San Francisco is getting dirty again after the APEC Summit. There will be 50 more workers added to street cleaning crews. However, this does not match the level of activity a few days before and during the APEC summit.
The drug deals and homeless are mostly back to where they were.
The Homeless were moved from a 12 square block radius around the Moscone center over to Willow and other areas outside of the APEC summit zone.
Joe Rogan talked about – now we know you could have always fixed it.
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Watch this video. It was just posted. This is what San Francisco really looks like. Sorry haters, it is beautiful! I know because I live here!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmAvjLceVIY
People say “they are back”, they never were gone, like you write in the article, they were only moved to other city area. Problem was never solved, even during APEC meeting.
“now we know you could have always fixed it.” No. Moving them into other city area is not fixing the problem, they are still in the city, they are still taking drugs and littering, just in different place, near different people houses.
Accommodating individuals who are too mentally ill or drug addicted to be employable should be state matter, IMO. The courts say that you can’t remove homeless people from the streets– unless you have a place for them to go. The State should provide food and housing units for these individuals in transient communities near roads– outside of the towns, cities, and suburbs– so they don’t interfere with business and reduce the quality of life for working people. But the politicians are still too stupid to realize this.
Homeless advocates, of course, like the idea of transients being in the city and camping out on the streets– as a demonstration of the evils of capitalism– even though these individuals are large unemployable.
Prison is the place.
Making them visible justifies the large and permanent salaries of the charities designed supposedly to alleviate the problem, but they just perpetuate is with free needles and food that gets sold for drug money. There’s corruption at every level.
The Homeless Industrial Complex is a real thing.
Yep. There is a poverty-industrial complex that profits from homelessness, addiction and other forms of social dysfunction. Like Big Pharma, there is no actual incentive to cure or eliminate the problem, as their income would then dry up.