Re:Stripe to move to South San Francisco
by rayiner on Thursday October 24, 2019 @07:11AM
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It’s not “national issue.” Aid and housing are local issues. San Francisco and California in general have much worse homelessness problems than many other places in the country. (For example, Mississippi has one of the lowest homelessness rates in the country.)
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Re:Stripe to move to South San Francisco
by closeparen on Thursday October 24, 2019 @11:36AM
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It’s a national issue because people are mobile and will go to wherever the services are best. If San Francisco decides to house every homeless person who appears on its streets, it’s going to have to house every homeless person in America.
Coordination at the federal level could even out geographical imbalances in services and also prevent all services from having to be delivered in the few places where it’s most expensive to do so. Doing all the free housing in the most expensive market is crazy.
Re:Stripe to move to South San Francisco
by gamblor956 on Thursday October 24, 2019 @12:56PM
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It's a national issue. That many states solved by shipping their homeless to California (like Texas, Oklahoma, and most of the Midwest do) or to their own local private prisons (like Mississippi and the rest of the South do).
I used to live in Chicago and it’s huge problem there too. It’s national.