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.
It's also naive to think that every addict wants help and to get clean. Some addicts have no desire to get clean at all.
almost every addict has the desire to get clean. don't talk shit. but getting clean and having to deal with all that shit that happened while being an addict and with what lead you to become an addict in the first place is hard af. you get clean and see that you destroyed you life, this is not something you can deal with easily. plus all the mental illness, no money, often no family and no friends, nowhere to go. it is naive to think that you can just quit being a junkie
@@namesashhousewares8337 not every addict has the desire to get clean. That’s a false statement. A lot of addicts will continue to use even if placed in rehab. A lot of addicts relapse. There’s also a mental health issue with a lot of addicts because of all the drug use they now have psychosis and now have to be treated for that and addiction. The psychosis part will make the person continue to use drugs because of the chemical imbalance and loss of control in decision making and reality. It’s just like the saying “you can lead a horse to water but you cannot make the horse drink the water” addicts are the same. If they don’t have the desire to get clean, the resources will not help them and they will relapse.
Most addicts
@@sarahlauren6046 i didn't say every addict. but what you described, is kinda the same that i described. most addicts want to get clean, but they can't (you added a view more reasons to mine). go out to skid row and ask any addict there if he would like to be not addicted to whatever drug he is on. what do you think the answer will be?
They can be forced at gunpoint like in civilized countries
These city “leaders” aren’t mentally well themselves.
Chesa Boudin 6:42 is the son of convicted far-left wing murderers and terrorists. Got elected with soros money backing him.
yes, did you hear Supervisor Ronen in this film? She doesn't make any sense in what she is saying.
Too true. Watching to that far-left nutball councilwoman wave her arms around while she can barely string a coherent sentence together makes it clear she suffers from a severe case of self-inflicted ideological insanity.
Clearly. They spend over a billion on 18.000 homeless people. That's $50.000,- for each homeless people each year. They could just employ the sane ones to care for the crazy ones and totally fix all of the the problems.
And this is not a mistake.
The Democratic Party is infiltrated and taken over by international socialists aka marxists.
And their only goal is to destroy the USA. Individual by individual, city by city, state by state.
They(the world wide international socialists) want to destroy white countries and in the end the whole white race.
For example.
twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1293603172842221570
Spending $1B on 18,000 homeless is spending $55,000 for each and every homeless person with zero results. It's absolutely shameful. We need to hold the politicians accountable. This is ridiculous. I mean, WTF!?
Scam?
Or Dig about this what about the people who lost their boats their homes they’re homeless now
@@michellecimmino6326 I wonder how the homeless managed to survive the hurricane??? 🌊
$20,000 for a tent. You know who pockets the profits
“unintended consequence“ I CANNOT lol
I can’t think of a single logical reason why decriminalizing drugs would be an efficient solution
1 billion to homelessness? more like 1 billion to politicians and media oligarchs!
1 Billion to enable them. Not 1 dollar to help. Just let them live another day.
Thats 55000 per person... like wtf are they doing with that money?????
@@elvismtz8387 I noticed that from 1960 to now that drug abuse, homelessness, crime, human trafficking and all other social problems have increased along with government spending. To the layman it would appear that our government has been subsidizing the collapse of the United States of America.
@@kevb1959 That's the welfare state for you.
Think of the buildings that could be built for 1 billion to house all these people, if necessary.
I’ve been living in SF for 12 years and I can attest to everything in this video. The conditions in this city are horrifying and totally unsafe for law-abiding citizens and people with small children. It’s hard to believe in a city where the average house is $1MIL, you can’t walk down the street without seeing excrement, vomit and strung out junkies everywhere.
Anticipate the arguments. It's not safe for anyone.
mateo sanfitz amen
@@mateosanfitz9625 Or if they weren't strung out on drug's and would work for a living, they wouldn't live in the streets. I guess'.
Vote to get rid of Nancy PELOSI, that's the only hope you have, really!
@Ken Richard In simple terms I look at it this way, I picture AMERICA as a country club, but there are different forms of membership, are country used to come with a certain amount of ammenaties, like security, from police, park's and recreation, open beaches, it's pay to play, and now they want to RAISE OUR TAXES, FOR WHAT? BECAUSE THESE FOOL'S MISS MANNAGE OUR TAX DOLLARS,ARE YOU KIDDING ME ABOSOULTLY NOT, AND THE LEFT WANTS US TO BE OUT OF WORK, AND BROKE! THE CORONAVIRUS IS NOT AS CONTAGIOUS AD THEY CLAIM!
Thanks for your efforts in making this video. I was on the streets in SF with an addiction problem years ago. I was able to get out and I've been sober for 14 years now. I want to say that there is no way that I would have cleaned up with the current policies in SF. I cleaned up because I had no other options left, other than maybe prison or death. The streets kicked my ass, basically. These days, with all the so called help these people are getting, they don't have any reason to change the way they live.
Your story is the story of human nature. We need guidance when we are bein controlled by drugs.
i love doing the Math on these things... 18,000 homeless they spend over $1 Billion per year.. that is over $55,000 per year per person ........... WHHHAAAAAATTTTTTT THHHEEE FFFFFFFFFFug...... its a scam,, they need people on the streets to get the money to solve the problem
@@matham625 Follow the money. Look at all the non-profits that get the money to 'help' these individuals. $55,000/individual is more like $5,000/individual. You know these orgs are siphoning off 85%.
@@utrich31 2 true too true
Congratulations on your sobriety! I come from that type of hell myself, and although I have never been homeless, I’ve been addicted, and I know how hard it can be to finally make a choice to live, and not die, and to turn your life around. Bravo!
