs of some kind.
Stop ALL homeless benefits if they won't change their ways. We've paid for their support long enough for them to improve their lives! Stop wasting money on those preying on our better nature.
I do agree that the help should be available for those that want it and bus tickets for those that don’t. Most of the addicts are from other areas of the country taking an advantage San Francisco.
California has spent $23 BILLION in the last 5 years, spends $140K plus each year in SF on every homeless person. The problem is corruption, not homelessness.
I sadly have to agree with this. What percent of these homeless services do you think are corrupt? 80%? Or more? I read an article in the Chronicle about six nonprofits that have been outed for fraud. Not just little start ups, but large ones including Recology, the company that deals with SF’s waste. And this is all recent. It would be interesting to see how much of those billions went to people’s salary and benefits versus money and services to actual people that need help.
Yes, there is CORRUPTION all around us. The worse CORRUPTION is the one WE don't see!!! The POLITICIANS put taxpayers money out on the streets and only a small percentage actually gets there, the rest goes in the pockets of POLITICIANS. PEOPLE... "ENOUGH IS ENOUGH" please remember in NOVEMBER!!
They don't want to be in the structured environment like shelters because it would be difficult for them to do drug and commit crime. Can't let these people loose on the street regardless.
While I agree your comment has merit to it, don’t forget. There are people that don’t want to go into those conditions because they don’t want their belongings getting stolen.
Only bat shit crazy people truly WANT to be homeless. When are YOU going to learn? These people aren't born homeless and at one point in their life they had the support of friends and family. The root causes are drugs and mental health issues and financial difficulties and we need to address it, not throw it under the bus like you seem to be suggesting.
we've given certain people years of time to be homeless and figure things out on their own. being homeless for years only makes their circumstances worse, and the community's circumstances worse. we have to try a different approach than what we've been doing.
A lot of people living on the street have some form of mental disorder shelter wont work they need to be under medical supervision half probably dont know if they're coming or going
Most of them from constantly boiling their brains with drugs and alcohol. It's self inflicted. I've skirted both issues three times myself, each time forced myself to get clean (age 17 quit drugs, over my life got into alcohol too much twice, been clean and doing great for a very long time now, but not once did I stop working, paying my bills, taking care of business).
Why is it that homeless people probably have mental issues or drug problems?? Just maybe, are just TIRED of all BS of trying to live the AMERICAN DREAM!!! Just like any other situation, adjusting is the hardest!!! Once that is done, problems aren't as bad!!! It's hard to believe, but some of the HOMELESS aren't as bad off as someone leads us to believe!!!😮😮
And are you going to pay for the cost of housing them in jail? Not to mention the cost of court and transport. That's not a good solution. Besides they will eventually be released and still be homeless. Remember that they are someone's child or sibling or even a parent and each person has their own reasons for being homeless. If someone goes to the hospital doctors find out what the problem is and treat the things that are causing it. Same here. If it's drugs then you have to get them into treatment. If it's mental health then you need service there. If it's because of distrust of society you have to give them hope. But you don't just put them somewhere that they are forgotten because they are homeless because they have been forgotten by family and friends.
Require 3 things: 1) Force into rehab 2) force into shelter. 3) Force into mental health centers. It is clear that these hard drugs everywhere are the root cause of this. SF was the dumping ground of these people.
He may have gone nuts since then, but I was living in NYC when Rudy Giuliani became mayor. In the early '90s, Manhattan was like SF with all the homeless and druggies on the streets. Giuliani said the homeless had three choices - go to a shelter, leave town, or go to jail. It worked. The city was drastically improved within a year.
It’s not “an impossible problem to solve.” Build a tiered system of hotels/nice jails: Level 1 involuntary short term general homeless hotel with social workers, therapists, and police. Level 2 involuntary medium term drug rehabilitation hotel. Level 3 involuntary long term mental health support hotel. Level 4 jail. Each one probably needs 1000 units in the city. Take over old run down hotels/buildings for this, reinvest to bring them up to code. Then enforce the city’s no camping laws! No tents, no shopping carts, no trash, no loitering, no sleeping gear. Move everyone inside! Reclaim the city! SF doesn’t have to be a mecca for addicts from across the nation. Will it cost money? Yes. Would residents be willing to pay? Definitely. I think everyone recognizes that there are people in society who can’t take care of themselves, and we all need to pitch in to get them off the streets. What we can’t do is let the homeless call the shots. They clearly aren’t capable of making good decisions or they wouldn’t be there in the first place.
@@bpapaoif I had the place for them I would as long as they went out not recovery first . Or maybe how about you not be a bigot towards people who are homeless?
it is cheaper to build a jail to keep these homeless people who refused to go to shelter or receive assistance! Jail and forced labor don't sound too bad for those people
When I moved BACK to California around 25 years ago.. a friend and I decided to make the trip and start a new life in California.. he wanted to go to San Francisco.. I have never been so agreed.. we went got to downtown San Fran and looked for a HOSTEL. One was in the TENDERLOIN.. next day we need to find some sort of work.. we go to a couple of places for resources, a Church was the first stop..a line for 3 blocks going into this Church.. for food and clothing, bus passes, drug Paraphernalia.. 99% of the people in this line were SMOKING CRACK PIPES OR METH PIPES.. out in the OPEN on the sidewalk in front of this Church that is supposed to HELP...? MOST of these GROUP shelters are SCAMS for Government and the organizers to get PAID.. very SAD but shelters are DANGEROUS and most are just CRUEL
I was just in the union square/ tenderloin adjacent area tonight, its a freaking disaster. SF really needs to get its act together. Its unacceptable how disgusting the streets are and how much open drug dealing and using was going on. Crack, fentanyl/ heroin, you name it. What a mess.
