San Francisco: Are They Enabling Drug Addiction and Homelessness? Noir S7E12 Part 2
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- Опубликовано: 17 апр 2019
- San Francisco Drug Addiction & Homelessness
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"It's startling how much degeneracy and homelessness and open drug use exist in what is supposed to be a shining beacon of a city... Overwhelmingly, I just could not help but get this feeling that there's a lot of enabling going on."
Liberal policies in San Francisco have created a parasitic population of vagrants who thrive off the system, which, in turn, fills the pocket books and bolsters the power of the elites living within the city.
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San Francisco. When a 2 bedroom sells for $5 million and the streets are covered with used syringes and human feces.
Not quite 5m, but in the ballpark. Live in Oakland hills and in Bay last 30 years. This place is a serious fucking cesspool. The bay is so disconnected now, I mean like everywhere else. This place makes me want to move all my wealth to the mountains, buy a 5 Plex, liqour store, laundry mat and say fuck it.
@@lasagna3106 if you have any liberal ideologies please leave them behind when you move, or we will eventually run out of places to run too.
@@lasagna3106 One of my clients showed me the listing for his 2 bedroom. It went for around $5 million.
@@NuclearGrizzly yea, small area right by market where a founder with angel money locked up an over price shoebox in favor of a 2min commute.
@Keeth Blulk Smash it's a clown market, it's far from reasonable driven by a need to live in shit, tight by work. Fuck that, give me an hour commute.
Teaching the homeless how to clean after themselves!!!!
Are you kidding me?!!
khaled nabil They don’t even tend their tables at food kitchens after they eat for free. The volunteers do it.
Yep, now THAT'S a solution.....
Riiiiight.....
That's what I said.
Yes, that program will cost millions.-
Glad that I'm not the only person who nearly choked when they said that!!! (How low can you go?)
That guy who’s speaking with the hat talking about the problem - he’s spot on. Great work Colion & team!
I work at a Jail in central California. All governments either intentionally or unintentionally enable drug addiction. Almost everyone I medically screen uses meth (or Ritalin), opioids (synthetic prescription drugs), benzodiazepines(Xanax) , or heroin (more direct opiate). Sometimes, they might even drink enough alcohol to require CIWA, even more rarely some use MDMA, or even PCP.
THC is common, but not really a charge, just kind of a drunk tank thing, a lot of people drive to a park and smoke in their car.
Usually they abuse multiple drugs, sometimes intentionally, however many cannot verify the drugs they are taking, as such, usually test positive for 2-4, pregnant girls arrested are usually the worst, testing positive for almost everything in my area, a couple of STDs, sometimes a UTI or bladder infection, or worse, pyelonephritis and possibly permanent kidney damage.
Given a choice and resources to accomplish that choice (a program that provides a job, food and housing if they can stay drug free), none have done it. They get their first pay check and disappear into a downward spiral until they get arrested again, dehydrated, malnourished, half-dead, and we detox and nourish them again. They get exactly what they want.
Most of these people need some serious mental health help before they will ever see change but I'm sure you already know and see that first hand. It's a cycle of repetition.
@@jonnymac8925 Yes, however medical care and mental health are both reduced to being nothing more than a band-aid when the patient refuses to address that they have a role in being the cause.
Many develop permanent medical [Heart (cardiomyopathy), liver (Cirrhosis, Hep C from needles), and kidney (Renal hypertension, glomerulus damage)] issues and drug induced psychosis, some very few even reduced to nothing more than uttering incoherent sentences and are no longer able to feed, clothe, bathe or care for themselves and become wards of the state.
It is frustrating not being able to help them change long term, it seems so simple from the outside to just stop, but of course it is not.
Danial Huls It’s a societal change that needs to take place, from the ground up. We can’t fix the problem by starting at the top, we need a complete reversal of mentality, to morals, values and ethics. Unfortunately that thinking has passed and will likely not come back anytime soon. Oh... We’ve become “more tolerant”, don’t ya know? We’re more tolerant of deviant behavior, suppression of different ideals and violence towards those that don’t share those ideals. We’ve regressed essentially, not progressed. 🤦♂️
Stay safe brother. Watch ya six, always.
