San Franciscans raise $46k to stop homeless shelter in wealthy area - Sensationalist Headlines

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/mar/28/san-francisco-gofundme-homeless-shelter-embarcadero Yes, you read that title is correct.

"The new facility, known as a Navigation Center, would allow guests to bring in partners and pets, and would work to connect them to city resources and services with the end goal of permanent housing. Prioritizing people living on the streets nearby, the site would also “employ robust good neighbor policies and 24-hour security”. “We really are talking about a life and death issue,” said Cutler, adding that 240 people homeless people died in the city last year. “The issue is impacting the community as a whole,” she said. “We all need to step up – that way it can be safer for everyone.”" The money raised will be paid to a local real estate attorney named Andrew Zacks, who advocates on behalf of the rights of property owners and last made the news in 2017, when he defended a San Francisco property owner who tripled the rent on his tenants, from $1,900 to $6,700. The 2.3-acre vacant lot just beneath the Bay Bridge, on San Francisco’s eastern shore, seemed the perfect spot for a new temporary shelter, which would add 200 beds. But, situated close to tourist attractions, seaside bike lanes, and – most notably – neighborhoods filled with million-dollar homes and condos, the site was primed for local pushback. Sickening.

Oh no, those poor wealthy assholes having to deal with those icky homeless people.

America really is amazing We'd spend billions if it meant we didn't have to spend millions to solve the problem of not having a safety net

The good news is the rival one has 72k already, which is fantastic. Eat shit you selfish cunts.

San Francisco is essentially digging itself a hole that's bound to fuck it over in the future, I heard on the radio the other day that a large majority of restaurant labor throughout the city is drying up because they literally can not afford to live anywhere in the city and the 8 hour drive both ways each day from nearby cheaper cities is feasible. I have a feeling that this is a pattern that's going to begin appearing in all lower-class jobs in the city and combine with stuff like this until the entire city becomes an ultra-rich elitist haven collapsing under its own weight surrounded by incredible levels of destitution.

This is slowly happening in London too.

What the fuck, seriously? That's up to ~260 miles away assuming it's by freeway. (~416 km for you metric weirdos.) That'd be equivalent to me going to visit my sister every other day when she lives in northern Idaho and I live in northwest Oregon, a trip that would require cutting through another state.

I'm honestly exhausted as hell and may have fucked up, I meant like 4 hours there and 4 hours back each day. Here's an NPR article about it: http://www.google.com/

https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/113321/fd3344ee-80d1-42f5-a851-b7a48b8d24a3/image.png when you shut down the homeless shelter and complain there's too many homeless in your area

That money could've gone to the shelter and they probably could've relocated it with that lol

Oh yeah, I probably should've been a bit clearer on the "~260 miles" bit. Though now that I think of it that number's off anyways. I did that as four hours at 65mph but the speed limit on the freeway in California is 70mph, not 65mph like it is in Oregon, so it'd actually be ~280 miles (~448km) instead.

Practical solutions are simply too grand for these assholes to think of

We spend plenty of money on the homeless problem, but instead of, you know, solving the problem, their solution is to just move it somewhere else. Just look how cities nationwide spent tons of money and resources buying the homeless one-way bus tickets to elsewhere in the US. It doesn't make the homeless not homeless, it just makes them homeless somewhere else. Or look at all the anti-homeless measures cities take to prevent them from sleeping on a park bench or finding a safe place to set up shelter.

So they'd rather see these people sleep on the street than in a shelter? I read the article, excuse me if I missed something, but I would think this would be a positive change for both parties. I've been to places like L.A. and Chicago multiple times, and I'd much rather see a shelter than people huddled on the street, and you see that sort of thing way to often in these bigger cities. I don't think I'll ever understand rich people and their backwards logic when it comes to subjects like this.

"I hate seeing homeless people so I'm gonna make sure I keep seeing them by making sure they have 0 support or a place to stay' absolute retards

I think they're hoping they just die.

San Francisco at night feels like how Cyberpunk 2077 looks

What's interesting is that Safe Embarcadero (the shitty one) has $72,905 from 195 people, while SAFER Embarcadero (the decent one) has $92,409 from 1190 people. A handful of rich shits vs a crowd of decency. I think this highlights a couple of things: there are more good people than bad, and the wealthy have a lot more clout.

San Francisco just feels like such a hypocritical city.

(Human) Wasteland

Once again. Rich people being the worst. Nothing surprising here. Revolution when?

Isn't this like, the exact reason for the collapse of Rapture in Bioshock? Everyone was too up themselves to do the jobs seen as "lowly" and the entire place ground to a halt?

Oh wow I wrote a rant about this exact thing happening in my city just the other day. Low paid labor literally is being driven out of the area due to rising rent, resturaints and retail stores are suffering staffing shortages everywhere due to it. This housing issue is not sustainable, not if the greedy want their $5 frappes on their way to work.

Like anyone in the United States ever gets to travel at the speed limit during rush hour traffic. It takes over an hour to do 23 miles into Nashville every morning and afternoon getting out

i hope they do collapse

These sad saps. They come to Rapture San Francisco thinking they're gonna be captains of industry, but they all forget that somebody's gotta scrub the toilets. What an angle they gave me... I hand these mugs a cot and a bowl of soup, and they give me their lives. Who needs an army when I got Fontaine's Home for the Poor Safer Embarcadero for All?

i'd be halfway to berlin if i drove the same distance, what the fuck