Can San Francisco's new mayor tackle homelessness? What advocates are hoping for

[@Rael_486]

An industry has developed around homelessness whose purpose is to extract tax dollars from the residents of the state of California.

[@Crazd22]

The Homeless Industrial Complex

[@bradbanda2018]

An Industry worth billions....

[@TSZDM2024]

You would gag if you saw how large some CE0 and salaries are in non profits

[@St.Maryspark]

I never really put it together, but I Believe YOUR RIGHT WOW 😢❤

[@fandomcheergurl1006]

Billions spent on homelessness, yet the numbers increase exponentially. Why? Homelessness has become another way to tax Californians. Sacramento will not solve this problem because it’s too profitable.

[@jessebfly]

Make jails and mental institutions great again. When someone is screaming at people, buildings, and storefronts- that's not humane. They need to be committed and stay there. Drug users - mandatory rehab and jail time. Down on luck? Housing options with work mandates. The "one size fits all" approach doesn't work, nor does the SF "homeless Inc 501c3's" which only serve to pay bloated salaries with no accountability. Tax paying residents have rights. We deserve clean, safe streets and no more filth and vagrancy. It's about time the tax paying residents and businesses got these things.

[@dianethulin1700]

I live in the TL and have seen many podcasts about homelessness. I never-ever see any of the actual residents of the Tenderloin interviewed. It’s usually someone who is sober now who works with the Homeless. They impact our community so much! -Especially families with children. Why should we have to put up with the drugs and loud music at all hours?

[@danimal1538]

Because the coalition of the homeless thinks its much more important for addicts and mentally ill to be able to do whatever the f*ck they want than any concern for residents of the neighborhood.

[@MiMiiViVi]

While I somewhat sympathize, why would you live in a well-known ghetto in an outrageously expensive city.

[@marqusee]

Lived in the TL for 5 years. Most law abiding resident of the TL wants sweeps. Its time to take harsh action.

[@MiMiiViVi]

But why would you move to a world known ghetto

[@Scott-hr9yc]

Stop giving enabler like Jennifer of Coalition of Homelessness a platform, because she’s a part of the problem, and not a solution.

[@dianethulin1700]

You are ignorant. She doesn’t cause Homelessness

[@prereq7186]

​@dianethulin1700 you're right, she perpetuates it.

[@joannsmith3589]

well homelessness has never been the problem. the problem is enabling drug dealers and drug addicts... the problem is DRUG

[@fandomcheergurl1006]

@@dianethulin1700 she’s employed by agencies that profit off homelessness.

[@dianethulin1700]

@ Are you familiar with her organization? I am. They do a lot of good;

[@genzislady3820]

If your don’t want to be forced inside how about shelter or jail? That’s the tough option

[@climbing-668]

Why don’t just let the homeless people clean and sweep the streets and then pay them as a job . Win win

[@johnbuckles1344]

That's funny. You are naive.

[@warrpedd]

😂You think they want a job??

[@tuttifrutti2642]

When it isn’t a choice it becomes a viable option. Along with rehab. We waste money and they may die waiting for them to make a decision. It’s time for them to follow the law or get going. No more leniency. No more loitering and illegal camping.

[@Johnwicker1903]

Arrest illegal users and illegal migrants. All have broken the law.

[@notchomomma239]

They got no room for em.

[@AddisonMorris-q9g]

@@notchomomma239bullshit north county is empty

[@silentmajority8365]

@@notchomomma239 Use tents and razor wire Have you ever seen the movie Cool Hand Luke?

[@Tony-xu9bf]

Most undocumented immigrants don’t commit crimes it’s the entitled Americans ones 😂

[@sfuk001]

Expecting non-profits to improve the homelessness situation is like expecting Tyson to improve the living conditions of chickens. Can we please stop giving these scammers a platform every time you do a segment on homelessness?

[@Andrewduynguyen]

SF homeless is a major problems for CA. Billions and billions of dollars go down the drain’s not helping the homeless

[@firstlast8258]

Money is at the job if you are able bodied

[@casienwhey]

Is there a solution? Yes. Offer them three options: Pay for your accommodation, stay in a shelter, or go to jail.

[@trialcritic7625]

Jails are expensive, in SF it costs $63000 per year per inmate. We are paying for it.