This is very good. I am happy to see the homeless being provided the services they need. Instead of refusing the help, they should be thankful and appreciative of all of the volunteers and city employees working to help them. Im happy to see there is hope.
Oh? You realize that the majority of unhoused are elderly, disabled, and working poor families with kids right? Most of us did contribute until we couldn't any longer.
@@punkagrrlzero Please don't try to blow smoke up my ass. I live here and I see exactly who they are with my own two eyes. They are not victims. We are their victims.
If they don’t want help, move out of SF! Give them a ticket then put in jail. Get their families to take them home. When accidents happens all of a sudden the homeless’ family member speaks out. Such BS. When they are homeless their family member needs to help them. If they don’t don’t sue anyone when there is an accident!
You're an Autocrat huh!!! Authoritarian who doesn't care much about people's rights. Well, even in RED STATES, ( your dream state) it is illegal to do that. Family members aren't their family members keepers lol. If they were, then I would hope your family shuts you down and takes away your rights to TH-cam.
i was helping soup kitchen for years before covid, i know many of them in the mission area, shelters are well known to them, there are plenty, but they only go there when really necessary and they don't want to be there for long to avoid fights, and their survival daily routine cant be done in the shelter, and it feels in prison to just be there after living in the open air for long. they also have friends outside to protect them and to talk. SF offering help is rubbish, they cannot help. They can inject them or talk to them, they don't improve their lives. Some of those homelesses i knew who went out of street, usually borrow suit, bath and find low paying jobs. Many of them want to work simple jobs. I knew one doing hardware recycling to get skills too. Psychological help for homeless? You are just wasting everyone's money, they are not homeless, they don't know the issue being a homeless
We can build a sophisticated telescope for $10 billion , put it up a million miles from Earth, to explore the early period of our universe (13 billion years ago) , but we can't find a way to prevent the homeless from camping on the streets of San Francisco.
Forbidding tents was huge. The mental illness of collecting crap is dangerous. Having people collect and hold things is what brings bugs and disease. Breaking that cycle is a big first.
@@punkagrrlzero those aren't' the ones that anyone is taking issue with. And elderly, disabled and working poor families with children are the first to get into assisted housing. All the "Unhoused" you see in the tenderloin aren't part of that group. And the ones that are disabled already have housing but choose to be on the street for quick access to the Hondo dealers or are selling drugs themselves on Turk and Golden Gate, Hyde and Turk, Ellis and Jones, Leavenworth and Turk, Market and 6th, 6th and Mission and who knows how many other corners of the city they've taken over.
It's kinda like daily maid service for the "unhoused". Not a bad deal - I'd prob keep doing too if there were no consequences - just minor inconveniences.
Give them a place to stay that’s not just for a few days at a time and can still have their pets if they have any and turn the build into something like a community housing all in one center for them so they don’t have to leave for the ones without transportation and provide them guidance counseling and human resource team. Then provide them transportation to their jobs to earn their income restoring the city, then they can start helping others get off the streets too. Because they respond better with those who’s been in their shoes.
You have a solution to the problem of the homelessness, and it's a very good idea. They should try to do it if they very want to help the homeless people, and not just complain about them.
You also clearly haven’t walked around the Tenderloin recently. Drug addicts aren’t interested in finding a way off the streets, being a part of a community, or helping society - they’re interested in drugs, by any means necessary. If it means crime, they’ll do it. If it means destroying their body and everything and everyone around them, they’ll do it. Your solution would work great if homeless people had your mentality - you’re projecting yourself onto them - but there is a reason you aren’t homeless. Sorry if that sounds harsh
@@kennethprola5136 I am homeless technically, been homeless since my grandma passed from cancer and graduated high school in 2012 im 30 now but I moved up from sleeping in a car to a tent and now I have a travel trailer and I work in resort parks and camp grounds but I still consider myself homeless.
But your right I haven’t walked around the Tenderlion, a lot of the drug addicts won’t just jump straight into the idea I have but the ones who aren’t that far gone yet who don’t want to live on the streets by choice will have a chance and the others who absolutely won’t go off the streets can be incarcerated until they’ve been clean long enough to get into a program.
I would hope that these "journalists" at least MENTION that SF spends over $700 MILLION - ANNUALLY - on the homeless. And then maybe even dig into where all that money is actually going!
An amazing achievement for Gavin and his voters 👍. Glad that the taxpayers don’t mind paying more in taxes to clean up after their homeless residents… time and time again 👏👏👏
It maybe slow in the TL but it works on the outter area. Bernal Heights park once plaqued with homeless in tents and motorhomes are now clear! Zoo Rd, Vidal, and Winston are also cleared too. Report this
In 1978, HUD’s budget was over $83 billion. In 1983, HUD’s budget was only $18 billion. In 1983, general public emergency shelters began opening in cities nationwide. In 1987, Congress passed the Stewart B. McKinney Act, providing $880 million in homeless assistance funding (2004 constant dollars). Since 1987, annual McKinney homeless assistance has never been more than $1.4 billion.5 Our perspective is that the overwhelming omission of the systemic and broad structural causes of homelessness in public discussions and policy responses is nothing short of a collective deception that has only led to increased homelessness. Federal responses to homelessness have failed and will continue to fail unless and until they include a serious and sizable federal recommitment to funding affordable housing. Homeless ends whit a home.
