The Truth About Homelessness in San Francisco

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  • Опубликовано: 2 авг 2020
  • 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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  • @kevb1959
    @kevb1959 3 года назад +287

    1 billion to homelessness? more like 1 billion to politicians and media oligarchs!

    • @cranbers
      @cranbers 3 года назад +6

      1 Billion to enable them. Not 1 dollar to help. Just let them live another day.

    • @elvismtz8387
      @elvismtz8387 3 года назад +3

      Thats 55000 per person... like wtf are they doing with that money?????

    • @kevb1959
      @kevb1959 3 года назад +6

      @@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.

    • @TheTangofrog
      @TheTangofrog 3 года назад +1

      @@kevb1959 That's the welfare state for you.

    • @willchristie2650
      @willchristie2650 3 года назад +2

      Think of the buildings that could be built for 1 billion to house all these people, if necessary.

  • @sykez9136
    @sykez9136 3 года назад +1003

    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.

    • @namesashhousewares8337
      @namesashhousewares8337 3 года назад +53

      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

    • @sarahlauren6046
      @sarahlauren6046 3 года назад +92

      @@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.

    • @indian3750
      @indian3750 3 года назад +8

      Most addicts

    • @namesashhousewares8337
      @namesashhousewares8337 2 года назад +12

      @@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?

    • @qjtvaddict
      @qjtvaddict 2 года назад +5

      They can be forced at gunpoint like in civilized countries

  • @mikeclemmons6288
    @mikeclemmons6288 Год назад +33

    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!?

    • @michellecimmino6326
      @michellecimmino6326 7 месяцев назад

      Scam?
      Or Dig about this what about the people who lost their boats their homes they’re homeless now

    • @ordyhorizonrivieredunord712
      @ordyhorizonrivieredunord712 7 месяцев назад

      @@michellecimmino6326 I wonder how the homeless managed to survive the hurricane??? 🌊

    • @shaw7598
      @shaw7598 6 месяцев назад

      $20,000 for a tent. You know who pockets the profits

  • @stephanielabargo9330
    @stephanielabargo9330 Год назад +24

    “unintended consequence“ I CANNOT lol
    I can’t think of a single logical reason why decriminalizing drugs would be an efficient solution

  • @jeffdianebald
    @jeffdianebald 3 года назад +109

    This is weakness disguised as compassion, also cruel neglect.

  • @TheOriginalRick
    @TheOriginalRick 3 года назад +392

    Used to love going to San Francisco as a tourist. Never again.

    • @joanl5600
      @joanl5600 3 года назад +8

      Rick Schwartz I lived outside SF in Alameda and go so sick of the state, I left Forever!

    • @daryllect6659
      @daryllect6659 3 года назад

      @@joanl5600 I got "click" of it too...

    • @mieshatatesfartbox7155
      @mieshatatesfartbox7155 3 года назад +5

      Rick Schwartz
      True. It’s an absolute shithole

    • @californiamade5608
      @californiamade5608 3 года назад +9

      I love San Francisco you guys are dumb as a bag of rocks.

    • @TheOriginalRick
      @TheOriginalRick 3 года назад +26

      @@californiamade5608 Good... you can keep it all to yourself. I won't mind at all.

  • @sky6692
    @sky6692 Год назад +58

    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… 💔

    • @utrich31
      @utrich31 Год назад +2

      Great for you, but are you voting so that history doesn't repeat itself?

    • @Drmidnight680
      @Drmidnight680 Год назад

      @@utrich31 the people in CA. Have been brain damaged into voting Democrat permanently.

    • @michellecimmino6326
      @michellecimmino6326 7 месяцев назад

      What about the people that lost their boats their homes❤

  • @trutheye1
    @trutheye1 Год назад +60

    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.

    • @dannoringer
      @dannoringer Год назад +4

      Your story is the story of human nature. We need guidance when we are bein controlled by drugs.

    • @matham625
      @matham625 Год назад +4

      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

    • @utrich31
      @utrich31 Год назад +1

      @@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%.

    • @matham625
      @matham625 Год назад +1

      @@utrich31 2 true too true

    • @Godskingdomwithin
      @Godskingdomwithin 10 месяцев назад +2

      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!

  • @dx2658
    @dx2658 3 года назад +1051

    What disgusting people. I’m talking about the officials.

    • @Cl0ckcl0ck
      @Cl0ckcl0ck 3 года назад +59

      And the voters. And the community leaders.

    • @rt3156
      @rt3156 3 года назад +36

      I'm talking about both. There are no excuses for this bullcrap. Life is 100% about CHOICES.

    • @TD-2011
      @TD-2011 3 года назад +21

      Especially Boudin.

    • @bobskinner3577
      @bobskinner3577 3 года назад +32

      Liberalism is a Mental Health issue

    • @monica_richardson
      @monica_richardson 3 года назад +4

      @@TD-2011 exactly - what an idiot .

  • @lansingdoesbusiness9356
    @lansingdoesbusiness9356 3 года назад +1660

    These city “leaders” aren’t mentally well themselves.

    • @cunnjohn
      @cunnjohn 3 года назад +37

      Chesa Boudin 6:42 is the son of convicted far-left wing murderers and terrorists. Got elected with soros money backing him.

    • @tumanSF
      @tumanSF 3 года назад +70

      yes, did you hear Supervisor Ronen in this film? She doesn't make any sense in what she is saying.

    • @loumencken9644
      @loumencken9644 3 года назад +45

      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.

    • @Cl0ckcl0ck
      @Cl0ckcl0ck 3 года назад +34

      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.

    • @gndnls
      @gndnls 3 года назад +21

      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

  • @RM-fo9qh
    @RM-fo9qh Год назад +21

    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

    • @yp6364
      @yp6364 Год назад +1

      Would you elaborate on the "consequences", please.