Best decision I ever made was to move out of California. This video is 100% accurate and it’s so heartbreaking to see what happened to what used to be such a beautiful state… 💔
Great for you, but are you voting so that history doesn't repeat itself?
@@utrich31 the people in CA. Have been brain damaged into voting Democrat permanently.
What about the people that lost their boats their homes❤
What disgusting people. I’m talking about the officials.
And the voters. And the community leaders.
I'm talking about both. There are no excuses for this bullcrap. Life is 100% about CHOICES.
Especially Boudin.
Liberalism is a Mental Health issue
@@TD-2011 exactly - what an idiot .
This is weakness disguised as compassion, also cruel neglect.
=california.
Exactly
SHE JUST DESCRIBED THE DEMOCRATS!
But she admits that “they have to do better” so there’s that ray of hope. What a maroon.
What the leaders don’t get is that drug addiction is more powerful than “wanting” to get help. There has to be accountability. Almost every single person I’ve known that has become sober did so because they were facing consequences
Would you elaborate on the "consequences", please.
During one of my (tech) internships, they took us to San Francisco (my first time) for a week near the tenderloin. Having grown up experiencing poverty, I was disgusted and shocked. You cross 2 blocks and you go from stunning luxury to abject suffering. And everyone seemed to just ignore it. It was much worse than anything I’d ever seen, and my parents are from one of the poorest African countries and I’ve spent much longer there… This video is the first I’ve seen that so accurately sums up my thoughts on San Francisco after doing my own research. I hope that people receive it and truly listen
See this everywhere. The rich continue to get richer and the poor get poorer. Some of the giantic new homes that are being built are ridiculous. Its like the greed in people have reached a new high. End of times is coming. We no longer look out for each other. Its just a me me me society now
Yeah and NONE of these rich people are investing in helping poor people come up because they don't care. Every time I see one of my friends who is still homeless, standing on a street corner with a sign, I stop and give them money. I've turned my life around so I'm able to help.
And what these rich people don't seem to get is that when you help others, you always receive MORE financial blessings from God for doing so. It's not like helping the poor is going to ruin them.
@@heatherhawkins7566
They've done their part. They voted Democrat and the Democrats are the party of the little guy.
Hearing the lady at 8:50 blame Republicans for SF is absolute INSANITY. Chris rebuttal's strongly, and amazingly, yet still she rambles on...too deep into her ideologies to see they ARE NOT WORKING.
She hasn't had to think for her entire life - she aint gonna start now!!
They are destroyed and they love their destructors
@Remember Lord Jesus Pray the Rosary Who is the President? What Party is in charge of the US? who Controls the Senate? Use the brain the good Lord gave you.
Mister Clean Then why is it that all of this shit only happens in blue cities? The left loves to play the savior role, yet always end up fucking shit up and blaming the Republicans for their own incompetence... this is why Trump is getting re-elected.
Oh she knows what shes doing and saying is bullshit. It's a plan to crash first the city, then our free country
Used to love going to San Francisco as a tourist. Never again.
Rick Schwartz I lived outside SF in Alameda and go so sick of the state, I left Forever!
@@joanl5600 I got "click" of it too...
Rick Schwartz
True. It’s an absolute shithole
I love San Francisco you guys are dumb as a bag of rocks.
@@californiamade5608 Good... you can keep it all to yourself. I won't mind at all.
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.
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 .
Hotels for the homeless, once the property damage cost becomes too high, they will be right back out on the streets.
Government basically has to buy the hotels because they are going to be condemned and unlivable within 6 months. Or someone is going to burn it down because drugs are not only allowed but given to bribe them into them. 1 billion used to help homelessness and it just gets worse. I wonder why. Its called enabling them, not helping them.
@@cranbers watch the frontline documentary about how wealthy developers stole millions from money that was supposed to help homeless. It's not the struggling that are disgusting, it's the spoiled, selfish, greedy well off!
Hotels are bought with tax money, they will be fixed with tax money after they are damaged by people living from tax money, who'll damage them again.
It seems that even if you wanted to pack up and flee San Fransisco, The city has become that foul & ferrel you couldn't sell your house to anyone to be able to move away.
“The road to hell is paved with good intentions.”
@@martymcfly5423 ,built?....Einstein.
Or money..
Some citizens are truly compassionate & most of the people working in the social work/non profit industry- but don't forget this is BIG BUSINESS 💸💰💀
They want you to believe it was for good intentions.
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
You are Spot On with your assessment of the denouncement of inequality, all while fostering the inequality endlessly. Bravo for seeing through that.
The lady was complaining about republicans, in the most democratic city in the most democratic state,, way to pass the blame
You can’t fix stupid
Democrats =simps
Exactly.
As a republican, I can see her points. Less regulation, less funding, and priorities to wealthy are some contributions to rampant homelessness. Although democrats and geography are also to blame.
Republicans like Rudy Giuliani are the people who clean up cities. Democrats are brainwashed idiots who destroy cities.
That lady from city hall is that typical teacher that punishes good students and is friends with the bad ones. Then puts the blame of the bad kids on everyone else. They should all be ashamed they allowed this to happen
Well said!! Very astute.
The woman is certifiably insane and yet people keep voting for her. 😳🤭🙄
@@sk8ercaligirl they keep voting for her cause they know it won't change in favor of the homeless. They want to continue living using drugs and getting into fights with people who don't give em money when not given any money.
Watch out for the homeless that force their way into your business and they start a fight with you to get you arrested and a case put on you.
Trust when I say it's a wave they been making with homeless people starting problems to get the person defending themselves thrown in jail.
yup
i agree....
but voting left or right IS NOT THE SOLUTION...
