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We get contacted everyday by ppl wanting us to immediately get rid of encampments. People don’t disappear. They have to be somewhere. If not inside, they’ll be on your block or the next. I’m fighting for folks to be INSIDE. Join us: we need rooms, shelter, Mental Health SF.

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Jesse Powell

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People don’t just appear either. They’re drawn like a magnet, from all over the nation, to the failed policies and enabling system offered by SF. Somewhere doesn’t have to be SF. You have a duty to uphold zoning laws, at a minimum. Sidewalks aren’t for housing.

1:14 AM · Aug 9, 2020Twitter for iPhone

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This is categorically false. Folks end up without shelter here because at some point they stopped being able to afford rent. No one moves to the city with the highest rent in the world to get better street sleeping.

Jesse Powell

@jespow

Aug 9, 2020

Rent is irrelevant when you're shopping for tent space. SF has a lot to offer if you are committed to street sleeping. Plenty of people actually do move to SF for all of its street amenities, the laissez faire attitude, lack of drug enforcement, good weather, public services.

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· Aug 9, 2020

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this myth has been perpetuated in SF for over 100 years, but the “most generous social services” myth is a new spin and a lie why would a Section 8 eligible unhoused person move to a City without new Section 8 housing vouchers? they could pay 30% income elsewhere & be housed