https://www.pacificresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/H...
"Roughly 34 percent of the homeless in San Francisco are homeless due to direct economic factors, such as evictions and job losses. Another 12 percent became homeless when they lost the safety net of family or friends."
"About 15 percent are due to drug addiction or substance abuse."
The City has even had to sue other counties for dumping: https://www.ktvn.com/story/30191022/nevada-san-francisco-rea...
Its very well known that SF has drug tourists, its so obvious if you're on the streets here...
And somehow this makes you an expert or informed on the matter?
> 95% of the people on the street are not from SF
This is likely the case for every metro in the world. And?
> well known that SF has drug tourists
Facts and research, please. You seem keen to peddle the homeless as drug-addled perpetrators stereotype.
Even the Mayor of SF has talked about how SF has drug tourists and how they need to be prevented from receiving services. You don't seem to be very informed about SF.
I'm not interested in the incredibly small percentage of people exploiting the system that isn't helping them in the first place, but the large percentage of homeless - transient or long term - that need services but are fought every part of the way by ignorance like this.
Pulling numbers out of thin air doesn't make them true.
They also asserted that if our local DA actually did something about dealing on the streets we'd lose that same number of homeless people and they'd return to wherever they came from before SF, or go to Oakland. SF has turned itself into an "attractive nuisance" due to our unchecked open air drug markets.
I'm sure it did, and it's not just completely made up with absolutely no corroborating evidence to back it up.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O%27Connor_v._Donaldson
Carter era federal law signed into effect 1980:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Rights_of_Institutionali...
Other links:
The Reagan canard is also just that; The Supreme court ruling sought by the ACLU during the Carter administration is why people are out on the street, the govt can't legally commit people like that anymore.
Evictions are hard here for the same reasons that its trivial to get fentanyl in front of the federal building that houses the DEA - failed govt policy.