WE NEED COMMON SENSE, MORALITY, AND LIBERTY.
STOP FALLING FOR THE LEFTWING AND RIGHTWING EXTREME POLARITIES.
"politics, both left and right are the crime of the century"
- vaughn benjamin
from the rastafari reggae music groups Akae Beka, and Midnite.
Freedom, liberty, righteousness, truth, love and life.
objective morality and truth.
the whole country is suffering from extreme polarization due to the leftwing and rightwing higellian dialectic.
this is a critical tactic of the 1percenters who rule and govern this nation.
we should be allowed to have and grow cannabis, and use poppies in a mature non synthetic fashion, but we also cannot promote a hard drug culture while devaluing an upright work ethic, and sound biblical morals.
Not only do they let it happen they encourage it with their policies but they ask you not to look at their results but look at their good hearts and intentions
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. ❤❤❤❤
This is an amazing documentary and well researched. Way to check her with the reality of inequality that lives in the city.
The city leadership are like parents that try to be their kids friend. Sometimes being tough is the only way to show love.
Hence Trump. We need him back
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!!!
@@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.
@@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.
@@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.
“It led to all these unintended consequences.” Unintended? Perhaps. Completely predictable to anyone not living in a fantasy world? Absolutely.
You mean like the fantasy world where Trump is patriotic and not evil and wicked, not to mention treasonous and the Republican Party are pro-American and not behind the sedition and treason!
To be honest, some of the strategies coincided with new drug epidemics and a change in the job market, including a pandemic. Prisons are tax payer funded, so are police, and armed squads running around and catching the homeless. Accountability isn't cheaper, each person in prison costs hundreds of thousands a year, they are often criminalized and brutalizer in prison, and leave more violent than they entered. Probably a half-way between homeless and prison is necessary but people are so polarized that half the population wants them free and not held accountable, and the other half wants to line them up and shoot them.
It gets really fucked up when you find out those "unintended" consequences were indeed, the intention
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.
@@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?
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.
This is awful. I remember my beautiful city in the early eighties
I'm so sad....
I lived in SF in the mid-90's. It's bittersweet but we should feel lucky. We lived there when the beauty of the city was alive and well
“I’m gonna have to stop you there..” I’m so glad you did that. Policy makers need to be aware of the direct results of their laws.
He also hit the nail on the head when he said that progressive policies only work when people behave in a particular way.
@harry Johnson I would dispute the use of the term 'self-centred', but it perhaps it is really only boils down to semantics. I personally don't see anything wrong in being 'self-centred' if that self-centredness is done for a fair and reasonable outcome. For example, taking your kids out of a public school and paying for a private alternative is denounced by some as selfish as it sets up all kinds of problems for public schools when they steadily lose their star students. But it's perfectly ethical if the public school in question is garbage. Let's not forget that 99.9% of us only get one bite of the educational cherry, and screwing your kids' future by giving them a garbage education is arguably a form of neglect or abdication of parental responsibility. What IS unethical is a school district that refuses to act when all of its statistics trend in the wrong direction. An what is pure hypocrisy is a progressive politician who praises public services but pays for private alternatives.
I have just witnessed a splendid example of this semantic dichotomy. We have just had elections for the regional government of Madrid here in Spain, and which is responsible for a very wide range of services for almost 7m people. A big part of the campaign boiled down to the progressive left wanting to keep Covid lockdown and controls almost indefinitely and a conservative side that campaigned on the message of 'ENOUGH ALREADY - LET'S GET BACK TO NORMAL. The conservatives won. By a landslide. Not even close. What most stunned the left was the huge surge in support for conservatives in working class districts and neighbourhoods. The progressives have condemned working class voters as ignorant and selfish, and that any future deaths from Covid are your fault etc. The response has been that working people need to live and that we can't simply sit passively month after month after month after month and watch as their jobs and livelihoods are destroyed, and that not everyone has the privilege of a public sector job that guarantees them a safe income and is insulated from whatever happens in the economy as a whole.
Fall on deaf ears , wouldn’t be surprised if most of these folks seek
Refuge in red states . The problem is they keep promoting their ideology
In those states.
This is why I was absolutely stunned that you got one of these people for an interview. Most of them know they are wrong and avoid interviews like Covid-19.
She was just spouting off ideology like a college sophomore at a protest rally. That's the problem. The majority of these lefties never matured past their college years. They're still the same bratty, delusional teenagers they were when first became Marxists. But now they're in positions of political power. Hence the mess they've put people in.
Ronen's statement is absolutely idiotic. The blame on the tech industry for the housing crisis and the homelessness? Housing crisis was started decades ago by local politicians. It's anti development sentiment has gotten them to where they are today. Tech industry has brought city officials with a record high budget that they spend billions on homelessness and other ineffective measures. The tech industry did not force people to become drug addicts, didnt create the lawlessness, and did not shut down the mental institutions that are necessary.
The talking points by the local progressive leaders such as Hilary Ronen, Matt Haney, Aaron Peskin, Dean Preston, and others is what has gotten SF to this mess. Stop villainizing who have done lots of good in the city, and look for solutions. Where would the budget be without the tax revenues they have generated from Tech? Now with a massive budget shortfall, they are doing everything in their power to push out companies further exacerbating the problem. Their tax base is fleeing.
We need more long term solutions. Housing homeless in hotels does not work in the long term. That is putting a bandaid on someone that stepped over a landmine. We need long term housing for the homeless, we need addict care, we need mental help, we need to prosecute drug dealing and supply, and more. We have a board of supervisors that is more progressive than ever and the conditions are worse than ever. Do people not see the correlation? How do SF voters continue to vote for these "progressive" politicians? How is Hilary Ronen running unopposed?
