The Truth About Homelessness in San Francisco
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 3 ต.ค. 2024
- San Francisco has become plagued by homelessness, addiction, and property crime. In this short documentary, I investigate what went wrong-how one of the world's most prosperous cities has become a haven of public disorder.
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What disgusting people. I’m talking about the officials.
And the voters. And the community leaders.
I'm talking about both. There are no excuses for this bullcrap. Life is 100% about CHOICES.
Especially Boudin.
Liberalism is a Mental Health issue
@@TD-2011 exactly - what an idiot .
These city “leaders” aren’t mentally well themselves.
Chesa Boudin 6:42 is the son of convicted far-left wing murderers and terrorists. Got elected with soros money backing him.
yes, did you hear Supervisor Ronen in this film? She doesn't make any sense in what she is saying.
Too true. Watching to that far-left nutball councilwoman wave her arms around while she can barely string a coherent sentence together makes it clear she suffers from a severe case of self-inflicted ideological insanity.
Clearly. They spend over a billion on 18.000 homeless people. That's $50.000,- for each homeless people each year. They could just employ the sane ones to care for the crazy ones and totally fix all of the the problems.
And this is not a mistake.
The Democratic Party is infiltrated and taken over by international socialists aka marxists.
And their only goal is to destroy the USA. Individual by individual, city by city, state by state.
They(the world wide international socialists) want to destroy white countries and in the end the whole white race.
For example.
twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1293603172842221570
1 billion to homelessness? more like 1 billion to politicians and media oligarchs!
1 Billion to enable them. Not 1 dollar to help. Just let them live another day.
Thats 55000 per person... like wtf are they doing with that money?????
@@elvismtz8387 I noticed that from 1960 to now that drug abuse, homelessness, crime, human trafficking and all other social problems have increased along with government spending. To the layman it would appear that our government has been subsidizing the collapse of the United States of America.
@@kevb1959 That's the welfare state for you.
Think of the buildings that could be built for 1 billion to house all these people, if necessary.
Spending $1B on 18,000 homeless is spending $55,000 for each and every homeless person with zero results. It's absolutely shameful. We need to hold the politicians accountable. This is ridiculous. I mean, WTF!?
Scam?
Or Dig about this what about the people who lost their boats their homes they’re homeless now
@@michellecimmino6326 I wonder how the homeless managed to survive the hurricane??? 🌊
$20,000 for a tent. You know who pockets the profits
It's also naive to think that every addict wants help and to get clean. Some addicts have no desire to get clean at all.
almost every addict has the desire to get clean. don't talk shit. but getting clean and having to deal with all that shit that happened while being an addict and with what lead you to become an addict in the first place is hard af. you get clean and see that you destroyed you life, this is not something you can deal with easily. plus all the mental illness, no money, often no family and no friends, nowhere to go. it is naive to think that you can just quit being a junkie
@@namesashhousewares8337 not every addict has the desire to get clean. That’s a false statement. A lot of addicts will continue to use even if placed in rehab. A lot of addicts relapse. There’s also a mental health issue with a lot of addicts because of all the drug use they now have psychosis and now have to be treated for that and addiction. The psychosis part will make the person continue to use drugs because of the chemical imbalance and loss of control in decision making and reality. It’s just like the saying “you can lead a horse to water but you cannot make the horse drink the water” addicts are the same. If they don’t have the desire to get clean, the resources will not help them and they will relapse.
Most addicts
@@sarahlauren6046 i didn't say every addict. but what you described, is kinda the same that i described. most addicts want to get clean, but they can't (you added a view more reasons to mine). go out to skid row and ask any addict there if he would like to be not addicted to whatever drug he is on. what do you think the answer will be?
They can be forced at gunpoint like in civilized countries
It was awesome to be a part of this documentary! Thank you Chris Rufo for thinking my story and my thoughts were relevant enough to be included in this powerful and honest look into the tragedy unfolding in San Francisco.
Honesty is always the best policy--personal honesty and political honesty. I'm glad you found your way.
Thanks for your work
It felt really good to find out that you (Mr. Wolf) made it back to the side of sanity and sobriety. Many blessings ahead for you!
This tragedy is not unique to San Francisco, it is throughout the country, the rural areas and the cities. There is a class war going on and the working person is losing.
It's the low wages, unaffordable housing, childcare and education. And a healthcare system that is inaccessible to some and sure bankruptcy for those who have insurance if they ever become seriously ill.
Thank you Mr Wolf for all the work you do and for setting such a powerful example 🙏
This is weakness disguised as compassion, also cruel neglect.
=california.
Exactly
SHE JUST DESCRIBED THE DEMOCRATS!
But she admits that “they have to do better” so there’s that ray of hope. What a maroon.
“unintended consequence“ I CANNOT lol
I can’t think of a single logical reason why decriminalizing drugs would be an efficient solution
“I’m gonna have to stop you there..” I’m so glad you did that. Policy makers need to be aware of the direct results of their laws.
He also hit the nail on the head when he said that progressive policies only work when people behave in a particular way.
@harry Johnson I would dispute the use of the term 'self-centred', but it perhaps it is really only boils down to semantics. I personally don't see anything wrong in being 'self-centred' if that self-centredness is done for a fair and reasonable outcome. For example, taking your kids out of a public school and paying for a private alternative is denounced by some as selfish as it sets up all kinds of problems for public schools when they steadily lose their star students. But it's perfectly ethical if the public school in question is garbage. Let's not forget that 99.9% of us only get one bite of the educational cherry, and screwing your kids' future by giving them a garbage education is arguably a form of neglect or abdication of parental responsibility. What IS unethical is a school district that refuses to act when all of its statistics trend in the wrong direction. An what is pure hypocrisy is a progressive politician who praises public services but pays for private alternatives.
I have just witnessed a splendid example of this semantic dichotomy. We have just had elections for the regional government of Madrid here in Spain, and which is responsible for a very wide range of services for almost 7m people. A big part of the campaign boiled down to the progressive left wanting to keep Covid lockdown and controls almost indefinitely and a conservative side that campaigned on the message of 'ENOUGH ALREADY - LET'S GET BACK TO NORMAL. The conservatives won. By a landslide. Not even close. What most stunned the left was the huge surge in support for conservatives in working class districts and neighbourhoods. The progressives have condemned working class voters as ignorant and selfish, and that any future deaths from Covid are your fault etc. The response has been that working people need to live and that we can't simply sit passively month after month after month after month and watch as their jobs and livelihoods are destroyed, and that not everyone has the privilege of a public sector job that guarantees them a safe income and is insulated from whatever happens in the economy as a whole.
Fall on deaf ears , wouldn’t be surprised if most of these folks seek
Refuge in red states . The problem is they keep promoting their ideology
In those states.
This is why I was absolutely stunned that you got one of these people for an interview. Most of them know they are wrong and avoid interviews like Covid-19.
She was just spouting off ideology like a college sophomore at a protest rally. That's the problem. The majority of these lefties never matured past their college years. They're still the same bratty, delusional teenagers they were when first became Marxists. But now they're in positions of political power. Hence the mess they've put people in.
Hotels for the homeless, once the property damage cost becomes too high, they will be right back out on the streets.
Government basically has to buy the hotels because they are going to be condemned and unlivable within 6 months. Or someone is going to burn it down because drugs are not only allowed but given to bribe them into them. 1 billion used to help homelessness and it just gets worse. I wonder why. Its called enabling them, not helping them.
@@cranbers watch the frontline documentary about how wealthy developers stole millions from money that was supposed to help homeless. It's not the struggling that are disgusting, it's the spoiled, selfish, greedy well off!
