San Francisco spends in excess of $34,000 per homeless per year already, with nothing to show for it except needles on streets.
Where's the money going? Who knows, probably a mix of graft and incompetence.
Where's the money going? Who knows, probably a mix of graft and incompetence.
I'm a bit skeptical it is graft but imagine it is just the long tax inside a big bureaucracy that siphons a penny here and a penny there, all in service of codes and permits, and there you go, that's hundreds of thousands of dollars gone before it reaches the streets.
Imagine if those tax dollars were just handed back to people as cash. Starting to sound like basic income.
We used to forcibly put them in psychiatric wards, and many responded well to antipsychotics, etc.
That was deemed inhumane, so now we make them sleep on the streets, where they get assaulted, robbed and worse.
There are many types of mental illness, but most don't (usually) lead to living on the streets in the long term.
Yes they may act in a way that you percieve them as being on drugs but often they are mentally ill.