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Government Corruption
San Francisco Weighs Continuing Homeless Encampment Program That Costs $60k Per Tent Each Year
2021-06-28
[Daily Wire] Elected officials in San Francisco will soon decide whether the city should keep spending millions on "safe sleeping villages" for homeless people as its COVID-19 emergency response winds down.

According to the San Francisco Chronicle, the city's homelessness department "is pushing to continue an expensive tent encampment program that it says is crucial for keeping people off the sidewalks, despite its high price tag of more than $60,000 per tent, per year." The outlet reported that "the program currently costs $18.2 million for about 260 tents," and "the department is now asking for $15 million in the upcoming fiscal year for a similar number of tents, which amounts to about $57,000 per tent per year."

Some of the sites are operated by nonprofits, while the tent program is entirely financed through a business tax measure overwhelmingly passed by voters in 2018.

"If the funding is approved, San Francisco will pay about twice the median cost of a one-bedroom apartment for people to sleep in tents for the second year in a row," the Chronicle reported.
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Posted by:Snomomble Spump9269

#3  Parking lots are essentially renting parking spaces for 160 dollars a day.... who doesn't like that idea, the kickbacks and guaranteed income make for some amazing graft, and it looks like the city is doing something when in fact they do nothing but use taxpayer money to pay off friends and maintain the status quo.
Posted by: NoMoreBS   2021-06-28 13:59  

#2  Socialist bureaucrats need care and feeding too.
Posted by: Hupolutle Chosh1350   2021-06-28 07:34  

#1  $60,000 per tent, per year.

You could buy a mobile home with that. It's San Fran with racist white oppressor zoning laws. Can't do that.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2021-06-28 07:22  

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