I've been saying for YEARS that the money is being skimmed off the top, and isn't even reaching the streets. It's going into the pockets of the gatekeepers.
we created an industry. thats what happens when you incentivize things through grants and funding. they pay the politicans at this point to keep people homeless and the politicans give them more money. it's how industry complexs are formed. but I dont have the answers. only see the trend.
Homeless industrial complex. The more money you spend the bigger the problem gets. It’s by design. The people that have to live amongst them and suffer the consequences are paying for their own demise in the form of the highest taxes in the nation.
$20,000,000,000 divided by 170,000 homeless= $117,647 per person. Government does the same with education and every other program and agency they dream up. Spend more, get worse outcomes, except for the bureaucrats who do exceptionally well.
It's really simple math. If you provide it, they will come. The homeless are coming from or being bused to the west coast cities for all the freebees provided to them. Food, medical, needles, even cell phones in some counties. Why wouldn't you come to CA if you're allowed to live on the streets, commit crimes w/no consequences, obey NO laws and be provided everything you need on tax payer $$$?
The administrators of the homeless services are not necessarily interested in solving the problem because that would mean they would be out of work. The bloated government is taking advantage of this situation and the taxpayers are paying the price without seeing any real improvement.
you got that right, it is a money making industry. yes there are good non-profits who help the homeless, but there are a bunch out there who are making a profit off the homeless, especially if they get that golden government funding.
@@AronToulouse What about the pet? A homeless person can’t give their dog the quality of life it’s needed. Shelter, quality food, and social interaction…
If you can’t care for the animal, you shouldn’t have them. If you aren’t willing to give them up so they can have a better life, that’s further proof they shouldn’t have them.
Yeah, how many of the programs for the homeless have directors who have astronomical pay packages while turning away potential clients telling them there's no room at the inn?!!!
At $200K, a $20 billion can build 100,000 tiny homes. Where are they? Also, homelessness is a national issue and has to be addressed as such. You cannot have a state like CA spending money on it while other states shipping their homeless to CA.
Exactly. Take a portion of the trillions we pay for defense and use it here. This is a major safety issue right here at home. The feds need to fix this. It is not treatable in a piecemeal fashion.
how many of the homeless are free of mental health? free from drug? clean criminal and arrest record? they don't deserve any help anyway. the more help we give them, the more people want to be "homeless" to get housing. it's unfair to the hard working people.
Centralize the resources and build INTERNMENT CAMPS. Call them Rehab Farms or whatever. If you can sweep up Japanese Americans who were homeowners and business owners who were paying taxes and call them potential terrorists then why can't you do the same with this actual threat to our city and humanity. Homeless addicts are terrorizing us daily.
I chose living in my car with my dogs rather than live in a PALACE without them .and have just ended 6 years of living in streets with my 2 dogs .My boy had to be pts from bone cancer and this week I FINALLY secured a room with no kitchen or toilet that doesnt overflow every time I use it but it's a PLACE TO BE INSIDE AND BETTER THAN NOTHING 1400 a freaking month for a teeny room no kitchen or flushing toilet .. but IM OFF THE STREET WITH MY BFF
Audit would be good. Obviously something isn’t right if that much money is spent and the homeless problem is worse. Mismanagement or ineffective policies or both?
If FDR was President, he'd put these homeless people to work building public works but they would be fed and housed. Maybe that's what we need, detox them and put them to work but just letting them roam cost everyone else money to support them to do nothing.
I won’t share my story publicly because it’s way too painful but if I could personally volunteer to help someone keep their pet, I’d do it in a heartbeat. My dog saved my life, I just wish I could have saved his. I’m here today because of my best friend. Watching the legislations process ❤
Too much money is being made and laundered through helping our homeless. It's egregious how our fellow citizens are being neglected. I thought our Governor was going to solve this problem within 10 years as of 2008. Someone is getting very rich.
Housing is way too expensive! Many people DO have jobs but simply *can’t afford* a $2,000 studio apartment, and that’s roughly the cheapest it gets out here!
@@middleguy1776 I’m not a fucking news page, I speak from experience. Or better yet, check out invisible people on TH-cam where they actually talk to homeless people instead.
@@middleguy1776 many do. I volunteered at St. Anthony's and chatted with many who got up in the morning at a shelter, showered and went to work and came back to sleep at a shelter for the night. I and some of the other volunteers would put aside food for them to pickup after hours. Apart from the incredibly high cost of housing, just think of applying for an apartment and having to prove to a landlord that you can cover rent when its 75% of your income, or coming up with first month and deposit on a studio. You need to earn almost $90k to be eligible to apply for such an apt.
