A longtime San Francisco homeless service provider who read San Fransicko, and said they mostly agreed with it, reached out to me to share their views.
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.
In the spring of 2021, Friedenbach published an op-ed opposing a proposal considered by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors to create, within eighteen months, sufficient homeless shelters and outdoor "Safe Sleeping Sites" for all of the city's unsheltered homeless.
"San Francisco has consciously chosen not to make that commitment. And the conditions on New York's streets versus San Francisco streets are somewhat reflective of what that means."
"Friedenbach controls how San Francisco spends its astonishing $850 million annual budget."Jenny built her power base by becoming a master of the budget's "Add back" process," said the San Francisco insider.
After I appeared on Joe Rogan, a clinical psychologist who for two decades ran programs for homeless veterans at the San Francisco Veterans Administration Medical Center, which included homeless vets, emailed me.
The San Francisco homelessness insider agreed, and despaired over the religious fervor in which the people who work at the San Francisco Coalition on Homelessness, the San Francisco Public Health Department, and many elected members of the Board of Supervisors are gripped.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/san-francisco-homeless-insider-tells-all
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