Truly doesn't know anything about the city she works for--blaming the tech industry? For what, jobs, tax revenues ???
Sure am glad I don't own a middle class home in SF. The taxes are staggering and getting worse and worse every year. These politicians are so far removed they don't even realize that honest, hard working people have to pay for all of their idiotic programs.
Have you ever heard of gentrification, Patrick? SF was its prototype, and NYC was its copycat. When rent in the slums is unaffordable without a hoard of roommates pitching in on your 2k$ studio apartment rent is acceptable, that creates HOMELESSNESS. And homeless creates despair. And despair creates deaths of despair (E.g., alcoholism, heroin abuse, mental illness due to stress and pathological confusion, and deviant behavior due to constant public humiliation that quickly erodes any minute sense of shame one still grips onto). SF has a burgeoning homeless problem because NOBODY CAN AFFORD TO EVEN RENT THERE. Most expensive city in the USA. Why? Because rich plutocrats drive up prices to the highest bidder. There's an exodus now-from the overpriced shit hole euphemistically called "LA"-to other areas. They sell their little shitty one bedroom house for 600k, and they now realize that makes you able to out purchase ANY normal person outside CA for a fucking mcmansion with a few acres to boot. My advice? I have none because I'm not a dumbass wasting money on high taxes and unaffordable rent to live in a progressive sewer. If I could advise you, I'd say to PLEASE don't Californize my state, and suffer happily in the liberal shitpile YOU literally voted and accepted in to your Californian liberal fuckery. Not my circus, not my MONKEY.
Yeah, she didn't come across well in this AT ALL. Didn't seem well-versed in her argument, and then seemed to backtrack when Chris rebutted her.
She has a point. San Francisco is simply too small and geographically restricted to emerge as a major metropolitan center like those in the Sunbelt. It was built around a lot of single-family housing unlike a place like New York so it's very hard to turn that around. It's simply too much VC funding, profits and money going to such a tiny area.
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.
I am speechless. Over 50 blocks of tent encampments of homeless people. Speechless and heart breaking.
As a young woman in the late 80's I walked all over SF exploring places on my own, riding BART, never had a problem.....I'm now 54, I can't imagine doing that today!!!!
@Gene Cox They're more saying that the place has changed before their very eyes and reaffirming the same thing you're saying about how things have become radically different.
Me too! I was a young single man in the 80s and very lonely in San Francisco. So on weekends I would walk all over San Francisco. There were no homeless except around the Powell Street Cable Car turnstyle and the BART plaza next to it. There were no public encampments. This is madness.
I understand I'm 55. From Richmond. San Fran as I call it was everything. I would get on bart and go every where. There was homelessness then. I truly has gotten out of control.
Wow, same here. The 1980's was still a magical time in San Francisco. Not any more. You couldn't pay me to step one foot in that city.
Thanks for video’s like these , San Francisco YIKES!!!
the ex heroin user Tom is 1000x more sensible and able to lead than Ronen or Boudin combined
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
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
I was born, raised, and currently live in the San Francisco Bay Area. I see this every day. THIS IS HONEST AND RESPONSIBLE REPORTING. Thank you, Mr. Rufo for creating this documentary. It exposes the problem at the root. If we change how we vote, we can save SF and the State of California.
Spoken like a well housed, well insured, rich boy with plenty of mommy and daddy's seed money.
@@daveomacron4301 Actually, I’m an African-American male, born and raised in the Bay-area by a single mother, in a high crime, high poverty neighborhood in East-Oakland. I’m blessed to have insurance, but everything I have has come by the grace of Jesus Christ. Feel free to continue with your baseless judgements and accusations against me. I’m not bothered. God bless you. ✌️
@@brandonoa17 Thanks for the resume, you seem to have plenty of street cred so I'm confused as to where you lost your compassion, especially as one invokes Christ.
@@daveomacron4301 You might not realize this, but “compassion” and “excuse-making” aren’t synonymous. Ignoring the root cause of serious problems and calling it “compassion” only perpetuates the problem. The longer a problem festers, the harder it is to fix. A healthy dose of reality, truth, and commitment to hard work goes a long way. Making excuses accomplishes nothing.
@@brandonoa17 congratulations. You have learned well the lessons of your masters.
Excellent film. I’m a San Francisco resident of 12 years (immigrant from Utah), homeowner for 7 years, father for 2 years, and former drug addict. Hillary Ronen’s sheer ignorance and faux compassion astounded me. Blaming Republicans and tech workers for this? Excuse me? Why did she do the air quotes when saying “the constitution”? I’m so mad right now after watching this. My wife has talked about leaving the city, she says it’s getting so bad. I agree with her. This isn’t a money problem. We have paid over six figures in taxes last year, but all it seems to do is enable these progressive politicians to try their latest pie-in-the-sky hairbrained scheme. Things continue to get worse. It turns out progressive policy, without any accountability, is a recipe for failure. It’s time for our politicians log off Twitter and Instagram and wake up to reality!
Hillary Ronen, it is not humble tech workers, trying to make it post-college in this hard world, who are the problem. YOU are the problem. Voters elected you to fix this problem because of your flying rhetoric, and you have not. For you to blame Republicans in the most liberal city in the most liberal state is an utter farce. Shameful. It’s time to crack down on the tent cities. Get these people off the streets. Add some accountability to these hotels that apparently serve free drugs and alcohol.