  • @user-rg1jz9br7k
    @user-rg1jz9br7k Год назад +30

    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

    • @Tony-zx8ju
      @Tony-zx8ju 10 месяцев назад

      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

    • @heatherhawkins7566
      @heatherhawkins7566 10 месяцев назад

      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.

    • @JackHaveman52
      @JackHaveman52 9 месяцев назад

      @@heatherhawkins7566
      They've done their part. They voted Democrat and the Democrats are the party of the little guy.

  • @wookienutsack5481
    @wookienutsack5481 3 года назад +127

    Hotels for the homeless, once the property damage cost becomes too high, they will be right back out on the streets.

    • @cranbers
      @cranbers 3 года назад +14

      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.

    • @whygohome172
      @whygohome172 3 года назад +7

      @@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!

    • @adulfdabo898
      @adulfdabo898 3 года назад +14

      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.

    • @sophiajoyceferry7150
      @sophiajoyceferry7150 3 года назад

      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.

  • @JacketsOnFire
    @JacketsOnFire 3 года назад +217

    “The road to hell is paved with good intentions.”

    • @banjopete
      @banjopete 2 года назад +2

      @@martymcfly5423 ,built?....Einstein.

    • @yumyumbumblebee
      @yumyumbumblebee 2 года назад +6

      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 💸💰💀

    • @anonymouscitizen2732
      @anonymouscitizen2732 2 года назад

      They want you to believe it was for good intentions.

  • @VIRGONOMICS
    @VIRGONOMICS Год назад +22

    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 .

  • @gobbletegook
    @gobbletegook Год назад +16

    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.

  • @LisaS483
    @LisaS483 3 года назад +740

    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.

    • @patriciaoffer9585
      @patriciaoffer9585 3 года назад +14

      Anticipate the arguments. It's not safe for anyone.

    • @Otherself
      @Otherself 3 года назад +4

      mateo sanfitz amen

    • @christopherdeen5275
      @christopherdeen5275 3 года назад +61

      @@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'.

    • @stardustgirl2904
      @stardustgirl2904 3 года назад +39

      Vote to get rid of Nancy PELOSI, that's the only hope you have, really!

    • @stardustgirl2904
      @stardustgirl2904 3 года назад +10

      @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!

  • @mitchellsportsstar
    @mitchellsportsstar 3 года назад +362

    “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.

    • @baltasarnoreno5973
      @baltasarnoreno5973 3 года назад +30

      He also hit the nail on the head when he said that progressive policies only work when people behave in a particular way.

    • @baltasarnoreno5973
      @baltasarnoreno5973 2 года назад +6

      @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.

    • @user-mz4qy9gx9c
      @user-mz4qy9gx9c 2 года назад +8

      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.

    • @sirrobin4394
      @sirrobin4394 2 года назад +10

      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.

    • @Shinobi33
      @Shinobi33 2 года назад +8

      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.

  • @charlottemiller7675
    @charlottemiller7675 Год назад +4

    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

  • @juliamaxwellmarin
    @juliamaxwellmarin Год назад +1

    You are Spot On with your assessment of the denouncement of inequality, all while fostering the inequality endlessly. Bravo for seeing through that.

  • @steveg6035
    @steveg6035 3 года назад +81

    the ex heroin user Tom is 1000x more sensible and able to lead than Ronen or Boudin combined

  • @gino.donati
    @gino.donati 3 года назад +1020

    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.

    • @Hossak
      @Hossak 3 года назад +110

      She hasn't had to think for her entire life - she aint gonna start now!!

    • @Tony-tf3py
      @Tony-tf3py 3 года назад +17

      They are destroyed and they love their destructors

    • @MisterCleanman
      @MisterCleanman 3 года назад +6

      @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.

    • @mack626
      @mack626 3 года назад +52

      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.

    • @sofasniperman
      @sofasniperman 3 года назад +12

      Oh she knows what shes doing and saying is bullshit. It's a plan to crash first the city, then our free country

  • @benburns5995
    @benburns5995 8 месяцев назад

    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.

  • @user-ml8ud6qd2u
    @user-ml8ud6qd2u 9 месяцев назад +1

    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. ❤❤❤❤

  • @jngreene33
    @jngreene33 2 года назад +405

    “It led to all these unintended consequences.” Unintended? Perhaps. Completely predictable to anyone not living in a fantasy world? Absolutely.

    • @nightlightabcd
      @nightlightabcd 2 года назад +1

      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!

    • @orclover2353
      @orclover2353 2 года назад +8

      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.

    • @KingSlimjeezy
      @KingSlimjeezy 2 года назад +10

      It gets really fucked up when you find out those "unintended" consequences were indeed, the intention

    • @jacobmaurer6985
      @jacobmaurer6985 2 года назад +1

      You have to understand that Portugal did the exact same thing a decade or do ago and it worked. Decriminalization got people off the streets and into treatment centers. Albeit, after a certain point in time.

    • @orclover2353
      @orclover2353 2 года назад +6

      @@jacobmaurer6985 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?

  • @bobhanson6073
    @bobhanson6073 3 года назад +85

    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!!

    • @mathildaapril1175
      @mathildaapril1175 3 года назад +2

      She doesn’t look normal to me. I think the democrat put her in that position.

  • @jimpackard8059
    @jimpackard8059 7 месяцев назад

    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

  • @gretchennewsom7599
    @gretchennewsom7599 Год назад +3

    This is awful. I remember my beautiful city in the early eighties
    I'm so sad....

    • @jackedkerouac4414
      @jackedkerouac4414 Год назад

      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

  • @elmobolan4274
    @elmobolan4274 3 года назад +183

    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!!!!

    • @AlienStorm7
      @AlienStorm7 3 года назад +7

      @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.