@@middleguy1776 statistics can be used anyway you want them to; many jurisdictions count the homeless as only those sleeping rough on the streets (sidewalks actually). Homelessness is more complicated, people sleep on family or friend's couches, they sleep in shelters, churches or quietly hide in parks and abandoned buildings where the annual count of homeless persons will never see them.
1. Audit. 2. Keep in mind that the more money California keeps bragging about "spending on homelessness", the more homeless will travel down here in hopes of benefiting off of it. Its a win win for them because not only does it mean more freebies, but also our weather is a lot easier to be homeless with than other states, so what reason would they have to NOT come down here? The more you act like this state will solve all of homeless peoples problems, the more incentives that sends homeless people in other states to travel down reap the rewards, which causes that insane amount of crowding and that feeling like 'oh my god there are just so many of them, what can we even do-are we even helping?'. You would see a visible difference if you kept it California natives only and sent any non-natives back to their home states.
There are elements in our society who honestly are just sick with greed and corruption and it has gotten worse over the past several years. People and businesses are just out of control.
it will be worse even after they spend $2T. democraats and their cronies and ther shell companies to help homeless are looting it. And th democratic voters are looting retail stores,carjacking,carbreakin,etc..
Homeless people are not wanted. With higher housing cost, higher taxes, higher food prices, etc more Americans will become homeless. No one is guaranteed to have a good life career. Our government can build libraries, parks, freeways, bridges, dog pound, etc costing millions of tax dollars... Very little for homeless. Churches should be giving free food daily to homeless people. The government should have free plubic shower parks and free sleeping shelters with pods (Chinese style). You never know we may be homeless ourselves! Vote for better government.(and pay your taxes)
I hope they're packin' lots of drugs because Fentanyl and xylazine is killing the homeless by the thousands, my question is: What can I do to get more of it on the streets?
I left after 30 years in 2011. As one of the City's 1st (80's) San Fran Community Health Outreach workers I saw NOTHING improve in the 3 decades I worked there. Only broken promises. That made the "haves" feel less guilty but did nothing for the homeless.
There are so many things wrong with this story. What about the poor dog? When my friend Maria who is blind and has worked all her life and owns her own condo went with me to get her a cat, the ASPCA told her she wasn’t qualified. How is it we allow homeless drug addicts to condemn an innocent pet to a life of misery?
It's called mental institutions, Build them !!!! Stop your stupid money wasting policys , stop trying to be so compassionate and build the mental institutions , you have the MONEY !!!!😖😖😖
Some politicians will fight this "audit". Homelessness is a business and politicians get money from donors who profit. LA built 1 bdrm units that costed taxpayers $880,000 EACH. You really think they cost that much? No way.
Housing prices drastically need to come down, there is no other solution to this. Unless government intervenes, we will continue to see an exponential growth in the homeless population. No amount of housing we build will make even the slightest dent in this problem until we find a way to significantly limit the sales of homes to second home buyers, investors, LLC’s, foreign buyers, and corporations. There needs to be a moratorium for a defined period of time on all non primary residence home sales under 1 million dollars. A California resident for minimum of 3 years, buying for the first time or as a primary residence, should be allotted priority on the purchase of a home. Until you put these housing measures in place - Wall Street is happy to keep buying our homes and driving prices and rent sky high.
You need to look at what is driving the housing prices. When affordable housing projects are built by nonprofit developers, they cost $450,000-$990,000 per unit to develop, it isn't the greed of investors that is causing the problem. The state and municipal governments own a lot of surplus property but they know the "stakeholders" who don't invest their cash in housing are creating the problem. The problem isn't being created by those investing their resource in meeting this need, the problem is being created by the "stakeholders" who extract their cut without investing. Good landlords and developers drive bad landlords and developers out of business but bad government policies drive good landlords and developers out of the market. If the investors were the problem, altruistic nonprofits would be the answer. When was the last time you saw a Habitat For Humanity project in the areas where we need more housing?
@@curtmaxfield It is the power given to "indirectly invested stakeholders" in California that drives the cost of housing into the stratosphere in California. Landlords and developers are greedy in Texas too. Texas has seen high demand for residential real estate as they've seen their population grow while California's shrunk. It is truly striking how much less it cost to build affordable housing in a place like Texas compared to California. Texas has had much more success addressing homelessness than California has. Why do you think nonprofit developers and government agencies in California can't put a dent in the housing crisis though we've invested fortunes towards the cause?
For the 100th time why not set up a safe , fenced in camp ground with facilities several miles outside of the suburbs on land that is not being used now? It's understandable why someone would be homeless but they should NOT be on city streets etc. We can create a safe space that makes sense far away from the city.
