SF's cleanup of troubled Tenderloin District faced with overwhelming challenges
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- San Francisco has been placing as many as 300 people into some type of housing every month but not all the people placed into housing end up staying there. Wilson Walker reports. (4-6-23)
How is blocking the sidewalk, no matter who you are NOT a violation of ADA Law?!
Sidewalks should be clear at all times.
Where is the ADA advocate Scott Johnson when you need him? He always go after businesses with small infractions like a sign that is an inch too high.
They tried this angle in Portland. Nobody cares.
Homeless have more rights now than the disabled. Total failure by Dems.
They need to move ALL oF THEM to giant parking lots that the city can rent$$$$$$$$$$$$ let them all have their HELL HOLES RIGHT THERE! Not amongst US who work and are trying to better our lives...instead we are always walking through their $HIT! PILES and Drug INFESTATIONS....I AM SICK OF IT ! What about our children??
It is in fact but almost nobody is willing to take that to court.
Get rid of these damn tents off the sidewalks for wheelchairs & seniors
I agree. GIVE THESE FOLKS PROPER APARTMENTS TO LIVE IN. The city can afford it. We're only talking about 10K homeless on the street. It can be done but City Hall won't do shit.
Glad I moved out of city in 2005
They need to get rid of that new thing about addicts shooting up in that clinic while a medical person is watching them in case they OD 🤦🏻
@@J3unG ...........not apartments! tiny homes until they can prove they can MANAGE their lives better and do SOME work and try to get off these ridiculous drugs man! Those who can prove a success of sorts could then move up to better housing based on a merit system!
@@pattycastillo8681 yEAH they come out and then what?
@@J3unG the problem is that many of these people aren’t even from SF. They came from red states like Florida and Texas where they wouldn’t be able to get away with this behavior. Why should those of us who’ve lived and payed taxes here for years subsidize any Tom, Dick and Harry who can scrape up enough money to buy a bus ticket to get here, only to get $600 free/month and free housing? They should be bussed back to where they came from if they can’t prove they’ve lived and worked here before they became homeless. I can barely afford to live here even with a job, so why should I pay for free housing for some drug addict from Oklahoma?
The ones who are are drug addicted and/or have mental issues obviously are not of sound mind and can't make decisions to save themselves for the long term. You can't wait until they are ready to do something different because that will never come. These cases need to be 'forced' out of the streets and into assisted living shelters. IMO they are a danger to themselves and a danger to the community at large.
Yes you are right. In Switzerland if you are living in the streets you do not have the right to say no to housing or psychiatric care.
That's why there are no homeless people in any of their major cities.
@Gold Tau Here's the sad part in previous years San Francisco had spent approximately 2.8 billion dollars on the homeless. For sure corruption is in play! BUT I'm sure if the $$$ is spent correctly there would be a significant reduction if not completely resolve the problem.
Asylum housed people that were a danger to themselves or others.
Assisted living shelters are for those that are not a danger.
If asylum can rehabilitate, great? If not, they remain locked up.
I worked an asylum in the 80's. It is where these folks belonged. The asylum is gone,but the people who were dangerous were let loose.
@@frpgplayer This is one thing that people are not ready to have a serious conversation about. The asylums need to come back.
We have constitutional rights in America. I suggest you go live in russia or north korea
Boggles the mind. I saw one documentary in which street people said they love it on the street. They had their community. One woman told of how she daily shoplifted, then sold the merchandise to a group set up in plain sight who paid her cash for the loot. She then takes the money and pays her dealer for drugs. The young man is noble but he's fighting a losing battle.
I agree completely. I saw several videos on that too.
That's just one woman It's not typical.
@@deejaye2647 no, it is very typical. Shelters are open and have space, in fact, you spend 6 months in a shelter and you can get an apartment, I know because I LIVE in the TL. They refuse to go because they can't do drugs and party all night, in fact, some of the homeless on the street HAVE city provided housing and they just use it as storage because they get in trouble for having loud crazy parties at home.
I think you're referring to the Peter Santenello video about Skidrow
SF has one thing that is a blessing and a curse. It has a very moderate climate year round. That makes it attractive to people who live on the street.
Sadly none of this deters the drug use it only helps them stay high untill they die
There’s many nonprofits that operate on that cycle continuing.
and it could be that some people with the vantage see that the problem is intractable, so they need the problem to shrink itself before a final solution is implemented.