Yesterday there was a homeless man encamped next to my daughter’s daycare! He was doing hard drugs, and possibly throwing away his needles into the playground. Nobody called the cops because we, parents living in San Francisco, are too demoralized, and it’s unlikely the cops could do anything. After we dropped off our daughter, we walked over to Starbucks to get some coffee, and had to dodge a homeless man encamped by the entrance. This is not acceptable. The problem is rapidly getting worse. It’s gotten so bad I literally have changed my route I drive home when picking up my daughter from daycare, because there are shopping carts in the road that have been there for days. I see so many tents that I don’t feel safe driving on the road sometimes. WHAT THE FUCK.
Sorry, I’m getting angry just typing this. I can’t take this anymore. I’m about to leave the city and take my generous annual tax contribution with me. At least then Hillary Ronen won’t be able to blame me with her hateful rhetoric.
Get informed on what is actually happening. This video is full of falsehoods, inaccurate data, and doesn't really talk to anyone who is any sort of expert. Totally ignores the role the current pandemic has placed on the homeless crisis when numerous shelters dumped people onto the streets. Spends way to much effort characterizing homeless people as drug addicts, which is false. Garbage.
@@jordanlowy5841 We all know what is happening, and the video tells it like it is. Denial will only continue the problem.
@@jordanlowy5841 I spent about a year up until May having to care for a dying relative in SF, and three times a week I had to drive through the tenderloin. You've got blinders on. The majority of those homeless people are addicts, mentally ill, or a fun combination of both. We have to find institutions for them (yes, dear, that means locking them up...)
It sounds awful. I would leave quickly. Sounds so unsafe. I wouldn't even vacation there..
Correction: Regressive politicians, thanks.
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.
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.
As a tourist from balkans,I was shocked when I first landed in SF. Absolutly shocked...
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balkans
And u probably paid a pretty penny too lol.
@@LoverboyB_Pookie oh yeah it ren me about 3.500 euros. Spent there about 13-14 days.
I’ve been to many countries, have never seen anything like SF anywhere else. Not even in Africa!
@@GP-nr2fm Kensington Philly
We need to “clean” house top to bottom starting with the mayor and all supervisors .... Fired all of them!
Don't forget Newson. He needs to be recalled!
And once everyone is out don’t get back into bad voting behaviors again-means no more dems
Clean house at election quit voting democrat. The democrats never fix any problem they only know how to make it bigger like a runaway train. Progressive/liberal policies do not and will not work, look at results.
That will solve notning. No matter who's in charge. End of days
@@JElias-po6zu instill fear in them and show them their are consequences for their actions.
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
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.
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.
@@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!
third of the world destroyed by your country no biggie
that lady towards the end sounded literally insane. Completely out of touch.
Shes an elected official. I lived in SF back in 07-09, it was wild then, but it's a warzone now.
@@Ivan-ud1gr and it's funny how the Democrats there don't want to put some of these people into institutions yet seem to have no problem sometimes trying to stomp on contributing members of society's rights!!
Not only insane, but SUPER DELUSIONAL. Now that's really really sad. And this is good? How???
she looks manic
That's a Democrat for you.
I left three years ago, and this was part of my reasoning for doing so. The homelessness and open drug usage was insane. I can't imagine what it is like now 3 years later.
So do you vote for Democrats??
I left Seattle a year ago for the same reasons. Just rotten. And no, I do not vote Democrat...
@Martin seems ro be a liberal city problem. Perhaps you should try new politicians
The problem started with these stupid experiments by Democrats that took away order.
Like how the guy that attacked Dave Chappelle is now being charged with a misdemeanor instead of attempted murder. He will then be back on the streets harrassing law abiding citizens again.
The idiot that smeared his poop all over a woman's face in a New York subway had prior assault charges with almost no jail time.
These are all Democrat experiments.
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.
This is the result of eliminating competition. It eliminates any repercussions of failure so failure is normal. This is what failure looks like.
This is what actual journalism looks like. Great job 👏🏻
If you are a lefty
symptom of a failed economic system
How is this is good journalism without even touching on the gentrification and rising cost of living and rising property and rent - all of which drive individuals and families into homelessness.
@@forthesnowflakes7691 Homeless are coming into the city from other places. This has nothing to do with gentrification and everything to do with lax government.
@@Wordsalad69420 homeless coming from other cities isn't the sole reason why we have homeless people. 😆😂 c'mon
the guy who use to be on the streets seems to be a little smarter than the city counsel members
A lot.
The government is like this: they'll talk about a problem for 20 years and then come up with some half-ass solution that doesn't solve anything. But they have been talking about the homeless problem for 40 years. They've broken their own record!
I'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.
As a San Francisco native, thank you for making this short documentary.
I love how she blames republicans for San Fran’s failures. It’s a one party rule and no one can open their eyes to it.
There isn’t a Republican in a 20 mile radius of San Francisco.
Because it is the fault of Republicans😂 “City RuLerS aRe DeMocRatS”. City rulers can’t do anything about this, this cannot be resolved by the State. This needs federal intervention. And how we got here in the first place if because of Republicans.
www.google.se/amp/s/www.sfweekly.com/news/the-great-eliminator-how-ronald-reagan-made-homelessness-permanent/amp/?client=safari
@@braydenbronstein1190 you just double down on stupidity, huh? Is that your thing? You live in a fantasy world where only Republicans are responsible for your problems. It never has anything to do with bad life choices, it's just the Republican fault you suck at life. Did I get that right?
I moved to Oakland at the beginning of this year as a centrists leaning conservative. People here are definitely losing touch with reality, and the homeless encampments have rapidly grown through out this year. I can’t even say I’m not a progressive at my work without being called an idiot or racist. So ridiculous
@@boofert.washington2499
You are more than the definition of moron can define.