    • @willchristie2650
      @willchristie2650 3 года назад +7

      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.

    • @byekidd1361
      @byekidd1361 3 года назад

      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.

    • @sierragold
      @sierragold 3 года назад +6

      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.

    • @unintelligent4471
      @unintelligent4471 3 года назад +1

      Thanks for video’s like these , San Francisco YIKES!!!

  • @gregjames9875
    @gregjames9875 3 года назад +171

    When does compassion become enabling?

  • @kennahowe7582
    @kennahowe7582 Год назад +2

    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.

  • @breathedeepnow1
    @breathedeepnow1 Год назад +1

    I am speechless. Over 50 blocks of tent encampments of homeless people. Speechless and heart breaking.

  • @thomaswolf9750
    @thomaswolf9750 3 года назад +266

    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.

    • @MelonHead887
      @MelonHead887 3 года назад +14

      Honesty is always the best policy--personal honesty and political honesty. I'm glad you found your way.

    • @lyleisthebest
      @lyleisthebest 3 года назад +12

      Thanks for your work

    • @bozew.9837
      @bozew.9837 3 года назад +16

      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!

    • @sfbob5786
      @sfbob5786 3 года назад +6

      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.

    • @kerouac50
      @kerouac50 3 года назад +4

      Thank you Mr Wolf for all the work you do and for setting such a powerful example 🙏

  • @padenbang7375
    @padenbang7375 3 года назад +197

    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 🤘🏻

    • @Grk149
      @Grk149 3 года назад +12

      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

    • @Drmidnight680
      @Drmidnight680 Год назад

      The Democrats need the homeless to win elections so they won't be fixing the problem.

    • @christophercook3731
      @christophercook3731 3 месяца назад

      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.

  • @mdh1599
    @mdh1599 Год назад +3

    This is an amazing documentary and well researched. Way to check her with the reality of inequality that lives in the city.

  • @RamonaRayTodosSantosBCS
    @RamonaRayTodosSantosBCS Год назад +1

    Even a 5 year old knows that you will be held accountable if you break the rules. People need rules. Period

  • @patrickchang3900
    @patrickchang3900 3 года назад +257

    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?

    • @susansaxton8313
      @susansaxton8313 3 года назад +15

      Truly doesn't know anything about the city she works for--blaming the tech industry? For what, jobs, tax revenues ???

    • @lewjames6688
      @lewjames6688 3 года назад +17

      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.

    • @rajbhattacharya4427
      @rajbhattacharya4427 3 года назад +22

      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.

    • @OrdinaryG33K-SF
      @OrdinaryG33K-SF 3 года назад +7

      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.

    • @cnnnpc4351
      @cnnnpc4351 3 года назад +1

      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.

  • @everestandlights
    @everestandlights 3 года назад +84

    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.

    • @sharodcoulson1291
      @sharodcoulson1291 3 года назад +7

      So do you vote for Democrats??

    • @mojoschmee9320
      @mojoschmee9320 3 года назад +8

      I left Seattle a year ago for the same reasons. Just rotten. And no, I do not vote Democrat...

    • @sharodcoulson1291
      @sharodcoulson1291 Год назад

      @Martin seems ro be a liberal city problem. Perhaps you should try new politicians

    • @rickmorty5215
      @rickmorty5215 Год назад

      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.

  • @Dude0000
    @Dude0000 Год назад +1

    This is the result of eliminating competition. It eliminates any repercussions of failure so failure is normal. This is what failure looks like.

  • @roseleteer6924
    @roseleteer6924 9 месяцев назад

    I love San Francisco.
    I used to visit twice year.
    Unfortunately the last time I was there I knew something dark was coming.
    I personally witnessed drug dealing,
    a beautiful woman shoot up. It broke my heart.
    Please save San Francisco.
    I won't visit until it's safe for everyone.

  • @nickb3751
    @nickb3751 3 года назад +55

    As a San Francisco native, thank you for making this short documentary.

  • @kevinnunna2609
    @kevinnunna2609 2 года назад +86

    the guy who use to be on the streets seems to be a little smarter than the city counsel members

    • @rjjcms1
      @rjjcms1 2 года назад +4

      A lot.

  • @sherlocknoshitlibertyjusti2933
    @sherlocknoshitlibertyjusti2933 Год назад +6

    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.

    • @hobbes5043
      @hobbes5043 9 месяцев назад +1

      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.

  • @mmmfun77
    @mmmfun77 Год назад +2

    These leaders are insane. By their own active actions they have played a big part in creating this fiasco

  • @khiewuntjie3028
    @khiewuntjie3028 3 года назад +102

    We need to “clean” house top to bottom starting with the mayor and all supervisors .... Fired all of them!

    • @keepers...
      @keepers... 3 года назад

      Don't forget Newson. He needs to be recalled!

    • @MrJestyler
      @MrJestyler 3 года назад

      And once everyone is out don’t get back into bad voting behaviors again-means no more dems

    • @MrJestyler
      @MrJestyler 3 года назад +1

      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.

    • @JElias-po6zu
      @JElias-po6zu 3 года назад +1

      That will solve notning. No matter who's in charge. End of days

    • @MrJestyler
      @MrJestyler 3 года назад +1

      @@JElias-po6zu instill fear in them and show them their are consequences for their actions.

  • @desertflower119
    @desertflower119 3 года назад +337

    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

    • @mgreene011
      @mgreene011 2 года назад +6

      Well said!! Very astute.

    • @sk8ercaligirl
      @sk8ercaligirl 2 года назад +40

      The woman is certifiably insane and yet people keep voting for her. 😳🤭🙄

    • @51OAKLANDER510
      @51OAKLANDER510 2 года назад +1

      @@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.

    • @JCRastafari
      @JCRastafari 2 года назад

      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.