Hotels are bought with tax money, they will be fixed with tax money after they are damaged by people living from tax money, who'll damage them again.
It seems that even if you wanted to pack up and flee San Fransisco, The city has become that foul & ferrel you couldn't sell your house to anyone to be able to move away.
I’ve been living in SF for 12 years and I can attest to everything in this video. The conditions in this city are horrifying and totally unsafe for law-abiding citizens and people with small children. It’s hard to believe in a city where the average house is $1MIL, you can’t walk down the street without seeing excrement, vomit and strung out junkies everywhere.
Anticipate the arguments. It's not safe for anyone.
mateo sanfitz amen
@@mateosanfitz9625 Or if they weren't strung out on drug's and would work for a living, they wouldn't live in the streets. I guess'.
Vote to get rid of Nancy PELOSI, that's the only hope you have, really!
@Ken Richard In simple terms I look at it this way, I picture AMERICA as a country club, but there are different forms of membership, are country used to come with a certain amount of ammenaties, like security, from police, park's and recreation, open beaches, it's pay to play, and now they want to RAISE OUR TAXES, FOR WHAT? BECAUSE THESE FOOL'S MISS MANNAGE OUR TAX DOLLARS,ARE YOU KIDDING ME ABOSOULTLY NOT, AND THE LEFT WANTS US TO BE OUT OF WORK, AND BROKE! THE CORONAVIRUS IS NOT AS CONTAGIOUS AD THEY CLAIM!
Thanks for your efforts in making this video. I was on the streets in SF with an addiction problem years ago. I was able to get out and I've been sober for 14 years now. I want to say that there is no way that I would have cleaned up with the current policies in SF. I cleaned up because I had no other options left, other than maybe prison or death. The streets kicked my ass, basically. These days, with all the so called help these people are getting, they don't have any reason to change the way they live.
Your story is the story of human nature. We need guidance when we are bein controlled by drugs.
i love doing the Math on these things... 18,000 homeless they spend over $1 Billion per year.. that is over $55,000 per year per person ........... WHHHAAAAAATTTTTTT THHHEEE FFFFFFFFFFug...... its a scam,, they need people on the streets to get the money to solve the problem
@@matham625 Follow the money. Look at all the non-profits that get the money to 'help' these individuals. $55,000/individual is more like $5,000/individual. You know these orgs are siphoning off 85%.
@@utrich31 2 true too true
Congratulations on your sobriety! I come from that type of hell myself, and although I have never been homeless, I’ve been addicted, and I know how hard it can be to finally make a choice to live, and not die, and to turn your life around. Bravo!
Hearing the lady at 8:50 blame Republicans for SF is absolute INSANITY. Chris rebuttal's strongly, and amazingly, yet still she rambles on...too deep into her ideologies to see they ARE NOT WORKING.
She hasn't had to think for her entire life - she aint gonna start now!!
They are destroyed and they love their destructors
@Remember Lord Jesus Pray the Rosary Who is the President? What Party is in charge of the US? who Controls the Senate? Use the brain the good Lord gave you.
Mister Clean Then why is it that all of this shit only happens in blue cities? The left loves to play the savior role, yet always end up fucking shit up and blaming the Republicans for their own incompetence... this is why Trump is getting re-elected.
Oh she knows what shes doing and saying is bullshit. It's a plan to crash first the city, then our free country
Used to love going to San Francisco as a tourist. Never again.
Rick Schwartz I lived outside SF in Alameda and go so sick of the state, I left Forever!
@@joanl5600 I got "click" of it too...
Rick Schwartz
True. It’s an absolute shithole
I love San Francisco you guys are dumb as a bag of rocks.
@@californiamade5608 Good... you can keep it all to yourself. I won't mind at all.
I was born, raised, and currently live in the San Francisco Bay Area. I see this every day. THIS IS HONEST AND RESPONSIBLE REPORTING. Thank you, Mr. Rufo for creating this documentary. It exposes the problem at the root. If we change how we vote, we can save SF and the State of California.
Spoken like a well housed, well insured, rich boy with plenty of mommy and daddy's seed money.
@@daveomacron4301 Actually, I’m an African-American male, born and raised in the Bay-area by a single mother, in a high crime, high poverty neighborhood in East-Oakland. I’m blessed to have insurance, but everything I have has come by the grace of Jesus Christ. Feel free to continue with your baseless judgements and accusations against me. I’m not bothered. God bless you. ✌️
@@brandonoa17 Thanks for the resume, you seem to have plenty of street cred so I'm confused as to where you lost your compassion, especially as one invokes Christ.
@@daveomacron4301 You might not realize this, but “compassion” and “excuse-making” aren’t synonymous. Ignoring the root cause of serious problems and calling it “compassion” only perpetuates the problem. The longer a problem festers, the harder it is to fix. A healthy dose of reality, truth, and commitment to hard work goes a long way. Making excuses accomplishes nothing.
@@brandonoa17 congratulations. You have learned well the lessons of your masters.
Best decision I ever made was to move out of California. This video is 100% accurate and it’s so heartbreaking to see what happened to what used to be such a beautiful state… 💔
Great for you, but are you voting so that history doesn't repeat itself?
@@utrich31 the people in CA. Have been brain damaged into voting Democrat permanently.
What about the people that lost their boats their homes❤
I was born in San Francisco and grew up in a beautiful city. This brings tears.
Worked there for three years - pretty ugly place. Libs ruined it
Wish we could go back to 2010 2011 times when the giants were doing great
I know, brother, I know…
It is a beautiful city with great architecture, scenery, and history. These politicians ruined it and they go home every night to their families, well-fed, etc. They could care less about the plight of the city and whatever policies they think are right are not well thought out. Shameful.
I remember when Fisherman's Wharf was actually a wharf!!!
I left three years ago, and this was part of my reasoning for doing so. The homelessness and open drug usage was insane. I can't imagine what it is like now 3 years later.
So do you vote for Democrats??
I left Seattle a year ago for the same reasons. Just rotten. And no, I do not vote Democrat...
@Martin seems ro be a liberal city problem. Perhaps you should try new politicians
The problem started with these stupid experiments by Democrats that took away order.
Like how the guy that attacked Dave Chappelle is now being charged with a misdemeanor instead of attempted murder. He will then be back on the streets harrassing law abiding citizens again.
The idiot that smeared his poop all over a woman's face in a New York subway had prior assault charges with almost no jail time.
These are all Democrat experiments.
“The road to hell is paved with good intentions.”
@@martymcfly5423 ,built?....Einstein.
Or money..
Some citizens are truly compassionate & most of the people working in the social work/non profit industry- but don't forget this is BIG BUSINESS 💸💰💀
They want you to believe it was for good intentions.
During one of my (tech) internships, they took us to San Francisco (my first time) for a week near the tenderloin. Having grown up experiencing poverty, I was disgusted and shocked. You cross 2 blocks and you go from stunning luxury to abject suffering. And everyone seemed to just ignore it. It was much worse than anything I’d ever seen, and my parents are from one of the poorest African countries and I’ve spent much longer there… This video is the first I’ve seen that so accurately sums up my thoughts on San Francisco after doing my own research. I hope that people receive it and truly listen
See this everywhere. The rich continue to get richer and the poor get poorer. Some of the giantic new homes that are being built are ridiculous. Its like the greed in people have reached a new high. End of times is coming. We no longer look out for each other. Its just a me me me society now
Yeah and NONE of these rich people are investing in helping poor people come up because they don't care. Every time I see one of my friends who is still homeless, standing on a street corner with a sign, I stop and give them money. I've turned my life around so I'm able to help.
