San Fran Diseased Streets… Needles, Garbage, Feces… Like Worst Slums in World… LA homeless problem worsening

The NBC Bay Area Investigative Unit surveyed 153 blocks of downtown San Francisco in search of trash, needles, and feces. The investigation revealed trash littered across every block. The survey also found 41 blocks dotted with needles and 96 blocks sullied with piles of feces.

How dirty is San Francisco? An NBC Bay Area Investigation reveals a dangerous mix of drug needles, garbage, and feces throughout downtown San Francisco. The Investigative Unit surveyed 153 blocks of the city – the more than 20-mile stretch includes popular tourist spots like Union Square and major hotel chains. The area – bordered by Van Ness Avenue, Market Street, Post Street and Grant Avenue – is also home to City Hall, schools, playgrounds, and a police station.

www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Diseased-Streets-472430013.html

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Los Angeles County’s homeless population is increasing faster than the supply of new housing, even with the addition of thousands of beds in the last two years and millions of dollars beginning to flow in from two ballot measures targeting the crisis, according to a long-awaited report by the region’s homelessness agency.

The report showed that officials two years ago far underestimated how much new housing would be needed when they asked city and county voters to approve the tax measures.
As a result, a $73-million annual shortfall in funding for the county’s comprehensive homelessness program could more than triple, a Times analysis of the report found.

Providing permanent housing for the county’s chronically homeless population would require more than 20,000 new units, about 5,000 more than projected two years ago, the report said.

 

Policy implications of the report focused on where resources should be allocated to be “most effective at making homelessness rare, brief, and non-recurring.” The report emphasized that high rents and an overall shortage of affordable housing “underpin the analysis as a whole,” suggesting that the lack of housing options hinders the area’s ability to diminish the numbers of its homeless residents.

psmag.com/social-justice/los-angeles-homeless-population-continues-to-increase

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5 thoughts on “San Fran Diseased Streets… Needles, Garbage, Feces… Like Worst Slums in World… LA homeless problem worsening”

  1. What! You dare to criticize the Peoples Bolshevik Republic of California. Everything is perfect! PERFECT!!
    Kally 4 kneeuh had Arnold for Governor and is $1,3 trillion in debt*. It is a freak’in carnival show people. A joke on humanity.
    *https://californiapolicycenter.org/can-californias-economy-withstand-1-3-trillion-of-government-debt/

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