[@tuttifrutti2642]

We are paying anyways. At least tax-payers will be able to use the city and walk without fear.

[@bboysmith]

How do you have options? When we’re paying for it. Human being or not. You have less options with somebody else has to foot the bill.. I’m not responsible for some of the choices in life you have made. I have empathy… it’s this or that! And one more thing, those nonprofits are horrible. They offer no rational solutions.. almost like nonprofit for the sake of being nonprofits.

[@patriciaanndemello4652]

Politicians keep ignoring the real problem. Affordable low income housing. Senior housing. Forced drug and mental health treatment.

[@philmccracken179]

🙄. Enough of trying to solve these problems with your heart. This is a disciplinary issue.

[@fandomcheergurl1006]

The Homeless Industrial Complex is another way to tax Californians. Why would politicians solve this problem? How can they justify collecting BILLIONS through measures and propositions in the name of homelessness?

[@Eastbayfitteds_]

SHELTER OR JAIL

[@Joshp786]

Permanent supportive housing doesn't work, without accountability of the person, but sf would never hold them accountable because there is no enforcement for them to engage in services 1. Make them wait the 30 day for EBT they get them the same day. 2. Cut all cash aid aka CAAP

[@user-kn9tt6ny3v]

We know what advocates want. $$$. Not supporting them unless they are fully audited.

[@caseyroach8547]

i would love to know what the ceo of glide makes a yr, probably between 1 to 2 million bucks. the reason why i bring this up is because they need homelessness to continue to get paid. they don't want to solve the problem; they want the problem to continue so they continue to get paid.

[@fandomcheergurl1006]

San Francisco contracts 4B to local nonprofits for homelessness.

[@Aging2day]

That is so sad to see San Francisco in this state, it was such a beautiful city!

[@firstlast8258]

You get what you vote for

[@Cavocado_]

It will never be solved as long as housing is treated as a commodity/investment rather than shelter. Landlords (and just land owners in general) will always appose making housing affordable either through law or building more units because they want profits

[@KN-eh2fh]

the homeless issue is unsolvable. If you treat them well, homeless from other states or even other countries will flood into SF. You will have unlimited homeless people to deal with.

[@Truelib99Hobbes]

Yes because activist and old hippie citizens will not permit the problem to be solved.

[@J3unG]

Bigot. Why don't you just say it, bro. You want to liquidate the homeless so they don't exist anymore. Truly evil sht.

[@Johnwicker1903]

Using illegal drugs is simply illegal. Arrest all illegal users.

[@pwp8737]

@@Johnwicker1903 so you house the former homeless in prisons at a cost to the taxpayers of $50-$75,000/year?

[@notchomomma239]

In the last 6,000 years, I'm pretty sure a person or two came up with a decent plan to combat homelessness.

[@2TROLL1]

When a human is surrounded by Despair and negativity', a positive demeanor goes a long way😅

[@MarioG.-yt1of]

Any time a homeless advocate group says they "want more humane solutions" to the homeless problem, those are weasel words saying "letting them do whatever they want" and not actually making them improve their lot. Basically like Section 8 and EBT, these homeless get adjusted to it and of course, the homeless advocacy groups from all that taxpayer money going their way.

[@lucysky8378]

That first guy meant I wanna still do what I wanna do e.g. drugs, drinking etc.

[@savas6794]

You should build the houses for the homeless outside the city, it will be safer, safer for the city and safer for them. Drug dealers should not be able to reach them.

[@H4me7215]

Not until he changes for the people!!!

[@pimaxuma]

Why does KPIX pander to those homeless advocates? This reporter fails to expose how the Coalition for Homelessness group worsened the homeless problem by providing thousands of free tents, which increased encampment numbers; or how they sued the city in 2022, prohibiting removal of homeless people blocking streets. As a result vandalism, defecation, thefts, angry confrontations, and assaults increased in SF.

[@masterfrank007]

“Everybody thinks it’s dangerous”…bc it is!

[@yaoming-j6g]

7:35 these clowns are the real problem. Homeless Industial Profiteers.

[@ahbah518]

Drug test for homeless

[@shazmosushi]

It doesn't make economic sense to provide homeless housing in the most expensive parts of the country. The support goes way further in cheaper regions. San Francisco should move to a zero tolerance to homeless approach. Rebuild the mental health institutions and the people should no longer tolerate drug addicts on the street.

