San Francisco's Dysfunctional Plan for Homeless People - "San Francisco is surreptitiously placing homeless people in luxury hotels by designating them as emergency front-line workers, a term that the broader community understands to mean doctors, nurses, and similar professionals... If neighborhood residents were more aware of the influx of these new guests who frequently suffer from drug addiction and severe mental illness as well as having criminal backgrounds, they might object. Consequently, the city has evoked emergency-disaster law to keep the information private. Officials refuse to notify the public about what is happening in their community and are blocking the press by withholding the list of hotels and preventing reporters from entering the properties. The Department of Emergency Management has attempted to spin the secrecy by claiming, “Disclosure of the names of hotels where people are being sheltered could jeopardize the privacy and safety of the vulnerable people whom the City has placed there if the public and the press become aware of the circumstances of their placement and could increase the risk that they will be subject to discrimination or harassment on the basis of their health status or status as an unsheltered person.” The public does have a right to know, however, and obfuscation is ultimately futile. Security guards standing outside hotel entrances, where they had never been before, are clear indicators that something is amiss. An uptick in crime, drug activity, and vagrancy around the hotels is another clue. Properties that have become de facto homeless shelters range from low-end haunts such as the Motel 6 to mid-range and boutique hotels like the Inn on Broadway. High-end hotels that house the homeless-turned-frontline-workers include the InterContinental San Francisco —and the Mark Hopkins. The Department of Public Health manages the controversial free alcohol, cigarette, and cannabis program for homeless people placed in the hotels. It originally claimed that money for the service came from private donations, which are not allowed by law. After multiple requests to provide the names of the donors, the DPH conceded that “No such record currently exists.” A public-records investigation into the matter has revealed that, as of June 16, DPH approved $3,795.98 to buy the homeless guests vodka and beer (cigarettes have been scrapped). The funding came from the public treasury, after all. Meanwhile chaos is erupting inside and around the hotels. City and hotel workers are required to sign nondisclosure agreements and are forbidden from discussing what they’re seeing. Per the Mayor’s Declaration of Emergency, speaking out can result in a fine of up to $1,000, imprisonment with a maximum sentence of one year, or both. Nevertheless, concerned inside sources report destroyed rooms and rampant illegal drug use. In one hotel, guests are given needle kits and are advised to call the front desk before shooting up; there have been four deaths in the last few days. Sharp containers have been placed on every floor; used syringes are discarded haphazardly. Badly needed mental-health help is not being administered. The entire operation is disorganized, with staff members constantly moved around, never knowing what they’ll do from one day to the next. One source asked to make it clear that as public servants they love the city and all its inhabitants, but the plan has left them deeply demoralized. The hotels were pressured into accepting the homeless guests, though they were also eager for the chance to recoup some revenue lost to the Covid-19 lockdowns. Rooms are rented at close to $200 per night, totaling $6,000 a month—nearly double the cost of a private one-bedroom apartment in San Francisco. The city-sponsored guests also receive personal grooming, sanitary, and cleaning supplies, three delivered meals, and laundry service for clothes and linens. Contracts last between 90 days and two years; by that point, the guests may be able to claim de facto permanent residence. Hotel owners consented to the arrangements fully aware of the potential pitfalls, having been assured that FEMA dollars would cover at least some of the damages incurred. As part of the agreement, the city promised the hoteliers, who are worried about bad publicity, that they wouldn’t reveal who their guests are and what they’ve been doing during their stay. Even with complementary lodging and amenities, city workers report at least a 20 percent attrition rate. Of the guests who remain, roughly a third stay outside all day, not taking the shelter-in-place rules seriously... Since the plan to shift people from tents and doorways to hotels began in May, the blighted neighborhoods have shown no sign of improvement. That’s not surprising, since change is not likely until the city disallows tents completely, abandons its hands-off drug-dealing and usage policies, and commits to treating people with addiction issues and mental illness—not giving them hotel rooms where they can overdose, whether alone or with others whom they bring into the property."
