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Poop. Needles. Rats. Homeless camp pushes SF neighborhood to the edge

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Chronicle receives a deluge of email every day, but one message sent to the news desk on a Saturday evening in April was particularly memorable. “There is a suitcase full of human s— on the corner of Isis and 13th,” the email read. “Last night, I had to threaten violence to a man smoking crystal meth on my front porch. This morning, my 2-year-old son and I watched a rat rummage through the trash in our gutter.

This problem has been increasing in severity for years now with no end in sight. It's an embarrassment that a once great American city is now worse than many third world slums. The far left democrats who control the city (and state) offer no viable solutions. The new governor will not penalize people who defecate on the streets and side walks or openly abuse intravenous drugs. NGOs continue to incentivize the homeless to set up camp, and now the city wants to build government funded centers for addicts to use their drugs. Insanity.

What are some of the root problems of this epidemic?

What are the solutions?
 
Chronicle receives a deluge of email every day, but one message sent to the news desk on a Saturday evening in April was particularly memorable. “There is a suitcase full of human s— on the corner of Isis and 13th,” the email read. “Last night, I had to threaten violence to a man smoking crystal meth on my front porch. This morning, my 2-year-old son and I watched a rat rummage through the trash in our gutter.

This problem has been increasing in severity for years now with no end in sight. It's an embarrassment that a once great American city is now worse than many third world slums. The far left democrats who control the city (and state) offer no viable solutions. The new governor will not penalize people who defecate on the streets and side walks or openly abuse intravenous drugs. NGOs continue to incentivize the homeless to set up camp, and now the city wants to build government funded centers for addicts to use their drugs. Insanity.

What are some of the root problems of this epidemic?

What are the solutions?

I was reading that San Francisco lost a huge convention that has been coming for many years.....the attendees no longer feel safe even downtown.

My daughter was just there, she has decided that Seattle is running two years behind San Francisco in breaking down, she has decided to move out of Capital Hill ASAP, to live outside the city and commute in.

I reminded her that when societies collapse there are no safe harbors.
 
This is your city.
This is your city on Liberalism....any questions?
 
For years, I had a liberal view on legalizing drugs. Recently, my perception has changed. While there is no sense in putting non violent drug users in prison, there needs to be consequences for their actions. Community service, for example, would also help to clean up the streets these degenerates have covered with filth.



Disgusting. Three minutes into the video, a woman squats in front of the reporter and urinates on the street. Even people in third world countries have the decency to not crap and pee in the middle of the street in front of strangers.
 
Chronicle receives a deluge of email every day, but one message sent to the news desk on a Saturday evening in April was particularly memorable. “There is a suitcase full of human s— on the corner of Isis and 13th,” the email read. “Last night, I had to threaten violence to a man smoking crystal meth on my front porch. This morning, my 2-year-old son and I watched a rat rummage through the trash in our gutter.

This problem has been increasing in severity for years now with no end in sight. It's an embarrassment that a once great American city is now worse than many third world slums. The far left democrats who control the city (and state) offer no viable solutions. The new governor will not penalize people who defecate on the streets and side walks or openly abuse intravenous drugs. NGOs continue to incentivize the homeless to set up camp, and now the city wants to build government funded centers for addicts to use their drugs. Insanity.

What are some of the root problems of this epidemic?

What are the solutions?

What are the solutions? Turn blue states red.

There is something about democrat governance that turns things to ****. They don’t do it on purpose, they just make the wrong choices
 
Wow. Sounds terrible.

People must me moving out in droves, and the horrible condition of the city must mean that land values and home prices must be hitting rock bottom.

Boy- a whole lotta people must really be snapping up cheap homes there now.
 
Wow. Sounds terrible.

People must me moving out in droves, and the horrible condition of the city must mean that land values and home prices must be hitting rock bottom.

Boy- a whole lotta people must really be snapping up cheap homes there now.

Housing, it seems, is a big part of the problem. Please see the link in #5.

". . . High housing prices hurt most young, middle-class and aspiring, often minority, working-class families. California’s prices are particularly bloated, over 161 percent higher, in comparison with national averages, in the lower-end “starter home” category. In Los Angeles and the Bay Area, a monthly mortgage takes, on average, close to 40 percent of income, compared to 15 percent nationally
Over time these factors — along with prospects of reduced immigration — will impact severely the state’s future. California is already seeing its population aged 6 to 17 decline. This reflects a continued drop in fertility in comparison to less regulated, and less costly, states such as Utah, Texas and Tennessee. These areas are generally those experiencing the biggest surge in millennial populations.
Today even some of the state’s determined progressives understand that taking the “California model” national seems implausible when significant numbers of Californians are headed in large numbers to red Texas or purple Las Vegas. Californians are not fooled; a recent USC Downside/Los Angeles Times poll found that 17 percent believe the state’s current generation is doing better than previous ones. More than 50 percent thought younger Californians were doing worse. . . . "
 
Wow. Sounds terrible.

People must me moving out in droves, and the horrible condition of the city must mean that land values and home prices must be hitting rock bottom.

Boy- a whole lotta people must really be snapping up cheap homes there now.

Housing prices up = Nothing to see here. No poop. No needles. No homeless...
 
How is California dealing with their homeless population, they are giving them one-way bus tickets to Portland, Oregon, let Oregon deal with the problem.
 