[@grybnyx]

Right now thousands of people who were homeless, most of them drug addicts, are being housed in formerly boutique tourist hotels with private bathrooms- FREE FOR THE REST OF THEIR LIVES. There are absolutely no requirements they have to meet, there is no timetable for them to become self-supporting. This is unsustainable. It incentivizes homelessness. It is the wrong approach.

[@freddiecopeland6390]

I've seen him in person . Thenks Oscar your are appreciated for your help. God be you

[@650kp]

Unless the nimby generation goes away, we won’t build much more housing. Sf and the Bay Area should all dream to look like Japan

[@LoveLee-jz1tj]

an heir to a jeans company cannot possibly understand paycheck to paycheck peasant life.

[@pwp8737]

probably not, but rich aristocrats are more shocked by poverty than a middle-class shopkeeper's daughter with no empathy or humanity.

[@notchomomma239]

Nothing is going to change until people realize that our homelessness issue and our abandoned buildings issue could easily cancel each other out and for much cheaper than tackling each issue alone.

[@ot7stan207]

has nothing to do with no buildings, a lot of them choose to be on the street so they can freely use their drugs and escape when cops come. you really think they want to be inside if there are rules about drug use?

[@notchomomma239]

@ot7stan207 "a lot of them" and "times when the homeless population balloons" aren't the same thing. Economic factors are the primary cause of homelessness, not drugs. The new wave of homelessness wasn't caused by the fentynal epidemic, it was caused by the response during the covid pandemic. The economy tanked and a few million Americans became homeless. The same thing happened in 2008 and 2013... when the economy tanked and the housing market collapsed.

[@notchomomma239]

@@ot7stan207 and sorry bro but I can read any of your comment below "you really think..." my KZbin is being buggy.

[@jonathanthink5830]

yes, the mayor can eliminate homelessness until he found out that he got more money from various programs by having homeless people around.

[@MiMiiViVi]

How many grew up here in SF or the Bay Area. California is filled with out of state drifters and they need to go home. Those addicts from the Bay Area need court ordered, long term residential rehab facilities to help them get clean and self-sufficient. California is not affordable. We should work with other states to relocate people to affordable areas when there are jobs and much cheaper rents.

[@27chelsea111]

why should we care what "advocates" want? They created this mess.

[@warrpedd]

It's not humane to enable people to live on the street.

[@ferdinandcastagnera794]

Just give the homeless population two choices: accept the help that's given or get out of San Francisco!! Plain & simple!!

[@nameurchannel7049]

No chance of that’s what you got

[@mfowler9712]

Throwing people in jail cost tax money too. The root problems are ignored. And our politicians are greedier than ever.

[@tuttifrutti2642]

No one is going to pay me for me if I lose my job. I pay for insurance and try to save money for an emergency. This is insane

[@Mike__B]

As long as there are groups that sue cities for a person's "right" to remain homeless, then no mayors can not tackle homelessness.

[@notchomomma239]

That's because the usual response is to push them out of county and let someone else deal with em. My county recently did this. Now we don't have a homeless problem... but the three counties around us saw their homeless populations jump by 6 to 10 times. No one's made a serious attempt to solve the issue since the great depression.

[@shredder2588]

The old adage "dont feed the pigeons" works with birds and homeless

[@Sanpedranoazul]

When people is busy working, there shouldn't be homelesness

[@richardgomez5008]

Many more Americans are going to become homeless all over America. Taxes, high prices, high utilities cost, high health costs, higher drug use, high crime, high divorce rate, weather disasters, government mismanagement, greed gouging prices, etc. Will you be among the homeless. I keep paying my taxes and bills as they continue to increase. The government is misappropriating taxed money. ❤🇺🇸❤

[@trialcritic7625]

Its not an easy problem to solve. Jails in California are expensive, the cost is over $63000 per year per inmate. Hiring people to maintain the streets is expensive too.

[@XX-td3lv]

I have a question and I’ve been all over the country. How is it that the most liberal, most humane, most progressive cities in this country have the biggest problems with drug and homelessness ? To put it into a macro perspective , take my state of California with all of the same above policies and throw that into the same pot .

[@fandomcheergurl1006]

Billions spent on homelessness, yet the numbers increase exponentially. Why? Homelessness has become another way to tax Californians. Sacramento will not solve this problem because it’s too profitable.

