San Franciscans raise $46,000 to stop homeless shelter in wealthy area

Re:San Franciscans raise $46,000 to stop homeless shelter in... by flukus on Friday March 29, 2019 @12:33AM (#19519176)

> Shelters and low income housing up and down the peninsula don't allow drug use, don't allow people with criminal records, and some don't allow men.

So they're explicitly designed to not shelter the majority of people needing them, that seems counter-productive. Is smoking crack in the shelter somehow worse than doing it in the street? Are they supposed to work out their addiction problem while they've got no where to live and no job?

If you're going to run shelters like that then they're just a feel good measure to make people think there's help available and nothing more.

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Re:San Franciscans raise $46,000 to stop homeless shelter in... by pintxo on Friday March 29, 2019 @04:17AM (#19519958)

> Is smoking crack in the shelter somehow worse than doing it in the street?

Certainly it is going to be a lot worse for the politician who approved/backed this shelter, once this is packaged into a nice little media story like „X pays for smoking crack“.

There are not many politicians out there willing to do the right thing and being prepared to handle the expected uninformed outrage.

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Re:San Franciscans raise $46,000 to stop homeless shelter in... by flukus on Friday March 29, 2019 @05:07AM (#19520125)

True, but when I said "feel good measure" I was referring to the voters that will be swayed by that sort of crap. It's a societal problem not a political one.

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