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by yarou 3543 days ago
You do realize that this isn't a problem that can be solved with more money, right?

The City of SF's budget was 8.9 billion dollars FY 2015-2016[0], roughly 1.2 of which was earmarked on "human welfare and neighborhood development".

This isn't a "throw more money/resources at it and it will be fixed" type of problem.

It's a problem that needs to be restated in different terms, which requires a paradigm shift in how we view the homeless, mental illness, and addiction in the United States.

[0]http://sfmayor.org/ftp/uploadedfiles/mayor/budget/SF_Budget_...