San Francisco’s solution to combat homelessness is costing taxpayers $5,000 dollars a month to house a single person in an outdoor tent.
At the beginning of the pandemic, the city’s Mayor, London Breed, announced the creation of a tent program called “Safe Sleeping Villages,” to house the homeless after indoor shelter capacity was reduced by more than 75% to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
Last week announced our first Safe Sleeping Village in Civic Center to address the rise in tent encampments in the surrounding area.
Today we're announcing we'll be opening the next site at the former McDonald's lot on Stanyan.
Here's a thread on why we're willing to try this:
— London Breed (@LondonBreed) May 15, 2020
The city set up six outdoor “villages” to house more than 300 people in 262 tents. The sites provide the homeless three meals a day, round-the-clock security protection, bathrooms, and COVID-19 testing. Operating a single tent costs the city $190 per day, which is nearly $100 less than Project Roomkey, the city’s homeless hotel program. However, the tent program has ended up costing taxpayers millions of dollars more.
In March, the San Francisco budget committee meeting revealed that the tent program cost $16.1 million a year to operate, which breaks down to $5K per person, more than two and a half times the average rent for a one-bedroom apartment in the city.
The committee was shocked to learn that the city was on the hook for the cost of the entire program when Abigail Stewart-Kahn, the interim director of the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing, revealed that the program would not be eligible for FEMA reimbursement.
The department mistakenly believed that like the hotel room program, the cost of the tent villages would be 100% covered by a federal reimbursement, but because the “Safe Sleeping” program is an outdoor encampment, it wasn’t, and San Francisco taxpayers are responsible for paying the bill.
The SF Department of Homeless and Supportive Housing currently has a $852 million budget to support the city’s estimated 8,000 homeless. Recently, the mayors of California’s top 13 largest cities demanded $20 billion to combat homelessness.
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Others Yes,
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Ok California, this is your opportunity to try someone with different ideas. Vote for Kaitlyn Jenner.
Why the hell not? Your one party current administration is killing you, your lives and the once beautiful golden state I still call home. Glad I left though. As I often say: stop the INSANITY.
I will not vote for sexual degenerates. Our country is in serious trouble, and California is leading the way toward cultural dystopia and fiscal ruin. We need politicians who know economics, civics, and especially the LIMITS of government authority and prudent application of the same. Jenner would just be a cross dressing version of “AHNOLD”, who was the poster child for the term RINO. There are many viable conservative candidates to consider for our gubernatorial campaigns. Let’s not continue our downhill slide with political-correctness junkies.
Vote for ANY CATHOLIC and you get failure forever. Look south for proof.
TIME TO TAKE A STAND:
Stick to your American ideals: The Biden’s have been caught again in bed with the China Spy Rings,” Hunter” is now suppose to under investigation for working with Chinese spy rings. It’s apparent socialist Biden’s policies are not working, our country is in turmoil, beginning downslides of financial declines, in energy, employment, with total economic failures. Tax and spend, spend and tax is not a forward moving policy, it just points puts us in a quick trend towards total bankruptcy. Time for positive change, with leadership that can solve problems, not add to the false promise of equal government controlled solvency. The Biden’s have sold their American values for profit, power, and are now trying to hold that position of socialist, communist values at all cost. They are violating our Constitution, our principal, and most of all our American values. The Biden dictatorship is done, all are seeing the truth of his lies now, the worm is turning and America will return to it’s glory.
Get out and vote like our lives depend on it, as they do. Get family and friends to understand what you just posted, if they support this corruption.
2022 and especially 2024 will be critical to stop corrupt joe.
Our lives do depend on it
There is not one successful CATHOLIC NATION on earth (other than the mother of all cancer, the Vatican.)
Charles they will never turn me. Better dead than red
Stay blue, they’re still coming for you!
Looking forward to it
My beloved City by the Bay has been decimated. Our whole family originated in the Bay Area. My father worked in the city during the Great Depression delivering radios repaired in his employer’s shop. My paternal grandmother watched the 1906 earthquake aftermath from her location near Oakland. (Our maternal grandmother and her sister worked in Monterey on Cannery Row.) Now the town is awash in filth, poverty and crime. This is a travesty of government proportions, and it will take the wresting of power from liberals and corrupt officials to restore one of the world’s most beautiful cities.
19% of the population of prisons is ILLEGAL ALIEN CATHOLIC INVADERS.
A new study examining the economic toll of mass incarceration in the United States concludes that the full cost exceeds $1 trillion ― With 19% OF THE COST BEING ILLEGAL ALIEN CATHOLIC INVADERS, 19 BILLION DOLLARS PER YEAR IS SPENT ON THE ILLEGAL ALIEN CATHOLIC INVADERS FOR PRISON ALONE! The USA can save 19 BILLION dollars per year by building the fence and keeping the ILLEGAL ALIEN CATHOLIC INVADERS out! VOTE FOR ANY CATHOLIC AND YOU VOTE FOR A TRAITOR.