Homelessness in the country prior the 1980s was NEVER a problem. When LBJ signed the Housing and Urban Development Act in 1965, anyone who couldn’t afford housing was given subsidized housing. Homelessness was all but eradicated nationwide. It was already low prior to that, but with it, chronic homelessness was a thing of the past.
Then, came Reaganomics. He cut the budget on EVERY SINGLE welfare program in tact, except federal aid for road construction in the suburbs. The HUD experienced an astonishing 60% cut in funding. Federal funding for inner-cities was slashed by 55%! Every single program designed to help the homeless was made defunct in favor of “charities and religious organizations”. With Reagan, it wasn’t the Federal Government’s responsibility anymore at all, it was religious organizations and charities that were supposed to help the homeless. He also ended all federal assistance to Mental Health services and deinstitutionalized the nation. All that without any comprehensive action plan on what do with all the chronically mentally ill patients. The result of that is that almost all of them ended up on the streets with no help.
And with that, homelessness SKYROCKETED in the 1980s and has been rising ever since.
States, and especially California, do NOT have the money to help these people. The maximum they can spend is about 2.5 billion a year. That’s not enough. Homelessness REQUIRES Federal help and intervention. And because of Reganomics, there’s simply nothing that can be done to help all those people out of the streets until the Republican Bums in Congress leave their Neocon values and accept a comprehensive public housing program. Like the one President Biden wants to put forward.
The chance of getting sober and drug free like this man is 5 in 100 at the highest. This is a very complicated problem for any law makers to tackle and solve.
It's also too easy to blame anyone in the wake of Corona when the US has the worst Health Accessibility of any developed country.
Give troubled people affordable and Accessibile health care FROM THE START of their problems
And singlehandedly you will reduce, homelessness, violent crime, inequality, drug use, rape, prostitution.
By increasing health you increase wealth.
Everybody is stressed to death in cubicles working for somebody else they will never ever even meet
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!
I live 20 mins outside of Seattle. The situation is identical. Nothing about what these idiotic city council, attorney generals and Mayors are doing is compassionate.
“The road to hell was paved with good intentions.” How true is that??
I just can’t believe your great country is in situation, but it’s the same here, if your rich, your mega rich but if your poor your basically fucked . TMW 🏴🇬🇧
Vegas is the same way. Bums everywhere. A tourist was beaten to death just the other day on the strip by some homeless maniac.
I just want to thank you for not letting that woman supervisor get away with her over the top statement. The reporter did a real good job reporting and asking questions. Bravo!!
She doesn’t look normal to me. I think the democrat put her in that position.
I would like to share one perspective that I haven't heard being discussed at all. It starts with the question; who benefits from homelessness? Many people will say these nonprofits benefit, well those who work there and the companies they work with. But what is the actual effect on the city? It pushes people outwards. Instead of growing vertically, instead of growing value to extraordinary sights, it pushes some of the growth outwards. How do you make people move on from owning exclusive locations and possibly invest in growth somewhere else, where growth needs to be stimulated? You let the homelessness run its course, make the area uninhabitable, un-rentable, un-leasable, economically nonfeasible, and when it's completely ruined you move in big investors, banks, mega-corporations, and you get the valuable land for less money than. Corporations can wait for decades, ordinary citizens would lose money over time by owning those properties. I believe homelessness is a tool, I think that is why they aren't coming up with real solutions. I am not saying everyone is aware of this, even those in high places, but people who benefit from this are very likely behind them, supporting them.
Jesus I hadn’t even connected those dots. I had asked the question, but couldn’t figure a reasonable answer. That’s scary and tragic - and wouldn’t surprise me at all of some of the financial elites of cities like this.
It’s insidious how they push these progressive policy’s as compassionate. Anyone with eyes to see, can see that there is absolutely nothing compassionate about creating a culture where hard drugs are easily accessible, and then letting people fester and rot in the squalor and chaos that substance abuse creates.
This same thing is going on right now in every major city in America and their suburbs. While drug addiction and mental illness are a problem, they're not the only problem by far or the cause.
Gentrification, unequal development of luxury hosing verses affordable housing, lack of proper medical care and medical treatment for addiction and ever changing technological advances in industry all play contributing roles as well. All these issues must be addressed before you can begin to make progress in reducing the homeless population. Trying them and putting them in jails and prison will never solve the problem and will end up costing more money in the long run.
That's absolutely not true, this level of despair and misery is not happening "in every major city in America and their suburbs". Don't make it sound like California's problems are everyone's problems.
Amazing job. As someone who has been homeless and drug addicted, I've constantly tried to make this point clear to people. Compassion can be a disguise for greed and self promotion. Politicians will walk over an OD victim on the street. Gaining voters is all that matters. Fantastic job on the doc. Seriously appreciated 🤘🏻
Same story in LA. So called bleeding hearts think they are doing good and instead just use rhetoric while the whole world around them burns. They give zero shits
The Democrats need the homeless to win elections so they won't be fixing the problem.
The video is literally filled with distortions and some outright falsehoods, and wild claims that are entirely undocumented and not born out by any other research. Seriously. I know this, I've lived and worked in SF for 30 years, studied this issue a ton. Rufo is way, way off.
It was awesome to be a part of this documentary! Thank you Chris Rufo for thinking my story and my thoughts were relevant enough to be included in this powerful and honest look into the tragedy unfolding in San Francisco.
Honesty is always the best policy--personal honesty and political honesty. I'm glad you found your way.