Yeah...the problem is "asking" or "convincing" people if they would "like" to leave the streets. Using this technique, they can always say "no". Don't give them the option if they are blocking the street or committing crimes, IMHO. Yes, you will get lots of complaints, but "asking" people to leave is just not going to work, even tho well intended and giving them resources they may or may not choose to use.
Completely agree but you have to give them an alternative place to go. At this point people need to be forced into rehab when they can't manage their own life.
@@deanjohnson6074 We need to bring back asylums. I’m not taking about padded rooms but rather places like senior care facilities but for the severely mentally ill and substance addicted. Of the doctor says you belong there then you belong there and you don’t leave until whatever is wrong with you is fixed or someone else offers to care for you.
@@deanjohnson6074 An "alternative" place to go is back to where they came from. Many homeless in CA come from out of state to take advantage of the weather and the handouts. If they cannot show proof of residency, such as previous lodging or employment, they are dead-weight free-loaders from out of state. It is cheaper to send them back where they came from.
@@deanjohnson6074 this is the right approach, it is currently blocked by case law pioneered by the ACLU. but we just need an advocacy group to sue these cities and individuals to the supreme court, demonstrating that lawless homelessness is a burden on all of society.
Yep! Force them off the streets and trespass them everyday if they keep returning.
This is so sad.
Who would’ve guessed letting drug addicts do whatever they want would lead to this??????
Not Libertarians. This is the dream!
@Jorian Kell I think you mean liberals?
@@sharkbait5402 those morons, too. Look at all of the diversity and freedom of individual expression as they use the ownership of their bodies for what they want in life. Isn't it great? What progress!
You can thank the Democrats for the big mess.
Yea, I guess libertarians run Oregon, California , Washington , Philly ? Just shut up
we have been trying to help these people for a very long time! it doesnt work, cause they dont wanna help themselves! so what is the use?!
we created this issue ourselves!
Exactly
@@tranger4579 sigh! sadly it is true! i feel so sad seeing our streets like this!
Finally, someone speaking the truth! This happens because it is allowed to happen. Everything else is a priority over these people. How can a person have the right to refuse rehabilitation, counseling, and housing when it poses a threat to the safety and well being of the public? That should be illegal. Compassion is needed for some and tough love for others. Unfortunately, in this world, those two things are fantasies dwindling faster than memories of a dream.
@@jameselliott216 exactly! we should help those people that really needs help like the families that is a the edge of becoming homeless due to unfortunate events that happens in their live. we also should focus on education, healthcare, and infrastructure. look at own schools and roads, they are so old, so much holes, etc.!
our healthcare is really bad, since the healthcare insurance can dictate who lives and who dies!
real democracy is being able to provide the basic needs to the common people like shelter, food, education, and healthcare, but not to people who are not willing to help themselves!
They don’t want to help themselves because no one is forcing them to get sober. How many great decisions have you made when you were drunk? Don’t expect people to have clear thought and rational decision-making when they are not sober.
"Sanctuary city, Sanctuary state" the violent, non-compliant ones need to be committed at the state mental hospital and mandatory substance abuse programs.
We lost those laws thanks to the republican Ronald Regan! He closed our mental institutions and opened this flood gate.
They shut those down 50 years ago so that this would happen.
@@anthonydomench6871 "They" didn't shut down every single one of those state mental hospitals. And, even if every one of those institutions had been closed down, that should not ever be a reason for enforcing laws and regulations for the benefit of public safety and public health.
Yes, but Reagan thought it was more feasible to let them just live on the streets.
@@jntj3007 You missed the point by a country mile. “THEY” want the destruction of western civilization.
There needs to be recognition for the empathy, professionalism, and gut wrenching work that these people are doing to bring change and help the situation. It takes absolutely nothing to sit on the internet and moan about the situation. Kudos to the staff and volunteers who are out there DOING something to make this better.
You are very right.
Bull puckie 😂
no, they're not. they are just running on a treadmill that doesn't end. this is like doing a brake stand burnout. just spending fuel to make smoke. it's not the solution and while they're compassionate people, they're not spending energy toward an engineering solution.
You’re just adding to problem.
They're just trying to sweep a beach. What they're doing is never going to ever be a long-term solution. The city needs to get a wakeup call and start voting out these radical progressives.
Plus, he's running a business, not a charity. Those people are collecting paychecks.
People should not be allowed to sleep on the street or in parks.Period!
Where do you suggest they go then?
It feels like Mark has big love for his city, and all of its residents (no matter where they are in life). I hope the folks he reports to know how much of an asset he is to SF.
It's probably a grueling job, Sean. And also extremely important and valuable.
stop saying folks.. u sound ridiculous
i miss old sf
He's fighting a losing battle that'll weaken his morale and make him quit
Yes, he seems like a genuinely caring person.