@@jonkR96 Exactly, well said. It is culture that has become sick, and many of us in our professions are only able to treat or address the fallout of that culture which is medical complications and crime.
No, central California is just a conservative shithole. Like every other failing red state and county in America, the crime and addiction rates are through the roof. Which means it's trump country. I lived in the San Joaquin Valley for years. 40% unemployment and shitty weather. We call it Cali-Bama.
Yes. Just like Seattle and Portland
A detailed look at how the homeless-industrial industry ruined Seattle. roominate.com/blog/2016/anatomy-of-a-swindle/
Just as a defence of the city I live in we don't spend that much money on the homless we dont care enogh and Burnside any random part of it is worse than Jefferson dammit not a defence well Portland is shit. Well Seattle has less meth than Portland so its nice I guess........I should move soon.......😐
Honest Acehole It will look like Detroit soon. Empty lots, decrepit homes and drugs everywhere.
Michael Grover WOW!!! Thanks for that link! Very eye opening. Sheesh...these people are diabolical.
Definitely just like Seattle
I live by ocean avenue for 35 years! I remember when the city was non pretentious until the tech boom came in and progressive politics ruled the city that’s when everything went south!! The city is now a hipster dump.
Lobos222 I just got Back from SF Its the Most Disgusting, Racist, Income Un equal. Dangerous Drug Addicted Shit hole.. This is Liberalism.. Give me more money.. Then spend it all of these stupid Fake Hotels aka SRO that we all pay for and then give all of theae Drug Addicts Money, a house, places to shootup.. Littered Needles are Everywhere not,like 2 or 3 Blocks..like 60 Blocks Filled with them.. Full of Diseases.. Then the Cops are told to stand down. And that this is Freedom of Expression or Diversity.. This is the modern Day Zombieland.. CALIFORNIA is the Joke of America now YOU KNOW AKAK FRISCO SAN FRAN I WILL NEVER EVER VISIT THIS STATE AGAIN
The hipsters love it cause they're so edgy they'll just move out after they make a million
It was bad before the tech giants moved in. They arent helping, but it wasnt great before either.
The tech industry has a lot to do with this problem. I agree with you.
I agree with you it's been bad since the 1970s.
Illegals and homeless should go camp out in Pelosi's front yard and in her home. She has enough homes to home a few bunch of people
@@NotoriousN_I_G_ sounds like a move would do you better.outrageous price for a 1 bedroom... I thought paying 1k a month was high. Im glad you made it back on your feet brother!
O'doyle rulez you have to remember, although we pay a lot in California, we also make a lot. I am a city bus driver and I made $92,000 last year.
Illegals don’t live on the streets they work and do the hard ,dirty jobs that those homeless don’t want to do
@@NotoriousN_I_G_ yes of course, but the cost of living is cali is still higher then average
Couldn't, her community has a "barricade like structure" around it...and armed security...and high-tech surveillance...etc
Yes. It's sad watching this. If the leaders of the city didn't have gated communities & security to protect them would we see this? Best wishes
I hope you do one for these shows on an east coast city like a Baltimore, Newark, or Camden.
Lobos222 I just got Back from SF Its the Most Disgusting, Racist, Income Un equal. Dangerous Drug Addicted Shit hole.. This is Liberalism.. Give me more money.. Then spend it all of these stupid Fake Hotels aka SRO that we all pay for and then give all of theae Drug Addicts Money, a house, places to shootup.. Littered Needles are Everywhere not,like 2 or 3 Blocks..like 60 Blocks Filled with them.. Full of Diseases.. Then the Cops are told to stand down. And that this is Freedom of Expression or Diversity.. This is the modern Day Zombieland.. CALIFORNIA is the Joke of America now YOU KNOW AKAK FRISCO SAN FRAN I WILL NEVER EVER VISIT THIS STATE AGAIN
Or one of those dying tweaker towns in the Deep South, or some run down junkie hotbed in the Midwest.
@@alex-qd6of The difference is we don't let them live on the sidewalk in the south, and the taxes and regulations aren't so high that you can't build housing.