San Francisco’s Substance-Abuse Crisis - "San Francisco doesn’t have a homeless problem—it has a substance-abuse crisis... Yet Newsom has declared that with programs like Project Roomkey, the United States can solve homelessness. To see the results of the program is to know what a bizarre claim this is. While a small portion of the unhoused are healthy enough to shift into and benefit from such housing, the vast majority are not—and their troubles won’t be alleviated by a hotel room... Project Roomkey hotels offer no addiction-recovery treatment or mental health care. Nor is there a sobriety requirement. Residents do, however, get plenty of fresh needles, fentanyl foil, and other drug supplies, courtesy of the harm-reduction teams... Crime has also surged around the SIP motels and hotels, as people score from dealers just outside the lobbies. Shootings, robberies, and car break-ins have become commonplace, as have open-air drug use and sexual acts performed in broad daylight—an alarming change for neighborhoods like the Marina, which not long ago did not have a high population of unhoused, addicted people... Newsom and San Francisco officials are aware that Project Roomkey does nothing to heal homelessness because the absence of a home isn’t the real sickness. The self-described experts will continue to blame income inequality, lack of affordable housing, or class and racial disparities. They won’t admit—at least not publicly—that the problem is almost entirely driven by addiction. Meantime, the tide of people coming into the city, drawn by easy access to cheap, potent narcotics, will continue unabated"
In San Francisco, THREE TIMES as many people died from drug overdoses than Covid-19 last year
San Francisco Contends With a Different Sort of Epidemic: Drug Deaths - The New York Times - "Drug overdoses rose across the country during the coronavirus pandemic. But in San Francisco, they skyrocketed, claiming 713 lives last year, more than double the 257 people here who died of the virus in 2020. San Francisco’s overdose death rate is higher than West Virginia, the state with the most severe crisis, and three times the rates of New York and Los Angeles. Although overdose data from the past year is incomplete, one researcher found that San Francisco — where overdoses have more than tripled since 2017 — has more overdoses per capita than any major city on the West Coast... For officials in San Francisco who have prided themselves on their handling of health emergencies, from H.I.V. four decades ago to Covid-19 today, the epidemic of overdose deaths has been both humbling and alarming. Many believe that the city’s preoccupation with the pandemic has eclipsed concern over the drug deaths and blunted the urgency of the moment... Unlike areas in the rural Midwest that have also been devastated by fentanyl, San Francisco has a well-funded and sophisticated public health system. The overdose crisis is calling into question the city’s nonjudgmental tolerance of illicit drugs and adequacy of its programs that focus on providing users with clean needles and medication to reverse overdoses... The fentanyl crisis is distinct from previous opioid crises because an overdose can occur minutes after taking the drug, said Peter Davidson, an assistant professor at the University of California, San Diego. “With heroin you typically have one to two hours between last use and when you stop breathing — a pretty big window for someone to find you and to do something about it,” said Dr. Davidson, the researcher calculating overdose rates in West Coast cities. “With fentanyl you’re talking about five to 15 minutes.” The fast-acting nature of the drug makes loneliness deadly. As a nasal spray or injection, naloxone is used on drug users who have stopped breathing or show other signs of an overdose. But it only works when other people are around."
San Francisco DA official says crime surge fears linked to racism - "Kate Chatfield, a senior director in far-left District Attorney Chesa Boudin's office, downplayed safety concerns amid a nationwide crime spike. Chatfield was reacting to a Twitter user who said that "every single one of my friends right now is considering leaving" San Francisco due to crime fears. "My friends are scared for their children, and their husbands are scared for their wives," the user wrote. "'Husbands are scared for their wives' —-your reminder that the ‘crime surge’ crowd shares the same ideology as The Birth of a Nation," Chatfield fired back, referring to an early 20th-century White supremacist film... Reports of vehicle break-ins in San Francisco were up by between 100% and over 750% in parts of the Golden City, according to the police department's most recent monthly statistics."