Its time we reopen mental institutions. Force housing and treatments. They shouldn't have the choice to stay homeless and set up tents on sidewalks. If they want to live in tents, go outside the city.
Amen
Does 'outside the city' mean suburbs? If so, then no!!!
Even bad for the forest. Animals don't deserve to live with the trash people leave when they go camping. No shame.
@@Rockerlady They will pollute anywhere they go.
Clueless much??????
They want hotel rooms... how about work?
They make horrible choices and expect other people to pick up the mess they leave
You do realize these are real bleeding breathing people? For whatever reasons or series of mistakes they ended up living on the outskirts. At the end of the day why does it matter so much how they got there?
I’m in my thirties. Grew up and lived in SF metro all my life, so did my father. As far as I know “cleaning up the streets” initiatives focused on setting up drug centers where they could get their fix or shuffling them around to a different patch of the city. Talking to people 7 days a week and having a strong police presence to intervene in violence se has never been done to my knowledge. This is a step in the right direction. Maybe not the cheapest solution up front but certainly will be more humane and cost effective in the long run.
For the people who make it to the other side, they might have some amazing talents and abilities to contribute to society. I pray that it works out 💪🏽
@@vanessagamino6826 You do realize that many of those are NOT good people that happened to have one or two "unfortunate" events, right? Quite a number of 'em really do choose and like the homeless and druggy lifestyle. Many of 'em aren't victims.
@@vanessagamino6826no one said they were not "real breathing people" but thanks for pointing that out. Hope you sleep better at night now smh.
@@vanessagamino6826 yes, real bleeding breathing people who made shitty life choices and "compassionate and empathetic" progressives think the answer is to let them stay high and drugged out all day with harm reduction policies while the tax payer picks up the tab. the only amazing talents and abilities these people have is finding the money required to buy their next fix.
exactly....and decent people have to foot the bill....it's disgusting
These politicians here have destroyed this city.
yup ed lee now london
Not actually the politicians, but the people of the city who voted them in... Keep voting Democrats and keep getting the same crappy results.
So it's legal to block the sidewalks with all these tents these people don't want to do anything but buy more drugs from the dealers that are standing on the corner like it's legal
This is the first time I've seen an SF govt employee be extremely competent at their job
But sad that the higher ups are not aligned.. He can only do so much. The policies are hindering him from doing his job right and actual helping the homelessness.
Did he get anybody housing? Or he just got them moved to the next block and keep feeding them? This is worse.
Give Nancy Pelosi a call. This is her district. Maybe her and Paul can give up some of their money from insider trading to help in the revamp of this area.........Sure?
Have you tried lowering the cost of living? I'm telling you that is the issue, lower the cost of living, get these people in jobs and mental health care, allow for builders to build more housing and watch things improve. The more expensive things are, the more stressful one is to meet the expectations of cost of living and then people turn to doing drugs, because it takes all those worries go away, but then addiction sets in and as that sets in the body becomes addicted to wanting to feel good more and doesn't want to go back to having worries, then people are so addicted that they no longer worry about society things, they end up on the streets where things seem more free, and that's how you end up with more and more homelessness. I've seen so many videos and documentaries on homelessness, and the one thing that almost all have in common is the cost of living in the cities they are in. All this money is poured into so many programs, but nobody has tried simply reversing the cost of living from going up to going down and see what the results from that are.
It's true that all the regulations and red tape spewed out by Dem governments is a major factor in making housing unaffordable.
Oh, these theoretically simple solutions that don't work. How do you account for the heavy drug use in rural areas where there is a low cost of living and a slower lifestyle? That's the type I see in my area of the country. Some people just don't want to change and they don't need people making broad, generalized excuses for them, especially when you blame a society in which most people function just fine. Have you ever been around addicts? It isn't always about an inability to cope. Sometimes they are just losers. And unfortunately, losers can't be helped. All you can do is move them away from people who care about their lives. Lucky for my area, they burrow out in their trailers in the woods and mostly stay away from civilization. Probably because people in conservative areas aren't having this garbage lying around on our sidewalks. One tent in my town would be gone before it was fully erected.
