Re:San Francisco Asks: Where Have All the Children Gone?
by boulos on Sunday January 22, 2017 @11:21AM
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Fundamentally, our budgeting process in San Francisco is pretty broken. While much more than $50M/year is ultimately spent on homelessness, some of it is indirect (funds for San Francisco General Hospital to pay for ER visits), and much isn't re-allocatable. That said, there are folks trying to help.
In particular, Lava Mae [1] is providing mobile showers (in old refurbished buses!) but they only have a few. Google.org gave them a small grant to expand to LA [2], which also has a large homeless population but is massively spread out. My hope is that once they've proven the model a bit, that someone like Benioff comes in big (I'm not idealistic enough to hope that we could actually do this through a city bond).
In particular, Lava Mae [1] is providing mobile showers (in old refurbished buses!) but they only have a few. Google.org gave them a small grant to expand to LA [2], which also has a large homeless population but is massively spread out. My hope is that once they've proven the model a bit, that someone like Benioff comes in big (I'm not idealistic enough to hope that we could actually do this through a city bond).
[1] http://lavamae.org [2] https://blog.google/topics/google-org/bay-area-nonprofits-ho...