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London Breed: No more excuses, no more apologies. SF won’t tolerate encampments any longer (sfstandard.com)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/bayarea

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Defending her “aggressive” crackdown on encampments, the mayor argues that homeless people have only one choice left: accept help or get out.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Breed claims this is about people who refuse to accept help. But is this true?

Yes. For example, I worked at a housing site that SF acquired during COVID for the purpose of getting people off the streets so that they could "shelter at home". This was actual housing, too, not merely a shelter bed.

The refusal rate was over 70%, most of which were no-shows. So they added incentives like free Uber rides to the building, Safeway gift cards just for showing up, etc. Still, the overwhelming majority of people who were referred to us by the city never showed up.