And what these rich people don't seem to get is that when you help others, you always receive MORE financial blessings from God for doing so. It's not like helping the poor is going to ruin them.
@@heatherhawkins7566
They've done their part. They voted Democrat and the Democrats are the party of the little guy.
As a young woman in the late 80's I walked all over SF exploring places on my own, riding BART, never had a problem.....I'm now 54, I can't imagine doing that today!!!!
@Gene Cox They're more saying that the place has changed before their very eyes and reaffirming the same thing you're saying about how things have become radically different.
Me too! I was a young single man in the 80s and very lonely in San Francisco. So on weekends I would walk all over San Francisco. There were no homeless except around the Powell Street Cable Car turnstyle and the BART plaza next to it. There were no public encampments. This is madness.
I understand I'm 55. From Richmond. San Fran as I call it was everything. I would get on bart and go every where. There was homelessness then. I truly has gotten out of control.
Wow, same here. The 1980's was still a magical time in San Francisco. Not any more. You couldn't pay me to step one foot in that city.
Thanks for video’s like these , San Francisco YIKES!!!
As a San Francisco native, thank you for making this short documentary.
This is what actual journalism looks like. Great job 👏🏻
If you are a lefty
symptom of a failed economic system
How is this is good journalism without even touching on the gentrification and rising cost of living and rising property and rent - all of which drive individuals and families into homelessness.
@@forthesnowflakes7691 Homeless are coming into the city from other places. This has nothing to do with gentrification and everything to do with lax government.
@@Wordsalad69420 homeless coming from other cities isn't the sole reason why we have homeless people. 😆😂 c'mon
What the leaders don’t get is that drug addiction is more powerful than “wanting” to get help. There has to be accountability. Almost every single person I’ve known that has become sober did so because they were facing consequences
Would you elaborate on the "consequences", please.
the ex heroin user Tom is 1000x more sensible and able to lead than Ronen or Boudin combined
I just want to thank you for not letting that woman supervisor get away with her over the top statement. The reporter did a real good job reporting and asking questions. Bravo!!
She doesn’t look normal to me. I think the democrat put her in that position.
The lady was complaining about republicans, in the most democratic city in the most democratic state,, way to pass the blame
You can’t fix stupid
Democrats =simps
Exactly.
As a republican, I can see her points. Less regulation, less funding, and priorities to wealthy are some contributions to rampant homelessness. Although democrats and geography are also to blame.
Republicans like Rudy Giuliani are the people who clean up cities. Democrats are brainwashed idiots who destroy cities.
I left Eugene Oregon 3 months ago because of this. I love Pittsburgh. Only 775 homeless in the whole county. There was 4000 in Eugene alone. I needed a better life for my daughter. The whole west coast is broken
Amazing job. As someone who has been homeless and drug addicted, I've constantly tried to make this point clear to people. Compassion can be a disguise for greed and self promotion. Politicians will walk over an OD victim on the street. Gaining voters is all that matters. Fantastic job on the doc. Seriously appreciated 🤘🏻
Same story in LA. So called bleeding hearts think they are doing good and instead just use rhetoric while the whole world around them burns. They give zero shits
The Democrats need the homeless to win elections so they won't be fixing the problem.
The video is literally filled with distortions and some outright falsehoods, and wild claims that are entirely undocumented and not born out by any other research. Seriously. I know this, I've lived and worked in SF for 30 years, studied this issue a ton. Rufo is way, way off.
We need to “clean” house top to bottom starting with the mayor and all supervisors .... Fired all of them!
Don't forget Newson. He needs to be recalled!
And once everyone is out don’t get back into bad voting behaviors again-means no more dems
Clean house at election quit voting democrat. The democrats never fix any problem they only know how to make it bigger like a runaway train. Progressive/liberal policies do not and will not work, look at results.
That will solve notning. No matter who's in charge. End of days
@@JElias-po6zu instill fear in them and show them their are consequences for their actions.
the guy who use to be on the streets seems to be a little smarter than the city counsel members
A lot.
In the 80's, 90's and early 2000's, I used to take trips to SF about 4 times a year. Now, 30 or more years later, all of my friends have moved out of the city, and many out of California. Letting people crap all over, literally, should not be protected like its free speech. Perhaps if all tents could be set up in front of the homes of people like Chesa Boudin, they would understand how this has to stop.
Ronen's statement is absolutely idiotic. The blame on the tech industry for the housing crisis and the homelessness? Housing crisis was started decades ago by local politicians. It's anti development sentiment has gotten them to where they are today. Tech industry has brought city officials with a record high budget that they spend billions on homelessness and other ineffective measures. The tech industry did not force people to become drug addicts, didnt create the lawlessness, and did not shut down the mental institutions that are necessary.
The talking points by the local progressive leaders such as Hilary Ronen, Matt Haney, Aaron Peskin, Dean Preston, and others is what has gotten SF to this mess. Stop villainizing who have done lots of good in the city, and look for solutions. Where would the budget be without the tax revenues they have generated from Tech? Now with a massive budget shortfall, they are doing everything in their power to push out companies further exacerbating the problem. Their tax base is fleeing.
We need more long term solutions. Housing homeless in hotels does not work in the long term. That is putting a bandaid on someone that stepped over a landmine. We need long term housing for the homeless, we need addict care, we need mental help, we need to prosecute drug dealing and supply, and more. We have a board of supervisors that is more progressive than ever and the conditions are worse than ever. Do people not see the correlation? How do SF voters continue to vote for these "progressive" politicians? How is Hilary Ronen running unopposed?
Truly doesn't know anything about the city she works for--blaming the tech industry? For what, jobs, tax revenues ???
Sure am glad I don't own a middle class home in SF. The taxes are staggering and getting worse and worse every year. These politicians are so far removed they don't even realize that honest, hard working people have to pay for all of their idiotic programs.
Have you ever heard of gentrification, Patrick? SF was its prototype, and NYC was its copycat. When rent in the slums is unaffordable without a hoard of roommates pitching in on your 2k$ studio apartment rent is acceptable, that creates HOMELESSNESS. And homeless creates despair. And despair creates deaths of despair (E.g., alcoholism, heroin abuse, mental illness due to stress and pathological confusion, and deviant behavior due to constant public humiliation that quickly erodes any minute sense of shame one still grips onto). SF has a burgeoning homeless problem because NOBODY CAN AFFORD TO EVEN RENT THERE. Most expensive city in the USA. Why? Because rich plutocrats drive up prices to the highest bidder. There's an exodus now-from the overpriced shit hole euphemistically called "LA"-to other areas. They sell their little shitty one bedroom house for 600k, and they now realize that makes you able to out purchase ANY normal person outside CA for a fucking mcmansion with a few acres to boot. My advice? I have none because I'm not a dumbass wasting money on high taxes and unaffordable rent to live in a progressive sewer. If I could advise you, I'd say to PLEASE don't Californize my state, and suffer happily in the liberal shitpile YOU literally voted and accepted in to your Californian liberal fuckery. Not my circus, not my MONKEY.
Yeah, she didn't come across well in this AT ALL. Didn't seem well-versed in her argument, and then seemed to backtrack when Chris rebutted her.
She has a point. San Francisco is simply too small and geographically restricted to emerge as a major metropolitan center like those in the Sunbelt. It was built around a lot of single-family housing unlike a place like New York so it's very hard to turn that around. It's simply too much VC funding, profits and money going to such a tiny area.
That lady from city hall is that typical teacher that punishes good students and is friends with the bad ones. Then puts the blame of the bad kids on everyone else. They should all be ashamed they allowed this to happen
Well said!! Very astute.
