S.F. pays $61,000 a year for one tent in a site to shelter the homeless. Why?
San Francisco is paying $16.1 million to shelter homeless people in 262 tents placed in empty lots around the city where they also get services and food — a steep price tag that amounts to more than $61,000 per tent per year.
The city has created six tent sites, called “safe sleeping villages,” since the beginning of the pandemic to get vulnerable people off crowded sidewalks and into places where they have access to bathrooms, three meals and around-the-clock security. The annual cost of one spot in one site is 2½ times the median rent for a one-bedroom apartment in San Francisco.
Why? Because after 6 months it’s cheaper to roll up the tent and burn it than it would be to try to do the same with a one room apartment.
Easy! Because it is not their money they are using to virtue signal.
True Oz.
You can’t fix stupid.
It’s not stupid. It’s corruption. That kind of money is only being spent because it’s mostly going somewhere else other than buying tents.
Let’s see … a nice new tent is about $100/person. So there is $60,900.00/year to distribute among the Gender Studies graduates. Not counting the cost of their gender reassignment surgery.
Sadly … SalesForce is stuck. They were dumb-enough to build their own high rise office tower on the seedy streets and high taxes of SF. Now the sidewalks surrounding their $B building are covered in human feces and ‘free’ needles.
Someone has to pay for Senator Feinstein’s 41 million dollar summer digs .
Reality is a bunch of that money wends its way into the campaign coffers of the Democrats.
Why? How much are the directors of the state “helping the homeless” agencies paid? My guess would be they’re paid about $300,000 or $400,000, and when you’re an upper-level bureaucrat who thinks of that as a “normal” wage, what’s $60,000 per year? Nobody could possibly survive on a mere pittance like that!
Yeah, I found a page under “Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing” for San Francisco that listed their leadership and by copy/pasting those names into the Transparent California database of public employees’ salaries, they’re all making bank. Not as much as I thought – they’re only making like $285,000, $290,000 but still nice work if you can get it. Other than one Hispanic man, they’re all females, too, for some strange reason.
Who else hires Gender Studies graduates? Yep. Leftist government agencies. These gals were hired to do good deeds … and did very, very, well indeed! For themselves. Nobody else.
Notta, “they’re all females …”.
This is something I’ve become acutely aware of for quite some time. I often read a piece containing contemporary moonbattery and skim it again to count the female names; it is very often overwhelmingly female.
They CARE of course. Caring us into the ground.
Don’t try to figure it out. It’s simply corruption of the Democrat kind. A Democrat is being paid $61,000 to put up a $200 tent. This is the kind of stuff that gets Turdeau a $100 fine for ethics violation. They should sell Turdeau a season pass at $1000 because he is so corrupt.
Exactly. There is no way $61,000 went to buy one tent. And this is also why the homeless problem will never be solved. There’s too much money in homelessness for corrupt government bureaucrats.
It doesn’t actually say $61,000 was paid for a single tent.
That’s the total budget divided by the number of tents purchased.
The excess of the actual cash cost of a single tent is prolly pretty standard gubmint overhead. And no amount of published critical analysis seems to ever change anything.
That’s why people like the Shicklgruber brothers exist, to treble the price of any program. Do you think liberals really give a flying fart about inner city poverty, Indian Reserves, or the homeless? It’s all about opportunities for corruption. Trumps worst enemies were Republicans who feared the loss of corruption. They are hogs at the trough just like Democrats. Trump lost because Republican state administrations refused to investigate election fraud.
Liberals thrive on suffering people.
The homeless, Indian Reserves, inner city communities all suffer thanks to modern Liberal policy and they want more of it, not less.
Women voters and their males see that suffering and believe the government should do something, it’s great leverage to spend money for more Liberals.
Politicians, lawyers, bureaucrats, advertising, union workers all building empires.
Here in the BEAUTIFUL, CLEAN, BUCOLIC white (and Asian) suburbs of the SF Bay Area … my well-heeled $$$$$ neighbors all say … “Ohhhhhhhhhhh Mom’mmmmaaaaaaaaaa” about the homeless unfortunates. They signal their own virtue (white guilt) by voting YES on all taxes devised to “help the homeless”. They even send their own children to the homeless shelters to volunteer serving stew to the untouchables. Then drive home in the Porsche Panamera’s and Tesla S’s to their cozy suburbs.
Who don’t they give a shit about? Middle Class America. They mock and deride Middle Class Americans. Even more untouchable in their social circles.
my well-heeled $$$$$ neighbors
Kenji, hope you yourself are one of a 5-dollar-sign neighbours.
I was referring to their salaries … and no … you need to shave a few $ off to represent my salary
Awww, another Ellis Island. Perhaps it could be the capital of the border. If you give it away, they will come.
you can buy a well equipped container home for half of that….
but that might be a solution, which means insufficient opportunities for graft
I have seen SF called “Sodom on the Bay”.
A fitting name for that cesspit of hedonism, corruption and insanity.
I doubt any of the homeless in San Francisco are from San Francisco. Put them on a bus to Oakland.
Q: How do you solve homeliness and hunger?
A: Let the hungry eat the homeless.
The $61,000 did not just go to pay for a tent. It also pays for 3 hot meals a day, every day, Latrine Facilities, and some social services. Unfortunately, not enough will go to successful alcohol and drug treatment, or getting the mentally ill treatment. The same homeless people will be there next January, unless they get kicked out for misbehavior.
Even with that, I bet there is enormous padding and lots of profit margin, just like the lucrative contracts to the huge service corporations that provided combat support to our troops in Iraq, Afghanistan, and every other place we had more than a platoon of US Troops stationed during the Sort of War on Some Terrorists. I am also sure the civic minded, altruistic, saintly corporations providing services are finding ways to support the politicians that arranged their contracts, and will let next years contracts.
The homeless are a BIG BUSINESS, with Billions of Dollars spent on them every year. They provide a lot of jobs to a lot of people. Those people all have a vested interest in continuing their own personal employment, benefits, and power. Many, if not all of them would like the homeless “problem” to continue long past when they retire on their generous pensions.
If that means that mentally ill, drug and alcohol addicted persons rot in squalor year after year after year? Well it is just another way of making a living, and the politicians, the caring corporations and wonderful non-profits have people living very well.
Why? Because programs like this are how the Democrats keep their activists in jobs between elections. You know, same as the Clinton Foundation which got hundreds of millions from Putin, or the Beau Biden Foundation, which bought Hunter his laptop he used to keep track of his activities as bag man for Joe Biden, “The Big Guy.”
Tell you what. Just give ME the $60 grand a year and I’ll take care of my own accommodation.
Nice money if you can get it. But ypu’d have to be connected to some dementocrat politician’s = price too high.
They do say that the Democratic Party is a big tent movement.
So this seems to be their policy literally fulfilled.
In this regard, may I cite the Bonzo Dog Band: “I’d let to get you in a tent, you know it’s so convenient…”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TH9Nbr9jBmI