The city should buy or rent the spaces that are being vacated by Whole Foods in downtown and Safeway in Fishermans Wharf. They have 55,000 and 40,000 square feet of space respectively, and can be converted to housing and linkage centers. Drug rehab, job training, and other services could be offered. It is not a crime to be un-housed, and we need to treat the homeless residents with kindness and compassion. They are people.
This is SF you know they're not going to open that up as a shelter. And by the way SF loves Safeway why do you think there's so many still open because they eat processed food. I am myself a homeless person that is thinking about moving to SF so you have to treat me with respect even if I piss in your yard. But I can tell you one thing I am not going to work
Maybe temporarily stop giving visas from everyone all over the world who wants to stay onto the most homeless unsolvable cities until this crisis is solved for those who are already here homeless
If DeSantis can bus asylum seekers to Washington DC, and other States and cities can give their homeless one way tkts to San Francisco/LA/San Diego, with no consequences, the problem will get worse. Find out where the homeless come from and BILL that State or city.
Even with substance abuse issues, if we put all the funding directly in people's hands it probably would reduce people experiencing homelessness. Maybe we should try more case studies with universal basic income.
You have to give every African American $5,000,000.000 first. Then we can pay the homeless an income to continue and be background characters from the walking dead when they are not attacking random people on the street or pooping in front of businesses. More funding has always worked to help eliminate the need for the social program entirely....
People literally do, you need 2-3 in order to really survive out here. Many turn to drugs in order to *stay awake* , not get robbed or raped, or even killed when they’re at their most vulnerable.
NO ONE can afford housing!! Prices are ridiculous! 25 years ago a house we lived in was on a big lot and the rent was only $695. 25 years later, my son moved into that same house, the lot had been chopped down into multi-housing lots but that house was still there., He is paying $3,950 a MONTH! RIDICULOUS! He affords it because he has a tech job but he got laid off in June. Where is he going to go if he can't find a high-paying job? He has to either move out of state OR onto the streets. The real estate speculators have destroyed housing in the Bay Area.
So youve chosen to live homeless, so you can keep your pet, fine, but dont crap on our streets. The elderly and disabled can get cheaper housing anywhere other than Bay Area - from Modesto to Miami its way more affordable than here. Youre here because they put up with this crap. I was homeless once, and I understand having a dog to bark if someone is going to steal your shopping cart, but youre never going to be able to have 'A JOB' if youre trying to keep a dog. If I see a homeless person with a dog, I know they have 'no intention of working a job'. What you should do is network with the non addicts to stay together and watch each others stuff - but good luck finding a non addict on the streets - again my point, quit subsidizing drug users with tax payer money - which just causes the cost of paying taxes here to go up for everyone. Some lady in an office says".. animals are a-political, they dont judge.."!? no crap, they dont pay taxes either.
32m dollars to help people with pets?? Wake up already. i have a heart but at what point am i a sucker?? Good god. How about 32m to help people between 25 and 40 own their first home and start families??
I love this nice lady!! My dog said my life too!! 32 million! These numbers are RIDICULOUS! WHY is she on the street for 20 years..? Whose pocketing the money?? I think I know.
This is not an issue that money can solve. first, have to find out where the homeless' family lives and send them to have their family get them back on their feet. those who are residents but refuses help, that's another issue. CA can't keep taking the blame for the issue when other states are sending homeless to them.
From my podcast "research" you can't end homelessness with high rent and home prices. Any places that have solved their homeless issues have low rent/home prices.
So maybe we need to move the unemployable and unhoused to lower-cost housing markets. Rather than drawing them into one of markets with the highest costs to develop housing.
Build basic housing units with the equivalent food, police, Healthcare, sewer systems, etc. In an area that is mostly unused. Do not allow people to sleep on city sidewalks which is completely unfair to the businesses and residents of the city. What is happening is that cities that offer more homeless services bear the brunt of the problems because they are just a magnet to attract more homeless without fixing the underlying issue. The feds need to put up some of those billions going to defense contracts and build the facilities necessary in more evenly spaced out centers that don't unduly affect the cities being hurt by their own attempts to help.
The area is obviously unused because these "homeless" are mentally unstable thus they scare people away. I doubt anyone with a family would like to live in the Tenderloin with the homeless constantly screaming.
Did the housing funds and all these money helped at all? There are more homeless. And they keep saying just built more free houses. If that were the solution the numbers should be going down. Now they are demanding shelter their pets. It is not about the free housing. Something is wrong with all these free and they are not held responsible for their lives.
And now they,want ti tax us even more to waste more money,and there will be even more homeless regardless of what,we spend. Shitcit down. End these programs shut down Bart and Buses start,laying off time for a restart.
It’ll end up being a drug filled/ crime ridden area with a few honest people trying to get out of the situation. The project areas worked out terribly in the past.