The woman is certifiably insane and yet people keep voting for her. 😳🤭🙄
@@sk8ercaligirl they keep voting for her cause they know it won't change in favor of the homeless. They want to continue living using drugs and getting into fights with people who don't give em money when not given any money.
Watch out for the homeless that force their way into your business and they start a fight with you to get you arrested and a case put on you.
Trust when I say it's a wave they been making with homeless people starting problems to get the person defending themselves thrown in jail.
yup
i agree....
but voting left or right IS NOT THE SOLUTION...
WE NEED COMMON SENSE, MORALITY, AND LIBERTY.
STOP FALLING FOR THE LEFTWING AND RIGHTWING EXTREME POLARITIES.
"politics, both left and right are the crime of the century"
- vaughn benjamin
from the rastafari reggae music groups Akae Beka, and Midnite.
Freedom, liberty, righteousness, truth, love and life.
objective morality and truth.
the whole country is suffering from extreme polarization due to the leftwing and rightwing higellian dialectic.
this is a critical tactic of the 1percenters who rule and govern this nation.
we should be allowed to have and grow cannabis, and use poppies in a mature non synthetic fashion, but we also cannot promote a hard drug culture while devaluing an upright work ethic, and sound biblical morals.
Not only do they let it happen they encourage it with their policies but they ask you not to look at their results but look at their good hearts and intentions
“It led to all these unintended consequences.” Unintended? Perhaps. Completely predictable to anyone not living in a fantasy world? Absolutely.
You mean like the fantasy world where Trump is patriotic and not evil and wicked, not to mention treasonous and the Republican Party are pro-American and not behind the sedition and treason!
To be honest, some of the strategies coincided with new drug epidemics and a change in the job market, including a pandemic. Prisons are tax payer funded, so are police, and armed squads running around and catching the homeless. Accountability isn't cheaper, each person in prison costs hundreds of thousands a year, they are often criminalized and brutalizer in prison, and leave more violent than they entered. Probably a half-way between homeless and prison is necessary but people are so polarized that half the population wants them free and not held accountable, and the other half wants to line them up and shoot them.
It gets really fucked up when you find out those "unintended" consequences were indeed, the intention
@Jacob Maurer Dangerous to compare Portugal to America. America has exceptionally high inequality which has lead to 500,000 homeless. America also has terrible climate which means these 500,000 have to congregate in coastal cities where the weather is moderated by the ocean. People who say NYC is cold haven't been anywhere in the center of the country...the weather is deadly for those exposed for long periods of time. The main issue that San Fran, La, Portland have is they have a wonderful climate, and relatively prosperous and happy people who are idealistic to a fault. There are plently of homeless in LA who would rather be homeless in 80F weather, even with an addiction, than struggling to make ends meet in North Dakota with nasty weather and judgmental people. Isn't it ironic that the homeless gravitate towards the most irreligious states?
@Jacob Maurer Portugal is a really positive story, especially the fact that drug use is so low today compared to the rest of europe. America has nearly 100k overdose deaths a year. These are people who are not incarcerated, who are freely using drugs, and often do not have consequences for drug use outside of social isolation. In fact, in America at least, Incarceration often offers the only chance to get treatment because it is one of the most consistently funded structures in America. Many a user, including some in my family, were clean for the first time, in prison, and many stay clean once they get out. Incarceration might be the only time some people matter.
I saw an Epileptic Man have a seizure as a child and will never forget that -
I can’t imagine what kids in SF are seeing on a daily basis .
I live 20 mins outside of Seattle. The situation is identical. Nothing about what these idiotic city council, attorney generals and Mayors are doing is compassionate.
“The road to hell was paved with good intentions.” How true is that??
I just can’t believe your great country is in situation, but it’s the same here, if your rich, your mega rich but if your poor your basically fucked . TMW 🏴🇬🇧
Vegas is the same way. Bums everywhere. A tourist was beaten to death just the other day on the strip by some homeless maniac.
As a tourist from balkans,I was shocked when I first landed in SF. Absolutly shocked...
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balkans
And u probably paid a pretty penny too lol.
@@LoverboyB_Pookie oh yeah it ren me about 3.500 euros. Spent there about 13-14 days.
I’ve been to many countries, have never seen anything like SF anywhere else. Not even in Africa!
@@GP-nr2fm Kensington Philly
that lady towards the end sounded literally insane. Completely out of touch.
Shes an elected official. I lived in SF back in 07-09, it was wild then, but it's a warzone now.
@@Ivan-ud1gr and it's funny how the Democrats there don't want to put some of these people into institutions yet seem to have no problem sometimes trying to stomp on contributing members of society's rights!!
Not only insane, but SUPER DELUSIONAL. Now that's really really sad. And this is good? How???
she looks manic
That's a Democrat for you.
This is awful. I remember my beautiful city in the early eighties
I'm so sad....
I lived in SF in the mid-90's. It's bittersweet but we should feel lucky. We lived there when the beauty of the city was alive and well
move all homeless to the white house lawn - you'd be surprised how fast they find a solution then
Nancy has some property available ?
It Trump fault he did not do anything send them to his resorts.
Solution= they'd all get shot. But haven't the (self-proclaimed) "elites" been trying to push us away for centuries now?
Wouldn't fit!!
Yea they will do something about it they will put them in busses and drop them of on another street somewhere.
I just visited San Francisco for the first time last month on a work trip.
It reminded me of an old theater with splendid architecture and unique character. I could tell that in its hayday it used to be quite the attraction but years of poor management turned it into a run down dump.
You completely misinformed cooper
SF is home of steve jobs , its amazing
When u mess with the liberals living space then it's a crisis. Otherwise when the homeless are out of sight out of mind, no problem!
You shouldn’t have went to the bad part intentionally
I worked there in fall of 2006. It was starting to get bad, but nothing like what it is now. The city had so much potential to so beautiful. As you said the architecture. The way it's built on rolling hills still amazes me.
@@jontyrhodes4155 lies. San Francisco as a whole is a big dumpster...
The streets of San Francisco are now officialy public toilets.
Public toilets are CLEANER
Can you really be nude in public in San Fran or are there certain restrictions/licenses?
Do you mind if we move these folks to your neighborhood?
@@telebob I don't care.
@@telebob I already have more than enough , thanks.
I worked for the city of san francisco 1998 to 2008. Retired 2008. Lived in the east bay. Have great memories of San Francisco. Since then I have lived on long island queens st.Pete now tampa. So sad for san francisco. The people suffer. The pacific cries but the ⭐ stars somehow still shine. ❤❤❤❤
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Pelosi how long has she represented San Fran, like Byrd for W.V. look at them now #2 poorest state, I`d like to see these poor people setting up their tents at the city`s capital building, they showed a picture and it was clear.
Newsom is Nancy Pelosi's nephew so there's your answer
I am Trump and I steal from everybody by lying to you🤭🤭🤭.
I live 45mins away from SF, I haven't been there for years. It's a shit hole now
Hello from Switzerland. In the 80s I was living in Santa Rosa, after high school outside of Seattle. My mom still lives there in Santa Rosa. I then went to S.F. and lived and worked on Union & Fillmore, and really enjoyed it, but even then I saw some of this stuff going on. 31 years over here in Switzerland and I have been back a couple of times. Things are totally nuts now and I cannot see how they can get things back to how they used to be, to what made SF so attractive. :(
45 minutes away from S.F is also a shit hole.
@@07negative56 well, CA is ran by Dems, what do you expect?