Thank you for covering this! I needs to be talked about and I'm glad it is you.
Colin, these are award winning level pieces. Hope your work is recognized.
Imagine that! Tolerance enables people to be destructive towards themselves and others. Time to enforce the laws or change them. Homeless Industrial Complex.
Yup...and now the monsters that created this problem are running for President...LOL
Welcome to socialism, our next stop is...
Dioptra The Rope.
exactly
SECOND CIVIL WAR
Venezuela... just down the road.
My safe
Every democrat ran city is just like this!!! WWhata giant coincidence!!! Lol
Outside of Texas, sure.
Noooooooooooo Portland doesn't spend that much and only mostly looks like that not 100%........thats all I got my best defence of the city I live in best I got its shit.
FALSE
@@trevspeaks3 It's true. Even in Texas. Democrats have no real good policies, only feel good policies, and feel good policies are not good policies.
@@DeseanWick Austin tent city, Dallas tent city, Houston tent city .. not sure where there isn't a Democrat tent city..but those big cities have'em.
This is absolutely by design
Welcome to Newsomville, down the street is GarcettiTown, and if you go left you end up in Feinsteinberg
Thank you for shining light on things that the media is too afraid to show. San Francisco and the entire SF Bay Area is a mess.
Fantastic documentary! I lived near Glen Park and worked in Powell also in the marina, it broke my heart... I moved out real quick! It's baffling. Thank you for shining light on it. GB.
Man this is amazing work man! Reminds me of what vice news used to be 5-6 years ago before they sold out. Keep it up bud!
I left the Bay Area in 2002.
Best decision of my life
Bruh, I live in a small town north of SF and Oakland calif , I have seen it change so much ,last time I was in SF ,someone crapped between my car and the next ,almost stepped in it ...Your guest has a great point !
**AT **4:13** IN THE VIDEO YOU SAID THIS**
"Is the cost of living being artificially inflated"
YES. Part of the problem is people who are willing to own and operate rentals - and by the way, there's a MASSIVE shortage of apartments, and due to LOW SUPPLY and HIGH DEMAND naturally the price goes up --
-- part of the problem is people who are willing to own and operate rentals can do that anywhere in the country, really. Anywhere.
I studied this, "how could there be such a shortage of rentals with such high demand, why isn't the market fixing this?" because after graduating from college there it was nearly impossible to get a place.
Well, they enacted Rent Control in 1979 -- that's 40 years ago - and people who invest in rentals started staying away after that. Because of the fact that any new construction, also, could be put under rent control at the drop of a judge's gavel - see the movement to do just that, "repeal Prop 10, repeal Costa Hawkins!"
Well the rental properties are not cheap. And it takes a smart person to save up the money to buy one. So when they say "I can invest in rentals here or some place where rent control is not a threat"
Over the past 40 years, a shortage of apartments developed as potential landlords decided to own and operate ELSEWHERE.
THAT'S WHY APARTMENTS ARE SO EXPENSIVE. Not enough of them.
In studying this problem I found this.
And this was from the year 2011. It's gotta be much worse now.
I got out of that state because it just seems that the leadership is kinda dumb.
mjperry.blogspot.com/2011/05/because-of-rent-control-sf-has-31000.html
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This is a problem all up and down the west coast from Southern California to Alaska. I visited Portland Oregon and the drug problem is even worse. Pan handlers everywhere. I visited Colorado Springs and there were Homeless students and sick people in the streets. I saw people sleeping in their cars. Standing on the on ramps pan handling. Homelessness is a big problem out west.
I live in Eugene Oregon and I could have swore you were here an not San Fran. It's just as bad here
Im on the west side of portland. And while it isnt very bad here, going downtown has become like walking into hell. I cant take my kids there without guiding them around broken glass and needles.
Same here. I refuse to take my son downtown unless we're just switching buses at the station. There's several parks in town I won't take him as well
I have heard & there is a documentary about Seattle. These cities are horrible. When will people learn throwing money at a problem, doesn't fix the problem. These politicians are just getting rich off these poor people. Best wishes
Documentary is called "Seattle is dying" I haven't seen it yet
It was a major culture-shock driving around Oregon. Entire families were walking around homeless, including kids. Wtf happened?
