Given that his company just deliberately fought off an effort to raise revenue for homelessness in Seattle and that he likely gets a federal tax write-off for this, it’s also entirely fair that the public asks all of these questions around accountability, transparency.
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sure, no issue w/ that - but informed citizens can disagree on how best to deal w/ those issues & what gets allocated where. it's not clear current efforts work.
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They might not work bc they’re underfunded actually. SF has 1,100 shelter beds for 7,000 people. The shelter waitlist is 100 days long. Wages have stagnated since the 1970s while US residential real estate has appreciated by roughly 6%/year since 1980. https://www.frbsf.org/economic-research/files/wp2017-25.pdf …
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Replying to @kimmaicutler @semil and
Wage growth at 0 while housing at 6% YOY for 35 years = homelessness then escalating affordability crisis. It’s not conceptual rocket science. Very hard to execute against though since loss of housing also triggers all kinds of health issues.
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Replying to @kimmaicutler @semil and
This thread made me curious where the current money (at least 167M in 2014) is being spent by the city. Is there a good summary somewhere?
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Replying to @g33kbeast @semil and
It’s on their website. Half of the department’s budget goes toward 6,000 permanent supportive housing units which house people who would probably otherwise be homeless and would double our existing homeless population. $39M goes to shelters. http://hsh.sfgov.org/overview/budget/ …pic.twitter.com/gog0mMSWFF
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Replying to @kimmaicutler @g33kbeast and
If you think the main solution for homelessness in Seattle (or SF) is “more homes” you have not spent any time in the weeds of this issue.
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Replying to @MarinaNitze @g33kbeast and
tell me about the experience you have on homelessness and what evidence leads you to this conclusion.
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Replying to @kimmaicutler @g33kbeast and
Because as CTO of the VA for five years and a believer in user centered design I spent a lot of actual time with actual people experiencing homelessness and I can’t think of one whose root cause and solution was literal lack of a house. You?
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Replying to @MarinaNitze @g33kbeast and
I have also spent years interacting with both people experiencing homelessness and service providers who have worked on this issue for 30+ years and veteran homelessness is one subset of the larger homelessness issue. In SF, we have many sub-populations from youth to families to
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LGBT kids fleeing families or communities who don’t tolerate them, etc etc. and consistently the thing that people ask for is housing. Feel free to ask anyone who has worked on this issue for decades.... @JeffKositsky @NutCheese @DonaldFalk
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@jenloving23...) in many cases, it’s much easier for people to address other issues (around mental health, jobs, etc.) once they are stabilized in housing.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @kimmaicutler @MarinaNitze and
After 20+ years of working in homelessness I can say almost every person who has come to us (tens of thousands) has primarily needed a home. Other big issues exist of course, but issues are largely treatable and needing a home is always primary (& most systemically elusive).
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