Thread by @Twolfrecovery

This is the most important piece of writing I've seen on why we have a drug and homeless crisis in this city. The jig is up. Let's unpack. 🧵 #SanFrancisco michaelshellenberger.substack.com/p/san-francisc…

@ShellenbergerMD was contacted by a former "homeless expert" in SF. That person literally confirms everything Shellenberger and I have been saying about "open drug scenes" and more importantly, who is actually controlling policy around the "homeless crisis" in SF.

“To pretend that this city could build enough permanent supportive housing for every homeless person who needs it is ludicrous,” the person said. “I wish it weren’t."

"San Francisco has more permanent supportive housing units per capita than any other city, and we doubled spending on homelessness, but the homeless population rose 13%, even as it went down in the US."

The above quotes are absolutely devastating. And absolutely true. We are seeing the effects play out daily. People on the street have to wait sometimes years. On the street. For housing that may or may not come. How's that compassion?

“People come here because they think they can. It’s bullshit that ‘Only 30 percent [of homeless] are from out of town.’ At least 20,000 homeless people come through town every year. Talk to the people on the street. There’s no way 70 percent of the homeless are from here."

In the 6 months I lived on the street in 2018, I met people from Chicago, Pittsburgh, Las Vegas, Portland, Atlanta, New York and Kansas City. All of them migrated here while homeless. And they all came for the drugs, weather, lax law enforcement and welfare benefits. #Facts

"Life in the open drug scenes is brutal, this person confirmed. Most homeless encampments are not communities but have paper-thin relationships based on their disease."

I can confirm from personal experience that we were only as tight as the drugs were plentiful. #SanFrancisco

"Portugal didn’t make it so you can do whatever you want. The consequences of your action are treatment driven, but there are consequences. Here there are no consequences. And so we make it worse.”

For everyone in the back that compares SF to Portugal all I can do is laugh.

We also must look who's in control. This maybe the most important issue of all and must change.

"The most influential homeless advocate in San Francisco, and perhaps the United States as a whole, is the head of the San Francisco Coalition on Homelessness, Jennifer Friedenbach."

When you have this type of intimate knowledge of how our system in #SanFrancisco works, you must be an insider or have been homeless in the city like I was. This article is an accurate indictment of the handling of our homeless/drug crises.

Our response has been hijacked by radicals. But, there is hope. New voices are rising. People who were part of the system are speaking out and speaking up. We've all had enough of this humanitarian disaster. Read this story. It'll change your mind. <end>