@@somebodysomething4242 to answer your question, yes I have been around drug addicts, and lots of homeless, have you? And yes not all areas of the country are the same, people who come from broken homes are more easily pushed into drugs no matter where they live, this will come down to people who shouldn’t be procreating actually doing so, but It’s still comes down to how we want to feel. Do you want to feel like crap? No, who does, after a while on drug’s though you don’t care what others think of you, you just want your fix to feel better. You want the drugs to cling to those receptors in our brain that make us feel good. So while not all people are homeless and on drugs for the same reason, just like you and I don’t have to take a shit at the same time, cost of living is the problem that is making homelessness a growing issue in California.
@@ivansicardo8890 Deleted. You can't argue with a bleeding heart because they don't think with their brains. I know, because I used to be one.
Harm reduction is a joke. Telling people they can choose housing is another joke. Don't like congregate living? Well maybe you don't get to choose if you want to stay in SF. If you are too agitated to live in housing we need to put you in a hospital. We need to stop enabling bad behavior.
nah bro nurses and doctors dont want to deal with these nasty people either, need to lock them up and force cold turkey withdrawal and make life miserable in jail until they realize its not worth being locked up
Hey, you're hurting these "unsheltered" people's feelings.
Hey maybe giving them free stuff and making them comfortable isn't such a good idea......
This is embarrassing 😭-Mayor Breed?
This is embarrassing, and please don't take this as an endorsement of the mayor, but what would you have her do? I ask these questions with no emotions towards you; how do we fix this problem? Do we arrest everybody we find homeless on the street? What do we do with them then? Can Alcatraz be "re-purposed" and we ship them all over there like the old movie "Escape from New York?" Drop food and medical supplies off on the island once a week? Again this is not a personal attack you or any one else, but these are complex problems, to which we must find a solution for. These issues aren't unique to San Fran - every major city is fighting the same problem.
She's looking at her $500k/year paycheck plus pension, health and Welfare as you're typing this. She thanked you for keeping paying your taxes.
That's an incredibly compassionate person doing the tenderloin street management. They seem to have a very clear and yet understanding for all aspects of the situation. These are the people we need
you clowns are forgetting the essentials, for every action there’s a reaction!!! If homeless people don’t have a reason not to camp they’ll just stay, we need consequences for them like fines that if added up will mean they’ll spend time in jail!! Being nice doesn’t work, being nice just brings people that will abuse it and piss on our kindness. So keep cleaning up all that mess ur just making them stronger!!
Exactly, we need some back bone. I get why they don't want to live in shared housing, but at least then your not breaking the law. It's shared housing voluntarily or in a jail cell. They can still choose. But staying on the street is not an option.
They don’t give af about the fines. They don’t care cus they’re not ever going to pay them hahah and they really don’t care if they go to jail because they’re better off in there cus they get fed, clothed, and get to shower lol just get all these homeless mfs and send them to another state 😂😂
Wait till you see what happens to my boss when you come messing with me..
Can't allow bad behavior to go on unchecked forever. You got to draw the line and say enough.
What does that even mean
@@PineTreePal if you neighbor comes to your yard and takes a crap in a daily basis and urinates in your door every every then proceeds to camp out on your porch on a regular basis do you just deal with it? I know I wouldn't.
Hopefully it's easier for you to understand now.
This is a thankless job and the sheer scale does make it almost impossible.
Sounds like a great use of resources.
@@anthonydomench6871 complete waste of money. i assume you are being sarcastic
@@bekincai You assumed correct. It’s absurd seeing all these comments commending this man’s efforts as if he’s accomplishing anything. It’s like cheering for Sisyphus as he pushes his boulder up the mountain. Except Sisyphus wasn’t being paid a bloated government salary with full benefits where he gets to eventually retire and hand over his inane job to another leech who will inevitably be paid more and accomplish even less.
The way they are doing it, it is impossible. The way to solve this is too inhumane for most people, but societies have dealt with these mass vagrancy issues before.
@@tshandy1 What happens when you start feeding stray cats?
This catastrophe will only worsen until these people are forcibly removed from cities into hospitals/camps/call it what you want.
Going to have to tread on a lot of rights and freedom to do that.
@@joriankell1983 Wonderful. Please proceed.
@@VenusNouveau2005 I, too have embraced Fascism.
@@joriankell1983 Nope. One musn't be a fascist to observe that heavy handed solutions are now required to take our cities back from addicts, criminals, and professionally vagrant.
@@joriankell1983 so... the homeless aren't treading on the rights of the rest of society?
law and order is fascism?
do you work for the ACLU? do you also advocate for debilitatingly addicted people to manage their own recovery?
your false narrative that such a thing is possible and your narrative that individual freedom at all cost, even cost to the rest of society is flawed, incorrect and the root of the problem.
