• ihaveibs [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    Unhoused folks desperately wish they could work. They loathe relying on social services for food and housing. Fuck you. They didn’t choose this. Burn in hell. qin-shi-huangdi-fireball

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    In my area it’s popular to quote the city’s (self-reported) figures on how many people refuse shelter as proof that homeless people just “don’t want help,” while remaining willfully ignorant that the “help” offered is usually a one-night stay on a cot in an overcrowded shelter that separates you from your belongings, pets, and family. It’s unreal that libs and chuds actually believe that the gov is handing out free housing

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      separates you from your belongings, pets, and family.

      And often the medication keeping you alive. A lot of “shelters” don’t allow “drug use” on the premises. People addicted to fentanyl for example need to frequently dose to keep from going into crippling withdrawal. If you can’t dose at the shelter then you simply can’t stay at that shelter because you’ll soon be too sick to even function.

      Most shelters don’t require sobriety anymore (though as I understand it, some do) and libs act as if that’s already too lenient. Well not having to be sober is not the same thing as being permitted to possess and use your medication while there, which can get you immediately kicked out. But even the no sobriety requirement thing is being challenged as they’re trying to pass laws that would deny anyone who isn’t sober from access to shelters, laws they of course frame as “supporting for sober housing.” The libs want to means test everyone, and one of the primary ways is to drug test people before providing any kind of “benefits” (read: basic humans needs).

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    I’m sure plenty of them will love help. There’s just one small problem, the only way to reliably do that is to make an effort to lower property values.

    California isn’t the hub for the tech industry, it’s the hub for the real estate industry. And business is good, too good.

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      Bold of Star Trek to assume SF liberals wouldn’t immediately form death squads to murder every homeless person they see

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        Lots of wine liberals and tech bazingas would get really excited about those death squads, especially if they looked like their respective treats (NAFO-esque black ops killers or CYBERPUNKERINO… black ops killers).

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          Well, they already have an annual commemoration event for the Hungarian Jew-murdering fascists, so it wouldn’t be their first rodeo!

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      When I lived near there, billionaire vampires had disruptively innovative ideas like making homeless people carry wifi equipment and become portable wifi nodes if they wanted a few pennies. lord-bezos-amused

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        Just taking this a bit futher, I assume this comes from the same logic that gave us the street corner sign spinner-- tying it to a moving human avoids rules about defiling property by mounting a fized oiece of hardware or a sign to it.

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    In 2023, 65% of people offered shelter by our workers rejected those offers. This year, that number has risen to 75%. Out of 617 engagements by our teams over the last two weeks, only 77 people accepted shelter. That means 88% of the people we encountered refused to accept a roof over their heads. This is unacceptable.

    Why? They can’t be refusing shelter for no reason.

    Since 2018, we’ve expanded shelter slots by over 60% and housing slots by more than 50%. We have more housing for the formerly homeless than any county in the Bay Area, including counties with larger homeless populations. Per capita, we have more homes for the formerly homeless than any city in the country, other than Washington, D.C. We’ve helped over 15,000 people exit homelessness since I took office. And another 10,000 have received rental assistance or other support to prevent them from falling into homelessness.

    Ok. But is that enough to do this sort of ultimatum successfully?

    And we need to build more housing. I’m not just talking about permanent supportive housing — we need more homes across our entire city so people don’t fall into homelessness. We cannot address homelessness without building homes — tens of thousands of them — to make this city more affordable and accessible. Until the Bay Area and California begin building much, much more housing, we will still struggle. (And the demise this week of the regional housing bond is a frustrating setback.)

    Oh ok so there isn’t enough homes to do this but we’re going to do it anyway.

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      But haven’t you realized that if we build more houses than the people with houses will be less well off? Not to mention the people with more than one house will be even less well off.

      Fuck this country.