@@07negative56 hahaha, unless you are headed toward Point Reyes🖤
@@davidbalmer473 Santa Rosa isn't outside of Seattle is about a Hour North of SAN FRANCISCO.
It broke my heart the last time I was in SF. I won't return.
You are Spot On with your assessment of the denouncement of inequality, all while fostering the inequality endlessly. Bravo for seeing through that.
Politicians never take responsibility for anything they do.
“We have a great system”
look at that progressive woman as well as all other politicians in the city, the words out of her mouth is totally horse shit, tech company employees are paying high tax but city use those money to buy drug for homeless. All politicians need to be fired
Elephant in the room is being ignored again!!!
Neither does anyone for that matter. We have a society of its not my fault.
No not Nancy Pelosi....
When does compassion become enabling?
Well said sir
Immediately
Great question
Excellent question!
That ship sailed in the 80's
I arrived to San Francisco one week ago, and I attest that this video exposes what I’ve been seeing on the streets. Other than feeling endangered, it’s sad and shocking to see the richest state of the US with this problem so severe. I will never forget seeing a man injecting in plain sight in front of a government building and everybody was acting like that wasn’t happening.
I hope to the people of SF that you can get to the solution soon.
The solution is a megaquake
Single party govenment does not work. Single party government becomes corrupt and then bad things happen.. Single party government does not solve problems. Single party government does not serve the people, it serves the few rich and powerful, and nobody else....sort of like communism, where it serves only the dictator and his/her cronies.
No, they voted for those politicians. Let them stew in the sewer they created. Those who hate this situation have moved away already.
@@ms.annthrope415 Unfortunately, having the demoncrap party in office is like a cancer. Look at what has happened to the economy nationally with the demoncraps running the macroeconomy at the national level with supply restrictive policies driving up inflation, and excessive spending driving up costs. We need demoncraps removed from office every time there is an election. regards, Dan
That's becoming normal where I live
This same thing is going on right now in every major city in America and their suburbs. While drug addiction and mental illness are a problem, they're not the only problem by far or the cause.
Gentrification, unequal development of luxury hosing verses affordable housing, lack of proper medical care and medical treatment for addiction and ever changing technological advances in industry all play contributing roles as well. All these issues must be addressed before you can begin to make progress in reducing the homeless population. Trying them and putting them in jails and prison will never solve the problem and will end up costing more money in the long run.
That's absolutely not true, this level of despair and misery is not happening "in every major city in America and their suburbs". Don't make it sound like California's problems are everyone's problems.
I remember the San Francisco I lived and worked in in the 1990s. It's was beautiful and amazing. My last visit to the city in 2018 was heartbreaking and scared me so much I'll never return.
It was so damn beautiful I remember it too. It was clean, sunny, happy, uplifting, motivating, pride inducing. And now, it’s literally shit. Literally. These politicians need to be held accountable!
I'm from the UK and have visited SF three times , in 87, 93 and latterly in 2018. Three years ago I found the change in the city with regard to how run down and degraded it has become, quite astonishing. I felt that with my first two visits, the city held a certain intense fascination for me in ways that I couldn't quite articulate, but last time I went there, quite frankly I couldn't wait to get out of the city. We drove the short hop to El Cerrito in order to spend the night, and the day after, we headed off back towards the relative normality (yes that's what I said) of LA.
I’m with you. I enjoyed the city quite a bit but in 2015 I saw this coming. I swore I’d never come back. Seattle has joined my blacklist.
LA is the same now.
I live in San Diego, America finest city, it is becoming San Francisco and LA now.
I'm from the UK and have visited LA many times over the years and noticed the rapid decline on my last visit. I know we have homelessness and addiction but nothing on this scale and I hope we never do.
I’m from the UK and visited SF in 2003 , and being a tourist got lost and ended up in Tenderloin , I was shocked and saddened to see such despair & desperation, looks like it’s been downhill for SF ever since , poor policymakers have a lot to answer for , so sad!
Excellent film. I’m a San Francisco resident of 12 years (immigrant from Utah), homeowner for 7 years, father for 2 years, and former drug addict. Hillary Ronen’s sheer ignorance and faux compassion astounded me. Blaming Republicans and tech workers for this? Excuse me? Why did she do the air quotes when saying “the constitution”? I’m so mad right now after watching this. My wife has talked about leaving the city, she says it’s getting so bad. I agree with her. This isn’t a money problem. We have paid over six figures in taxes last year, but all it seems to do is enable these progressive politicians to try their latest pie-in-the-sky hairbrained scheme. Things continue to get worse. It turns out progressive policy, without any accountability, is a recipe for failure. It’s time for our politicians log off Twitter and Instagram and wake up to reality!
Hillary Ronen, it is not humble tech workers, trying to make it post-college in this hard world, who are the problem. YOU are the problem. Voters elected you to fix this problem because of your flying rhetoric, and you have not. For you to blame Republicans in the most liberal city in the most liberal state is an utter farce. Shameful. It’s time to crack down on the tent cities. Get these people off the streets. Add some accountability to these hotels that apparently serve free drugs and alcohol.
Yesterday there was a homeless man encamped next to my daughter’s daycare! He was doing hard drugs, and possibly throwing away his needles into the playground. Nobody called the cops because we, parents living in San Francisco, are too demoralized, and it’s unlikely the cops could do anything. After we dropped off our daughter, we walked over to Starbucks to get some coffee, and had to dodge a homeless man encamped by the entrance. This is not acceptable. The problem is rapidly getting worse. It’s gotten so bad I literally have changed my route I drive home when picking up my daughter from daycare, because there are shopping carts in the road that have been there for days. I see so many tents that I don’t feel safe driving on the road sometimes. WHAT THE FUCK.
Sorry, I’m getting angry just typing this. I can’t take this anymore. I’m about to leave the city and take my generous annual tax contribution with me. At least then Hillary Ronen won’t be able to blame me with her hateful rhetoric.
Get informed on what is actually happening. This video is full of falsehoods, inaccurate data, and doesn't really talk to anyone who is any sort of expert. Totally ignores the role the current pandemic has placed on the homeless crisis when numerous shelters dumped people onto the streets. Spends way to much effort characterizing homeless people as drug addicts, which is false. Garbage.
@@jordanlowy5841 We all know what is happening, and the video tells it like it is. Denial will only continue the problem.
@@jordanlowy5841 I spent about a year up until May having to care for a dying relative in SF, and three times a week I had to drive through the tenderloin. You've got blinders on. The majority of those homeless people are addicts, mentally ill, or a fun combination of both. We have to find institutions for them (yes, dear, that means locking them up...)
It sounds awful. I would leave quickly. Sounds so unsafe. I wouldn't even vacation there..
Correction: Regressive politicians, thanks.
This is a great video. I work with these poor people on the streets in the UK. After many years I am sad to say that I do not know the solution to the problem. It is heartbreaking
I lived in the Bay Area for over 25 years, and San Francisco is my favorite city. What has happened to this wonderful city is a terrible tragedy. People should recall that 'the road to hell is paved with good intentions'!
Single party government only leads to corruption.
When did you first notice this decline?
Looks like years of neglect.
I'm guessing start of Co-Vid 2019?
0:20 "The city government spends $1 billion every year on homeless" The money goes to private companies who take a massive proportion as profit before the homeless ever see a cent. I can guarantee it. Homelessness can be big business if you get the lucrative city contracts.
And that's why it will never end!
the homeless never see a dime of that money.
There's big money to be made off poverty & misery. Solving the problems logically would cause the money to dry up & that's the last thing the activist industry wants. That's why they're called "poverty pimps."