Only the Urban Alchemy has committed their lives to helping folks in town they deserve a HUGE award key to the city each one of them!! And then politicians overpaid and all DO YOUR job already!
half the urban alchemy is high themselves and doing drugs right on the sidewalks in uniform. Urban Alchemy while good in theory, isn't doing much in the way of helping promote recovery of it's workers or cleaning the streets.
They don't give a shit which is why the state of California is an unmitigated disaster right now. But hey, keep voting Democrat.
In NYC, we don’t allow tents on the sidewalk, period. Why does SF allow them?
Better weather but same rats.
Compassion.
because someone (non profits) are benefiting from it. These "Non profits" are growing even larger to address these issues so they can continue to pay themselves more and more and it keeps them in their cushy overpaid jobs to make sure the homeless are still on the street and in need of their services.
@@greghelton4668 stupidity
There you go......adapt THAT model already!
If you can't support yourself and be a productive, contributing member of society. If you continue to have a Negative Impact on Others then you should lose your right to disrupt our lives.
We have the right to work hard and be productive and have a good quality of life. If you can't, won't or don't want to be part of that success then you become the enemy.
The time has come to be Intolerant for the Disruptions caused by the Homeless.
These people live on the streets in an effort to Avoid the Responsibilities of Adult Living. If we allow them to destroy our communities then we are the fools. I'm not the least bit interested in whether or not the Homeless are Happy. The Homeless are not the least bit Interested in our Happiness.
The time has come to Forcefully take Our Streets Back.
There is no Santa Claus or Snow White. The county jail is behind Skyline College in San Bruno for SF. Daily cost? 150+ USD per day. Perhaps a large tent city jail in the desert like Arizona would make it feasible?
Yes how dare the poor and marginalised impinge on your comfortable lifestyle
@@annecrestani9218 The way you word that, it sounds like you think that the poor and marginalized are Victims. That's like blaming the convenience store owner himself for being robbed. If he hadn't have worked hard and opened the store, then he wouldn't have been shot during the robbery.
I started life with a Paranoid Schizophrenic Mother and an Often Absent Alcoholic Father. I had $6 in my pocket and a work ethic that couldn't be stopped. I'm not sure that I see that in the Homeless. According to HUD there are 555 successful people for every 1 Homeless person (0.18%). If I have 556 employees and 555 of them can get to work on time and 1 person has been late or absent for Decades then they have the problem. Punishing the 555 hard working employees to make up for the 1 slacker wouldn't be tolerated. Attention everyone, you can either take turns babysitting George or everybody takes a pay cut. After a vote the 555 hard working employees asked me to just fire George 🔥.
excellent comment.....they don't give a damn about normal citizens who are responsible....and they will always remain parasites
Wow... What a sad attitude.. sounds like 18th Century England. So sad....
They can throw all the money and resources they want at it , Its not going to solve the problem until you get rid of the Mayor and the DA , THEY ARE THE PROBLEM ! They have no shame and they are the Blame !
I feel sad for SF. It's such a beautiful city by the bay! I visit a lot in the past but only once since the pandemic! Hope they can revive it like before. Kudos to the cleaners doing the clean up, it's not easy!
It's too easy to blame everything on the 'pandemic'. This is far older than covid.
😂😂😂They got what they voted for😂😂I bet those politicians,Das, judges don’t want homeless ppl on where they live but don’t mind letting them sleep,build tents on in-front of normal citizens houses!They got so much sympathy for homeless but still don’t want them anywhere near where they live😂😂😂
Focus on one of the last comments in this piece "there are a lot of people working hard (to change this situation)... with the exception of those who are actually living on the streets. You have to want to better yourself for this to work and we are allowing/accepting that people are making the wrong decisions.
I spent 18 years living in the filth of San Francisco. Hell on Earth. Astronomical taxes to provide services and handouts with little to show for it. Enough is enough.
Provide basic shelter, food and referrals, that’s it. Give the homeless a few weeks notice, then bring in the military and clear the streets completely. You CANNOT sleep on the streets, erect a tent, use drugs openly, steal, vandalize or violate the rights of every citizen to live in a clean, safe, civilized community. We need to post a military guard on every corner to regain law and order. But honestly I don’t think it will ever get better and frankly I’m grateful everyday that I was able to get out.
In a city full of millionaires, billionaires and empty office buildings the funds and housing just can't be found to treat and house the homeless. What a mystery!
The millionaires and billionaires want them to go away! The other issue, where are they going to put them?
How is it someone else's responsibility to pay your way in life? It's greedy to want others to fund your life.