Kinda funny name for city district, 'Tenderloin.' I stayed at a hotel in Tenderloin, when visiting relatives. It was a nice Japanese hotel. Like. Any major hotel in tourist city. No noticeable homeless issues. This was 2005 or something. My cousins were like. Um. Tenderloin? And we had no idea what they meant. They would be quiet driving us to and from the hotel, and then they would say something like, 'Hm. Nice hotel in Tenderloin.' And it was what they were thinking about. My cousins have a good situation in San Francisco. My cousin has one of those houses, on the show, 'Full House.' They just couldn't believe they were driving to and back from Tenderloin, like it was REALLY a hated place. We had no idea. But. They DID comment on how it was not at all like it used to be.
It depends on the shelter in how much immediate time they are given. If they are a night pass there not going to go for long. If they get a coveted 90 day pass renewable they may try until they realize they are back on the street. I know it better than I should. Blacked out at night 250 guys in bunks 2ftX3ft is a hell zone. 50+ year old still climbing up metal bunks at night in limited light.. Phone charger, keys, purse, backpack especially wallet gone.
They want to stay outside so they have better access to the Hondos that give them drugs. Apparently there is no dealing or use allowed in the shelters.
Now what is that guy with the cart going to do with that lane divider? Never understood the value in picking up a damaged car bumper and dragging it around..
Reporters ALWAYS "act" as dump as they possibly can! At 2:35 she speaks as a mouth piece for the city....SF took a service approach first, offering ppl shelter! Ridiculous! When has SF NOT OFFERED HOMELESS SHELTER??? It's all a game. City Officials are AFRAID of bad PRESS, Pictures on news, a caption by PRESS, "Mayor Breed moves, jails homeless man/woman", activists claim foul and uncaring! Breed can't have that, so she plays the game, while claiming she's doing something. Yeah, collecting a paycheck for doing nothing! All city council are the same!
Billions spent on these initiatives for only dozens of homeless people to take advantage of them, but when that audit rolls around the funds mysteriously go missing. It doesn’t take a genius to realize where that money is going.
😂 Let's come down to Cesar Chavez and Indiana St. These homeless build their bunkers with ply woods. They open the water hydrant for their own use to take showers and home made electrical outlets to the public light pole for electricity. They basically get FREE water and electricity while all the tax payers and residents of SF are paying their bills. What a joke!!! This city is hopeless and cannot move forward with this issue going on and on...
Are they from Pacheco Ca? I think I see them on Bayshore Blvd after they tackled the tin barb wire from surrounding area fencing and have puncture wounds old and now..They look like raspberry blackberry burnt Pop tart cigarette flavored.
....so cleaning up the trash is a total waste of time and money. When will we live by normal standards and not let these addicts dictate how our cities are?
The solutions being offered aren't working. My opinion is that the city needs to create an ordinance where homeless people are not allowed to be within any business district and if they continue to camp out they are offered three alternatives. One.. go to a shelter. Two..go to jail. Three... get out of town. Right now they are being enabled because of the readily available drugs and lack of mental health services coupled by the fact that rent is too expensive for them. There's an immediate distrust of authority and society in general and the stigma associated with mental health issues. You can take them off the street but you can't take the street mentality away.
Having things like Glide or saint Frances always giving free food in the TL doesn't help either, it basically gives homeless people incentive to stay in the area especially during the holidays. It's a good service being used in the wrong way
They just need a huge piece of land where they can live together. Most of them do not want a shelter run by a city that manages and intervenes. It is smarter choice to provide only land on the outskirts and prohibit tents from being set up in the city center.
I think the state needs to implement a conservatorship approach where mental and/or drug addicted homeless people are forced into rehab or institutions.
The Supreme Court made it so you don’t have to offer them shelter. Just move along. No wonder the city workers are frustrated. It looked so nice with the street cleaned up…
The city has been looking better than it has in years. I don’t see as many encampments, and the ones I do see are not as populated. I still see addicts and what look like homeless just sitting on the sidewalks, but that’s not the problem that’s being solved here. Nobody said that sweeps are intended to stop homeless and drugs - it’s intended to get rid of the encampments.
Boat ticket to an island nearby. Island will have farming on land and water. Tools and supplies to build their own housing. Small clinic that works with training students to cut costs. There is nothing more these people need. They will be more free and live in a much less stressful place. City is awful to live in. This will save a lot of money for the city.
Ignoring the need for rehab and mental health treatment for the unhoused, and just trying to push them into shelters that require sobriety IS NOT doing anything beneficial for the problem. Bussing them to other cities to make it another counties problem, is not helping either. This isnt an impossible problem to solve, it just requires actually WANTING to solve it being part of the equation. It also requires bipartisan participation in our states legislature. How many of Californias unhoused population are there because they lost their homes in a fire, that insurance refused to pay out for? How many thousands are out there cuz of the state mishandling FEMA funds from disasters? This was avoidable and its still possible to fix it.
3-4 times a week? The city needs to do their own trail of tears and march them out of the city if they want them to actually leave the city. This is not a sweep. This is like the lazy kid pretending to sweep by pushing the dust back and forth in the same spot.
The shelters are crowded, dangerous and lorded over by residents who have been in and out of there for a long time. Folks have to leave at 6 in the morning. Where are they going to go?
Who could have imagined? If you live in big cities, you have to expect to homelessness. Don't move to a large city and then complain about homelessness. Homelessness has always occurred in big cities.