WHERE ARE THE PROSECUTORS?!?!?!?!?
Ye same old thing, the money is given and the rich business men skim off the money, these people will never get better while human greed keeps on going, there’s pop stars and film star always in the papers bragging how many billions they have, it’s got to change. TMW 🏴🇬🇧
Thanks for your work on this. More people need to understand that enabling addiction and dependency isn't kindness or compassion.
@MusicLover they need help. Not to be kept in perpetual cycles of addiction.
It's a 2 step program. Switzerland and the Netherlands had more lenient laws than Germany so we had a huge influx of German addicts. The next step is real help. Now the Netherlands, Germany and Switzerland are nearly addict free. In the end it's much cheaper than just cleaning the mess.
@@Cl0ckcl0ck but when people decide it's the right of the addict to live in public and leave needles around and be stoned around kids and shops that help never materializes. Their socialist utopia always turns into this.
MusicLover I’m sorry to say this to you but you have no idea what you are taking about. Wake up! This is the worst way to treat people who need help. The right thing to do is to remove them from the streets to get the help that they truly need. The fact is that addicts can’t stop on their own and crazy people don’t know they are crazy!
We owe it to everyone to clean up our city; it’s a disgrace right now.
@@Cl0ckcl0ck The Netherlands are nearly addict free? Are you on crack? I'm Dutch, drugs are fucking everywhere here.
This is the result of eliminating competition. It eliminates any repercussions of failure so failure is normal. This is what failure looks like.
I lived in SF for 17yrs until the summer of 2020 and move to another state because of the states/city policies and lack of law enforcement. The homeless issue is just the tip of the massive iceberg of problems like human trafficking, organized gangs, drugs sale/use/manufacturing, violent crime, property/car break in, total lack of police response because they are order by officials not to enforce the law. Unbelievable!
Yes, vert true!! I have a family member who is an SF police officer and yes, they are told to ignore certain crimes.
Hypocrisy in voting behavior to blame? Progressive policies that look good on paper, failing in the streets, and noone owning up to their mistakes?
If your name is genuinely Casey Jones and you didn’t just pick it as a nod to the Grateful Dead due to your links fo SanFran, it’s a great coincidence 😎🤣
Its hard to believe you Casey
Let these fucked up poorly run liberal cities depopulate. Then all will be left is the poor and homeless. And these leaders will ask, where did our tax be go?
*This is a complete breakdown in humanity.*
A complete breakdown of rational thought. The former addict said it - the cops saved his life by holding him accountable. Hmmm
Quite the contrary: all heart, no brains.
This film is the manifesto that inspires Mayor Steve Adler of Austin, TX to replicate this model and destroy his city.
I agree, I've been watching Austin for about 12 years, their downhill slide.....
It's a shame. I lived in Austin from 1980 to 1995 and I saw it going down hill fast even then. I still drive up from Conroe a few times a year to visit family and the destruction in the past few years is horrifying.
I live 40 miles south/west of Austin. I'am hoping they can contain it to the city limits.
You're probably safe - he's too busy breaking his own Covid lockdown rules and partying in Cabo.
Yes Austin and Asheville NC are trying to replicate SF and lunging down hill fast
I am speechless. Over 50 blocks of tent encampments of homeless people. Speechless and heart breaking.
I live 2 blocks from Union Square and my neighborhood had descended into near chaos. SF District Attorney Chesa Boudin has done more harm to this community than any elected politician in my 17 years as a resident of this City. When our leaders do not know what a crime looks like, then they won't know what more crime will look like either.
It’s called order out of chaos. They create the problem and then people scream for them to solve the problem. This was created! People wake up!
At 8:50 a city leader has the chutzpah to blame the GOP. Is there a single member of the GOP at any level of the government in SF? Talk about projection. She needs help.
👏👏👏 thank you! If shit goes awry, it’s ALWAYS the fault of the GOP to the insane left. It’s political projection and gaslighting.
Absolutely true. It is amazing to me that she was elected.
The Blyss Catalyst you are ABSOLUTELY right.
City, County (sort of fused in SF), and State--all democrats. Part of this problem goes back to the 60's when the state (as many did) decided to deinstitutionalize the mentally ill. They state pretty much simply dumped them onto the streets.
And this is not a mistake.
The Democratic Party is infiltrated and taken over by international socialists aka marxists.
And their only goal is to destroy the USA. Individual by individual, city by city, state by state.
They(the world wide international socialists) want to destroy white countries and in the end the whole white race.
For example.
twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1293603172842221570
I’m from the Bay Area originally. This makes me sad. I left a few years ago and I can not believe that my home is being destroyed like this.
What do u mean by destroyed...? And who destroying it?
@@CASoxFan12 your mom you troll
@@CASoxFan12 democrats
Well you completely misinformed Jenna
@Jenna Wood TWO WORDS: NEO-SOCIALISM
Hi Chris, just recently found your channel through an interview you did with The Rubin Report. It is so sad that things are much worse in San Francisco 3 years later and block after block of Market street have empty storefronts.
Wow. I hitch-hiked to San Francisco in the early '70s. There were a few bums and hookers on the streets, but nothing like this. I recall a beautiful city where I walked everywhere, taking in the sights and feeling safe. To see this total disintegration into urban decay and anarchy is really sad.
A reflection of our permissive society.
Everything has a beginning. You just came when the degradation party was starting.
Goes to show you what libtard leftists and Demoncrats do yo a city
It still is that beautiful city. But people on the right are offended that a city that does the opposite of them is successful so they exaggerate the cities issues. If you walked around the city or used the Google street view and just looked around most parts the city you don’t see massive amounts of homeless people on every block. And San Francisco didn’t chose to have desirable weather year round perfect for homeless people.
You still alive Joe
I love how she blames republicans for San Fran’s failures. It’s a one party rule and no one can open their eyes to it.
There isn’t a Republican in a 20 mile radius of San Francisco.
Because it is the fault of Republicans😂 “City RuLerS aRe DeMocRatS”. City rulers can’t do anything about this, this cannot be resolved by the State. This needs federal intervention. And how we got here in the first place if because of Republicans.
www.google.se/amp/s/www.sfweekly.com/news/the-great-eliminator-how-ronald-reagan-made-homelessness-permanent/amp/?client=safari
@@braydenbronstein1190 you just double down on stupidity, huh? Is that your thing? You live in a fantasy world where only Republicans are responsible for your problems. It never has anything to do with bad life choices, it's just the Republican fault you suck at life. Did I get that right?
I moved to Oakland at the beginning of this year as a centrists leaning conservative. People here are definitely losing touch with reality, and the homeless encampments have rapidly grown through out this year. I can’t even say I’m not a progressive at my work without being called an idiot or racist. So ridiculous
@@boofert.washington2499
You are more than the definition of moron can define.
Homelessness in the country prior the 1980s was NEVER a problem. When LBJ signed the Housing and Urban Development Act in 1965, anyone who couldn’t afford housing was given subsidized housing. Homelessness was all but eradicated nationwide. It was already low prior to that, but with it, chronic homelessness was a thing of the past.
Then, came Reaganomics. He cut the budget on EVERY SINGLE welfare program in tact, except federal aid for road construction in the suburbs. The HUD experienced an astonishing 60% cut in funding. Federal funding for inner-cities was slashed by 55%! Every single program designed to help the homeless was made defunct in favor of “charities and religious organizations”. With Reagan, it wasn’t the Federal Government’s responsibility anymore at all, it was religious organizations and charities that were supposed to help the homeless. He also ended all federal assistance to Mental Health services and deinstitutionalized the nation. All that without any comprehensive action plan on what do with all the chronically mentally ill patients. The result of that is that almost all of them ended up on the streets with no help.