@@Philflashjail or mental institutions
The homeless have ruined the city by literally crapping all over the sidewalks. The rape, assault, theft and murders are also committed by homeless half the time. I and many others are tired of this disease on society and hopefully these filthy junkies will fatally overdose ASAP every last one of them. If you care so much then bring one or a group of these people into your home around your family. You’ll see what happens, these animals will eat you alive. Go clean the 💩 up and give some money for them so they can get more dope.
They’re all addicted to drugs. Move them away to some open land away from all the drug dealers and for everyone’s safety. Force their hands.
Shelter, rehab or jail. Get the mentally ill into institutions. Letting people live like this is not kindness, it's abuse.
No one seems to ever listen to the people that live in the Tenderloin.. I live on the edge of it, technically van ness/civic center, STOP THE DRUG DEALERS! We keep saying it over and over, we beg the city, we call the cops constantly, and they still deal right in the open in huge groups, right in the front of police, I can't even walk out of my apartment at times because 5+ dealers will be leaning against the front door. They deal right out in the open, same people for the last 3 years. No one can get OFF the drugs because they offer them free samples and "freebies" when they run out, and they are aggressive, every day when I leave and come back home, I get asked by at LEAST 10 people what I want, and get offered by at least 5 people free drugs.. and this is just in the first half block from my home, then it repeats... You will NEVER clean up the homeless issue until you get RID OF THE DRUG DEALERS.. they are the cause for all of it, from the homeless crisis to the thefts, and so forth.
I don’t live in Calif but have traveled to SF enough to know you are indeed close. The homeless guy “Abe” also appears to potentially be on some substance to me…
Why does our country have so many homeless people while our friends in countries like in Europe and Australia/NZ don’t?? What are we doing wrong?? 🤦🏻
Profiting off the problem. Follow the money and it's easy to see. 🕵️
Thank that gentleman and his team for their service
No need that what the check is for
@@pennypinchhomefinder7887 You really think he gets paid well. Too bad you’re so bitter.
@@pennypinchhomefinder7887 His check that pays under the 82k a year poverty line according to HUD.
For what? Enabling drug addicts.
@@giftedgreen2152 and what do you propose? To Not clean up the filth?
You can't hug and kumbaya these homeless away unfortunately. Forced treatment 4 all
O you mean the failed harm reduction. They will all be back on the street and then some.
He's right, tt seems many of the homeless in SF are choosing to remain homeless.
Of course... Democrats allow them to shoplift and steal... allow them to poop on the streets and take drugs... allow the block the sidewalks/streets with their tents... No consequence whatsoever!
No, it's the government's job to provide or build housing for all its citizens. Horrific international gentrification notwithstanding.
The more you help these people, the more people wind up needing help. Helping causes more misery.
sad but true
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Lock both druggies and drug dealers in jail. take people with mental health issue to treatment facilities. For the rest lazy bones, let them be on the street because it's their choice and they like it.
It shouldn't be about choice anymore. These people need to be forced...otherwise they make it hard on those who are trying to make a living legally.
Regular citizens have to follow laws, but the homeless are allowed to do whatever they want.
What a foolish thing to say
After traveling overseas, I can't help but be ashamed upon my return to SF. Where's all the $$$ going? Bureaucrats.
So in 2019 we could walk down the sidewalk, but over the past two years it’s completely transformed.
What happened in that 2 years. It so interesting seeing such a dramatic change in such a short period of time.
I worked in downtown SF in the early 90s, and even then I had to dodge human feces on the sidewalk almost every day.
Another policy of failure by both the mayor and the board of supervisors. Drugs and crime on the rampage and this is just to much for the residents of what was once a beautiful city..
Treat the drug addiction, treat the feelings of hopelessness. Saving the neighborhood means making a place worth caring about and people that feel a community to be part of.
@TH-camCensorsTheTruth The Black Panthers offered acupuncture and acupressure and got addicts off of drugs, which is why they locked up 2Pac's Step-Father.
Nothing more diversity can't fix
the problem is that there's a disagreement with "how to treat the addiction."
some believe that individuals who are debilitatingly addicted, biologically compelled, can choose sobriety. this is so ineffective that most people who are in the category of debilitatingly addicted have gone through rehab 5 or more times.
is there anything in service that you would accept a 5x failure rate? like if you went and tried to buy a coffee in the morning and you failed 5 times every time, would you keep doing things the same way?
Yeah, its interesting to see how western medicine has failed to treat addiction with more drugs. The black panthers had a much higher success rate on treatment by using acupressure, massage, and acupuncture. Look it up, they made a documentary about it.
