FOLKS, WE DO NOT HAVE A HOMELESS PROBLEM, WE HAVE A POLITICAL PROBLEM. Our streets, in the Mission, are a mirror of our political leaders' actions. The streets can be improved. The people on Nextdoor SE Mission have come up with a multitude of solutions that could work. There is no political will to improve the condition on the streets because our city is beholden to activist groups like the Coalition for the Homeless. I would really like to live in a city where my community and peoples lives in that community were respected. But politicians like Hillary Ronen are only concerned with the people who keep them in power and it's not someone like me: a constituents who has lived in SF since 1976, contributed to the culture of San Francisco, has worked hard to make a place for myself in (what was) a wonderful mixed neighborhood that I could afford. The sidewalks in my community no longer belong to the public, they have been taken over by the Coalition for the Homeless (with the complete backing of San Francisco and Supervisor Ronen). Our public sidewalks now function as city shelters for drug addicts and the mentally ill. Because the Coalition for the Homeless does not believe in temporary shelters, San Francisco does not have an adequate supply. Because of the Coalition's unworkable Housing First ideology the unsheltered persist on our sidewalks instead going into shelters where they have access to resources. It's a self perpetuating disaster.
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