Thanks for your work
It felt really good to find out that you (Mr. Wolf) made it back to the side of sanity and sobriety. Many blessings ahead for you!
This tragedy is not unique to San Francisco, it is throughout the country, the rural areas and the cities. There is a class war going on and the working person is losing.
It's the low wages, unaffordable housing, childcare and education. And a healthcare system that is inaccessible to some and sure bankruptcy for those who have insurance if they ever become seriously ill.
Thank you Mr Wolf for all the work you do and for setting such a powerful example 🙏
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😢
People need to be held accountable wether it's for bad policies or bad behavior
Politicians never take responsibility for anything they do.
“We have a great system”
look at that progressive woman as well as all other politicians in the city, the words out of her mouth is totally horse shit, tech company employees are paying high tax but city use those money to buy drug for homeless. All politicians need to be fired
Elephant in the room is being ignored again!!!
Neither does anyone for that matter. We have a society of its not my fault.
No not Nancy Pelosi....
I was born in San Francisco and grew up in a beautiful city. This brings tears.
Worked there for three years - pretty ugly place. Libs ruined it
Wish we could go back to 2010 2011 times when the giants were doing great
I know, brother, I know…
It is a beautiful city with great architecture, scenery, and history. These politicians ruined it and they go home every night to their families, well-fed, etc. They could care less about the plight of the city and whatever policies they think are right are not well thought out. Shameful.
I remember when Fisherman's Wharf was actually a wharf!!!
Thank you Gavin
Thank you Newsom and Schiff for all this. Not sure what's more sad, these two government officials greed and ambition or the lives of all these humans not giving them a chance.
So legalizing drugs, no jail time for crime, allowing sleeping wherever you want and tons of social services will ruin a city? Who would've thought?
California politicians
Not
Democrats are probably trying to lower the prices for the housing-market to buy up all the cheap real estate afterwards 🤭
You forgot. Shit.everywere!
They didn't legalize drugs. And decriminalizing possession of small amounts of drugs did not cause this. Allowing people to buy drugs, shoot up in public, live on the street and rob without fear of prosecution did.
0:20 "The city government spends $1 billion every year on homeless" The money goes to private companies who take a massive proportion as profit before the homeless ever see a cent. I can guarantee it. Homelessness can be big business if you get the lucrative city contracts.
And that's why it will never end!
the homeless never see a dime of that money.
There's big money to be made off poverty & misery. Solving the problems logically would cause the money to dry up & that's the last thing the activist industry wants. That's why they're called "poverty pimps."
WHERE ARE THE PROSECUTORS?!?!?!?!?
Ye same old thing, the money is given and the rich business men skim off the money, these people will never get better while human greed keeps on going, there’s pop stars and film star always in the papers bragging how many billions they have, it’s got to change. TMW 🏴🇬🇧
I lived in the City of 30 years. I left for the exact reasons outlined in this accurate video.
So sad ….
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.
When does compassion become enabling?
Well said sir
Immediately
Great question
Excellent question!
That ship sailed in the 80's
It broke my heart the last time I was in SF. I won't return.
These leaders are insane. By their own active actions they have played a big part in creating this fiasco
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.
Long time SF resident here who just left. This video is incredibly accurate. Time to force the homeless into facilities where they can get the help they need. Letting them own the streets is not the solution for them...and it upsets all the “well behaving” people of SF. Lose-lose.
They need shelter, food, water, care, treatment, and compassion. The city can afford it, those rich politicians (all of them, all parties) can afford it, they choose to ignore it and only address it when being called out on their failures. We are a rich nation, nobody should be homeless and without health care.
A lot of them dont want to get clean or work a job.
@@ArchYeomans there are shades of “homeless”. I’m referring to the mental ill and/or drug addicted. Those are the ones who won’t accept shelter/help and do the most to diminish quality of life for the rest of the citizens of SF.
JG "Force" the homeless into facilities? Wow, okay.
@@skategimp7992 Absolutely. Not sure about you but I’ve been living among them in the Bay Area for 20+ years. I’m talking the mentally ill and drug addicted homeless. They need to be forced into help…they cannot make rational decisions on their own, right or wrong.
Give addicts an inch… They take a mile… Learned that the hard way.
captain cook i have an addict in my family its more like ten miles if your lucky
They take alright take what's not theirs
not as bad as Real State companies...which are destroying the whole country
Yet is that not people period? Everyone always wants more, and what about money addicts who always need " just a little more" i mean the money addicted gentrifiers could literally be getting fifty grand a month for each apartment, and it still would not be enough! I mean what are the rents now, five to ten grand a month ?
You're right. When your mind is controlled by drugs, you cannot make good decisions. Addiction does not care about anything outside of getting the drugs. People will not be held accountable as long as it's so easy to remain homeless and addicted.
It's so sad. I live in the Midwest and it's starting to crawl this way. 2 weeks ago, I saw the first homeless person living in my hometown. He was sleeping under the window of a business that has been here for over 50 years. There's very little we can do if that person refuses help...and that is exactly what has happened.
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.
Your summation was spot on. I have the solution, but until things get much much worse it will not even be countenanced
I just visited San Francisco for the first time last month on a work trip.
It reminded me of an old theater with splendid architecture and unique character. I could tell that in its hayday it used to be quite the attraction but years of poor management turned it into a run down dump.
You completely misinformed cooper
SF is home of steve jobs , its amazing
When u mess with the liberals living space then it's a crisis. Otherwise when the homeless are out of sight out of mind, no problem!
You shouldn’t have went to the bad part intentionally
I worked there in fall of 2006. It was starting to get bad, but nothing like what it is now. The city had so much potential to so beautiful. As you said the architecture. The way it's built on rolling hills still amazes me.