The 'little things' are turning San Francisco bad in a big way - "“Brendan Dugan, the director of the retail crime division at CVS Health, called San Francisco ‘one of the epicenters of organized retail crime’ and said employees were instructed not to pursue suspected thieves because encounters had become too dangerous.” “We’ve had incidents where our security officers are assaulted on a pretty regular basis in San Francisco,” Dugan said... if Proposition 47 applies to the entire state of California, why haven’t other cities in the state seen the same spike in shoplifting? What is it about San Francisco that turned it into such a mecca for shoplifters? One reason is that San Francisco long has had a bohemian, “anything goes” mentality — but, until recently, no one thought that meant thieves could walk into a store, take what they want, and casually walk out. Enter the city’s new district attorney, who took over in January 2020 and decided not to prosecute so-called quality-of-life crimes as part of his plan, as one local news report put it, “to help the city’s more disenfranchised populations.” “We will not prosecute cases involving quality-of-life crimes,” the DA, Chesa Boudin, said in an interview while he was campaigning for office. “Crimes such as public camping, offering or soliciting sex, public urination, blocking a sidewalk, etc., should not and will not be prosecuted.” Despite that — or maybe because of it — he was elected. Here’s a handy rule of thumb: If a top city official doesn’t think quality-of-life crimes are worth pursuing, then the people of San Francisco should expect their quality of life to hit the skids. And it has... Societies can’t thrive, they can’t go on indefinitely, when people can urinate (and worse) on the sidewalks, or block streets, or pretend that ransacking store shelves and walking out without paying is no big deal — because it is a very big deal. Once the little things become tolerated, it’s not long before bigger, bad things start to happen routinely as well. It takes time for societies to fall apart, to crumble. Laws matter; order matters. Believing that you live in a safe place where miscreants don’t run free ... that matters, too. If you want to know what America would be like if progressives ever took over the country, just go to San Francisco and look around. But be careful. Halloween-by-the-sea has become a very scary place."
This will be an interesting data point about broken windows policing. Liberals get very upset if you suggest that broken windows policing works, so if the data suggest it does they'll blame, oh, "racism" or something
40% of San Francisco residents plan to leave due to quality of life: Poll - " The poll of 500 San Franciscans, commissioned by the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce , showed that just over 40% of residents plan to move out of the city in the next few years. Additionally, 8 out of 10 people polled said crime has increased in the city, and almost 90% of those polled said they believe that the homeless crisis has gotten worse. Roughly three-quarters of residents in San Francisco said their quality of life has declined over the past year. “For the second year in a row, 70% of residents feel that the quality of life in San Francisco has declined”... Police statistics show certain crimes have been increasing in California’s fourth-largest city, including a significant surge in car burglaries, which are up as much as 700% in some areas . San Francisco’s police chief has pointed the finger at two factors : not enough police on the streets and criminals being let out of jail due to relaxed prosecuting... 76% of San Franciscans said that “it should be a high priority for the city to increase the number of police officers in high-crime neighborhoods.”"
What Liberal Prosecutors Are Drawing From Chesa Boudin’s Recall - The New York Times - "When Chesa Boudin, the district attorney of San Francisco, was ousted in a definitive recall vote last week, his loss was a setback for a national movement to remake the justice system. Elected in 2019, Mr. Boudin became one of the most visible and powerful of a wave of prosecutors who are fulfilling campaign promises to jail fewer people, reduce racial disparities and hold police officers accountable for misconduct. His ouster is sure to embolden those who say the policies of liberal prosecutors are a threat to public safety in a time of heightened concerns about crime and violence... In Los Angeles, a second recall effort against George Gascón, the liberal district attorney, has reportedly far surpassed the number of signatures gathered last year`
CVS to close 6 San Francisco pharmacies in January - "The closures come as San Francisco and other big cities have recently been hit by a wave of retail crime. CVS was one of several retailers targeted by a Northern California crime ring that stole 15,000 items worth $200,000"
Damn racism!
Mapping San Francisco's Human Waste Challenge - 132,562 Cases Reported In The Public Way Since 2008
San Francisco wealth tax will fuel next blue exodus for rich earners - "Tesla is likely headed out of the Bay Area, and so are several venture capital firms, as well as technology workers at Twitter and Google. When companies do not feel welcome anymore and already have remote workers, the results are obvious and disastrous. The ripple effects of the new wealth tax may also hurt blue collar workers and service industry workers in the future. This is because local revenues for basic services, social programs, and infrastructure would be hollowed out if rich earners continue to leave and take their capital elsewhere. They will move to places with more jobs or to where they can create them. This could create advantages for workers in Austin or Denver to the detriment of low income and middle income workers in San Francisco. San Francisco leaders would be wise to learn from the places with similar tax schemes. The exorbitant state and local tax rates in New York sparked a large exodus earlier this year. Some communities had nearly 40 percent of their own residents leave and take their billions of dollars in wealth with them. The country of France overturned its wealth tax after it found that it chased away some 42,000 millionaires from 2000 and 2012."
San Francisco votes to ban smoking inside apartments, with exception for weed - "The ordinance is an effort to protect residents from secondhand smoke."
