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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.

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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.

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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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MSPaint BagHead

Hey, Jesse, what street amenities, public services, and laissez fairs attitude are you referring to?

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Free camping and needles. Zero zoning & drug enforcement.

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MSPaint BagHead

Is the camping free before or after everything you own is destroyed and/or stolen by the city sweeps?

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It's free before and after. Sweeps are rare and easily avoided. The sidewalks are not zoned for residential. They're paid for by the people living in properly zoned units, paying $3000/mo for a studio apartment. Those people deserve to have their sidewalks, and zoning enforced.

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MSPaint BagHead

...you don’t talk to a lot of homeless people in the city, do you?

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Constantly. Why do you ask?

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MSPaint BagHead

I just get the strange feeling that you’re lieing through your teeth, as if lieing and having no regard for the struggles of the unhoused community are like breathing for you.

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I care a lot about it, which is why I'm so engaged with the topic. Our current policies are making the problem worse. We're wasting money and failing to actually care for the nation's homeless on a city's budget, in the most expensive city in the nation. We need serious reform.

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Hey, you’re making it obvious that you don’t know shit about homelessness, which is a good thing - for you, and you alone. Hurray, you’ve lived in a bubble of privilege. But please consider that homeless policies should be designed by people with actual lived experience of it..👍

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So, you "care a lot" and are "so engaged" so that you are repeating unscientific anti-homeless magnet theory tropes that are widely used to smash empathy for unhoused persons. Because you care, so much, and are very, very, "engaged".

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