Why give them more money? How about opening up the waiting list for public housing, they have remolded and they are ready to move in. Put that money into some of the vacant low income housing throughout San Francisco, that is all that most of them can afford. I see only certain groups receiving such assistance.
I haven't seen a comprehensive study of the reason for homelessness and living on the streets... why not? excuses are rent increases, not having enough affordable housing but this does not seem reason enough. It is said that drugs alone is not the reason but there is something fishy about that pieces of accounting. Is it the changing values where it became more acceptable, is it the enabling nature of society hat holds anybody who has a home and a little more money responsible, like give more and give more... who benefits from this turmoil...
There is plenty of blame to go around 1) yes , liberal policies incentivize homeless people to come to California and hamstring law enforcement in the name of humaneness but also… 2) About 15% of the homeless are from out of area. The issue can’t be blamed entirely on others, but it does exacerbate the issue. Other states have been known to bus their homeless to California. Many, especially LGBT, are driven away by their families and churches elsewhere in the country and come to California to be accepted. 3) Despite voting majority Democrat, that does not mean that all societal results (good or bad) are necessarily the result of liberalism. Sacramento tried to not be heavy handed, setting voluntary housing construction goals. Local governments failed their targets. They faced pushback from their constituents saying that they don’t want big government telling them what to do, don’t want the character of their neighborhoods changed with homeless shelters or new housing. Yes California is a 2/3 liberal state, but those are conservative attitudes at play- small government, less regulation, individualism, less safety net.
I've been saying for YEARS that the money is being skimmed off the top, and isn't even reaching the streets. It's going into the pockets of the gatekeepers.
we created an industry. thats what happens when you incentivize things through grants and funding. they pay the politicans at this point to keep people homeless and the politicans give them more money. it's how industry complexs are formed. but I dont have the answers. only see the trend.
Nah, all those people are getting $600 in cash, and $220 in food stamps every month, plus a free cell phone.
Finally somebody gets it
@@mrsleep0000 Sadly, I don’t think that COMES CLOSE to accounting for $20 BILLION DOLLARS.
Homeless industrial complex. The more money you spend the bigger the problem gets. It’s by design. The people that have to live amongst them and suffer the consequences are paying for their own demise in the form of the highest taxes in the nation.
$20,000,000,000 divided by 170,000 homeless= $117,647 per person. Government does the same with education and every other program and agency they dream up. Spend more, get worse outcomes, except for the bureaucrats who do exceptionally well.
HOW CAN YOU REMAIN HOMELESS FOR TWENTY YEARS?
mental
It's easy for some of them. I guess you never have to worry about getting the lights cut off or being evicted?
Easy with 3x the rent....
It's really simple math. If you provide it, they will come. The homeless are coming from or being bused to the west coast cities for all the freebees provided to them. Food, medical, needles, even cell phones in some counties. Why wouldn't you come to CA if you're allowed to live on the streets, commit crimes w/no consequences, obey NO laws and be provided everything you need on tax payer $$$?
It's about time that elected officials and govt workers were held to account for spending on the homeless.
Same thing with these charities who raise millions of dollars raised by dinners, who’s higher ups drive 100,000 dollar vehicles
20 billion WTF call the Police you got robbed
The administrators of the homeless services are not necessarily interested in solving the problem because that would mean they would be out of work. The bloated government is taking advantage of this situation and the taxpayers are paying the price without seeing any real improvement.
YESSSS.
you got that right, it is a money making industry. yes there are good non-profits who help the homeless, but there are a bunch out there who are making a profit off the homeless, especially if they get that golden government funding.
Please don’t separate pets from their owners. It is what keeps them going sometimes.
Please do separate the dog from owner so the pet can have a much better life.
Why should the pet suffer? If the pet is like their child, then they should want the pet to have a nice home to live in, healthcare, and food as well
@@AronToulouse What about the pet? A homeless person can’t give their dog the quality of life it’s needed. Shelter, quality food, and social interaction…
@@JC-wn1sp thats true also. I'm torn now. I do feel sorry for the pet
If you can’t care for the animal, you shouldn’t have them. If you aren’t willing to give them up so they can have a better life, that’s further proof they shouldn’t have them.
20 billion dollars? Where’s the accounting? Let’s look at the books. This could be figured out and corrected in 30 days.
Yeah, how many of the programs for the homeless have directors who have astronomical pay packages while turning away potential clients telling them there's no room at the inn?!!!
Incompetence
At $200K, a $20 billion can build 100,000 tiny homes. Where are they?
Also, homelessness is a national issue and has to be addressed as such. You cannot have a state like CA spending money on it while other states shipping their homeless to CA.
Exactly. Take a portion of the trillions we pay for defense and use it here. This is a major safety issue right here at home. The feds need to fix this. It is not treatable in a piecemeal fashion.