Moves From San Francisco to Texas, Florida Soared During Pandemic - "San Francisco lost the most residents between 2019 and 2020 out of every major city, according to a new analysis. The Bay Area city lost about 18 residents per 1,000 people in 2020, compared to losing just 9 residents out of ever 1,000 the year prior, according to a new report by the commercial realty firm CBRE Group."
California’s growth rate at record low as more people leave - "More people are leaving California than moving here, continuing a trend that coupled with fewer births has slowed the growth rate in the nation’s most populous state to a record low amid a pandemic that is reshaping its future."
BART Withholding Surveillance Videos Of Crime To Avoid ‘Stereotypes’ - "If we were to regularly feed the news media video of crimes on our system that involve minority suspects, particularly when they are minors, we would certainly face questions as to why we were sensationalizing relatively minor crimes and perpetuating false stereotypes in the process."
What does this say about "stereotypes"? A "false stereotype" is anything a liberal doesn't like
I guess it isn't important to catch criminals. Only to combat "stereotypes"
In San Francisco, Turmoil Over Reopening Schools Turns a City Against Itself - The New York Times - "In February, the city sued its own school system, which has been entirely remote for a year, and board of education, charging they were violating state law by not resuming in-person instruction. Soon after, two parents infuriated by the school board’s decision to rename 44 schools, even as it kept them closed, started a drive to recall three of the board members. Some 9,000 people have joined the campaign’s mailing list, and they are expected to begin collecting signatures soon. Then critics of the board unearthed four-year-old tweets written by the board’s vice president in which she accused Asian-Americans of sidling up to white Americans to get ahead without confronting racism, comparing them to slaves who benefited from working inside a slave owner’s house. More than a third of the district’s students are Asian-American. Tumult turned to all-out war. Within days, state legislators, the mayor and two members of the board itself had joined a rapidly growing chorus demanding that the vice president, Alison Collins, resign. Ms. Collins has refused to do so, but on Thursday the board voted, 5-2, to strip her of her roles on committees and of her vice presidency, leaving the board bitterly divided... About one-third of the city’s schoolchildren, many of them white, go to private schools, one of the highest rates of any major city in the United States. Many of those private school students have been sitting in classrooms for months while public school students, who are disproportionately Black, Latino and Asian-American, have spent the year in virtual classes. Data released by the district suggests that remote learning has increased racial achievement gaps. Attendance has fallen among African-American and Pacific Islander students, as well as homeless students... Adding to the district’s woes, it is facing a steep budget deficit and now risks losing even more funding as enrollment declines. Data from the district shows a roughly 10 percent drop in the number of students submitting applications for kindergarten for 2021-22. As early as last summer, it was clear that the board had no appetite for reopening schools. When the superintendent, Vincent Matthews, proposed using grant money to hire a consultant to help devise a reopening plan, the board voted against it, in part because the consultant had connections to charter schools. So schools remained closed all fall, even while San Francisco enjoyed some of the lowest virus rates in the country. But the board proceeded with a plan to rename 44 schools whose names were deemed to be associated with slavery, genocide or other injustices. The plan was criticized for the sloppiness of the research process, which, among other things, wrongly accused Paul Revere of seeking to colonize the Penobscot people. Mayor London Breed blasted the board’s focus on renaming schools while they remained closed as “offensive.”... “We saw that the school board was actually downright dismissive, almost contemptuous, of parent input,” Mr. Raj said. “They didn’t want to hear from us.”... “This board is becoming a case study for performative, shallow activism and hypocrisy,” said one caller who identified himself as a student in the district... Laurence Tribe, a Harvard law professor and an alumnus of the San Francisco public school system, said the board had used “cultural distractions” as a way of covering up its inability to get schools reopened. “It’s clear,” he said, “that the internecine conflict among relatively privileged liberals sometimes leaves behind people that they genuinely believe they are concerned about.”"
Elon Musk Warns That The Capital Of Texas Must Not Turn Into San Francisco
Bay Area car owners leaving trunks open to avoid break-ins, per report - "People in California are reportedly leaving their vehicles' trunks open to deter thieves from breaking their vehicles' windows. Vehicle break-ins are reportedly on the rise in San Francisco and Oakland. To keep potential thieves from damaging their property, some people are emptying out everything of value from their vehicle, unlocking their doors, and leaving the trunk open while they go about their business... Tom tells the news station in his nearly 40 years on the force, he's never seen anyone resign themselves to just having their vehicle's trunk freely open. A reporter with the station showed Tom a photo of a couple of vehicles that were parked near a shopping center with their trunks popped open. "We're in different times... that's unbelievable""
When you defund the police and are pro-criminal...
