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We shouldn't decide the morality of things based on it being legal or illegal. The law is at best an after thought around morality.

The San Francisco Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing had a 2022-2023 budget of $672 million dollars. This does not include EMT and police services. It's just what they earmark for homelessness.

In 2022, there were 7,754 unhoused people in San Francisco.

That's roughly $86,000 per person they spend on getting them housing, and still failing at it. The average rent for an apartment in SF is $3500 a month, or $42,000 per year. They're spending twice as much as they would if they just got apartments for people.

Why do the right cheer as if it's a permanent solution? They'll be back as soon as the important people are gone. To say the problem is "fixed overnight" is like saying "Look Mom, I cleaned my room!" after you just finished sweeping everything underneath the bed and hiding it with the covers.

I do hope they fix the problem, but I don't know what else they can try other than just building houses and giving them the keys. That would probably be less expensive in the long run, but taxpayers evidently feel better paying for homelessness programs in perpetuity rather than giving people free shit one time.

Were they moved into sanctuary districts? https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Sanctuary_District

DS9 just seems to get more and more relevant with age. Sad we haven’t done any better than projected by the show.

republicans love the idea of a brutal authoritarian police state society

Wow that sure is a shitty thing to do to humans....

Right-wing: "yay" on all shitty things.

Housing needs to be a right. Every citizen should be able to go to a housing authority and have a roof over their head if they are unable to afford it.

I just do not understand why we are not addressing homelessness in more productive ways. We know it can be better managed as some countries have figured it out. Really crazy that we are not all on board with just doing the right thing and having a win win for all. We choose to suffer and we choose to sweep our suffering under the rug when guests come over.

An extrapolation to say the government could clean up the city over night of homelessness because they were able to relocate a portion a few neighborhoods for an event.

Illegal eviction and illegal failure to preserve tenant possessions. California let them move in and remain, now they must follow their own rules protecting squatters.

They will absolutely be sued for this.

It’s getting there but we’re still pretty far from critical mass. Need 10x more people to truly show the world how far US has slipped in favor of the 0.01%.

also no one on the left went live on any national tv broadcast to denounce it either

Of course conservatives would cheer the continued marginalization and traumatization of society's most vulnerable. They touch themselves to the cruelty.

Dear conservatives,

Why are you purposefully awful?

With love, Everyone

At this point the homeless ought to try staging a camp in at the city hall. Get the headlines all over them being dragged out of there.

miraculously disappeared??? wtf

Hmm Republicans being inhuman and Techbros saying hold my beer. Cool

American liberals are only progressive until it fucks with their money.

While I agree we should be solving the root problem of homelessness equitably, the headline is misleading as I know many people on the left were also happy to have clean streets for a while.

Who remembers that homeless encampment in Texas that was about to be ripped apart by cops, until a bunch of armed people turned up to defend it?

Lowest form of humanity, has to be near when you criminalize homelessness.

I read the article, there doesn't seem to be any mention of where they went. The people vice interviewed seem to be playing coy and giving a bunch of carefully sanitized non-answers about what happened. ~~San Francisco just made 500 homeless people vanish?~~ No, excuse me, big ol' homeless camps just happened to up and vanish with no police intervention just in time for APEC? Yeah, fucking right. Dollars to dimes that they bussed them to the central valley. I know you can do better than this, California, get your shit together.

I also noticed that after a recent sweep/camp cleanup of homeless encampments in Seattle, the local Sinclair station (KOMO) was quick to run footage of people (presumably to be representative of Seattle folk generally) basically gloating that AT LAST they did something

Yes, the right are going to do everything they can to give others the impression that everyone else also regards poor people to be vermin, to be purged... preferably violently. The purpose of this sort of language is always to condition its audience to accept, if not cheer for, violence.