Chronicle receives a deluge of email every day, but one message sent to the news desk on a Saturday evening in April was particularly memorable. “There is a suitcase full of human s— on the corner of Isis and 13th,” the email read. “Last night, I had to threaten violence to a man smoking crystal meth on my front porch. This morning, my 2-year-old son and I watched a rat rummage through the trash in our gutter.

This problem has been increasing in severity for years now with no end in sight. It's an embarrassment that a once great American city is now worse than many third world slums. The far left democrats who control the city (and state) offer no viable solutions. The new governor will not penalize people who defecate on the streets and side walks or openly abuse intravenous drugs. NGOs continue to incentivize the homeless to set up camp, and now the city wants to build government funded centers for addicts to use their drugs. Insanity.

What are some of the root problems of this epidemic?

What are the solutions?

Sadly that’s the basic scenario and future of cities infested with Liberals at the helm.
 
Sadly that’s the basic scenario and future of cities infested with Liberals at the helm.

You realize that SF is, in many ways, a Conservatives dreamland, right?

Lots of really wealthy people, great high paying jobs, and housing prices pushing out the low income non-productive types, who won’t get enough subsidies to live there (because it’s too expensive! Those rich folks already pay a lot in taxes!), and ever more disparity between rich and poor...you know, the producers vs the moochers.
 
Well... no.

Just poking a whole in the ‘oh my god it’s so terrible no one wants to live there’ theme.

Have you ever lived/worked in the Bay Area?

I did for 8 years. From where I worked I had one of the best views of San Francisco. It shone in the middle of the day (once the ever present fog lifted) and looked almost magical... From a couple of miles away.

But up close and personal it was rat nasty not only downtown but some of the residential areas.

And that was thirty years ago.

All reports said it has gotten a lot worse over the past few years.
 
Chronicle receives a deluge of email every day, but one message sent to the news desk on a Saturday evening in April was particularly memorable. “There is a suitcase full of human s— on the corner of Isis and 13th,” the email read. “Last night, I had to threaten violence to a man smoking crystal meth on my front porch. This morning, my 2-year-old son and I watched a rat rummage through the trash in our gutter.

This problem has been increasing in severity for years now with no end in sight. It's an embarrassment that a once great American city is now worse than many third world slums. The far left democrats who control the city (and state) offer no viable solutions. The new governor will not penalize people who defecate on the streets and side walks or openly abuse intravenous drugs. NGOs continue to incentivize the homeless to set up camp, and now the city wants to build government funded centers for addicts to use their drugs. Insanity.

What are some of the root problems of this epidemic?

What are the solutions?

Isn't that Nancy Pelosi's district?
 
For years, I had a liberal view on legalizing drugs. Recently, my perception has changed. While there is no sense in putting non violent drug users in prison, there needs to be consequences for their actions. Community service, for example, would also help to clean up the streets these degenerates have covered with filth.



Disgusting. Three minutes into the video, a woman squats in front of the reporter and urinates on the street. Even people in third world countries have the decency to not crap and pee in the middle of the street in front of strangers.


“Unacceptable!” The politician says.

What is she doing about it? Not a god damn thing. They will be able to jaw this along until the next election where they run against Trump”.

San Francisco motto: “No French bread for me! We love our ****!”
 
Have you ever lived/worked in the Bay Area?

I did for 8 years. From where I worked I had one of the best views of San Francisco. It shone in the middle of the day (once the ever present fog lifted) and looked almost magical... From a couple of miles away.

But up close and personal it was rat nasty not only downtown but some of the residential areas.

And that was thirty years ago.

All reports said it has gotten a lot worse over the past few years.

Yes. Clearly everyone wants to leave there. It’s just so hard because you get so much housing for your money there.
 
[h=3]California exodus gathers strength, as home prices continue upward ...[/h]https://www.marketwatch.com › Economy & Politics
Jun 1, 2018 - The median sale price for a home in California is more than double that of the rest of the country. ... Housing costs are much higher in California than in other states, yet wages for workers in the lower income brackets aren’t. ... As the housing market imploded and prices came back to ...
 
[h=3]800,000 people are about to flee New York, California because of taxes[/h]https://www.cnbc.com/.../800000-people-are-about-to-flee-new-york-california-becau...



Apr 26, 2018 - Conservative economists Arthur Laffer and Stephen Moore are predicting a new massexodus of wealth from New York and California because ...

Stephen Moore predicts it?

Put money on the opposite happening.

Looking for the Shovel: Why Stephen Moore of Heritage Makes Me Write for ?Bull Market?


Literally, the worst hack in existence, and given the hacks you regularly cite, that’s really saying something!
 
This is your city.
This is your city on Liberalism....any questions?

Investing $30M/year (of other people's money) to clean up after demorat voters is a small price to pay for political power.
 
Stephen Moore predicts it?

Put money on the opposite happening.

Looking for the Shovel: Why Stephen Moore of Heritage Makes Me Write for ?Bull Market?


Literally, the worst hack in existence, and given the hacks you regularly cite, that’s really saying something!

In 2017 we moved to a community that is a well known retirement/relocation destination. Several of our new friends are from New York and Connecticut. They describe themselves as "tax refugees." We, from northern Virginia, describe ourselves as "traffic refugees."
 
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