Epoch Times - Is SF Worst Off Today Comparing To 30 Year Ago? #californiainsider
Aired: 2023-11-24
Duration: 00:57

[00:00:00]  Well, as a native San Franciscan and someone who's lived there all his life, I can tell you that in the last 25 years, it's been a steady decline.
[00:00:07]  The homeless problem, it's everywhere in the city.
[00:00:10]  But what has taken over the homeless encampments is the drug addiction.
[00:00:14]  Open on the streets, they're shooting up.
[00:00:16]  Drug exchanges, sales, use...
[00:00:19]  Within the shadow of those buildings, the FBI sits up on a floor at the federal building on Golden Gate Avenue in their offices.
[00:00:26]  They're 100 feet from the actual sales of the drugs that are going on on Larkin Street.
[00:00:31]  And there's no end in sight.
[00:00:33]  And there's no cures.
[00:00:34]  The city of San Francisco, in the budget, is $648 million for homelessness programs.
[00:00:40]  There's another $300 million in that budget to accommodate the homeless problem.
[00:00:44]  That's almost a billion dollars of taxpayer money.
[00:00:48]  We've been here for 30 years watching this.
[00:00:50]  It's progressively worse.
[00:00:51]  And the money is spent.
[00:00:52]  Where's the results?
[00:00:53]  It's worse today than it was 30 years ago.
[00:00:56]  And you keep spending and spending and spending.