[MSFT_Edging]

Even if a percentage just burned through it on drugs, it definitely would be that easy for most of the situational homeless. It would also help to prevent others from falling down the addiction/mental health rabbit hole. Being homeless on the street is a highly stressful endeavor, that constant stress exacerbates the mental health issues, motivates drug use, etc.

Just handing over that money to people about to be homeless would do far more than paying administrators to badly run a shelter that homeless avoid because they get all their shit stolen regularly.

[candiodari]

The problem is what San Francisco already experiences: it will attract more homeless from elsewhere for 2 reasons, one bad, one horrible

1) homeless will want this, and move by themselves

2) other state and city governments will dump homeless on San Francisco as a cheap way to "solve" the problem in their city.