No one asked CA to be the savior, they did that to use the tax money to get as much as possible to form a voter base of single party rule.
how many of the homeless are free of mental health? free from drug? clean criminal and arrest record? they don't deserve any help anyway. the more help we give them, the more people want to be "homeless" to get housing. it's unfair to the hard working people.
They spent billions and the homeless problem got worse?!?😂😂😂
Yeah, some people are getting fired and prob going to jail after this audit
They better
Centralize the resources and build INTERNMENT CAMPS. Call them Rehab Farms or whatever. If you can sweep up Japanese Americans who were homeowners and business owners who were paying taxes and call them potential terrorists then why can't you do the same with this actual threat to our city and humanity. Homeless addicts are terrorizing us daily.
Have u not figured out that this is their plan? Otherwise why would being homeless be so incentivized?
You know how the problem could be solved tomorrow for a lot less money? House them all in jail. They'd get the message real quick.
I chose living in my car with my dogs rather than live in a PALACE without them .and have just ended 6 years of living in streets with my 2 dogs .My boy had to be pts from bone cancer and this week I FINALLY secured a room with no kitchen or toilet that doesnt overflow every time I use it but it's a PLACE TO BE INSIDE AND BETTER THAN NOTHING
1400 a freaking month for a teeny room no kitchen or flushing toilet .. but IM OFF THE STREET WITH MY BFF
Homeless people are homeless for reasons that are their own faults.
More you spend the more you get.
Accountability and Transparency!!!
Audit would be good. Obviously something isn’t right if that much money is spent and the homeless problem is worse. Mismanagement or ineffective policies or both?
If FDR was President, he'd put these homeless people to work building public works but they would be fed and housed. Maybe that's what we need, detox them and put them to work but just letting them roam cost everyone else money to support them to do nothing.
If American Business would have been paying like a man in the first place you won't have a bunch of little kids doing fentanyl..
I won’t share my story publicly because it’s way too painful but if I could personally volunteer to help someone keep their pet, I’d do it in a heartbeat. My dog saved my life, I just wish I could have saved his. I’m here today because of my best friend. Watching the legislations process ❤
1,7000 emigrants 1,7000 America's thrown out to the streets facts
I am reluctant to say it but we need forced treatment-housing for people with a dual diagnosis or mental illness.
But this will be reframed by “advocacy” groups as criminalization of the mentally ill, addiction, and homelessness
If you promise free housing for everyone, you will have people flocking from different states to get that handout.
Nothing is going to change unless they start arresting the drug dealers.
Too much money is being made and laundered through helping our homeless. It's egregious how our fellow citizens are being neglected. I thought our Governor was going to solve this problem within 10 years as of 2008. Someone is getting very rich.
Housing is way too expensive! Many people DO have jobs but simply *can’t afford* a $2,000 studio apartment, and that’s roughly the cheapest it gets out here!
Can u provide some statistics of homeless who have jobs please?
@@middleguy1776 I’m not a fucking news page, I speak from experience. Or better yet, check out invisible people on TH-cam where they actually talk to homeless people instead.
@@middleguy1776 many do. I volunteered at St. Anthony's and chatted with many who got up in the morning at a shelter, showered and went to work and came back to sleep at a shelter for the night. I and some of the other volunteers would put aside food for them to pickup after hours. Apart from the incredibly high cost of housing, just think of applying for an apartment and having to prove to a landlord that you can cover rent when its 75% of your income, or coming up with first month and deposit on a studio. You need to earn almost $90k to be eligible to apply for such an apt.
@@pwp8737 if that was true then why isn't there more homeless people? Especially after all the eviction moratoriums have ended.
@@middleguy1776 statistics can be used anyway you want them to; many jurisdictions count the homeless as only those sleeping rough on the streets (sidewalks actually). Homelessness is more complicated, people sleep on family or friend's couches, they sleep in shelters, churches or quietly hide in parks and abandoned buildings where the annual count of homeless persons will never see them.
1. Audit.
2. Keep in mind that the more money California keeps bragging about "spending on homelessness", the more homeless will travel down here in hopes of benefiting off of it. Its a win win for them because not only does it mean more freebies, but also our weather is a lot easier to be homeless with than other states, so what reason would they have to NOT come down here? The more you act like this state will solve all of homeless peoples problems, the more incentives that sends homeless people in other states to travel down reap the rewards, which causes that insane amount of crowding and that feeling like 'oh my god there are just so many of them, what can we even do-are we even helping?'. You would see a visible difference if you kept it California natives only and sent any non-natives back to their home states.
There are elements in our society who honestly are just sick with greed and corruption and it has gotten worse over the past several years. People and businesses are just out of control.