SF is too far gone. You just have to leave. Unless you're wealthy and live above the streets, taking a robotaxi from point A to point B and Doordashing all the time
Waste of tax payer money. We need a new mayor that is tough on occupying public sidewalks. Put these drug addicts in jail if they refuse to move. The lenient city policy allow these homeless blocking out sidewalks with no punishment. This is why homeless populations never stop but number has been increased instead of
Street cleaning should not depend on coöperation from people who can get up and walk.
Won't get up and walk. There's a difference, won't get a job ! Won't leave the source of their drugs.
@@danasmith858 It's pretty hard to get a job when you are homeless.
And it's hard to get off hard drugs when there are not enough rehab beds.
@@milascave2 Why wait till you are homeless to get a job? They never wanted a job
There’s a difference between people that want to change and people that don’t. I’ve been homeless saw all the resources offered an got out. Of course it doesn’t happen overnight. They embrace the life and refuse help. Heck when I was homeless you couldn’t even tell I was homeless. I didn’t look homeless. I also volunteer a lot so I’ve seen plenty resources people are offered . There’s no reason to be out there like this, there’s plenty of resources offered.
Jail time.
Its really difficult to have empathy for people who don't have any interest in changing their situation. Give them two choices; pay an occupancy fee for their sidewalk space or move to a shelter for free.
I was homeless for 3 years and I can tell you they don't go to a shelter cause you can't get high and tweak in there most of the mental problems comes from the constant drug use the day I went to rehab was the last day I was homeless I'm all in favor of them making them get help by any means possible no one deserves to be forgotten and left to live that way
^^ THIS.
It’s sickening when id see all the dealers in the TL and the homeless just camp out right there next to them .
Time to bus them to Ohio! ❤ deport migrants
The people in San Francisco have the wrong type of “compassion”. San Francisco’s “compassion” is equal to enabling self destructive behavior for vulnerable people with severe addiction.
Deserve. Very Telling Choice of words. I get up. Go to work. I SERVE the public. I don't think of what I DESERVE. Perhaps entitlement is where these people are wrong. Went wrong.
So glad we're paying all these property taxes for city workers to sit by a tent for an hour.
Can y’all move these bums to fort baker in Marin county, because there’s millions of acres for them to live like a caveman
Decades and decades of democrat high taxes to solve the homeless problem and not one single thing has been done. Billions wasted
You can ALWAYS leave...
You can always leave homie 🚞
@@amirthephotographerwhen we “leave”, you’ll start sobbing about “food deserts” like you always do.
A useful use of public money would be to expand treatment. If they don't want treatment, prison is the other option. Do not give them a choice. Stop letting the homeless run the city.
Exactly.
So being a homeless makes you a criminal.
got it
A really stupid idea was that distributing free needles to these junkies. What did the city council think when they passed that? Our city is a real joke thanks to these people.
@@minhdo1728 You prefer people to die from easily preventable diseases??
Hold the drug dealers accountable too
So, these "sweeps" are about as effective as treating skin cancer with a Band-aid. What's the real solution going to be??
There’s no cure for cancer… Duh!!!
Telling the NIMBYS to get bent and build affordable housing.
God’s kingdom is the only solution. The experiment in self-rule has proven what we see today.
Soon. Daniel 2: 44. It will remove homeless problems. All will have a home and a garden soon. But not all behavior will be allowed.
Isaiah 65: 21,22
@@XM2X901 Not true. Cancer cures are most successful if applied early. Homelessness in Calif has been growing for a long time, and officials have delayed dealing with it. We're in a Stage 4 homeless crisis now. Time to find a real cure(s).
You get rid of poor people. Duh
They want dope. Not help.....I work in the tenderloin.
Facts. Waste of money.
But you want to protect the drug traffickers who sell the fentanyl these people are addicted to. People like you never mention the drug peddlers.Why?
Curious how you vote. 30 years ago it would not have affected how I would have replied (with sympathy). Today, my reply is based on whether you voted FOR this to happen to you, or against it. And recently changing your mind is totally valid to me, I am a former loyal Democrat who will never vote blue again.
@@mikeg3439 What does voting have to do with it? You are aware this has been allowed to happen because this country refuses to acknowledge they have a problem with Mexican drug traffickers
They want a way to be distracted from their reality, same as most Americans that use pills or injections do...especially the Americans that have insurance to pay for those pills or injections.
In the absence of any REAL help from the state or federal government, you bet the unhoused want drugs of some kind.
Stop ALL homeless benefits if they won't change their ways. We've paid for their support long enough for them to improve their lives! Stop wasting money on those preying on our better nature.
I do agree that the help should be available for those that want it and bus tickets for those that don’t. Most of the addicts are from other areas of the country taking an advantage San Francisco.
@@Ellieempress This! I have worked with many homeless in the Bay area and so many are from other states. It makes no sense. Go back home!
you don't have a 'better nature'
Homelessness is a big business.
uh sure yeah
Bingo
elaborate
California has spent $23 BILLION in the last 5 years, spends $140K plus each year in SF on every homeless person. The problem is corruption, not homelessness.
Keep in mind it's not just those homeless right now but over a period of time and those that almost fell into homelessness
I sadly have to agree with this. What percent of these homeless services do you think are corrupt? 80%? Or more? I read an article in the Chronicle about six nonprofits that have been outed for fraud. Not just little start ups, but large ones including Recology, the company that deals with SF’s waste. And this is all recent. It would be interesting to see how much of those billions went to people’s salary and benefits versus money and services to actual people that need help.
It’s a good business to NOT solve problems. There’s a lot of money people are making off the back of homeless people.
