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San Francisco Weighs Continuing Homeless Encampment Program That Costs $60k Per Tent Each Year
 [Daily Wire] Elected officials in San Francisco will soon decide whether the city should keep spending millions on "safe sleeping villages" for homeless people as its COVID-19 emergency response winds down.According to the San Francisco Chronicle, the city's homelessness department "is pushing to continue an expensive tent encampment program that it says is crucial for keeping people off the sidewalks, despite its high price tag of more than $60,000 per tent, per year." The outlet reported that "the program currently costs $18.2 million for about 260 tents," and "the department is now asking for $15 million in the upcoming fiscal year for a similar number of tents, which amounts to about $57,000 per tent per year." Some of the sites are operated by nonprofits, while the tent program is entirely financed through a business tax measure overwhelmingly passed by voters in 2018. "If the funding is approved, San Francisco will pay about twice the median cost of a one-bedroom apartment for people to sleep in tents for the second year in a row," the Chronicle reported. Related: San Francisco: 2021-06-26 Pelosi: 'Root Causes' of Capitol 'Insurrection' Were 'White Supremacy, Anti-Semitism, Islamophobia' San Francisco: 2021-06-25 FDA to Add Heart Warning for Pfizer and Moderna mRNA Vaccines San Francisco: 2021-06-24 Escape From Woke Metropolises Related: Homeless: 2021-06-26 Somali knifeman yelled ‘Allah Akbar’ before killing three people and wounding six more in street rampage but is arrested alive after brave members of the public fought him off until police arrived Homeless: 2021-06-23 California 'assault weapons' ban repeal blocked by 9th Circuit Homeless: 2021-06-20 Gavin Newsom Assaulted by 'Aggressive' Homeless Man on Oakland Street Posted by: Snomomble Spump9269 2021-06-28 |
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