    • @sglee4708
      @sglee4708 2 года назад +5

      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

  • @TheBishop12
    @TheBishop12 11 месяцев назад +1

    You could watch this right now and never know that this vid was uploaded 2 years ago. They have done absolutely nothing.

  • @jacknjill3000
    @jacknjill3000 Год назад

    Someone recently told me the reason the homeless problem can’t or haven’t been fox is that all the social services want to keep it this way and don’t want to fix. If they fix it, all the non profits would go out of business and they don’t want that to happen and become obsolete.
    I wondered why the homeless issues have gone on for decades and never ever looked at that possibility, but it makes sense bc whatever they are doing hasn’t worked and there no real solution on the table. Yeah, that kind of blew my mind! And I’m one that was homeless, but made it out bc I didn’t have a mental issue, didn’t use drugs or committed crimes. But I had to help myself bc it seem the ppl. that could be easily put back into society, they didn’t support or know what to do with. Which is sad that no one thought about giving a boost to those that could help themselves.

  • @brandonoa17
    @brandonoa17 3 года назад +247

    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.

    • @daveomacron4301
      @daveomacron4301 3 года назад +5

      Spoken like a well housed, well insured, rich boy with plenty of mommy and daddy's seed money.

    • @brandonoa17
      @brandonoa17 3 года назад +45

      @@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. ✌️

    • @daveomacron4301
      @daveomacron4301 3 года назад +5

      @@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.

    • @brandonoa17
      @brandonoa17 3 года назад +29

      @@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.

    • @daveomacron4301
      @daveomacron4301 3 года назад +2

      @@brandonoa17 congratulations. You have learned well the lessons of your masters.

  • @mglamarmd1
    @mglamarmd1 3 года назад +36

    It broke my heart the last time I was in SF. I won't return.

  • @Ballsarama
    @Ballsarama Год назад +3

    It's interesting and tragic to see these situations in San Francisco, Philly. and throughout the world. However, I've not seen one of these programs that talk a great deal about any possible solutions. It would be helpful if there were some historical precedents where similar situations were dealt with...I'm sure ancient cities had their gettos; Ancient Rome at its height may have had one million inhabitants, 300,000 of whom were desperately poor.

  • @minddoc73
    @minddoc73 Год назад +1

    Fire the S.F. mayor, and city counsel, the D.A. and every fool who thought their policies were a good idea. We in L.A. have similar problems, and many of us moved to the surrounding neighborhoods which are better. We tried to recall the D.A. and obtained more than enough signatures but were challenged by many of them so we lost our bid to rid ourselves of the criminal who refuses to manage the criminals.

  • @himois14
    @himois14 3 года назад +606

    The lady was complaining about republicans, in the most democratic city in the most democratic state,, way to pass the blame

    • @jasonthomas9364
      @jasonthomas9364 3 года назад +59

      You can’t fix stupid

    • @Jess1234
      @Jess1234 3 года назад +29

      Democrats =simps

    • @elizabethkim3740
      @elizabethkim3740 3 года назад +18

      Exactly.

    • @mikeegomez8315
      @mikeegomez8315 3 года назад +18

      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.

    • @YourInvestmentAdvise
      @YourInvestmentAdvise 3 года назад +34

      Republicans like Rudy Giuliani are the people who clean up cities. Democrats are brainwashed idiots who destroy cities.

  • @davidbridges9422
    @davidbridges9422 3 года назад +197

    I was born in San Francisco and grew up in a beautiful city. This brings tears.

    • @chuckinhouston9952
      @chuckinhouston9952 3 года назад +8

      Worked there for three years - pretty ugly place. Libs ruined it

    • @nickyhanzo8391
      @nickyhanzo8391 2 года назад +5

      Wish we could go back to 2010 2011 times when the giants were doing great

    • @ACWG47
      @ACWG47 2 года назад +2

      I know, brother, I know…

    • @ArchYeomans
      @ArchYeomans 2 года назад +7

      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.

    • @cvictoria1089
      @cvictoria1089 2 года назад +5

      I remember when Fisherman's Wharf was actually a wharf!!!

  • @sandychristianson9088
    @sandychristianson9088 Год назад +1

    The Citizens of SF should wake up and vote out the people who made the city like this!!!! It is heart breaking and your leadership is to blame.

  • @georgebrown1543
    @georgebrown1543 Год назад +1

    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!

  • @Tall-Cool-Drink
    @Tall-Cool-Drink 3 года назад +264

    Politicians never take responsibility for anything they do.

    • @brendaluv2017
      @brendaluv2017 3 года назад +4

      “We have a great system”

    • @jeremychan3796
      @jeremychan3796 3 года назад +1

      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

    • @richardbowers3647
      @richardbowers3647 3 года назад

      Elephant in the room is being ignored again!!!

    • @tammcphail1995
      @tammcphail1995 3 года назад

      Neither does anyone for that matter. We have a society of its not my fault.

    • @moniquegarcia1011
      @moniquegarcia1011 3 года назад +1

      No not Nancy Pelosi....

  • @HYTTFilms
    @HYTTFilms 2 года назад +439

    that lady towards the end sounded literally insane. Completely out of touch.

    • @Ivan-ud1gr
      @Ivan-ud1gr 2 года назад +22

      Shes an elected official. I lived in SF back in 07-09, it was wild then, but it's a warzone now.

    • @MrManfly
      @MrManfly 2 года назад +13

      @@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!!

    • @michaelstevens2027
      @michaelstevens2027 2 года назад +15

      Not only insane, but SUPER DELUSIONAL. Now that's really really sad. And this is good? How???

    • @wishIKnewHowToLove
      @wishIKnewHowToLove 2 года назад +25

      she looks manic

    • @bill4913
      @bill4913 2 года назад +31

      That's a Democrat for you.

