Sad or funny? "Tolerant San Francisco fed up with dirty, smelly streets"

[Martinjmpr]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/tolerant-...193935341.html

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Though known for its compassion to the needy, San Francisco may have hit peak saturation with tent camps, stinky urine and trash littering the streets, and the new interim mayor has vowed to do something about it.
In the last few weeks, Mayor Mark Farrell has promised $750,000 to hire more people just to pick up discarded needles and $13 million over the next two years for more heavy duty steam cleaners and pit stop toilets. He also had workers dismantle sprawling homeless tent camps in the city's Mission District.

OK, I shouldn't indulge in the Schadenfruede, but damn, it's hard not to enjoy this.

Cause and effect? Chickens coming home to roost? You get what you subsidize?

My question would be: How many homeless camps and piles of feces in the street do there have to be before those astronomical home values start dropping?

To me that's the crazy thing: People still pay exorbitant prices to live there. Still. Even with all this.

You would think in a functioning economy with supply and demand, what would happen is people who have money to spend would choose to spend it elsewhere, lowering demand for housing and a corresponding drop in home values and rental prices.

But apparently that's not what's happening. It's bizarre, how much shit - both figurative and in this case literal - people are willing to put up with to live in a city like SF.

SMDH.

[Gman]

It's more "You reap what you sow." You built this sanctuary city, now deal with the consequences of your failed decision making.

People in California get a steady diet of leftist thinking from the cradle to the grave. They don't even understand why they believe what they believe.

[Irving]

Good. I hope some people from California move here and bring their ideas with them and clean up the homeless camps here. Specifically the one on I-76 coming back into town.

[Gman]

Good. I hope some people from California move here and bring their ideas with them and clean up the homeless camps here. Specifically the one on I-76 coming back into town.

Sometimes it's difficult to tell where the seriousness and the sarcasm begin and end. I imagine that is 'by design'.

I just hope they bring some really nice YETI coolers with them.

[Irving]

I don't mind cleaning up homeless camps. I just don't want more homeless here in order to get there.

[asystejs]

Ten+ years ago I had to go to the corporate HQ in San Francisco 4 or 5 times a year.
The office building was a four block walk from a BART station, mostly along urine soaked sidewalks.
For a week or so in the summer when the city employee tasked with power washing
that section of sidewalks was, we assumed, on vacation, the stench was overpowering.
I doubt it has gotten better since then.

[Gman]

I don't mind cleaning up homeless camps. I just don't want more homeless here in order to get there.

They had one camp start a tremendous fire that burned several of their overpriced homes. Some of the Hollywood Elite were impacted. You know they just "had to do something".

Bel-Air wrestles with homeless crisis after encampment fire destroys multimillion-dollar homes


I'm sure it will be very public and completely ineffective, as usual.

[clodhopper]

No where in the article was there any concern or disagreement with spending more money on the problem or a suggestion that there are too many homeless. Just a desire that the city allocate more funds to managing the "side effects" of the homeless better. No suggestion about discouraging homeless people from coming there or evicting current homeless.

Not really much different than the complaints of Coloradoans bitching about potholes to CDOT and the local city entity.

Now, the discussion of whether the residents of SanFran understand financial implications of additional spending is a whole other conversation.

[Great-Kazoo]

"However, due to the severity of the contamination in San Francisco, Public Works has inherited the problem of washing sidewalks. Nuru estimates that half of his street cleaning budget – about $30 million – goes towards cleaning up feces and needles from homeless encampments and sidewalks."


This is from a news article from san fran. 30 million a year to clean up shitheads shit. wow.

Imagine if that was spent to actually do something.

[hollohas]

I doubt it has gotten better since then.

I lived there about the same time you were traveling there. We spent 1 year and ten months there.

It's gotten much, MUCH worse.

The wife worked downtown and road the BART in everyday with a few blocks to walk to her office. What were nice, outdoor dining areas during the day turned into cardboard homeless alleys at 8pm every night. What used to just be certain streets or areas with homeless are now city wide almost.

They are urine soaked shitholes all day everyday.

They city has installed open air toilets in the parks. The BART stations are overrun with passed out addicts. I just saw a video that someone recorded as they walked through a BART station. It was literally, every few feet a passed out addict or addicts who were actually in the process of shooting up and would soon be passed out. Urine, syringes and shit everywhere.

If it weren't for the people in business clothes walking to work ignoring it all, you'd assume it was a thrid world country.