This would make a lot of sense. It would cause hardworking conservatives to flee to other states leaving them unchallenged in the rule of their liberal Utopia. See California for an example, that's what they did.
And yet conservative states are the poorest.
@@GreatBigRanzhmmm, because money obviously means everything... what was that you said? I couldn't hear you over the sound of all of those homeless people shitting on the streets of San Francisco.
Jeff Grey I couldn’t hear him over the gun shots and freedom!
@@Landoftheignorant freedom? You obviously don't live in San Francisco, lol.
@@GreatBigRanz As a California native. This is an absurd statement. Remove the corporate headquarters and the average income drops dramatically. California ranks 6th lowest in income inequality, 3rd lowest Iq and one of the worst education systems in the country. LA county spends more per student than any other school district in America.
It’s shocking to see all of this, and even more shocking to see how passerby’s just ignore it
I believe that a lot of people just don't have a heart anymore as they just walk on by. How sad and blind have we become, not to see these LOST PEOPLE.
Socialism great job california 👌🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Vote Republican And Turn Things Around.
Technically, that's not socialism.
Great video/documentary shine light on the dark let it be known
"The increase of tolerance has led to depreciation" 🤔🤔🤔
Anna the realtor is the best speaker ive ever heard! She is very well spoken!
I agree with you.. There is No where to sweep the mess Anymore
Yep...they are...instead of investing money in needle programs, and spots for them to “safely” do drugs, they could invest in rehabilitation programs
*NOIR 2024*
💥🔥
Accountability!!! Holding people accountable!
Colion you should see Colorado is following the playbook of San Francisco. It is so sad.
Awesome video 👍 keep bringing attention to real issues
Hello, colion. I live in long beach ca where there is a large population of homeless people. Thank you for doing the videos you have done on homelessness, people need to be aware of what's going on. I would like to give you some thoughts if i may...some of the biggest and most expensive cities in which to live...Seattle...Los Angeles...Hawaii...san francisco....places with out of control rent, have some of the absolute highest populations of homeless people. 30-40 years ago, there was only one kind of homeless, now there are two..the regular homeless that you see and the invisible homeless you don't see...people who have jobs and work but live out of storage units and their cars because they just can't afford the rent in those cities. I believe there is a direct correlation between the high rent and a good chunk of the homelessness. All it takes is one or two missed paychecks,one lost job,one bad event to go from having a home to not having one,and because rent is so out of control,if you suffer a loss its hard to recover in time...just my thoughts
Lobos222 I just got Back from SF Its the Most Disgusting, Racist, Income Un equal. Dangerous Drug Addicted Shit hole.. This is Liberalism.. Give me more money.. Then spend it all of these stupid Fake Hotels aka SRO that we all pay for and then give all of theae Drug Addicts Money, a house, places to shootup.. Littered Needles are Everywhere not,like 2 or 3 Blocks..like 60 Blocks Filled with them.. Full of Diseases.. Then the Cops are told to stand down. And that this is Freedom of Expression or Diversity.. This is the modern Day Zombieland.. CALIFORNIA is the Joke of America now YOU KNOW AKAK FRISCO SAN FRAN I WILL NEVER EVER VISIT THIS STATE AGAIN
Good comment. Although you have to also recognize that ALL the homeless are Not just down on their luck ; what about the huge percent of them Hooked on DRUGS ? Sadness...Sin...Satan...Society... all create this kind of life.
@@lisanunez1225 very true....there are homeless people that are drug addicts..but some also have mental illnesses and they should be hospitalized for that but arent..they end up on the street. You cant save everyone,but i do feel bad for those who arent on drugs and just need a hand up to change their lives and arent able to change their lives around because they feel stuck
I walked around downtown Olympia, an (typically) hour drive south of Seattle, earlier today and the homeless that blatently congregate in some areas there heckled me for not giving them money, or doing "better" then them, or even not buying their drugs
They wanted to bring you down to their level which is HOPELESSNESS & WICKEDNESS.