  • @6nippy8
    @6nippy8 Год назад

    as a san diego native I visited san francisco for a speedy loc and east bay co gathering a decade ago and it was really nice. I came back after 12 years and saw homeless fighting, poop, heroin needles and a man's face ripped off from meth scratching. it's only a 3 hour drive from reedley

  • @julietcarter487
    @julietcarter487 Год назад +2

    I am so grateful to live in Great Britain where people are given housing. I can't believe a "so-called" first world country do not provide council homes or even free health care in this day and age, feels like they are stuck in the past. It is truly shocking.

    • @joyceradciffe6795
      @joyceradciffe6795 Год назад +1

      The Conservative Right, by and large, run for office to serve, protect and legislate for only their best "dark" money donors, the ultra rich corporations and wealthy individuals who influence them greatly to pass laws that solely favor them. We the People became We the rich Corporations. They pay a lot less in taxes than most Americans. This is an ominous devolved America since the mid 80s, but currently it's a political, social & economic disaster.

    • @julietcarter487
      @julietcarter487 Год назад

      @@joyceradciffe6795 I thought it may be something like this. If sure people would be okay with paying a bit more tax, rather than seeing an abundance of, what looks like, refugee camps on their doorstep and pure poverty everywhere they look.
      There are some homeless people here, but never in my life have I seen a multitude of homeless camps everywhere. It's honestly like a third world country in the US. Bet the Americans wish they didn't go to war with England now, as you'd have free healthcare and a massive amount of people off the streets. Spend billions on housing, not cleaning up after the homeless, I'd say!

    • @Centre14
      @Centre14 9 месяцев назад

      third of the world destroyed by your country no biggie

  • @armin38822
    @armin38822 3 года назад +234

    As a tourist from balkans,I was shocked when I first landed in SF. Absolutly shocked...

    • @junesilvermanb2979
      @junesilvermanb2979 3 года назад +1

      en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balkans

    • @LoverboyB_Pookie
      @LoverboyB_Pookie 3 года назад +7

      And u probably paid a pretty penny too lol.

    • @armin38822
      @armin38822 3 года назад +8

      @@LoverboyB_Pookie oh yeah it ren me about 3.500 euros. Spent there about 13-14 days.

    • @GP-nr2fm
      @GP-nr2fm 3 года назад +22

      I’ve been to many countries, have never seen anything like SF anywhere else. Not even in Africa!

    • @stonejackballer482
      @stonejackballer482 3 года назад +2

      @@GP-nr2fm Kensington Philly

  • @305Independent
    @305Independent 3 года назад +569

    This is what actual journalism looks like. Great job 👏🏻

    • @ysosirius2886
      @ysosirius2886 3 года назад +2

      If you are a lefty

    • @joelhenderson1252
      @joelhenderson1252 3 года назад +4

      symptom of a failed economic system

    • @forthesnowflakes7691
      @forthesnowflakes7691 3 года назад +7

      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.

    • @Wordsalad69420
      @Wordsalad69420 3 года назад +9

      @@forthesnowflakes7691 Homeless are coming into the city from other places. This has nothing to do with gentrification and everything to do with lax government.

    • @forthesnowflakes7691
      @forthesnowflakes7691 3 года назад +6

      @@Wordsalad69420 homeless coming from other cities isn't the sole reason why we have homeless people. 😆😂 c'mon

  • @hispanicsareoursalvation375
    @hispanicsareoursalvation375 Год назад +1

    Homeless: *Part 1 of 2* The molds already exist to create plastic, prefabricated, mobile homes made from the waste-plastic poisoning the oceans with estrogen; to house the homeless. From the company _Lillyput Play Homes_ this is an example; the _Casa de Caramel:_ $18,500. *Playhouse Specifications:*
    Base size: 16’6″ x 8′
    Loft: 4′ x 8′
    Bottom of base to peak of upper roof: 12’6″
    Bottom of Base to Peak of main roof: 10′
    Floor to bottom of loft: 59″
    Bottom of base to top of balcony rail: 7’8″
    Door height: 52″
    Wall height: 60″
    Height of pergola: 64:
    *Included Playhouse Features:*
    Loft, Faux Hardwood Floors, Faux Ornamental Iron Rail, Faux Tile Roof, Deluxe Fireplace Mantle, Pergola

  • @theonlyway4366
    @theonlyway4366 Год назад +1

    SFO has officially become the homeless city of the world. Hundreds of homeless people migrating every week while thousands of non homeless people moving out SFO.

  • @mattmcnulty8131
    @mattmcnulty8131 3 года назад +474

    The city leadership are like parents that try to be their kids friend. Sometimes being tough is the only way to show love.

    • @have_a_good_day420
      @have_a_good_day420 3 года назад +14

      Hence Trump. We need him back

    • @lawrenceloflin8857
      @lawrenceloflin8857 3 года назад +16

      The city leadership is not like parents unless parents normally LIVE OFF THIER CHILDREN AND STEAL FROM THEIR CHILDREN, because that is what the corrupt politicians do, steal, embezzle and LIVE OFF OF THE HOMELESS and the POOR, who are the ones paying the bills and being stolen from every single DAY!!!

    • @bunkydunk7500
      @bunkydunk7500 3 года назад +9

      @@lawrenceloflin8857 I totally agree. Nobody loves calling the homeless criminals more than criminals. That way they can rip off innocent people whether they're homeless or not and everyone can't discern between some homeless victim and a homeless criminal. They are two different types of people,one doesn't have a house and is still a victim of crime,and one is a criminal without a house who wants everyone else to confuse him with the innocent. Smoke and mirrors yet nobody knows how to tell a criminal from a victim without an effort of discernment. I know this because I lived on the street but wasn't an addict, a vandal or a thief. But everyone felt like they had to treat me like i was simply cuz i looked scruffy. That's how criminals will always win,letting people confuse them with law abiding citizens who are their easy targets because no one can tell them apart.