Policing, journalism experts caution use of 'looting' in describing rash of Bay Area smash and grabs - "Bay Area police departments have called what happened at various retail stores this weekend "looting." We saw similar crimes happen in the wake of the George Floyd protests, but are the past weekend's crimes truly considered looting? Race and Social Justice Reporter Julian Glover is here to give us some context of looting. "As the Bay Area grapples with a wave of seemingly organized smash and grab robberies this weekend, policing and journalism analysts are cautioning against the use of the term looting"... there was no local emergency declared in the Bay Area cities that experienced smash and grabs this weekend. However, the crimes did follow the contentious verdict in the Kyle Rittenhouse trial... Both experts expressed the importance of media literacy for viewers to critically think about the language used by public officials and the media as we all try to make sense of these complex issues our society is facing."
The left loves Newspeak
Mayor Breed wants to flood Tenderloin with police to confront drug dealers — and those using drugs - "Mayor London Breed wants to significantly boost the police presence in the Tenderloin over the next few months as part of a public safety blitz, which includes a crackdown on those who are selling drugs — and those who are using them — in the long-troubled neighborhood... the push for more officers will likely draw the most attention, landing amid a national reckoning over the role of police in vulnerable communities. It also marks a shift in messaging from the Breed administration, which for the past year has focused on creating programs that remove law enforcement from interactions with those struggling with homelessness, mental health issues and drug use. Breed’s public safety plan comes as the Tenderloin continues to grab national headlines and the mayor feels heat to get the city’s spiraling homelessness and overdoses crisis under control... Breed also wants to change city law to allow police officers to access security camera footage during emergency situations, such as the Union Square thefts... The debate over police funding was a flash point in this year’s budget negotiations, with advocates calling to instead funnel those resources into social services that they said address the root causes of crime... The Police Department is currently more than 400 officers short... Laura Thomas, the director of harm reduction policy at the San Francisco AIDS Foundation, said she was “disappointed and discouraged” by what she saw as a shift in approach from the mayor when it comes to policing. “We’ve just gone through a national, long overdue reckoning of police, and we’ve been putting up these Street Crisis Response Teams, which all made sense to me and are evidenced-based approaches,” she said. More policing “is certainly not going to be improving the quality of life for Black, Indigenous, people of color who have experienced violence at the hands of police.”... During Friday’s community meeting, residents shared with Breed their stress, fear and frustration. Some complained that police didn’t respond to reports of crime. Gloria Lemus, the emergency relief program coordinator for Catholic Charities and La Voz Latina, said more foot patrols would make her feel much safer. “We need to have more police and security on the streets, to provide more for the clients who come to us, to have a little bit more under control,” Lemus said. Randy Shaw, executive director of the Tenderloin Housing Clinic, said the community has previously asked for more foot patrols, not to conduct mass arrests. He said police visibility deters brazen open-air drug dealing... Amid police staffing shortages, people in the Tenderloin criticized the immediate mobilization of police in response to high-profile mass retail thefts in Union Square. By contrast, Breed’s plan for the Tenderloin is just getting under way."