Yes, there is CORRUPTION all around us. The worse CORRUPTION is the one WE don't see!!! The POLITICIANS put taxpayers money out on the streets and only a small percentage actually gets there, the rest goes in the pockets of POLITICIANS. PEOPLE...
"ENOUGH IS ENOUGH" please remember in NOVEMBER!!
Still looks the same to me. I’ve been here 25 yrs and not one thing has changed.
Yup, just wasting $$$ and making it more difficult for people to get back on their feet.
They just come back
I agree
You must have voted for it
@@wickedleeloopy2115 I’m a registered republican.
They don't want to be in the structured environment like shelters because it would be difficult for them to do drug and commit crime. Can't let these people loose on the street regardless.
While I agree your comment has merit to it, don’t forget. There are people that don’t want to go into those conditions because they don’t want their belongings getting stolen.
@@MarkKaehleryeah whatever... Their belongings that they probably stole in the first place! 😂
@@MarkKaehler As if they won't get stolen living on the street?
@@CrzyD-cv8xzyet you don’t know that for sure , because not all homeless people are on drugs.
@@billmM3605many other things happen in shelters that people are trying to avoid .
They don't want help. They want to be homeless! When is SF going to learn.
Only bat shit crazy people truly WANT to be homeless. When are YOU going to learn? These people aren't born homeless and at one point in their life they had the support of friends and family. The root causes are drugs and mental health issues and financial difficulties and we need to address it, not throw it under the bus like you seem to be suggesting.
we've given certain people years of time to be homeless and figure things out on their own. being homeless for years only makes their circumstances worse, and the community's circumstances worse. we have to try a different approach than what we've been doing.
Everyone is overthinking things, force them to relocate to a shelter. If they refuse help, bus them to treasure island. Problem solved
How about Alcatraz?
If the city was run as a company, all the management would have be fired years ago. The failure from corruption and neglect starts at the top.
Voter failure
High rents is the problem and the real estate profiteers who expect people to pay those high rents.
A lot of people living on the street have some form of mental disorder shelter wont work they need to be under medical supervision half probably dont know if they're coming or going
Most of them from constantly boiling their brains with drugs and alcohol. It's self inflicted. I've skirted both issues three times myself, each time forced myself to get clean (age 17 quit drugs, over my life got into alcohol too much twice, been clean and doing great for a very long time now, but not once did I stop working, paying my bills, taking care of business).
Why is it that homeless people probably have mental issues or drug problems?? Just maybe, are just TIRED of all BS of trying to live the AMERICAN DREAM!!! Just like any other situation, adjusting is the hardest!!! Once that is done, problems aren't as bad!!! It's hard to believe, but some of the HOMELESS aren't as bad off as someone leads us to believe!!!😮😮
That's because of the drugs. Idgaf how they remove them as long as it's done. No more of these cooperation B.S. regardless of mental status
Add8cts should have a choice of going to treatment or jail. Period
Show the streets at night... it's a disaster
you thought that looked good?
IMPEACH BREED
start putting people in jail if they refuse to stop setting up tents and encampments on the sidewalks and streets
At the rate of rent going up and wage not going up, you're going to have whole generation of people in prison.
And are you going to pay for the cost of housing them in jail? Not to mention the cost of court and transport. That's not a good solution. Besides they will eventually be released and still be homeless. Remember that they are someone's child or sibling or even a parent and each person has their own reasons for being homeless. If someone goes to the hospital doctors find out what the problem is and treat the things that are causing it. Same here. If it's drugs then you have to get them into treatment. If it's mental health then you need service there. If it's because of distrust of society you have to give them hope. But you don't just put them somewhere that they are forgotten because they are homeless because they have been forgotten by family and friends.
Jail or institutions period
what a BIG difference from 1980s to 2024 in SF
it's SAD today!!!!!
As long as the drugs are available. The people will stay on the street. …
Here's a new plan :
A hard winter is coming....
Once the people leave for
indoor shelters, wooden
planters blocking access
to laying down. 🤔
MAKE THEM MOVE. THIS IS A RIDICULOUS WASTE OF EVERYONE'S TIME AND MONEY.
Okay, okay geez all caps guy! Anybody see where I dropped my magic wand??
@@trainwreck9567 the magic wand is called “law enforcement” because…. it’s job is to enforce the laws.
Require 3 things: 1) Force into rehab 2) force into shelter. 3) Force into mental health centers. It is clear that these hard drugs everywhere are the root cause of this. SF was the dumping ground of these people.
He may have gone nuts since then, but I was living in NYC when Rudy Giuliani became mayor. In the early '90s, Manhattan was like SF with all the homeless and druggies on the streets. Giuliani said the homeless had three choices - go to a shelter, leave town, or go to jail. It worked. The city was drastically improved within a year.
It’s a shame Giluliani accomplishments are overseen
what the problem is SF is trying to solve a problem of homelessness when the problem is drug addiction and homelessness caused by drug addiction
Not all homeless situations are the same, they differ as much as the people do .
No it isn't. It's caused by POVERTY
It’s not “an impossible problem to solve.” Build a tiered system of hotels/nice jails: Level 1 involuntary short term general homeless hotel with social workers, therapists, and police. Level 2 involuntary medium term drug rehabilitation hotel. Level 3 involuntary long term mental health support hotel. Level 4 jail. Each one probably needs 1000 units in the city. Take over old run down hotels/buildings for this, reinvest to bring them up to code.
Then enforce the city’s no camping laws! No tents, no shopping carts, no trash, no loitering, no sleeping gear. Move everyone inside! Reclaim the city! SF doesn’t have to be a mecca for addicts from across the nation.