    • @bunkydunk7500
      @bunkydunk7500 2 года назад +2

      @@costaet just because people think one way politically doesn't lump them in with all the corruption on either side. That would make both sides lying losers who are just criminals who want power and money. Duh. That's what both sides feel like to me. No matter who wins or who is in power things get mishandled, crime goes up and up, a blame game is played and those in so called power just arm themselves better in forts we'll never get close to or we will be killed. No matter who we are they are all power hungry snobs who couldn't care less if you live or die. They're not Roman gods who will solve the problems of thousands of lazy people who can't obey laws right? Well hail your chief buddy. I might not like one side or the other but i don't accuse either side of siding with radical cases who are the exception and not the rule. Learn to use better analytical skills in Your arguments. I call a fallacy. Your political opponents aren't just straw men because some are criminals. The same fallacy would make your side lose too.... Sorry to say. I wish humans were civilized but we are not.

    • @bunkydunk7500
      @bunkydunk7500 2 года назад +2

      @@costaet sorry about that. I also disagree we need anyone back. I don't remember a single president I'd want back. I just happen to know people on both sides who aren't Looney's who would loot or storm the capitol that's all I'm Saying. I seriously wanna delete my Reply 🤣 just had a bad day
      All my life people i loved and respected fought tooth and nail for left or right and over the years they both looked like the same slimy two faced animal that is just a crony in a corrupt system and i hated the hatred. I don't think every Trump supporter (I'm not one though i always support whoever is pres unfortunately for me or i couldve went looting instead) is a capitol stormer and i don't think every Biden (who I'm not a big fan of either) supporter is a looter. That's all I'm saying. Again I'm sorry i was just over reacting .....i could delete my reply
      It's embarrassing and over reactive.

  • @sirdudeness1386
    @sirdudeness1386 3 года назад +69

    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.

    • @daakrolb
      @daakrolb 3 года назад +2

      “The road to hell was paved with good intentions.” How true is that??

    • @timwebster6151
      @timwebster6151 3 года назад +1

      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 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧

    • @nategwinn9058
      @nategwinn9058 3 года назад +1

      Vegas is the same way. Bums everywhere. A tourist was beaten to death just the other day on the strip by some homeless maniac.

  • @kb_100
    @kb_100 8 месяцев назад

    San Francisco has some of the strictest zoning regulations and new housing projects can easily blocked by wealthy "neighbourhood preservation" activists. Aka NIMBYs.
    Decades of this dynamic has led to an enormous shortage of housing and has driven many people into the street who would otherwise have had cheap accommodations from which they could relaunch their lives.
    Not talking about zoning and NIMBY activism misses a huge part of the root cause of the homelessness crisis facing most North American cities

  • @maxasaurus3008
    @maxasaurus3008 Год назад +1

    At least 85%, police saved my life too, almost 4 years clean from Heroin and Meth, it can be done. If any addicts are reading this I love you, there is help if you are ready, keep your head up ❤. Be safe.

  • @glotaro1
    @glotaro1 3 года назад +205

    I live 45mins away from SF, I haven't been there for years. It's a shit hole now

    • @davidbalmer473
      @davidbalmer473 3 года назад +17

      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. :(

    • @07negative56
      @07negative56 3 года назад +6

      45 minutes away from S.F is also a shit hole.

    • @glotaro1
      @glotaro1 3 года назад +8

      @@07negative56 well, CA is ran by Dems, what do you expect?

    • @idobbs737
      @idobbs737 3 года назад

      @@07negative56 hahaha, unless you are headed toward Point Reyes🖤

    • @slit4659
      @slit4659 3 года назад

      @@davidbalmer473 Santa Rosa isn't outside of Seattle is about a Hour North of SAN FRANCISCO.

  • @TheScaryTruthCatalyst
    @TheScaryTruthCatalyst 3 года назад +109

    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.

    • @violent_bebop9687
      @violent_bebop9687 3 года назад +1

      And that's why it will never end!

    • @MovieGuy666
      @MovieGuy666 3 года назад +1

      the homeless never see a dime of that money.

    • @ajcarr1965
      @ajcarr1965 3 года назад +4

      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."

    • @thatisabsolutelykooooge2211
      @thatisabsolutelykooooge2211 3 года назад

      WHERE ARE THE PROSECUTORS?!?!?!?!?

    • @timwebster6151
      @timwebster6151 3 года назад

      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 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧

  • @mrsblue3011
    @mrsblue3011 Год назад

    It took years for people to admit that mental illness and drug addiction was at the root of homelessness. Nobody in their right frame of mind would spend the night on the street. Not to mention years of living on the streets.

  • @dadmadforgot4050
    @dadmadforgot4050 Год назад +1

    Wow. I visited San Fran from the uk years ago - I was mesmerised by how nice, interesting, cool it was. Such found memories. Now look, and it’s not just San Fran it’s most major us cities. So sad. What the hell is going on!

  • @senniewhite6301
    @senniewhite6301 3 года назад +110

    *This is a complete breakdown in humanity.*

    • @diannemcbeth7428
      @diannemcbeth7428 3 года назад +2

      A complete breakdown of rational thought. The former addict said it - the cops saved his life by holding him accountable. Hmmm

    • @PeterDivine
      @PeterDivine 2 года назад

      Quite the contrary: all heart, no brains.

  • @brogcooper25
    @brogcooper25 2 года назад +202

    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.

    • @jontyrhodes4155
      @jontyrhodes4155 2 года назад

      You completely misinformed cooper
      SF is home of steve jobs , its amazing

    • @kimdelong1835
      @kimdelong1835 2 года назад

      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!

