Re:California Spent $17B on Homelessness. It’s Not Working
by 8f2ab37a-ed6c on Friday June 02, 2023 @10:59PM
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Even Scott Weiner mentioned in the interview with Ezra Klein in April that he would have not been able to live in SF if he hadn't gotten lucky and found a 500sqft place 15 years ago. You know something is off when your state senator can't even afford to live in his own district.
Re:California Spent $17B on Homelessness. It’s Not Working
by jonhohle on Friday June 02, 2023 @11:34PM
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The same Scott Weiner who has an estimated net worth of $5M on a state senator’s salary?
Also, why would someone run for a district they didn’t live in?
Re:California Spent $17B on Homelessness. It’s Not Working
by thephyber on Saturday June 03, 2023 @05:04AM
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Estimated by allfamousbirthday.com? Pardon me if I am a little skeptical.
And nobody said he doesn’t live in the district. He moved to SF as a lawyer, then became Deputy City Attorney, then was elected to Board of Supervisors, then elected to state senate. His quote about not being able to afford to live in SF is most likely to point out that rent control in SF keeps qualifying rents affordable while market-rate rents are extremely unaffordable.
Re:California Spent $17B on Homelessness. It’s Not Working
by kangaroozach on Friday June 02, 2023 @11:22PM
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This is the case across most of the US. It’s also why our senators are wealthy people taking “bribes” and kickbacks, friendly business deals or benefiting from insider trading. Feinstein, Pelosi are good local examples.
Re:California Spent $17B on Homelessness. It’s Not Working
by narrator on Friday June 02, 2023 @11:24PM
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They should pay top government officials multi-million dollar salaries like they do in Singapore. Then they could attract top talent to those jobs and they wouldn't have to engage in all these questionable side hustles.
Re:California Spent $17B on Homelessness. It’s Not Working
by ipaddr on Saturday June 03, 2023 @09:16AM
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You would have to find someone who has so much money that anything extra wouldn't matter. Those people do not exist and the richer high paying job it is the more it will attract the wrong type. Put Musk in one of those jobs and he will use influence to increase his wealth.
Re:California Spent $17B on Homelessness. It’s Not Working
by rayiner on Sunday June 04, 2023 @02:01PM
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Then they should punish corruption with execution like China.
Re:California Spent $17B on Homelessness. It’s Not Working
by guptadagger on Saturday June 03, 2023 @10:02PM
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> the homeless will go to some other place where they can live a better drugs and camping lifestyle
They should just drive in their cars to those cheaper places, true
Re:California Spent $17B on Homelessness. It’s Not Working
by seanmcdirmid on Saturday June 03, 2023 @10:05PM
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Or their (meth) RVs or vans. Those are surprisingly common, but they tend to go to cities that don’t enforce parking limits for unhoused (LA, SF, Seattle)…
All that has to happen is tax revenue has to fall and the spending will decrease and the homeless will go to some other place where they can live a better drugs and camping lifestyle. Having lived for some time a few years ago in the Tenderloin, the idea that the homeless in S.F are normal people who have fallen on hard times is a complete simulated reality that has almost nothing to do with the actual situation.