I appreciate everyone that exposes corruption. What is this world coming too. Luv watching your videos Mr. Colian, keep up the good work.
You reap what you tolerate and encourage= Socialism
Until 1956 San Francisco was nearly a 50/50 dem/rep city. How times change.
It's truly shocking. Very informative piece Colion, great work.
Great video...Bringing light on the subject. Thank YOU!
Wow dude! I grew in the east bay left in 96 to Portland. Have wanted to leave here for at least 8 years. Don't what to say just sad.
"I'm for drugs legalization" well that's what you get
Legalization is not what causes people to use. The circumstances of their life, homelessness and poverty, that cause people to use. It’s literally the same thing as saying legal gun ownership causes mass shootings.
I hope your videos go viral because this is shocking. I live in the Midwest and had no idea this was happening. Human beings cannot be allowed to live in the streets like stray animals. If this isn't a national emergency I don't know what is. This is beyond sickening.
Thank you for doing what you do with your videos. I live in Kansas and we really don't get this information on MSM. God bless you sir.
Yes you do... I see this all the time in Michigan. It's just what side of it your on..
But, they keep being voted in! 🤔
Just Me Ahh yes...the expectation that change will occur by voting in the same people over and over. What’s that word for doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting different results? Oh yea.. INSANITY.
So this fool is for drug legalization.
And addicts pay for their drugs how?
Stealing anything that isn't bolted down.
They sure as f.. ain't holding jobs.
Their is a huge difference between understanding someones struggles or addictions and tolerating negative behavior.
Thank you for shedding light on this.
It's dependence. The authority requires people be dependent of them
Colion, you are awesome. Thanks for reporting on this. #MAGA #KAG 2020
American Redoubt when was it great for all ?
Man, I really appreciate you making these documentaries. While Oakland and SF have been fucked up for my entire life, it seems to have gotten exponentially worse in the last 10 years, and it's so disheartening. People need to see this.
These pcs you do are clearly eye opening moments. Thank you
The powers that be sponsor this policy knowing that it WILL grow out of control, then they CAN enable the domestic military complex ( police ) to run rampant and enforce government doctorines.
People like to pick on Detroit but you don't see this crap in Detroit! Detroit is slowly rebuilding. It's people are strong and proud! I don't see any pride there.Theres money being made off of these people, that's what democrats do, they want you in poverty, they want you to be dependent. To cite and old adage. Give a man a fish and you'll feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish you feed him for life.
Colin Noir you're right. I live in Santa Monica in LA. and we have a homeless Meth junkie problem rivaling San Francisco's. I also agree that homelessness is politicized. Proof: I live 2 blocks from the beach and our (greedy) City Council is building 7 (?!) homeless shelters within blocks of one another. There goes the neighborhood FOR REAL!
We were there last June. It was heartbreaking to see the needy out there like that. I spent many dollars feeding folk. I was told by many not to give. I couldn't overstand that and I contiuned giving from my heart
accountability? but but you have no right to oppose my lifestyle even it is a burden to the society!
but if we get enough ppl like this, we, the majority in a democratic society then votes to socialism and ta da, we are all equal
I'm kinda tired of these types of videos from Noir. Give me back shooting videos and reviews please!
I agree.
Amani L yup
Didn’t YT start banning shooting videos?
Todd Autry
I dont know.
They need to start banning political videos from both the left and the right. It’s honestly annoying.
I’d rather see shooting videos and gun reviews any day.
Eye opening video! Thank you for posting!
Once again... every one of them demands their goofy rights, but none of them assert their responsibilities.
Wow!!!!Thank you for truth!!! In California 😥
Anna the realtor is spot on, grandpa Del is also spot on he's got the critical thinking and the heart, I agree with both of the two interviewed Del said how could a non profit accept 250k a year salary complete "scam"
It is starteling and SAD!!!!
Couldn’t have said it better myself. So happy I found your channel!
I've been watching you since you posted choppy video's on r/guns. I've always been a fan, but I love this direction that you've been going in. No one else is talking about this. Thank you.