    • @californiamade5608
      @californiamade5608 2 года назад

      You shouldn’t have went to the bad part intentionally

    • @lexstacks6944
      @lexstacks6944 Год назад +6

      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.

    • @lexstacks6944
      @lexstacks6944 Год назад +1

      @@jontyrhodes4155 lies. San Francisco as a whole is a big dumpster...

  • @jupitereye4322
    @jupitereye4322 Год назад +2

    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.

    • @meghan8020
      @meghan8020 Год назад +1

      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.

  • @jordandavid8653
    @jordandavid8653 Год назад

    Taking them out of jails, and decriminalization, isn’t what caused this - it just shows everyone how bad things have been for a while. Going back to criminalizing drug use and other behaviours will only serve to hide the problem. Each person’s situation is a problem and they need real help instead of institutions that ensure salaries for people who pretend to help.

  • @CaptainCook83
    @CaptainCook83 2 года назад +142

    Give addicts an inch… They take a mile… Learned that the hard way.

    • @amandamiller304
      @amandamiller304 2 года назад +7

      captain cook i have an addict in my family its more like ten miles if your lucky

    • @georgevavoulis4758
      @georgevavoulis4758 2 года назад +3

      They take alright take what's not theirs

    • @sea2959
      @sea2959 2 года назад +1

      not as bad as Real State companies...which are destroying the whole country

    • @christopherscheiber1439
      @christopherscheiber1439 2 года назад +1

      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 ?

    • @faustlove
      @faustlove 2 года назад +1

      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.

  • @chickendippers3637
    @chickendippers3637 3 года назад +106

    Imagine how it will look 5 years from now

    • @joecoool100
      @joecoool100 3 года назад +19

      Not just SF.....this whole country.

    • @michaelschulte1044
      @michaelschulte1044 3 года назад +2

      Remember during a job interview when they ask you “where do you see yourself in 5 years ?”

    • @usualsuspect5173
      @usualsuspect5173 3 года назад +1

      This is all over the country

    • @oldsalt8011
      @oldsalt8011 3 года назад +2

      Nancy will be gone by then.

    • @kenhaight7774
      @kenhaight7774 3 года назад +2

      Democrats

  • @cliffmoher1096
    @cliffmoher1096 Год назад

    Bravo! Depressing, and infuriating but informative. I would say that sweeping Supervisor Ronan and her ilk into the cold seabound waters of the Bay would be a good start on the road to recovery and redemption for the city and its residents, homeless or otherwise.

  • @neilolson3220
    @neilolson3220 Год назад

    I lived in the City of 30 years. I left for the exact reasons outlined in this accurate video.
    So sad ….

  • @ecuadmail
    @ecuadmail 3 года назад +158

    Thanks for your work on this. More people need to understand that enabling addiction and dependency isn't kindness or compassion.

    • @ecuadmail
      @ecuadmail 3 года назад +19

      @MusicLover they need help. Not to be kept in perpetual cycles of addiction.

    • @Cl0ckcl0ck
      @Cl0ckcl0ck 3 года назад +4

      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.

    • @ecuadmail
      @ecuadmail 3 года назад +10

      @@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.

    • @JFP69
      @JFP69 3 года назад +11

      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.

    • @RDJ2
      @RDJ2 3 года назад

      @@Cl0ckcl0ck The Netherlands are nearly addict free? Are you on crack? I'm Dutch, drugs are fucking everywhere here.

  • @TownofJezza
    @TownofJezza 2 года назад +298

    move all homeless to the white house lawn - you'd be surprised how fast they find a solution then

    • @692ALBANNACH
      @692ALBANNACH 2 года назад +10

      Nancy has some property available ?

    • @frankj8478
      @frankj8478 2 года назад +2

      It Trump fault he did not do anything send them to his resorts.

    • @nashbruce4196
      @nashbruce4196 2 года назад +3

      Solution= they'd all get shot. But haven't the (self-proclaimed) "elites" been trying to push us away for centuries now?

    • @DMWBN3
      @DMWBN3 2 года назад

      Wouldn't fit!!

    • @wishiwereinvegas4738
      @wishiwereinvegas4738 2 года назад +3

      Yea they will do something about it they will put them in busses and drop them of on another street somewhere.

  • @theplceforme
    @theplceforme 9 месяцев назад +1

    “Government offering free hotel rooms and free drugs and alcohol “
    Ya that ought to fix the problem right away

  • @blastforth
    @blastforth 3 года назад +208

    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.

    • @SummerBaby728
      @SummerBaby728 3 года назад +32

      👏👏👏 thank you! If shit goes awry, it’s ALWAYS the fault of the GOP to the insane left. It’s political projection and gaslighting.

    • @JFP69
      @JFP69 3 года назад +8

      Absolutely true. It is amazing to me that she was elected.

    • @JFP69
      @JFP69 3 года назад +2

      The Blyss Catalyst you are ABSOLUTELY right.

    • @londomolari5715
      @londomolari5715 3 года назад +4

      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.

    • @gndnls
      @gndnls 3 года назад +13

      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

  • @ReallyRick
    @ReallyRick 3 года назад +39

    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.

    • @thatisabsolutelykooooge2211
      @thatisabsolutelykooooge2211 3 года назад +2

      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!

  • @IIrandhandleII
    @IIrandhandleII Год назад

    Thank you Gavin

  • @RonD108
    @RonD108 Год назад

    Remedy for homelessness:
    1. National mobilization to target the source(s) and eliminate the availability of fentanyl on the streets of the United States.
    2. National mobilization to target the source(s) and eliminate the availability of methamphetamine on the streets of the United States.
    3. Continue all current social service efforts and measures which are well-meaning and effective to a certain degree to address homelessness

  • @Karch.Dah-Veed
    @Karch.Dah-Veed 3 года назад +63

    This film is the manifesto that inspires Mayor Steve Adler of Austin, TX to replicate this model and destroy his city.