The money gets spent on bulldozing homeless encampments and moving people out, but not on giving them anywhere to go. It's like whack-a-mole.
$20 billion and nothing has changed.
it will be worse even after they spend $2T. democraats and their cronies and ther shell companies to help homeless are looting it. And th democratic voters are looting retail stores,carjacking,carbreakin,etc..
Homeless people are not wanted. With higher housing cost, higher taxes, higher food prices, etc more Americans will become homeless. No one is guaranteed to have a good life career. Our government can build libraries, parks, freeways, bridges, dog pound, etc costing millions of tax dollars... Very little for homeless. Churches should be giving free food daily to homeless people. The government should have free plubic shower parks and free sleeping shelters with pods (Chinese style). You never know we may be homeless ourselves! Vote for better government.(and pay your taxes)
Poor dog 🐶 I hope he finds a good home.
Thousands are crossing the Southern border today heading to California ❤
I hope they're packin' lots of drugs because Fentanyl and xylazine is killing the homeless by the thousands, my question is:
What can I do to get more of it on the streets?
Free money
Crossing to cook your fast food and grow your produce 😂
@@jsan48 yeah, get paid for doing work and also free benefits. If they get sick, tax payers will flip the bill. Win/Win. Only losers are tax payers.
Boycott Strawberries 🍓
I left after 30 years in 2011. As one of the City's 1st (80's) San Fran Community Health Outreach workers I saw NOTHING improve in the 3 decades I worked there. Only broken promises. That made the "haves" feel less guilty but did nothing for the homeless.
There are so many things wrong with this story. What about the poor dog? When my friend Maria who is blind and has worked all her life and owns her own condo went with me to get her a cat, the ASPCA told her she wasn’t qualified. How is it we allow homeless drug addicts to condemn an innocent pet to a life of misery?
Why is this news...
It's called mental institutions, Build them !!!! Stop your stupid money wasting policys , stop trying to be so compassionate and build the mental institutions , you have the MONEY !!!!😖😖😖
“The safety & security of a shelter” yeah right
Bidinflation 👏 just as they voted for
In Solano county all the higher ups bought brand new cars. That's where our money went
Audit every year.
Results posted on public website
Some politicians will fight this "audit". Homelessness is a business and politicians get money from donors who profit. LA built 1 bdrm units that costed taxpayers $880,000 EACH. You really think they cost that much? No way.
It’s like leaving food out (programs) for mice (people) and wondering why keep more showing up.
Housing prices drastically need to come down, there is no other solution to this. Unless government intervenes, we will continue to see an exponential growth in the homeless population. No amount of housing we build will make even the slightest dent in this problem until we find a way to significantly limit the sales of homes to second home buyers, investors, LLC’s, foreign buyers, and corporations. There needs to be a moratorium for a defined period of time on all non primary residence home sales under 1 million dollars. A California resident for minimum of 3 years, buying for the first time or as a primary residence, should be allotted priority on the purchase of a home.
Until you put these housing measures in place - Wall Street is happy to keep buying our homes and driving prices and rent sky high.
You need to look at what is driving the housing prices. When affordable housing projects are built by nonprofit developers, they cost $450,000-$990,000 per unit to develop, it isn't the greed of investors that is causing the problem. The state and municipal governments own a lot of surplus property but they know the "stakeholders" who don't invest their cash in housing are creating the problem. The problem isn't being created by those investing their resource in meeting this need, the problem is being created by the "stakeholders" who extract their cut without investing. Good landlords and developers drive bad landlords and developers out of business but bad government policies drive good landlords and developers out of the market. If the investors were the problem, altruistic nonprofits would be the answer. When was the last time you saw a Habitat For Humanity project in the areas where we need more housing?
@@mwatercress one has to be invested to be a stakeholder, you are not bright.
@@curtmaxfield CEQA
@@mwatercress yeah what about it? still have to be invested either directly or indirectly.
@@curtmaxfield It is the power given to "indirectly invested stakeholders" in California that drives the cost of housing into the stratosphere in California. Landlords and developers are greedy in Texas too. Texas has seen high demand for residential real estate as they've seen their population grow while California's shrunk. It is truly striking how much less it cost to build affordable housing in a place like Texas compared to California. Texas has had much more success addressing homelessness than California has. Why do you think nonprofit developers and government agencies in California can't put a dent in the housing crisis though we've invested fortunes towards the cause?
A beginning of an end.
For the 100th time why not set up a safe , fenced in camp ground with facilities several miles outside of the suburbs on land that is not being used now?
It's understandable why someone would be homeless but they should NOT be on city streets etc. We can create a safe space that makes sense far away from the city.
City streets are where drugs and panhandling are. They aren't going to stay out in the swamp. Nice thought though.
