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S.F. to get $9.25 million gift to tackle conditions at Mission BART plazas (missionlocal.org)
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Mayor Daniel Lurie and Supervisor Jackie Fielder announced Friday that the city will receive a $9.25 million grant from the Crankstart Foundation to address poor street conditions at the Mission District’s two BART plazas and surrounding streets.

What I find interesting is the stark contrast between what the Mayor and Sup. Fielder are saying at the end of the article and what they plan on doing, mentioned at the beginning:

[...] Lurie said in a statement. “Moving the problem from one block to the next isn’t good enough. This community deserves concrete steps that will make a real difference.”

Ok so what are they doing about it? First, what they have tried:

For nearly 20 months, the city has tried a number of approaches, including a multi-agency 90-day strategy, parking an RV-sized police command van on the plazas 24/7, bringing in weekend stall-keepers, hiring community ambassadors, and deploying multi-agency street teams that could connect people to services like drug treatment and shelter.

So literally trying to move the problem around with more cops, more surveillance more ambassadors. Note that they do not say more services, they just say more links to services... So what will they do with this new money?

The money will go toward installing lighting and “public-safety technology,” and hiring more community ambassadors.

Sigh... More flock cameras, more ambassadors. Basically more moving people around.

I am very frustrated about this, our elected officials are repeating verbatim what the issue is and reciting verbatim what fails to solve it yet their solutions systematically fail to address the issue: homelessness is a multifaceted approach and needs multifaceted solution. We have already tried the low hanging fruit, the one facet of repression (cops) and less repressive repression (ambassadors). It's time we actually put equal money into services (more shelters in every neighborhood) but also definitely more housing, more emergency housing, more places for people to get back on their feet, more empowering the homeless to get themselves out of poverty, i.e. opportunities. More money to the police state will not solve homelessness.

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[–] 2 points 1 day ago (1 child)

It seems like increasing the penalty for shop lifting has made the fencing scene in the mission less pervasive. Or whatever was done to decrease shoplifting.

It also seems like the fencing culture is instilled in certain people and will be very difficult to break their norm of selling in the mission. Unless it's heavy fisted which could cause backlash.

No idea how 9 million dollars can make the fencing scene go away.

Clearly there's a market for their wares, even though I refuse to buy what they sell. OP mentions homeless shelters should be part of the solution, but easily half of the fencing is done by people that appear housed. It's a culture, a side hustle for certain people.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 day ago

    yea they target all the whole foods, targets, walgreens in the area and it was so severe enough to close down several stores permanently because of it. and these arnt desperate people(who need food) stealing, its organized crime although still done by the homeless and fuel thier own addiction. because these companies have a complete, no approach policy, isnt helping. and the idiot corporate people want "every single item display" on the shelves rather than it being locked up, especially all the high value items. they often come in here pencil and paper to jot down things to steal.

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