Defund the police, then blame increased minority deaths on "racism". Brilliant way to increase your power
San Francisco Voters Recall 3 Board of Education Members - The New York Times - "More than 70 percent of voters supported the recall of each member when initial results were released... “It’s the people rising up in revolt in San Francisco and saying it’s unacceptable to abandon your responsibility to educate our children,” said Siva Raj, a San Francisco parent of public school students who helped lead the signature campaign to put the recall election on the ballot. The recall was a victory for parents who were angered that the district spent time deciding whether to rename a third of its schools last year instead of focusing on reopening them. It also appeared to be a demonstration of Asian American electoral power, a galvanizing moment for Chinese American voters in particular who turned out in unusually large numbers for the election. In echoes of debates in other cities, many Chinese American voters were incensed when the school board introduced a lottery admission system for Lowell High School, the district’s most prestigious institution, abolishing requirements primarily based on grades and test scores... District Attorney Chesa Boudin, a progressive prosecutor, faces a recall election in June fueled by moderate San Franciscans worried about a spike in property crimes and hate crimes during the coronavirus pandemic... The district captured national headlines last year for its botched and in some cases historically inaccurate effort to rename 44 public schools. The targeted schools carry the names of a range of historical figures including Abraham Lincoln and the three other presidents chiseled into Mount Rushmore; Spanish conquerors such as Vasco Núñez de Balboa; John Muir, the naturalist and author; and Paul Revere, the Revolutionary War figure. After a barrage of criticism, including from Ms. Breed, the board put the renaming process on hold. A judge ruled that the board had violated a California law on open meetings in its proceedings. Criticism of the board grew stronger, while signature gathering for the recall effort was already underway, when controversial tweets written by Ms. Collins, the board’s vice president, were discovered. In them, she said Asian Americans were like slaves who benefited from working inside a slave owner’s house — a comparison that Asian American groups and many city leaders called racist... Education, she said, was a powerful issue. “That’s been ingrained in Chinese culture for thousands and thousands of years”"
No wonder Asians are the new face of White Supremacy - they can oppose the Liberal agenda
Opinion: San Francisco school board recall sends a dangerous message
Accountability and the people holding elites to account are dangerous when it hurts liberals
Defeated San Francisco school board member says voters who ousted her are 'aligned with' White supremacists - "López and two fellow board members — Vice President Faauuga Moliga and Commissioner Alison Collins — were all voted out Tuesday in a landslide, with more than 72% of voters opting to recall each of them. "So if you fight for racial justice, this is the consequence," López tweeted along with a photo of a Washington Post headline that said she and the two other recalled board members were "seen as too focused on racial justice." "Don’t be mistaken, white supremacists are enjoying this. And the support of the recall is aligned with this," López added. "This headline says it all. If you are not outraged, you’re not paying attention." López also retweeted a post criticizing a Mother Jones writer for "defending white supremacy in San Francisco" in an article about the recall. That writer, Clara Jeffrey, said the vote was "to put performance over performativeness." She criticized San Francisco for its lethargic effort to reopen schools and for a 2021 vote to rename dozens of schools she called "a crowd-sourced embarrassment that placed Dianne Feinstein, Abraham Lincoln and Paul Revere among the names to be stricken." Even many San Francisco Democrats backed López's ouster. That included Mayor London Breed... "The voters of this city have delivered a clear message that the school board must focus on the essentials of delivering a well-run school system above all else," Breed said in response to the election results."
Doing your job instead of grievance mongering is white supremacy
Facebook - "Leftist mods and users on Reddit are locking threads on the San Francisco school board recall and reporting people to the suicide hotline for talking about how Woke abusers got voted out in a landslide. Never let Woke Leftists take control of your community."
Following Recall, San Francisco School Board Reverses Course - The New York Times - "the newly constituted school board, with three members appointed by Mayor London Breed, took up the issue. And in a marked shift, it voted 4-3 to reinstate merit-based admissions at Lowell for fall 2023... further repudiating the policies of their predecessors, the board on Wednesday also rescinded another previous board decision to cover up a controversial mural at a high school. In Lee’s eyes, Wednesday’s decisions reveal that board members are taking seriously the political forces that put them in office, particularly the Asian American voters and volunteers that fueled the recall... The Lowell student body is predominantly Asian — roughly 48 percent, compared with 35 percent across S.F. Unified schools, according to district data — and for many immigrant families the school was seen as “a well-worn and cherished pathway to the middle class, to social mobility”... “The Chinese community is celebrating today because it is really the first time in a long time where Chinese voters flexed their political muscle and saw an immediate result,” Lee told me. “It’s a wake-up call for the political establishment of San Francisco, that this is an emerging political force.”"
No wonder Asians are white supremacists now
Opinion | What Trump, San Francisco and the Deer in My Backyard Have in Common - The New York Times - "Democracy depends on understanding the connection"
Thomas Friedman strikes again
REVEALED: San Franciso pays $61,000 a year per tent to shelter homeless at city sites - "The city of San Francisco will use the $16.1 million of taxpayers funds to shelter homeless people in 262 tents placed in empty lots around the city, providing them with food and services... It was reported in May that San Francisco had also been providing free alcohol, methadone and medical cannabis to homeless people quarantining in hotels during the coronavirus pandemic. Many now believe that the recently passed COVID Relief Bill will use taxpayer money to bail out the city which had a projected $650 million budget deficit over the next two years and allow San Fancisco to continue providing the controversial extras in a non sustainable model... The annual cost of one tent exceeds San Francisco’s average rent price for a one-bedroom apartment by two and a half times"