When you treat law breakers and bums like humans, and wonder why things are so hard to fix. Meanwhile, law abiding citizens and hard working people get hit with fines left and right. Yeah, that's totally fair. All these urban campers and drug addicts should be sent to a camp in the middle of the Cali desert.
Eligibility…as in they wanna do drugs, and not get into rehab…
Do you know why it's a challenge? Because two days after the "cleanup" you have to clean it up again! 😮
They are doing so much but the job they have is insane. I’m noticing slight improvements.
Funny we just don’t have this problem where I live
The Tenderloin was a shithole when I was growing up in the bay area in the 90s. Literally nothing's changed except the price of property...
I lived on those streets in the 90s, eventually I got myself outta that situation. Until that individual wants help.. there's not much you can do. I don't understand why they're allowing tents on the streets, that's just ridiculous. Just bcuz you're homeless(& I was for years) you don't get to turn the sidewalk into your home. I love San Francisco so much, best city in America & I've lived all over, but it's beyond ridiculous what a few thousand homeless have been allowed to do to the streets
what did you do then for work? you didn't have the church people tell you crap is good enough for you. Are you a man, or dei systematic racism recipient?
lol
I’m sure you did plenty of sketchy sht while living on the streets.
Anyone that’s been in that situation knows that no one is living on the streets being a model citizen 😂
One wants to keep doing drugs, shoplifting, and then expect the public to pay for housing in one of the most expensive housing markets in the world.
stop catering all, then it will never end.
In my small city one homeless man on drugs stole $3,500.00 in a few hours. x 365 days a year = 1.27 Million Dollars a Year by one person on hard core drugs!!! 1.27 Million x 1000 homeless stealing all for drugs is over a Billion Dollars a year. See why stores are closing???
When is the next election? Breed hasn't improved this situation in years.
They'll just get some other way-hip far-left "resistance" idiot.
It's about time. SF looks like Brooklyn in the early 90's.
Gav Newsom is doing such an amazing job... he needs to turn the whole Country like S.F. 💩💩🐀🐀= 🤣🤣 Gruesome needs to be chained to Ca and keep him there !!! Funny, most all DemocRat ran city's n states look just like this... why is that ???
Legit worried of getting stabbed randomly. Thank you to this guy. We need 100 of him.
Yeah, it's only a matter of time before one of these heathens attacks.
Maybe this explains the reason for the downturn in shoppers not coming to San Francisco? Playing Hop Scotch dodging turds on the sidewalk isn't funny.
They need more guys like him.
Exactly, he’s great
Keep voting for this SF, you brought it on yourself.
This was an *excellent* segment. Nicely targeted, informative, beautifully edited. Congratulations to KPIX.
Journalistically speaking...excellent report.
I hated each time I had to go down to the sf courthouse for the office to file things because I had to walk on those fecal soiled sidewalks and lost track of how many needles are all over the ground and had to park blocks away
I’m always amazed that there are so much trash around their tent or gathering, and I’ve noticed that homeless people cross the street in a precarious way by not using the pedestrian cross walk but instead proceed to cross the street by walking among the cars waiting at the stop light or just simply crossing while cars are everywhere.
There should be massive protests at London Breed's office everyday. Tax paying citizens need to demand more police, rehab clinics and enforcing of laws.
Just ask Whole Foods how well this is working out ?
They want hotel rooms....I want free accommodation too..thanks?
It's an endless fight. Homelessness will double in 3 years.
As long as this man keeps making excuses and keeps saying it is the drugees choice to make to not be in the shelters - the mess will never get cleaned up. The people on the street have shown they cannot make good decisions for themselves, so, somebody needs to do it for them.
Look, if you arrested and locked up junkies who are illegally using on the street... They would all leave the city.
No one want to be dope sick in jail for a couple days. It's that simple, but SF doesn't have the guts to do what needs to be done.
Bottom line is, and we see this in nearly every large US city with leftist administrations, is that if you rationalise, excuse, enable and condone disrespectful, antisocial behaviour and criminal activity, you’re going to get more of it
Yup.
As long as they all stay in SF, it's all good. In fact, all counties in the state should start bussing them all there.
When my son and I walk through the TL, we see cops parked at just about every corner. We’ve never had a problem, yet.
I lived on a bad block in the tenderloin for two years and never feared for my personal safety. But I did get DAMN sick and tired of poop, needles, and screaming.
This is a joke. Warehouse these people away from the public. 10 years being a homeless is that a job.