Because people would liken them to concentration camps. Not that I disagree with you
it wont work because the homeless have to have some people to beg for money from, and akmeds store for beer and lotto tickets.
Handing out free stuff more than anywhere in the county and wondering why more people are gathering to pitch a tent in the streets? Where do I begin?
The city should buy or rent the spaces that are being vacated by Whole Foods in downtown and Safeway in Fishermans Wharf. They have 55,000 and 40,000 square feet of space respectively, and can be converted to housing and linkage centers. Drug rehab, job training, and other services could be offered. It is not a crime to be un-housed, and we need to treat the homeless residents with kindness and compassion. They are people.
Why should we waste more of our tax dollars on people that refuse to help themselves?
This is SF you know they're not going to open that up as a shelter. And by the way SF loves Safeway why do you think there's so many still open because they eat processed food. I am myself a homeless person that is thinking about moving to SF so you have to treat me with respect even if I piss in your yard. But I can tell you one thing I am not going to work
@@middleguy1776What we should do is open an asylum that's for the general public and put them in a psych ward.
@@Subject82 I agree with that
Maybe temporarily stop giving visas from everyone all over the world who wants to stay onto the most homeless unsolvable cities until this crisis is solved for those who are already here homeless
If DeSantis can bus asylum seekers to Washington DC, and other States and cities can give their homeless one way tkts to San Francisco/LA/San Diego, with no consequences, the problem will get worse. Find out where the homeless come from and BILL that State or city.
The more Homeless there are in SF alone, the more Politicians receive money
The local government is completely fine with this.
Democrat Voters are to Blame!!!
Even with substance abuse issues, if we put all the funding directly in people's hands it probably would reduce people experiencing homelessness. Maybe we should try more case studies with universal basic income.
You have to give every African American $5,000,000.000 first. Then we can pay the homeless an income to continue and be background characters from the walking dead when they are not attacking random people on the street or pooping in front of businesses. More funding has always worked to help eliminate the need for the social program entirely....
The people saying just get a job. Looking down on Us struggling out here. Will go through the same. Karma is 👀 watching you. Keep talking.
Oh absolutely! People don’t realize homelessness can happen to *anyone*
@@sashabootcher888 Exactly! Just like that. And they will be crying to the poor.
People need to help themselves. Tell them to get a job
People literally do, you need 2-3 in order to really survive out here. Many turn to drugs in order to *stay awake* , not get robbed or raped, or even killed when they’re at their most vulnerable.
Ship every homeless person from every city to San Francisco. The residents deserve it.
Lots of corruption on the waiting lists in New Jersey..
the contractors for the city are pocketing all the money, overhead fees, retainment fees, service fees, and blablahblah
Please leave the homeless alone. Lots of these non profit organizations need job security, and they need the homeless population to grow.
NO ONE can afford housing!! Prices are ridiculous! 25 years ago a house we lived in was on a big lot and the rent was only $695. 25 years later, my son moved into that same house, the lot had been chopped down into multi-housing lots but that house was still there., He is paying $3,950 a MONTH! RIDICULOUS! He affords it because he has a tech job but he got laid off in June. Where is he going to go if he can't find a high-paying job? He has to either move out of state OR onto the streets.
The real estate speculators have destroyed housing in the Bay Area.
So youve chosen to live homeless, so you can keep your pet, fine, but dont crap on our streets. The elderly and disabled can get cheaper housing anywhere other than Bay Area - from Modesto to Miami its way more affordable than here. Youre here because they put up with this crap. I was homeless once, and I understand having a dog to bark if someone is going to steal your shopping cart, but youre never going to be able to have 'A JOB' if youre trying to keep a dog. If I see a homeless person with a dog, I know they have 'no intention of working a job'. What you should do is network with the non addicts to stay together and watch each others stuff - but good luck finding a non addict on the streets - again my point, quit subsidizing drug users with tax payer money - which just causes the cost of paying taxes here to go up for everyone. Some lady in an office says".. animals are a-political, they dont judge.."!? no crap, they dont pay taxes either.
Why don't you lower rent. That's how you fight homelessness.
Dozens got upwards of $200K salaries to "solve" homelessness in the Bay
32m dollars to help people with pets?? Wake up already. i have a heart but at what point am i a sucker?? Good god. How about 32m to help people between 25 and 40 own their first home and start families??
I love this nice lady!! My dog said my life too!! 32 million! These numbers are RIDICULOUS! WHY is she on the street for 20 years..? Whose pocketing the money?? I think I know.
If you quit feeding the stray cats, eventually the stray cats leave.
No, no, no! They wanted this, when they declared San Francisco to be a sanctuary city! What else did they expect?