Will it cost money? Yes. Would residents be willing to pay? Definitely. I think everyone recognizes that there are people in society who can’t take care of themselves, and we all need to pitch in to get them off the streets. What we can’t do is let the homeless call the shots. They clearly aren’t capable of making good decisions or they wouldn’t be there in the first place.
They need to be in jail.
Can’t a cop ticket or arrest them for trespassing
Why ?
You want elderly, disabled, and children in jail just because they're homeless? That's disgusting.
@@Ellieempress You take em home then
@@bpapaoif I had the place for them I would as long as they went out not recovery first . Or maybe how about you not be a bigot towards people who are homeless?
In 2023 there were almost an equal number of unoccupied subsidized housing as there are unhoused people in America. Seems like a fixable issue.
it is cheaper to build a jail to keep these homeless people who refused to go to shelter or receive assistance! Jail and forced labor don't sound too bad for those people
What about getting rid of the source and jail the Honduran narcotics traffickers selling the fentanyl?
@@williamryan9195 Both arrest users and arrest sellers. New prisons and treatment centers should be our new investment.
You nailed it! Common sense solution.
You can’t smoke and inject meth/fentanyl in the shelter.
They don't want help, what a joke.
Take the shelter/mental health program/sobriety program or take jail. Simple as that
100%! Jail will stop them from using drugs immediately!
homeless, not un housed. Most drug addicts need confinement to sober up and make better choices. Why not put them in detoxes for a time to help them.
When I moved BACK to California around 25 years ago.. a friend and I decided to make the trip and start a new life in California.. he wanted to go to San Francisco.. I have never been so agreed.. we went got to downtown San Fran and looked for a HOSTEL. One was in the TENDERLOIN.. next day we need to find some sort of work.. we go to a couple of places for resources, a Church was the first stop..a line for 3 blocks going into this Church.. for food and clothing, bus passes, drug Paraphernalia.. 99% of the people in this line were SMOKING CRACK PIPES OR METH PIPES.. out in the OPEN on the sidewalk in front of this Church that is supposed to HELP...? MOST of these GROUP shelters are SCAMS for Government and the organizers to get PAID.. very SAD but shelters are DANGEROUS and most are just CRUEL
I was just in the union square/ tenderloin adjacent area tonight, its a freaking disaster. SF really needs to get its act together. Its unacceptable how disgusting the streets are and how much open drug dealing and using was going on. Crack, fentanyl/ heroin, you name it. What a mess.
Literally none of that happens in union square. Stop lying. One of that happens outside the tenderloin at all…….
This is very good. I am happy to see the homeless being provided the services they need. Instead of refusing the help, they should be thankful and appreciative of all of the volunteers and city employees working to help them. Im happy to see there is hope.
Noncontributing members of society.
I believe a lot of them could do much better if the city does what a city should do in the past 30 years.
Oh? You realize that the majority of unhoused are elderly, disabled, and working poor families with kids right? Most of us did contribute until we couldn't any longer.
@@punkagrrlzero Please don't try to blow smoke up my ass. I live here and I see exactly who they are with my own two eyes. They are not victims. We are their victims.
@@HanginInSF you weak asf
Leeches
If they don’t want help, move out of SF! Give them a ticket then put in jail. Get their families to take them home. When accidents happens all of a sudden the homeless’ family member speaks out. Such BS. When they are homeless their family member needs to help them. If they don’t don’t sue anyone when there is an accident!
You're an Autocrat huh!!! Authoritarian who doesn't care much about people's rights. Well, even in RED STATES, ( your dream state) it is illegal to do that. Family members aren't their family members keepers lol. If they were, then I would hope your family shuts you down and takes away your rights to TH-cam.
This is working as local voters intended.
Putting them in jail means you will be paying much more for their room and board. Edit that part obviously.
you simply dont know what you're talking about, which is why none of your 'solutions' can work. that shit was all tried 50 years ago
" ain't nothing tender, about that loin ! "
ABC7 News Bay Area, nice video keep it up
i was helping soup kitchen for years before covid, i know many of them in the mission area, shelters are well known to them, there are plenty, but they only go there when really necessary and they don't want to be there for long to avoid fights, and their survival daily routine cant be done in the shelter, and it feels in prison to just be there after living in the open air for long. they also have friends outside to protect them and to talk. SF offering help is rubbish, they cannot help. They can inject them or talk to them, they don't improve their lives. Some of those homelesses i knew who went out of street, usually borrow suit, bath and find low paying jobs. Many of them want to work simple jobs. I knew one doing hardware recycling to get skills too. Psychological help for homeless? You are just wasting everyone's money, they are not homeless, they don't know the issue being a homeless
Great reporting ❤
We can build a sophisticated telescope for $10 billion , put it up a million miles from Earth, to explore the early period of our universe (13 billion years ago) , but we can't find a way to prevent the homeless from camping on the streets of San Francisco.
Forbidding tents was huge. The mental illness of collecting crap is dangerous. Having people collect and hold things is what brings bugs and disease. Breaking that cycle is a big first.
STOP SAYING UNHOUSED 😤
they don't want to be housed.... they want to be free as a bird....
NO. You don't understand who the unhoused actually are. Elderly, disabled, and working poor FAMILIES WITH CHILDREN!!!
@@punkagrrlzero those aren't' the ones that anyone is taking issue with. And elderly, disabled and working poor families with children are the first to get into assisted housing. All the "Unhoused" you see in the tenderloin aren't part of that group. And the ones that are disabled already have housing but choose to be on the street for quick access to the Hondo dealers or are selling drugs themselves on Turk and Golden Gate, Hyde and Turk, Ellis and Jones, Leavenworth and Turk, Market and 6th, 6th and Mission and who knows how many other corners of the city they've taken over.