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This just screams single payer healthcare system. I mean why else does England not have a single mother effing city looking like this anywhere? We are genuinely at the point where giving everyone healthcare would be long term cheaper than the horrific fallout of not providing adequate care and letting this happen. Or would you rather continue living with tent cities randomly popping up on your front lawn? It doesn’t take a genius to recognize if you create a system where people who fall through the cracks are forgotten and no resources are sent their way they’ll quickly gather together and become a huge problem like they are doing here. Increase corporate taxes to back to pretrump levels and use the cash to create single payer healthcare im tired of us all getting scammed by Cigna
Where’s Pelosi and Gavin to help resolve this issue? And Gav wants to be the next President, no thx Gav.
Gavin tried. Project HouseKey. He tried buying abandoned and disused hotels to house homeless. Fucking karens, chads and other shills hired by the real estate developers protested those attempts and those places remain empty and homeless are still out there. Breed tried to buy the old Hotel Nikko to house homeless but the Japs who live in the area were SCARED and the sale didn't go through. This shit's all been reported on and it seems like nothing's being done because the real estate developers are too powerful.
It's simple to deal with this problem, but it takes political will that SF doesn't have.
Right... keep voting for Democrats and expect different results... lol
San Francisco WAS one of the most beautiful city in the world…, it’s really sad that people from
San Fran destroyed the city by choosing their leaders.
Homeless more than 6x growing up. Looking back it was 100% my parent fault. Now that I'm grown it will never be an issue again.
Sanctuary cities...SF, Portland, Seattle!!!
What does not get mentioned is the number of people who have actually been permanently placed in permanent housing and are still there. The number is in the low thousands. The continuous in flow is the hardest to stop.
What that guy is saying is that he, and others like him, refuse to give up their drug habits and garbage to have hotel shelter. No hotel should be forced to have occupants that bring in as much garbage and drugs as homeless do. At some point, the government is going to have to force people into rehabilitation centers of their own making to get them off the streets. If they can force undocumented persons into camps, they can do it to homeless as well.
"They want hotel rooms."
In other words, they want something FREE at the cost of tax-payers.
Go stay at one of the hotel/motel on 6th or 8th and report back tax payer.😢
@@2040wagon - Hell no.
1. Shelter
2. Rehab
3. Hospital
4. Jail
Every homeless person can go!
There is a street in Vancouver B.C thats similar to this it called "east hastings" street and they are also doing a clean sweep like this, too much fighting, overdosing fires. And yes housing them will not stop the addiction and crime. They recently put a new mental health act in place, for the worst offenders, of you are living on the streets and constantly stealing, overdosing, setting fires etc, and refuse any treatment to get off the streets, you might be taken into psychiatric care for an unknown stay period, again this is new and only a small handful get put in this kind of care, but with the flood of complaints from busness owners and local residences this program most likely grow!!!
I have good memories of visiting family in San Fransico when I was younger. It has become such a sewer I will never go back and mess up my memories. I won't think of the good memories when someone says San Fran I will think about the things I can't unsee in my head.
Move the homeless to city hall if people don’t want to be out here go get a job! Like sweep the streets! These homeless people should arrested cause they are breaking the law!
Prisoners get better treatment. They get free healthcare, free food, free education, access to libraries, gym equipment.
Animals get better treatment. They get caught and put in shelters to be adopted.
This started with Reagan who decided it was more feasible to shut down mental facilities and cut social programs and here we are, 40+ years later.
It is good to see people are at least trying to solve this problem. Some action is always better than no action. Eventually, however, I believe the rights of those citizens who are contributing to society will need to take precedence over those who only care about their right to remain on the streets, remain addicted, and affect the safety of law-abiding citizens. The current strategy appears akin to giving booze and car keys to your teenage children. It probably won't end well. If we cannot count on society to act like adults, this problem will never end.
some action is not better than no action... spend energy toward an engineering solution or stop spending resources.
@@trinydex 'Cuz those people think "doing action" costs zero money, time, and resources. They think "doing action" is free.
Homeless because of addiction. Stop making it easier be an addict. There's a start.
The US government would rather spend billions on other countries before helping the American people!
Good thing CA has such a strong Governor to fix this problem.
This has been a problem for decades. Ever since governor reagon slashed mental health services and closed down the halfway houses.
You would thing a democrat governor would do something , wouldn't you ???😛
For those homeless w/ mental health/substance use issues, offer them inpatient treatment and housing options.
If they refuse, give them prison, or commit them to asylums---we need to bring them back. They clearly cannot take care of themselves.
Our streets are not your drug playground.