[@Pearnarrative]

People who refuse to get help has one thing in mind is more drugs. One walk sf residents did that and it’s not safe what so ever. One walk at before 8 is not safe and anyone that work on market can tell you that or people in soma.

[@freddiecopeland6390]

You are the solution to our problem but the politicians won't listen to you or us😡😤

[@TooSkinnyKenny]

it's not just San Francisco's new mayor. ALL of the new politicians from the most recent election will have to face the exact same limitations and challenges their predecessors had to face and unless they're brave enough to not care what certain people think, not much is likely to change except mostly new faces.

[@ralphw7454]

I like how this reporter wears either red or blue whenever she reports on certain topics. Her dresses are similar in style. 😂

[@lrlforfun]

When I heard Mayor-Elect Laurie speak I thought it was Donald Trump talking about solving a problem. These people need to be rounded up and get clean and sober. Then........ they can make decisions in their best interests. Your reporting? Crap to the max!

[@AliasHSW]

Create a program for them to do farm labor - work for housing and drug detox

[@GuruBhaktiram]

San Francisco is to far gone to save its just like Oakland now . Thousands of current videos

[@janviljoen-rm8zs]

locked fema camps for rehab . dealers need 50 years prison farm .

[@Sunshine-qk1cs]

Come on let's get real. When will they really look into the roots of the homeless problems here in SF. People who are desperate in need of help such a disable and the elderly. Why place a bandage in this problem it will never be fix. Look into your own departments and management update your old rules and regulations have every one work together like housing and all the management companies running the low income buildings. So we can help our senior and disable population here in San Francisco. If you need help with addiction then help them by taking them into a center for full treatment and job retraining help them with getting jobs and a place to live.

[@josemejia9349]

Jail. Camping in a restricted area.

[@mfowler9712]

He’s gonna give everyone a free pair of jeans 👖

[@BernardLimpet-qd8bk]

... hang on! America is about to have loads of housing 👍👍❤️🇺🇸

[@AnatolyNikolayenko]

Don't believe Breed anymore.

[@shesocute9613]

I thought that's what urban alchemy is supposed to do but its nice to see them being treated like humans

[@Michellehawse-s5y]

It will get worse

[@notchomomma239]

Now that Trump is back in power, it's all but guaranteed.

[@Jtan49]

New ideas new mayor some thing different needs to happen They have to find out where these people are from and do that airplane voucher to get them back with their families because there is not enough housing. /shelters or they don’t want to be in the shelters. they are being a huge burden to the taxpaying citizens that live in the neighborhood clearly bad luok for sf Everyone knows about the TL.

[@chefjameso]

unhoused guests !what a joke

[@shiuchu9636]

Look like they all found the easy money job😂

[@jsEMCsquared]

Stop playing tony Bennett songs!

[@MachoD-v8d]

Bus them to slab city southern ca old military base

[@CoolHand273]

I love how Gavin Gruesome flip flopped and pretended to be tough on quality of life issues to help his buddy Kamala. Too bad it didn't work. Stop enabling and start doing the hard work to force these people to accept help.

[@Jnthncrrll]

OH YOU SHUT UP, TRUMPSTER FREAK AND YOU MISSPELLED "NEWSOM"!!!!!

[@JsMsti]

😢❤

[@philipbanks2462]

I am watching this video from my safe home in Oakland with the heater on full blast. I realize my privilege and know I am in no position to think my opinion on homelessness has any merit whatsoever. Everyone speaking down on homeless folks wouldnt last a night outside in the TL.

[@leunam3434]

The new mayor will increase homelessness.

[@Jnthncrrll]

OH NO HE WILL NOT, TRUMP WILL!!!!!

[@SFelectrolysis]

7:32 😶‍🌫️ 👓

[@CarlWinds]

🛸

[@chuckxu5910]

President Trump will fix all this nonsense by moving all these bums to Fort Baker in Marine County

[@notchomomma239]

If you believe that, I got some land to sell ya. How do you feel about ocean front property in North Dakota for cheap?

[@HanaRoad2]

Chuck are you a provoker from China? Looks like you are Xu.

[@juanmartin1948]

Make San Francisco Great Again ! Declare it a free homeless city.