@@punkagrrlzero Stop spamming lies. Stop YELLING IN CAPS. Stop degrading comments sections.
@@dixonpinfold2582 but caps ARE FUN!
It's kinda like daily maid service for the "unhoused". Not a bad deal - I'd prob keep doing too if there were no consequences - just minor inconveniences.
Do a deep dive on what these homeless shelters are like.
Give them a place to stay that’s not just for a few days at a time and can still have their pets if they have any and turn the build into something like a community housing all in one center for them so they don’t have to leave for the ones without transportation and provide them guidance counseling and human resource team. Then provide them transportation to their jobs to earn their income restoring the city, then they can start helping others get off the streets too. Because they respond better with those who’s been in their shoes.
You have a solution to the problem of the homelessness, and it's a very good idea. They should try to do it if they very want to help the homeless people, and not just complain about them.
@@ong9998 thank you.
You also clearly haven’t walked around the Tenderloin recently. Drug addicts aren’t interested in finding a way off the streets, being a part of a community, or helping society - they’re interested in drugs, by any means necessary. If it means crime, they’ll do it. If it means destroying their body and everything and everyone around them, they’ll do it. Your solution would work great if homeless people had your mentality - you’re projecting yourself onto them - but there is a reason you aren’t homeless. Sorry if that sounds harsh
@@kennethprola5136 I am homeless technically, been homeless since my grandma passed from cancer and graduated high school in 2012 im 30 now but I moved up from sleeping in a car to a tent and now I have a travel trailer and I work in resort parks and camp grounds but I still consider myself homeless.
But your right I haven’t walked around the Tenderlion, a lot of the drug addicts won’t just jump straight into the idea I have but the ones who aren’t that far gone yet who don’t want to live on the streets by choice will have a chance and the others who absolutely won’t go off the streets can be incarcerated until they’ve been clean long enough to get into a program.
Every 4 years
I would hope that these "journalists" at least MENTION that SF spends over $700 MILLION - ANNUALLY - on the homeless. And then maybe even dig into where all that money is actually going!
An amazing achievement for Gavin and his voters 👍. Glad that the taxpayers don’t mind paying more in taxes to clean up after their homeless residents… time and time again 👏👏👏
It gives people jobs, you have a problem with people having jobs?
It maybe slow in the TL but it works on the outter area. Bernal Heights park once plaqued with homeless in tents and motorhomes are now clear! Zoo Rd, Vidal, and Winston are also cleared too. Report this
So all that poop goes into the storm drains, thats NOT the sewer system my friends.
You think people pick up those poops by hands?
Sewer and street drains are the same pipe to treatment.
It’s a combined sewer and storm drain in San Francisco, for what it’s worth
@@purplepeoplesparty2368that’s not true at all…..storm drain drain straight to the bay.
I like how the anchorwoman says homeless and the voice over says unhoused.
Recorded horizontally:(
the only permanent housing for homeless is prison. food and a bed are provided not to mention medical attention.
No, we need to undo what Reagan did and open up compassionate medical facilities.
You belong in prison.
@Ellieempress um no fucking way! You want all autistic kids chained to walls again? DISGUSTING
And showers…
@@sandrasmith4546 bingo
In 1978, HUD’s budget was over $83 billion.
In 1983, HUD’s budget was only $18 billion.
In 1983, general public emergency shelters began opening in cities nationwide.
In 1987, Congress passed the Stewart B. McKinney Act, providing $880 million in homeless
assistance funding (2004 constant dollars).
Since 1987, annual McKinney homeless assistance has never been more than $1.4 billion.5
Our perspective is that the overwhelming omission of the systemic and broad structural
causes of homelessness in public discussions and policy responses is nothing short of a
collective deception that has only led to increased homelessness. Federal responses to
homelessness have failed and will continue to fail unless and until they include a serious
and sizable federal recommitment to funding affordable housing. Homeless ends whit a home.
Kinda funny name for city district, 'Tenderloin.' I stayed at a hotel in Tenderloin, when visiting relatives. It was a nice Japanese hotel. Like. Any major hotel in tourist city. No noticeable homeless issues. This was 2005 or something. My cousins were like. Um. Tenderloin? And we had no idea what they meant. They would be quiet driving us to and from the hotel, and then they would say something like, 'Hm. Nice hotel in Tenderloin.' And it was what they were thinking about. My cousins have a good situation in San Francisco. My cousin has one of those houses, on the show, 'Full House.' They just couldn't believe they were driving to and back from Tenderloin, like it was REALLY a hated place. We had no idea. But. They DID comment on how it was not at all like it used to be.
Not “unhoused”: homeless, hobos.
It’s almost as if having affordable housing could help? Idk
I agree.
You clearly haven’t gone for a walk in the TL recently
It depends on the shelter in how much immediate time they are given. If they are a night pass there not going to go for long. If they get a coveted 90 day pass renewable they may try until they realize they are back on the street. I know it better than I should. Blacked out at night 250 guys in bunks 2ftX3ft is a hell zone. 50+ year old still climbing up metal bunks at night in limited light.. Phone charger, keys, purse, backpack especially wallet gone.
How about putting them in prison like we used to do?
They want to stay outside so they have better access to the Hondos that give them drugs. Apparently there is no dealing or use allowed in the shelters.
