Today is a sad day. Federal homeless counts, done once every other year, all across the Bay Area have reached staggering highs.
At more than 8,000 people, San Francisco now has the highest numbers since the Willie Brown-era, or right around when @gavinnewsom took office.https://twitter.com/hknightsf/status/1129155331689332736 …
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Kim-Mai Cutler Retweeted Darwin BondGraham
Alameda County, up 43 percent.https://twitter.com/darwinbondgraha/status/1129146080308809729?s=21 …
Kim-Mai Cutler added,
Darwin BondGraham @DarwinBondGrahaAlameda County's latest homeless persons population count is out. It shows a 43% increase in homeless residents from 2017 to 2018, from 5,269 to 8,022. The crisis is worsening. http://everyonehome.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/FAQ-2019-EveryOne-Counts-County-Numbers-Release.pdf …3 replies 14 retweets 36 likesShow this thread -
Replying to @kimmaicutler
Alameda staff getting right to the point:pic.twitter.com/yGCslryQ7S
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Replying to @bedwardstiek
Alameda County’s approach feels highly disorganized with various cities passing the buck to each other.
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Replying to @kimmaicutler
It's fragmented in the way a unified city/county like SF doesn't have to contend with, but the big difference seems to be that Alameda, with 2x San Francisco's population, has 1/6 the budget for dealing with homelessness.
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Replying to @bedwardstiek @kimmaicutler
Ironically, the reason San Francisco has so much $ to spend on homelessness is because of the taxes it's collecting from tech companies whose office expansions are driving the housing crisis across the bay.
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Replying to @bedwardstiek
And which the city is complicit in enabling lots of office but not housing development.
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And which the neighborhood groups, who demand 100% affordable or nothing, effectively push middle class housing demand farther and farther out into the rest of the Bay, affecting other communities of color.
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Replying to @kimmaicutler @bedwardstiek
And then the city’s public sector unions ironically need tech so that pension contributions don’t eat up 20% of the city’s general fund every year like they do in San Jose and Oakland, blah blah blah.
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