This is not an issue that money can solve. first, have to find out where the homeless' family lives and send them to have their family get them back on their feet. those who are residents but refuses help, that's another issue. CA can't keep taking the blame for the issue when other states are sending homeless to them.
From my podcast "research" you can't end homelessness with high rent and home prices. Any places that have solved their homeless issues have low rent/home prices.
So maybe we need to move the unemployable and unhoused to lower-cost housing markets. Rather than drawing them into one of markets with the highest costs to develop housing.
Less homeless in Europe because they offer treatment for drug addicts and universal health care for people with mental or physical illnesses.
Too many six digit salaries depend on the problem of homelessness never being solved.
Build basic housing units with the equivalent food, police, Healthcare, sewer systems, etc. In an area that is mostly unused. Do not allow people to sleep on city sidewalks which is completely unfair to the businesses and residents of the city.
What is happening is that cities that offer more homeless services bear the brunt of the problems because they are just a magnet to attract more homeless without fixing the underlying issue. The feds need to put up some of those billions going to defense contracts and build the facilities necessary in more evenly spaced out centers that don't unduly affect the cities being hurt by their own attempts to help.
The area is obviously unused because these "homeless" are mentally unstable thus they scare people away. I doubt anyone with a family would like to live in the Tenderloin with the homeless constantly screaming.
Did the housing funds and all these money helped at all? There are more homeless. And they keep saying just built more free houses. If that were the solution the numbers should be going down. Now they are demanding shelter their pets. It is not about the free housing. Something is wrong with all these free and they are not held responsible for their lives.
homeless is become a big business in California. There're so much money involved in it, why they want to resolve it?
You get paid to be homeless in CA. Why wouldn't you migrate to CA? The weather is amazing.
All public workers must love homeless keep going on
This just occurred to me: how can you be a "resident" if you're homeless?
And now they,want ti tax us even more to waste more money,and there will be even more homeless regardless of what,we spend. Shitcit down. End these programs shut down Bart and Buses start,laying off time for a restart.
Yeah!! WHERE did the money GO??Whose pockets are carrying all that money?!? Hint: they already know.
Thanks for reporting on this. The fast growth and influx of the high tech industry and the crime they bring is at the core of all of this.
Delusional much?
Well, San Jose at least is building homeless housing. They are turning a homeless campsite into homeless housing.
It’ll end up being a drug filled/ crime ridden area with a few honest people trying to get out of the situation.
The project areas worked out terribly in the past.
Why give them more money? How about opening up the waiting list for public housing, they have remolded and they are ready to move in. Put that money into some of the vacant low income housing throughout San Francisco, that is all that most of them can afford. I see only certain groups receiving such assistance.
Homeless crises = engineered cash system for politicians' career comes at the expense of human suffering.
"Spend" is not a noun.
gee - the more you spend, the more transients you get - funny how that works
That's $117,647 per person
Build tiny homes out in gilroy and ship them there. no more tents on sidewalk due to Ada compliance. no sleeping on the sidewalk.
We have the same in NYC.
they mostly from other state came to California for warmer weather.
I haven't seen a comprehensive study of the reason for homelessness and living on the streets... why not? excuses are rent increases, not having enough affordable housing but this does not seem reason enough. It is said that drugs alone is not the reason but there is something fishy about that pieces of accounting. Is it the changing values where it became more acceptable, is it the enabling nature of society hat holds anybody who has a home and a little more money responsible, like give more and give more... who benefits from this turmoil...
The more California offers the homeless the more homeless come to California. California tax payers can afford it?
20 billion?? That's bullshit
There is plenty of blame to go around
1) yes , liberal policies incentivize homeless people to come to California and hamstring law enforcement in the name of humaneness but also…
2) About 15% of the homeless are from out of area. The issue can’t be blamed entirely on others, but it does exacerbate the issue. Other states have been known to bus their homeless to California. Many, especially LGBT, are driven away by their families and churches elsewhere in the country and come to California to be accepted.
3) Despite voting majority Democrat, that does not mean that all societal results (good or bad) are necessarily the result of liberalism. Sacramento tried to not be heavy handed, setting voluntary housing construction goals. Local governments failed their targets. They faced pushback from their constituents saying that they don’t want big government telling them what to do, don’t want the character of their neighborhoods changed with homeless shelters or new housing. Yes California is a 2/3 liberal state, but those are conservative attitudes at play- small government, less regulation, individualism, less safety net.
Gentrification, greed, capitalism
What about all those billions to Ukraine? Imagine what that money could have done here at home.
some of these people cant work a full-time job - gotta somehow separate the legit handicapped people and the physically abled
They voted for all of it.
20 billon divided by 170k
111k per person divided by 5 years.
Homeless assistance nonprofit industry depend on those money to thrive!