The way these democrats let the homeless run their city
Now what is that guy with the cart going to do with that lane divider? Never understood the value in picking up a damaged car bumper and dragging it around..
Leanne you’re the BEST‼️
Greatcher 🤮
CITY must-have the law no camping no sleeping sidewalk and doing drugs on the treet 😢 terrible for public peoples walking walking on the streets 😢
Reporters ALWAYS "act" as dump as they possibly can! At 2:35 she speaks as a mouth piece for the city....SF took a
service approach first, offering ppl shelter! Ridiculous! When has SF NOT OFFERED HOMELESS SHELTER???
It's all a game. City Officials are AFRAID of bad PRESS, Pictures on news, a caption by PRESS, "Mayor Breed moves,
jails homeless man/woman", activists claim foul and uncaring! Breed can't have that, so she plays the game, while
claiming she's doing something. Yeah, collecting a paycheck for doing nothing! All city council are the same!
2:52 Don't do drugs.
It’s important that they keep sweeping these people away and not let up. It’s not a right to be out there when they make a mess like they’re making.
Billions spent on these initiatives for only dozens of homeless people to take advantage of them, but when that audit rolls around the funds mysteriously go missing. It doesn’t take a genius to realize where that money is going.
We need to start having serious discussions about drug legalization.
Insanity is doing the SAME thing again and again and hoping for different results.
_Our West Coast cities are perfect examples of this_
That lady was high as a kite, My God! This is absoutely ridiculous.
🎵I left my trash in San Francisco...🎵
😂 Let's come down to Cesar Chavez and Indiana St. These homeless build their bunkers with ply woods. They open the water hydrant for their own use to take showers and home made electrical outlets to the public light pole for electricity. They basically get FREE water and electricity while all the tax payers and residents of SF are paying their bills. What a joke!!! This city is hopeless and cannot move forward with this issue going on and on...
Are they from Pacheco Ca? I think I see them on Bayshore Blvd after they tackled the tin barb wire from surrounding area fencing and have puncture wounds old and now..They look like raspberry blackberry burnt Pop tart cigarette flavored.
....so cleaning up the trash is a total waste of time and money. When will we live by normal standards and not let these addicts dictate how our cities are?
Keep working at it, SF. 👍
The solutions being offered aren't working. My opinion is that the city needs to create an ordinance where homeless people are not allowed to be within any business district and if they continue to camp out they are offered three alternatives. One.. go to a shelter. Two..go to jail. Three... get out of town. Right now they are being enabled because of the readily available drugs and lack of mental health services coupled by the fact that rent is too expensive for them. There's an immediate distrust of authority and society in general and the stigma associated with mental health issues. You can take them off the street but you can't take the street mentality away.
Having things like Glide or saint Frances always giving free food in the TL doesn't help either, it basically gives homeless people incentive to stay in the area especially during the holidays.
It's a good service being used in the wrong way
They just need a huge piece of land where they can live together. Most of them do not want a shelter run by a city that manages and intervenes.
It is smarter choice to provide only land on the outskirts and prohibit tents from being set up in the city center.
I think the state needs to implement a conservatorship approach where mental and/or drug addicted homeless people are forced into rehab or institutions.
The Supreme Court made it so you don’t have to offer them shelter. Just move along. No wonder the city workers are frustrated. It looked so nice with the street cleaned up…
I love that unhoused is somehow less offending than home-less… Greatcher knows there’s no issues with her being homeless or being referred to as such.
We offered them the carrot. Now they get the stick.
Buh bye.
The city has been looking better than it has in years. I don’t see as many encampments, and the ones I do see are not as populated. I still see addicts and what look like homeless just sitting on the sidewalks, but that’s not the problem that’s being solved here. Nobody said that sweeps are intended to stop homeless and drugs - it’s intended to get rid of the encampments.
Boat ticket to an island nearby. Island will have farming on land and water. Tools and supplies to build their own housing. Small clinic that works with training students to cut costs. There is nothing more these people need. They will be more free and live in a much less stressful place. City is awful to live in. This will save a lot of money for the city.
What island?
Australia?
Ignoring the need for rehab and mental health treatment for the unhoused, and just trying to push them into shelters that require sobriety IS NOT doing anything beneficial for the problem. Bussing them to other cities to make it another counties problem, is not helping either.
This isnt an impossible problem to solve, it just requires actually WANTING to solve it being part of the equation. It also requires bipartisan participation in our states legislature.
How many of Californias unhoused population are there because they lost their homes in a fire, that insurance refused to pay out for? How many thousands are out there cuz of the state mishandling FEMA funds from disasters? This was avoidable and its still possible to fix it.
3-4 times a week? The city needs to do their own trail of tears and march them out of the city if they want them to actually leave the city.
This is not a sweep. This is like the lazy kid pretending to sweep by pushing the dust back and forth in the same spot.
The shelters are crowded, dangerous and lorded over by residents who have been in and out of there for a long time. Folks have to leave at 6 in the morning. Where are they going to go?
Who could have imagined? If you live in big cities, you have to expect to homelessness. Don't move to a large city and then complain about homelessness. Homelessness has always occurred in big cities.
4:44 let’s spread our homeless out… The quiet part “some will succumb to the weather in other states back east”
SF is too far gone. You just have to leave. Unless you're wealthy and live above the streets, taking a robotaxi from point A to point B and Doordashing all the time
Waste of tax payer money. We need a new mayor that is tough on occupying public sidewalks. Put these drug addicts in jail if they refuse to move. The lenient city policy allow these homeless blocking out sidewalks with no punishment. This is why homeless populations never stop but number has been increased instead of
exactly