And with that, homelessness SKYROCKETED in the 1980s and has been rising ever since.
States, and especially California, do NOT have the money to help these people. The maximum they can spend is about 2.5 billion a year. That’s not enough. Homelessness REQUIRES Federal help and intervention. And because of Reganomics, there’s simply nothing that can be done to help all those people out of the streets until the Republican Bums in Congress leave their Neocon values and accept a comprehensive public housing program. Like the one President Biden wants to put forward.
The writer who's lived there 32 years has probably voted for Pelosi 16 times during that period.
@@homeybaloney1059 The truth shall set you free, but first it will make you miserable.
Representatives represent districts, they dont directly govern them. Please learn basic civics
Original commenter is brain dead as f. Climate change coming home to roost genius. Let's see how your mindset holds up.
(and tbh I am not a fan of Pelosi. But I understand your "mind"set)
@@michaelmcclure9350 Maybe not, but is direct support for that party, who has spoiled a beautiful state and cities. 😟🇫🇮
This is all true. Just spent 5 days there. I will never go back or recommend to anyone to visit this disgusting city. Hotel staff even warned us about the dangers that are caused by the desperate transients.
This is what happens when well-meaning progressive people abandon wisdom.
This is what happens when SOCIETY, becomes GODLESS!
You’re not well meaning, if you’re knowingly willing to damn others to help some.
It’s not well meaning to advocate for more and more taxes, knowing you can handle it... while it’ll force more people to share homes, or finally force them out.
You’re not well meaning if you understand rent control kills incentive to build.
You’re not well meaning if you won’t sacrifice till you can force everyone to act on your moral.
@Rat Man Thank you!
While I agree that wisdom was abandoned, “well-meaning” is a generous attribution.
@@danielecampionerdmann4477 Yes, will I didn't mean to insinuate they had wisdom and lost it, I was thinking more along the lines that they had heard of it, but stopped the pursuit of acquiring it. However, I appreciate your sentiment.
The city got the reputation of being "tolerant" & so all the intolerant showed up & stayed.
True, oh so true.
Spot on there you are.
huh?
i've read this somewhere... "unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance... if we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them."
@@maxredman5628 Spot On!!!
Give addicts an inch… They take a mile… Learned that the hard way.
captain cook i have an addict in my family its more like ten miles if your lucky
They take alright take what's not theirs
not as bad as Real State companies...which are destroying the whole country
Yet is that not people period? Everyone always wants more, and what about money addicts who always need " just a little more" i mean the money addicted gentrifiers could literally be getting fifty grand a month for each apartment, and it still would not be enough! I mean what are the rents now, five to ten grand a month ?
You're right. When your mind is controlled by drugs, you cannot make good decisions. Addiction does not care about anything outside of getting the drugs. People will not be held accountable as long as it's so easy to remain homeless and addicted.
It's so sad. I live in the Midwest and it's starting to crawl this way. 2 weeks ago, I saw the first homeless person living in my hometown. He was sleeping under the window of a business that has been here for over 50 years. There's very little we can do if that person refuses help...and that is exactly what has happened.
People need to be held accountable wether it's for bad policies or bad behavior
Grew up in San Jose, went to college in SF about ten years ago; I hated it. It was so unsafe. I love running and go daily, but even when I was wearing baggy sweats and sweaters; the catcalling was non stops, and the things they would say were far worse than any "regular" catcalls. Public transport is disgusting, the homeless would wet their pants on the seats, people were passing out...no woman or child should live there, it's just not safe.
If getting roasted for wearing sweatpants and jogging is unsafe in your opinion then you have basically eliminated every big city in the country.
@@TysonIke it wasn't getting "roasted". It was having grown men tell me, "damn bitch, I bet that pussy tastes good" and other disgusting remarks along those lines. It was far more obsene that just getting whistled at or being told I looked good. I wasn't out running in some tight spandex and crop top. I was wearing loose fitting work out gear. The point I was making is that I wasn't "asking for it" in any way; the men are just that grimy and disgusting. Its not normal and I have never experienced anything similar in any other city.
@@nickyalexa7744 women in cali vote for these feel good progressive policies so they deserve it.
So those conditions are okay for men to endure ??? 🤦🏼♂️
Catcalling in USA ? Really Nicky ....i mean you okay .....joke of the day
“If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs.” “I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies." Thomas Jefferson
Perfect!!!
I quoted that in the bank the other day and they didn't like it much.
When you've been conditioned by the powers that be you learn to accept, conform and obey. You give up hope for a brighter solution
i guess Thomas Jefferson was talking about the Commercial Banks 🤔
the FED was created 1913 and thus took the power away from the Commercial Banks.
Long time SF resident here who just left. This video is incredibly accurate. Time to force the homeless into facilities where they can get the help they need. Letting them own the streets is not the solution for them...and it upsets all the “well behaving” people of SF. Lose-lose.
They need shelter, food, water, care, treatment, and compassion. The city can afford it, those rich politicians (all of them, all parties) can afford it, they choose to ignore it and only address it when being called out on their failures. We are a rich nation, nobody should be homeless and without health care.
A lot of them dont want to get clean or work a job.
@@ArchYeomans there are shades of “homeless”. I’m referring to the mental ill and/or drug addicted. Those are the ones who won’t accept shelter/help and do the most to diminish quality of life for the rest of the citizens of SF.
JG "Force" the homeless into facilities? Wow, okay.
@@skategimp7992 Absolutely. Not sure about you but I’ve been living among them in the Bay Area for 20+ years. I’m talking the mentally ill and drug addicted homeless. They need to be forced into help…they cannot make rational decisions on their own, right or wrong.
The homeless guy said, based on his experience, 85% of homeless people are drug addicts, but, put in perspective, birds of a feather flock together, so of course he would encounter more addicts on the street. I was homeless for a while a few years ago, and only came across two drug addicted homeless people, but there were many alcoholics. That is not to downplay the issue, but to offer another point of view.
Chick seriously tried to blame republicans for what liberal politicians are doing. Hilarious
especially since they have been in power ever since...
Yea. I reacted to that too. California's run by Democrats dearie...Yes money can solve it if used the right way. One tiny house for 100thousand dollars to build??? Come on contractors!!! Where is social justice liberal progressives??
That's what the left fed her so 🤷
Hilarious but typical... unfortunately...
But seriously...what ARE Republicans doing besides keeping people from getting help?
Well done documentary Christopher. This is the only piece of journalism that I have come across in recent months that is transparently telling the whole truth of the humanitarian crisis unfolding in San Francisco.
Maybe I’m going to sound cruel, but I have trouble feeling much sympathy for them. Who in that video, except maybe the narrator, has voted Republican in any of the last, say, three election cycles? They’re getting precisely the policies they voted for. With precisely the predictable results. They’ve gotten the world they wanted. Now they complain that it’s not a world to their liking? The only thing I can hope is that they all stay put and keep their policies to themselves.
Look at those people cheering for Chesa Boudin.
@@mikeb4481 Useful idiots.
Once again Ronen and the BOS put the blame on the Tech industry and others, but the blame is all theirs...
Own up to this mess you
Created...
Problem is Democrats will infest other cities like roaches and destroy them to.
But, then, look what they have done to you. You are using your brains to tell logically right from wrong but you feel guilty about it. They have managed to poison your inside core. Acknowledge and resist. Your guilt becomes their strength. And they know it.
The government is like this: they'll talk about a problem for 20 years and then come up with some half-ass solution that doesn't solve anything. But they have been talking about the homeless problem for 40 years. They've broken their own record!
