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Re:San Francisco, Hostage to the Homeless by m0nsoon on Tuesday October 08, 2019 @06:27AM (#21190647)
>>>No other American city has built as much affordable housing per capita, according to the Bay Area Council Economic Institute. From 2004 to 2014, the city spent $2 billion on nearly 3,000 new units of permanent supportive housing.

You’re conflating addressing “housing transience” with addressing “addiction, mental illness, and criminal antisocial behavior”. Additional housing units don’t resolve this problem.

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Re:San Francisco, Hostage to the Homeless by Data_Junkie on Tuesday October 08, 2019 @02:20PM (#21195316)
Ever been to a developmental center ? Full of addiction, mental illness and criminal anti-social behavior, at a level completely beyond anything seen in any homeless group, not even close. You know what the answer the local government in the area has done to improve the lives of the people they have had locked away from society since the area has existed? Provided them housing.
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Re:San Francisco, Hostage to the Homeless by awayyyythrow on Tuesday October 08, 2019 @06:37AM (#21190708)
I'm curious, what do you suggest should be done? Build more mental health wards? Put everyone behind bars? For how long? What do you do once they're released from prison? Or maybe there should be some sort of camps where they could be rounded up and concentratred away from the city? You obviously have something on your mind, say it.
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