Welcome to San Francisco

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[–]marley 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Having spent three years homeless in San Francisco, I may have an idea or two about this topic.

It is not drugs that causes the problems, but on a deeper level it is the nonprofits that are receiving funding at the local and state and federal level that attracts the drug problem to San Francisco.

People are attracted to San Francisco for a number of reasons.

Maybe they would like be employed by or want to operate their own nonprofit.

Maybe it is the free housing and free money and free food that attracts the drug users to San Francisco.

And now it is too late to stop the nonprofits..

If you take the funding away from the nonprofits, they will form brigades that harass political candidates until they get back their funding.

Oh, my bad, they are already doing that on Twitter and CNN and MSNBC and and and..

I have attended at least a dozen meetings at city hall or other similar places where groups of money hungry people sit around and plot and scheme about how to create a service that would be eligible for funding..

In many cases the actual drug dealers end up controlling and operating many of the nonprofit services.

[–]RedEyedWarrior 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

San Francisco is fucked. It’s gonna take a war to end this.

[–]Alienhunter 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I've made the case before that these non-profits work like the old lady who feeds pigeons in the park. The old lady likes the birds and wants to be kind to them, the pigeons however flock to her in great numbers and shit everywhere ruining the park for everyone else. People will say the comparison is dehumanizing to the homeless, which it is in a way, but I think it's dehumanizing of the non-profits to dole out food to the homeless like they are stray animals to be fed in the first place rather than getting them institutionalized for their mental health or drug addiction problems in the hopes that one day maybe they'll be able to break free of it.

Course other issues being the rent in San Francisco is too damn high. They're going to have to clear out some of their historic city to make way for high density housing and business developments if they hope to have the successfully low rates of urban homelessness you see in many Asian cities like Seoul or Tokyo.