I was there last weekend and what I saw was heartbreaking. Homeless people in every corner of city hall, union square, and financial district. I won’t forget the image of a homeless man passed out outside a restaurant with bad bruises on his bare feet. God help SF.
The homeless have always flocked to SF, you can survive the winter there. It doesn't snow. They might get cold but they won't freeze to death.
Imagine how it will look 5 years from now
Not just SF.....this whole country.
Remember during a job interview when they ask you “where do you see yourself in 5 years ?”
This is all over the country
Nancy will be gone by then.
Democrats
1 billion a yr spent on homeless in SF for why? Take them all out of there and put them in a remote isolated camp with shelter, 3 meals a day, and running water while providing mental health support. And by the way this would keep the drugs/dealers way from them. Their “civil rights” is more of a concern than the rest of society’s public health crisis and safety?? Seriously?!! The politics and politicians are all talk, just a bunch of noise while saying and doing nothing but pointing fingers at something else.
No one is held accountable any more for their vile behavior.
True! It is a result of ‘woke’ governments, etc.
Are you blind? Do these people look like they are living the good life consequence free?? They are sleeping on concrete, selling their bodies, dirty, sad, and lonely. Addiction isn't fun! It is hell. But the only time they feel ok is when they are high. Why wouldn't they be desperate? Americans really depend on this "accountability" narrative(lucky for the prison industrial complex and the slave labor exploitation by corporations). The rich are junkies and criminals as well; they just have better lawyers.
@@ainnochaim9450, you are misunderstanding what is said. We are not talking about sad lonely lives and selling their bodies.
We are talking about being able to buy drugs and nothing being done about it. About being able to go in a supermarket and get a cart load of goods, and walk out of it. This one has a knock on effect for everyone else. Shops, etc are not insured against theft, only breaking ins. So high prices for everyone else.
Another example, is what happened in LA, with the cargo trains and the thousands of parcel stolen, nobody did anything about that either.
@@debbiesmith8248 YOU are missing the point. You think being held accountable, without consequences, is being in prison. Sometimes the prison has no bars.
@@ainnochaim9450, I know that, they could have a monitor on them, but they won’t have. The police and the government are turning a blind eye to criminal activity. That is why it is going on in plain sight of everyone. The thieves and drug dealers and users know that nothing will be done. There is no accountability for them in these days.
Even pope Francis has said to let the poor theft get away with his crimes.
The road to hell is paved with "Good Intentions" Bleeding Hearts are often fatal
I used to be one..i understood as i got older that can actually cause mote pain
@@MaxxHarleenMurrder As they say, gentle healers cause stinking wounds.
Keep voting democrats in office. Don't complain and blame police for your problem
Wishing right now for change but people are still not changing minds .. this whole area is going to hell with ultra feel good policies
Keep voting liberals*. Democrats and Republicans are literally both just parties of neoliberals.
@Remember Lord Jesus Pray the Rosary I pray to Satan every day.
It’s not Democrats it’s the crazy progressive liberals who think these policies are going to make everything better and then they have no real plan to implement them.
Nancy Pelosi is awesome 🤩👍
These leaders are insane. By their own active actions they have played a big part in creating this fiasco
So legalizing drugs, no jail time for crime, allowing sleeping wherever you want and tons of social services will ruin a city? Who would've thought?
California politicians
Not
Democrats are probably trying to lower the prices for the housing-market to buy up all the cheap real estate afterwards 🤭
You forgot. Shit.everywere!
They didn't legalize drugs. And decriminalizing possession of small amounts of drugs did not cause this. Allowing people to buy drugs, shoot up in public, live on the street and rob without fear of prosecution did.
I lived there almost my entire life. Its soul crushing.
I hope you were able to see more beautiful parts of the country. The U.S. is so much more than the toxic cesspools of Calis inner cities.
California born and raised 60’s and 70’s. What an amazing state to live in back then, now it is truly a cesspool🤮😢
Democrats did that.
Move
as a middle aged, straight, white, conservative male, I'm sure all of this is my fault somehow.
Yes, vincent, if your a man that makes responsible life choices, works hard to earn a living and pay taxes. Its your fault, mine too...lol
Correct attitude. As a sinner everything IS ur fault thus any good that happens is a bonus
I’m like you & I live here, & I get the blame…
I have ZERO tolerance for all these losers coming @ me for the ENDLESS handouts.
The WORTHLESS DA Chesa Boudin is a PERFECT EXAMPLE of promoting this problem… a committed political LEFTIST OPERATIVE,
…who the Progressive Democrat Mayor London Breed recommended that the City electorate VOTE AGAINST since he’s such a radical LEFTIST.
HOW ELSE can San Francisco be other than what the insane LEFT has made it.… as anyone with the financial wherewithal LEAVES?
Yea, white conservative men are the most oppressed in America.
You're certainly not helping anything. All you people do is virtue signal and bring your tribal ideology into everything.
“Government offering free hotel rooms and free drugs and alcohol “
Ya that ought to fix the problem right away
ABSOLUTELY 💯 OUTRAGEOUS!
My wife and I used to enjoy spending time (and money) in San Francisco. There was always so much to see and do. Now we wouldn't go within 50 miles of the place. Unfortunate.
That "politician" seems like shes crazy enough to be on the street
Probably lives in a $6,000 a month apartment far away from these problems.
That chick made everything so confusing!
I'm dumber just listening to her.
@@skmetal7: ....Subsidized by her municipal gov’t employer or lawyer girlfriend.
Roger that!! She’s a Dem.
THEY'RE GIVING PEOPLE FISH, NOT TEACHING THEM HOW TO FISH.
You mean they are giving people hotel rooms, drugs and alcohol instead of teaching them how to fish.
give them fentanyl and they wont need a fish
they aint capable of learning anything. If that were not the case, they'd not be out there. all you have to do is enroll in college, get a $6000 student loan and buy an older vehicle to live in, get around on a bicycle. Sell your plasma for $80 a week. Eat lunch at a church, supper at the SA mission. Draw food stamps and staples from the Food bank. It's not at all hard to do, folks. They are just lazy/crazy, that's all.
They’re not doing any lol
I think it’s more biological and mental than that. Drugs are physically addicting and mind altering.
I would like to share one perspective that I haven't heard being discussed at all. It starts with the question; who benefits from homelessness? Many people will say these nonprofits benefit, well those who work there and the companies they work with. But what is the actual effect on the city? It pushes people outwards. Instead of growing vertically, instead of growing value to extraordinary sights, it pushes some of the growth outwards. How do you make people move on from owning exclusive locations and possibly invest in growth somewhere else, where growth needs to be stimulated? You let the homelessness run its course, make the area uninhabitable, un-rentable, un-leasable, economically nonfeasible, and when it's completely ruined you move in big investors, banks, mega-corporations, and you get the valuable land for less money than. Corporations can wait for decades, ordinary citizens would lose money over time by owning those properties. I believe homelessness is a tool, I think that is why they aren't coming up with real solutions. I am not saying everyone is aware of this, even those in high places, but people who benefit from this are very likely behind them, supporting them.
Jesus I hadn’t even connected those dots. I had asked the question, but couldn’t figure a reasonable answer. That’s scary and tragic - and wouldn’t surprise me at all of some of the financial elites of cities like this.
It’s insidious how they push these progressive policy’s as compassionate. Anyone with eyes to see, can see that there is absolutely nothing compassionate about creating a culture where hard drugs are easily accessible, and then letting people fester and rot in the squalor and chaos that substance abuse creates.