I just want to say it’s everywhere now even a small town in the Midwest. When we start taking responsibility for one another and forcing mental health care and forcing drug rehabilitation. It’s a necessity not a human rights violation.
I left in 2013. I could not stand walking through that filth in such an expensive city.
Wow. amazing video, especially the interview with Mr. Dell Seymour. I lived in SF in 1997-1999 and I cannot believe how much worse it has gotten. The parks were always filled with a some people living in the bushes, and it was kinda scary walking through the Tenderloin. This video was so informative - the change is unbelievable, it used to be an exciting and beautiful place to visit. I bet a lot of tourist $$ is going somewhere else. I have zero desire to ever go there again. I hope there is a change - your video is a strong message.
Love your approach, glad i subscribed, keep videos coming
Love seeing Del Seymour! I grew up as a runaway in the tenderloin, and he is our friend!
Great work, fantastic speaker and true investigative reporting.
Thanks.
YES! The biggest thing you cannot do with a drug addict is ENABLE. Anyone with a drug addict in their family has experienced this. If you enable, they never stop. I think the people in charge of these policies know this very well.
As a Drug Addict in Recovery...I can legit cosign on this. The reason why enabling is bad...is because it's harder for people to hit "Rock Bottom" when they are being held up by someone. When I decided to try to clean myself up, I separated myself from everyone because I wanted to do it by myself. I'm glad I wasn't in Cali...I would probably be dead.
This was amazing. I live in sf and I'm a veteran from the east coast. The word around town is other cities in the bay area bus their homeless to the tenderloin to take advantage of San Francisco homeless resources. They drop them off in the tenderloin in the middle of the night
These series of videos you’re doing are fantastic. Keep it up.
Thank you, sir. You are on point . i have been here for 26 years and everything you say is on point! God bless you.
Great Job on this , thank you for bringing it to light.
Well done! Thank you so much for sharing! Cheers! Subbed!
Very well produced. Cheers X 3 !!!
Colion Noir gets to the heart of the problem it would be an honor to meet him and endorse him as president of the NRA.
Excellent video. I live here so you have done a service to all who watch this video. HUD programs are a part of the problem. Our US Veterans with PTSD end up on the street while new families from other countries get moved into FREE section 8 housing and then they turn around and buy $60K luxury cars with cash. Put the veterans in hud and get them off the street!
You would think that with the current annual $400M homeless budget the problem would be solved! But no - they keep saying they need more money!
I've lived 10 miles from SF and only been to SF about 6 times in 23 years, It's loud, crowded, and disgusting
You just got a new subscriber..a well done and honest look at this situation..thank you for your work,it must be very hard to deal in your mind and heart with the truths you are exposing..God bless you..
I like your channel. Keep finding myself watching a lot of your videos.
I live in San Francisco and the city spent more than 2 million in a push to put homeless people on Social Security SSI. Many are addicts and alcoholics who diagnosed with a variety of ailments due to their substance abuse. After being granted more than a thousand a month for a single person in federal and state disability benefits and $75 a month in EBT (formally food stamps) plus housing assistance, many still refuse to pay rent, are homeless, and shoot meth, heroin and smoke meth and crack while camping out in front of businesses and residential buildings.
Dallas DA just announced he wouldn’t prosecute theft under $750. That is going to devastate civil society in Dallas. A mom n’ pop shop has a very thin profit margin. If they have just two $750 thefts per month that’s the wage of an employee. They will go under because they have no recourse and no protection.
Our small town has been effected by local big cities. More homeless on the street than i have ever seen in our area. Cant help them because it appears to only make it worse
If you're going to San Francisco, forget the flowers in your hair, be sure to wear a hazmat suit instead!
I'm glad people are seeing this. This is what progressivism develops in so many democratic-fun cities. And unless stopped soon, it will come to your city or a city near you. Thanks for sharing.
I would encourage everyone to post this on their social media!
With the legalization of up to 1 oz of any drug in King County and Snohomish County in Washington State, we are rapidly becoming a San Francisco.
Americans should be ashamed of what our country is becoming. In my opinion
I keep hearing the word TOLERANCE. TOLERANCE is not a virtue. Piety, humility and charity are virtues, but not tolerance.
