As a backer of Proposition C, he joined the Coalition on Homelessness to strong-arm high-revenue businesses into supporting bloated city government departments to address the city's homeless problem.
It will garner the city between $250 and $300 million, doubling its current budget for homeless services to half a billion dollars annually.
Fifty percent of the funding would go toward housing, 25 percent to mental health and addiction programs, 15 percent to people who are at risk of becoming homeless or have recently become so, and 10 percent to short-term "Residential shelters and hygiene programs."
Despite what homeless activists may claim or what self-reported data indicate, the majority of the homeless are there because they have a substance addiction or suffer psychological troubles, not because they're down on their luck.
"In San Francisco, 95 percent are using drugs," says Thomas Wolf, who was once a homeless heroin user and is now a case manager for the Salvation Army, working with homeless veterans.
The rest will be a hodgepodge of individuals appointed by the mayor and board of supervisors, who come from the same city departments and nonprofits that have failed to ease the problem and in fact have made it worse.
Technology companies are renowned for being disruptive and thinking outside the box, yet nothing could be more antiquated and entrenched than San Francisco's ineffectual city departments.
https://www.city-journal.org/san-francisco-homelessness-marc-benioff
It will garner the city between $250 and $300 million, doubling its current budget for homeless services to half a billion dollars annually.
Fifty percent of the funding would go toward housing, 25 percent to mental health and addiction programs, 15 percent to people who are at risk of becoming homeless or have recently become so, and 10 percent to short-term "Residential shelters and hygiene programs."
Despite what homeless activists may claim or what self-reported data indicate, the majority of the homeless are there because they have a substance addiction or suffer psychological troubles, not because they're down on their luck.
"In San Francisco, 95 percent are using drugs," says Thomas Wolf, who was once a homeless heroin user and is now a case manager for the Salvation Army, working with homeless veterans.
The rest will be a hodgepodge of individuals appointed by the mayor and board of supervisors, who come from the same city departments and nonprofits that have failed to ease the problem and in fact have made it worse.
Technology companies are renowned for being disruptive and thinking outside the box, yet nothing could be more antiquated and entrenched than San Francisco's ineffectual city departments.
https://www.city-journal.org/san-francisco-homelessness-marc-benioff
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