Legal Insurrection:
I noted last week that California Governor Gavin Newsom recently said the state was the “envy of the world.”
A longtime United Nations envoy would disagree. She recently visited the Bay Area and was astonished by what she saw.
When Leilani Farha paid a visit to San Francisco in January, she knew the grim reputation of the city’s homeless encampments. In her four years as the United Nations Special Rapporteur for Adequate Housing, Farha has visited the slums of Mumbai, Delhi, Mexico City, Jarkarta, and Manila. The crisis in San Francisco, she said, is comparable to these conditions.
. . . . At one point on her trip, Farha encountered a young man living underneath a highway underpass, cooking quesadillas on a small stove with an open flame.
“The last time I had seen someone cooking on the sidewalk like that was in India, with the pavement dwellers there, and here I am in San Francisco in a state with the sixth largest GDP in the world,” said Farha.
She asked the man about how he came to be homeless, and found that he had traveled from the Midwest after his mother died and his family broke down.
“I think he was in the midst of developing a psychosocial disability from the trauma of being on the streets,” she said.
The situation is about to get rapidly worse. A new study shows that there has been a 17% increase in homelessness in the city over the last two years.
The San Francisco report, released by the city’s Department of Homelessness & Supportive Housing, paints a picture of a city in crisis despite hundreds of millions of dollars spent every year to tackle the problem. Nearly 1,200 people were on the waiting list for shelter beds the week of the January count.
…Indian slums if all the Indian men ass-rammed each other, she means…
Elizabeth Warren to weigh in on this in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1…
“Let’s make it easier to survive without a home”
“Why are all of these homeless people here?”
I live in the Denver area, and fortunately, we had a person who was homeless who saw what was going on and developed a program to help get homeless people off the street. His name was Bob Cote. His primary rules for using his program: You must be drug free and sober, and you must be willing to work.
He doesn’t take government money, so he can run it the way he saw was needed, having been there himself.
This is the one time I will actually provide a link to something, because I believe in his program: https://stepdenver.org/
His philosophy: a hand up, not a hand out.
Unfortunately, the state, and the city of Denver do not ascribe to his ideals, and we are quickly moving in the direction of the left coast.
…that’s odd, because it reminds anyone who ever read Genesis of Sodom instead…
….Speaking of Indian slums, How’s Kamala?…
The Democraps wanted America to become like all the other 3rd world shitholes and they have succeeded beyond their wildest multi-cultural dreams! We’re number# BOTTOM!
When the UN feels sorry for you-you are in a world of hurt!
Hey, we may be turning into a third world shit hole but we are #1 in womens soccer! Take that world, our queers are better than your queers!
My mom lived near the San Fran bay area in the early 1980s before she was married, would rollerblade down by the beach, have luncheon with her grandmother…
She still doesn’t want to believe me when I tell her what has happened to it. She even told me that she wants to visit there and I keep arguing with her, telling her it isn’t safe.
It’s a really terrible thing that the left has done if you think about it that way. A beloved, beautiful costal city turned into a 3rd world shit hole.
If you want to see the Democrat’s “Vision for America” look at San Francisco.
No shit! I mean lotsa shit!
Anyone with a brain not addled by mental illness (this includes democrats), drugs or aggressive laziness (see
prior reference to democrats) knows that you don’t go
to one of the most expensive places in the world to live
unless you have lots of money or have the skills to
make said amounts.
The draw for most of these bums is easy living,
easy drugs, and “jails made out of tin”.
They found “The Big Rock Candy Mountain”.
You mean like this?
https://youtu.be/UZ_8fsG8Q1A
watch the whole scene
Roger F: they must be drug free and sober, and willing to work? What right does he have to expect such things?
That sounds like a wonderful program, one that I am sure many people would love to be a part of. The problem is that places that expect nothing in return (so to speak) tend not to have the problems that San Francisco and Los Angeles have. The “Come on down, we’ll give you what you want and we don’t expect anything from you” areas are the ones that have people flocking to it. It is the same phenomenon as with the border, “Do it legally and wait years and spend a ton of money or just walk in and we will give you free housing, medical care, education, and the right to vote” and guess which way many people choose.
“Dirty Harry” would get his nickname today, simply by standing still in the city for 5 minutes… 😳
Very observant UN wyman.
@John nails it.
Take away the freebies and the bums will leave on their own. With housing costing about $750-$1000 per square foot, those who can’t afford it should be encouraged to move elsewhere. The money for shelters should be used for bus tickets.
@Jethro ~ that shit ain’t right
@Mortgages ~ ‘… bus tickets’ … to the Solyent Green factory