The average cost for each home increased 12% to $596,846 in 2021 from the previous year, with one of the latest projects estimated to be built at almost $837,000 per unit, he added.
“ The city’s dedicated homelessness department, created in 2016, has an annual budget of $598 million — a sum that has more than tripled in its short existence.”
Just throw more money at it despite the lack of results. Does the government do anything well?
“ The state poured billions of dollars into alleviating homelessness, creating thousands of new shelter beds and housing units. But the housing affordability crisis — to which most experts attribute homelessness — only worsened as millions lost their jobs and rents skyrocketed. Shelters also reduced bed capacity and federal officials urged local law enforcement not to disband camps like the one in Sacramento to guard against the coronavirus, making tent cities more visible than ever.”
Rents DECREASED during covid.
“We have appropriated billions and billions of dollars to this issue. And it’s not clear where we’ve made progress.”
PHIL TING, CHAIRPERSON OF THE ASSEMBLY BUDGET COMMITTEE
Exactly. Yet, they try to convince people that spending more money will fix the issue. There’s never an end to the asking for more money. At some point, people have to realize their agenda isn’t fixing the issue.
Some people are making a lot of money of this.
I think this would be good as long as it’s not abused. That’s always been the risk.
By the time Newsom’s pie in the sky plan even starts, we’ll also be able to take a bullet train from SF to LA taking 1 hour’s time.
This is a bait proposal, nothing less. Too many intere$ted group$ tied to the money being to$$ed around $upposedly to “help” the unhou$ed, then there are the attorney’$ and other$ who$e hands are deeply in the $tates pocket$ and won’t give up the ca$h grab without a fight.
Homeless get creative.
At least they are waking up and realizing their polices only made the issue worse.
“But given the difficulty or, in many cases, unwillingness to build new housing in California cities or even to acquire existing housing for the homeless at a rate that keeps up with the problem, the “bridge” is likely to go nowhere.”
I wonder what rate it would take to keep up with the problem.
“Mandelman’s 2,000 beds, of course, do not cover the 5,000 unsheltered San Franciscans, but he believes that a large portion of this population does not want to live in a temporary shelter.”
So how do they plan to solve the issue for the other 3,000?
“On March 14, the San Francisco Labor Council tweeted that the city and county had over 3,800 unfilled job positions.”
That is a crazy high number.