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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I find the napkin math interesting, especially putting into light that given expected longevity of such satellites, 5 to 7 years, they will have to do 10 to 42 launches per day. SpaceX will need $1.5 to $10 trillions to make it happen. All of that so the slop machine doesn’t have to run into obstacles like democracy ? So it can destroy communities and the environment freely? What are we doing?