Hypodermic needles, and human feces, and crime scenes (oh my)!
It’s not how progressives want the world to see San Francisco, but the growing problem confounding America’s most liberal city has become untenable. Even the newly elected mayor concedes the crisis is out of control – and increasingly smelly.
Greg Norman, of Fox News, reports:
London Breed says the amount of feces scattered on the streets of the wealthy city in recent months is among the worst she has ever seen, and San Francisco reportedly is set to spend nearly $280 million in its next budget fighting homelessness – an average of $37,300 for each of the city’s estimated 7,499 homeless residents.
“I will say there is more feces on the sidewalks than I’ve ever seen growing up here,” Breed, who was sworn in last week, said days later in an NBC Bay Area interview. She added that outreach groups funded by the city need to do a better job making sure the homeless clean up trash and waste from bodily functions they sometimes leave behind.
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San Francisco in recent years is reported to have spent $241 million and $275 million from annual budgets on homeless outreach services and programs, most of which, according to the San Francisco Chronicle, involve supportive housing units that get people off the streets. For the first time, the city’s overall budget this year will top $11 billion, the Chronicle reported.
But for all the money San Francisco is throwing at the complex issue, the number of people living on the streets appears to be staying the same, according to data from a homeless count survey conducted last year citywide.
Despite spending exponentially more money on what boils down to a mental health crisis and drug epidemic, social services are in no better a position to combat the situation then they were at the beginning.
Even some left-wing politicians are starting to take note.
Candidate for City Supervisor, Nick Josefowitz, recently argued that San Francisco shouldn’t “invest a single public dollar without knowing if it is doing any good.”
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