@@jontyrhodes4155 lies. San Francisco as a whole is a big dumpster...
Grew up in San Jose, went to college in SF about ten years ago; I hated it. It was so unsafe. I love running and go daily, but even when I was wearing baggy sweats and sweaters; the catcalling was non stops, and the things they would say were far worse than any "regular" catcalls. Public transport is disgusting, the homeless would wet their pants on the seats, people were passing out...no woman or child should live there, it's just not safe.
If getting roasted for wearing sweatpants and jogging is unsafe in your opinion then you have basically eliminated every big city in the country.
@@G-546 it wasn't getting "roasted". It was having grown men tell me, "damn bitch, I bet that pussy tastes good" and other disgusting remarks along those lines. It was far more obsene that just getting whistled at or being told I looked good. I wasn't out running in some tight spandex and crop top. I was wearing loose fitting work out gear. The point I was making is that I wasn't "asking for it" in any way; the men are just that grimy and disgusting. Its not normal and I have never experienced anything similar in any other city.
@@nickyalexa7744 women in cali vote for these feel good progressive policies so they deserve it.
So those conditions are okay for men to endure ??? 🤦🏼♂️
Catcalling in USA ? Really Nicky ....i mean you okay .....joke of the day
You could watch this right now and never know that this vid was uploaded 2 years ago. They have done absolutely nothing.
Even a 5 year old knows that you will be held accountable if you break the rules. People need rules. Period
I lived in the Bay Area for over 25 years, and San Francisco is my favorite city. What has happened to this wonderful city is a terrible tragedy. People should recall that 'the road to hell is paved with good intentions'!
Single party government only leads to corruption.
When did you first notice this decline?
Looks like years of neglect.
I'm guessing start of Co-Vid 2019?
I live 45mins away from SF, I haven't been there for years. It's a shit hole now
Hello from Switzerland. In the 80s I was living in Santa Rosa, after high school outside of Seattle. My mom still lives there in Santa Rosa. I then went to S.F. and lived and worked on Union & Fillmore, and really enjoyed it, but even then I saw some of this stuff going on. 31 years over here in Switzerland and I have been back a couple of times. Things are totally nuts now and I cannot see how they can get things back to how they used to be, to what made SF so attractive. :(
45 minutes away from S.F is also a shit hole.
@@07negative56 well, CA is ran by Dems, what do you expect?
@@07negative56 hahaha, unless you are headed toward Point Reyes🖤
@@davidbalmer473 Santa Rosa isn't outside of Seattle is about a Hour North of SAN FRANCISCO.
Fun fact; Did you know that the Tenderloin in SF is the most densely populated neighborhood in America at 128.98k people per square mile beating out Manhattan’s Sutton Place neighborhood in New York City which is at 126.74k people per square mile according to Statistical Atlas U.S. census data. SF is also the most densely populated city overall in the USA behind NYC only… These are the first places I think of when I hear the term “CITY”
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“If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs.” “I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies." Thomas Jefferson
Perfect!!!
I quoted that in the bank the other day and they didn't like it much.
When you've been conditioned by the powers that be you learn to accept, conform and obey. You give up hope for a brighter solution
i guess Thomas Jefferson was talking about the Commercial Banks 🤔
the FED was created 1913 and thus took the power away from the Commercial Banks.
*This is a complete breakdown in humanity.*
A complete breakdown of rational thought. The former addict said it - the cops saved his life by holding him accountable. Hmmm
Quite the contrary: all heart, no brains.
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.
Wow. I lived in the Bay Area in the 70's and 90's..................I can't even imagine this about beautiful San Francisco. But I did leave the Bay Area in 2000 because, like so many, I was driven away by the cost of housing and living. I am glad I left, although I so often miss California, but where I live now I can afford to live decently.
I live 2 blocks from Union Square and my neighborhood had descended into near chaos. SF District Attorney Chesa Boudin has done more harm to this community than any elected politician in my 17 years as a resident of this City. When our leaders do not know what a crime looks like, then they won't know what more crime will look like either.
It’s called order out of chaos. They create the problem and then people scream for them to solve the problem. This was created! People wake up!
The streets of San Francisco are now officialy public toilets.
Public toilets are CLEANER
Can you really be nude in public in San Fran or are there certain restrictions/licenses?
Do you mind if we move these folks to your neighborhood?
@@telebob I don't care.
@@telebob I already have more than enough , thanks.
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
Sad I'm without words.
The homeless have always flocked to SF, you can survive the winter there. It doesn't snow. They might get cold but they won't freeze to death.
I lived in SF for 17yrs until the summer of 2020 and move to another state because of the states/city policies and lack of law enforcement. The homeless issue is just the tip of the massive iceberg of problems like human trafficking, organized gangs, drugs sale/use/manufacturing, violent crime, property/car break in, total lack of police response because they are order by officials not to enforce the law. Unbelievable!
Yes, vert true!! I have a family member who is an SF police officer and yes, they are told to ignore certain crimes.
Hypocrisy in voting behavior to blame? Progressive policies that look good on paper, failing in the streets, and noone owning up to their mistakes?
If your name is genuinely Casey Jones and you didn’t just pick it as a nod to the Grateful Dead due to your links fo SanFran, it’s a great coincidence 😎🤣
Its hard to believe you Casey
Let these fucked up poorly run liberal cities depopulate. Then all will be left is the poor and homeless. And these leaders will ask, where did our tax be go?
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.
We need to be firm with people who just don't get the message. I say tough love is the best way to get these people back on track with their lives. Not continue with wiping their asses with pity.