City officials are finally admitting what others have been saying for years: San Francisco is attracting huge numbers of homeless people from all over. Thousands of transient people, arriving from other counties, states and even countries, are overwhelming the city’s homeless system…
…By any measure, say Kayhan and Rhorer, the $190 million San Francisco spends annually helping the homeless is the highest per capita outlay of any U.S. city…
…For someone like Rhorer, already facing cuts of 35 percent in his budget, it makes sense to focus on the city whose taxpayers are paying the way.
“San Francisco has made great progress in this issue,” Rhorer said. “But at the same time, we feel like we are also addressing the state’s homeless problem and even the nation’s homeless problem.”
In other words, it is a good thing to actively work to solve your own problems. It is another to get stuck with everyone else’s.
S.F. blames out-of-towners for endless homeless problem [C.W. Nevius, SFGate]
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