    • @truderenken3248
      @truderenken3248 3 года назад +3

      I agree, I've been watching Austin for about 12 years, their downhill slide.....

    • @benjamindover7399
      @benjamindover7399 3 года назад +3

      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.

    • @BigDaddy-dr8gf
      @BigDaddy-dr8gf 3 года назад +1

      I live 40 miles south/west of Austin. I'am hoping they can contain it to the city limits.

    • @ronrolph
      @ronrolph 3 года назад

      You're probably safe - he's too busy breaking his own Covid lockdown rules and partying in Cabo.

    • @MrJestyler
      @MrJestyler 3 года назад

      Yes Austin and Asheville NC are trying to replicate SF and lunging down hill fast

  • @joepalooka2145
    @joepalooka2145 2 года назад +200

    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.

    • @antonioramos5257
      @antonioramos5257 2 года назад +8

      A reflection of our permissive society.

    • @LostSox
      @LostSox 2 года назад +4

      Everything has a beginning. You just came when the degradation party was starting.

    • @DavidRodriguez-er4rq
      @DavidRodriguez-er4rq 2 года назад +1

      Goes to show you what libtard leftists and Demoncrats do yo a city

    • @G-546
      @G-546 2 года назад +2

      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.

    • @jontyrhodes4155
      @jontyrhodes4155 2 года назад

      You still alive Joe

  • @Vinicius-Ribeiro
    @Vinicius-Ribeiro Год назад

    I'm Brazilian, and believe me, those problems are worse here. We need to learn how to choose good politicians to represent us, because most of them here are corrupt. I share the same values as you man, I hope that something had changed there since the publication of this video.

  • @AndyYoung789
    @AndyYoung789 Год назад +1

    $1 billion for 18,000 homeless???? That's almost $56,000 per person!!! That's quite an industry! Just who is getting all this money???

  • @jg5875
    @jg5875 3 года назад +249

    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.

    • @ArchYeomans
      @ArchYeomans 2 года назад +13

      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.

    • @ronskancke8166
      @ronskancke8166 2 года назад +27

      A lot of them dont want to get clean or work a job.

    • @jg5875
      @jg5875 2 года назад +9

      @@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.

    • @skategimp7992
      @skategimp7992 2 года назад +2

      JG "Force" the homeless into facilities? Wow, okay.

    • @jg5875
      @jg5875 2 года назад +5

      @@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.

  • @doltbezoar
    @doltbezoar 2 года назад +90

    No one is held accountable any more for their vile behavior.

    • @debbiesmith8248
      @debbiesmith8248 Год назад

      True! It is a result of ‘woke’ governments, etc.

    • @ainnochaim9450
      @ainnochaim9450 Год назад

      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.

    • @debbiesmith8248
      @debbiesmith8248 Год назад

      @@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.

    • @ainnochaim9450
      @ainnochaim9450 Год назад

      @@debbiesmith8248 YOU are missing the point. You think being held accountable, without consequences, is being in prison. Sometimes the prison has no bars.

    • @debbiesmith8248
      @debbiesmith8248 Год назад

      @@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.

  • @christianrealmo6980
    @christianrealmo6980 11 месяцев назад

    Me my brother's and pregnant mother lived at the Ellis hotel there in the tenderloin area back in 78 79 when I was twelve. We actually seen a man fall off our building only to fall off the building behind us to his death. It was certainly an experience living there all of us cramped in one room😢

  • @abouttime5000
    @abouttime5000 Год назад +1

    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.

  • @jacobthompson6265
    @jacobthompson6265 3 года назад +439

    The streets of San Francisco are now officialy public toilets.

    • @b.arborio2404
      @b.arborio2404 3 года назад +15

      Public toilets are CLEANER

    • @DevilJin01
      @DevilJin01 3 года назад

      Can you really be nude in public in San Fran or are there certain restrictions/licenses?

    • @telebob
      @telebob 3 года назад +2

      Do you mind if we move these folks to your neighborhood?

    • @jacobthompson6265
      @jacobthompson6265 3 года назад

      @@telebob I don't care.

    • @b.arborio2404
      @b.arborio2404 3 года назад +1

      @@telebob I already have more than enough , thanks.

  • @marcparella
    @marcparella 2 года назад +29

    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.

    • @maggiemae7539
      @maggiemae7539 Год назад

      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!

  • @euamoflash
    @euamoflash Год назад

    It is cruel to not treat mental health patients and remove them from the streets

  • @jimpackard8059
    @jimpackard8059 7 месяцев назад

    The best bit of sense was the Salvation Army man

  • @ninacuntowiczaka2415
    @ninacuntowiczaka2415 2 года назад +151

    Also you can steal 950$ worth of stuff without the cops being called

    • @martymcfly5423
      @martymcfly5423 2 года назад +19

      business owners should raise the prices for all products to 951$ 🤭

    • @MrHeftyFine
      @MrHeftyFine 2 года назад +15

      @@martymcfly5423 well, they started locking up all the regularly stolen items. Then PoC started complaining cuz the products behind glass were regularly used by black people. The racism!!
      But the stores only locked up the items stolen the most. What a coincidence, i guess

    • @altonpaige2388
      @altonpaige2388 2 года назад +1

      950$?

    • @jeffreyb8770
      @jeffreyb8770 2 года назад +3

      If I give the homeless a commodity they can *trade* for drugs, they will. Food stamps is wildly popular. They can beg for food. Those mother&$#$+@s !

    • @sharoncrawford7192
      @sharoncrawford7192 2 года назад

      It's a free for all.