I live in the South Bay (San Jose) The actual Silicon Valley. Last year I started driving ride share fill time. My back career prior was Medical, an Management leadership. I knew we had a problem in the Bay area with homeless, but until doing ride share i had no idea how big the "PROBLEM WAS." Yes San Francisco has it front an center do to its world wide destination stature. But the Bay area as a whole has more homeless than the rest of the state combined. We have more drug users and just crimes committed by transient homeless than any other crime statistic demography. in San Jose they do not even bother to have given portable or temporary bathrooms to the homeless camps.
There was just in the past month City meetings about using city owned property (at the time of the meeting was already being used bu homeless as a camp for over 60 people) to have a formal legal encampment for the homeless. At this meeting the people of nearby neighborhoods came to this meeting an made threats to the city council to sue the city and or take up action to remove the homeless "from there neighborhood". This area of town is known as Willow Glen, it is a prominent upper class and one of the central elite areas of the South bay Silicon Valley. At the meeting there was people yelling "put them on the East Side". these Elite in the By area are the first to form none profits, go to the media an say something needs to be done, but they don't want them any place near there neighborhoods.
they East bay only one City actively seems to do anything anything to help. they have created a program that buys "Tough Sheds" an places them on city owned property under a section of freeway. they then vet out an choose people who are eligible to live in one. They vet them and have rules, you can not be on drugs, you must enter a program that either helps you find work in your known trade or will re train you to find work, once working they help them find permanent housing. This site has bathrooms, showers, a office trailer with computers an services. there is full time 24/7 security and police patrol. only one problem the site an the number of participants do nit even add up to a register able % of the homeless in just Oakland.
While just 15 or 25 Min Ride on the 101, or 280 Freeway south of San Francisco you have cities like Palo Alto (home of Stanford Medical Hospital and the University) Atherton (know as the highest $ zip code in the nation) also know as wall city simply because over 90% of its Neighborhoods are be hide walls, Menlo Park (The Head quarters of Facebook), and Mountain View (Headquarters of Google) are all passing laws that will make being homeless on the streets in those cities illegal. in most of these areas they have a large amount of people who actually work have jobs (multiple Jobs) but can not afford housing. So thy purchase RV's. Well they park them an live in them. these cities in some cases have out law the parking of any kind of RV in the city limits. While other have passed laws to limit the areas an time a RV can be in one location. These people are frequently harassed by local neighborhood organisation, an law enforcement is used as a tool to get them out of there areas an cities. They tow an impound these as well as place wheel locks an fine these people. with that they make them completely homeless.
The Bay area as a whole is this center of the Liberal heart, an it has the highest concentration of wealth and tech in the world. But it is hear you see the Elite true creation of a upper and lower class plan, the have and the have not. there use of political narrative to create greater wealth for there none profits and government. while further dividing them from the others!
I grew up in San Francisco, moved there in 1974 as a child, the city was great... The decay starter slow, but has grown like the most predatory cancer imaginable. Rampant corruption at all City levels and do-nothing PR programs guised as support for the less fortunate. I finally left in 2000 and moved up North a wee bit. I wouldn't NEVER go back, there is NOT enough money in any reserve that would make me live in such a beautiful city being swallowed alive by squalor and bad management.
Sacramento is getting similar. The other day I actually saw someone begging from a street median dressed like a robber. It was insane to think about really. He had a hoodie on, sunglasses and a scarf over his mouth with one hand in his pocket. I sat in the car looking at him wondering if he actually gets regular money from people thinking he might have a gun in his pocket while they are stuck at a red light. The tolerance of this behavior is insanely irresponsible.
Enableling equals laziness!! The more homelessness.. The more money!!!!! Where's all the money going?
I'm a California native and lived in San Francisco and surrounding area for 20 year's. I remember going to concerts at the Oakland Colosseum to see Journey. It really made me feel good when they played the song "Lights", I was so proud to be apart of the Bay Area. I'm very sad to see what it has become. Unfortunately it is a shinning example if what our world is becoming.