Lived my youth on Larkin and Jones in the 70/80’s. Worked at the Embassy, Strand, Market Street Cinema, etc.. There has always been nothing tender about the tenderloin…
Man I had it rough for a min on Golden gate N Hyde was homeless there for a year ever since I went to health right 360 I've been sober and.back over in the sunset district thank God I'm here and sober 6 months sober no more.fentenly and Xanax thanks God for my sobriety I was hopless without u cheers
Exactly! To me it was more humane to have them in hospitals with medical, meals and shelter. On the streets they are a danger to themselves and others, in addition to being victims themselves. How is that better?
I was born in San Francisco and still live here 53 years later. The tenderloin has always been a problem. It’s not the only area with big problems but the one seen more and talked about.
@@kathleenking47 im sure lots of prostitution occurs, in the tent cities black market *pre-2014, used to be tons of "SF Massage Parlors" where prostitution took place, then they disappeared. are they back?
I used to walk to work through the tenderloin from nob hill. I always felt safe bc there were always police around. Never had a bad homeless person experience until I moved to Oregon. I love San Francisco - those people have my heart. I wish I could go back!
I'm just an outsider looking in, I've never been to San Francisco but I just keep hearing how much it's deteriorating, it's sad to see but it's also nice to hear that basically everyone including people that are apart of the problem want this issue fixed
The low barrier shelters sound like a good idea until you realize that if you suffering from addiction, and the person next to you waiting for services is getting high, it might really hurt your ability to stay sober.
Excellent report. Humane and in-depth. You got right in there and encountered the problem. Bravo. I worked in mental health and substance use. The major problem for clients was the pervasiveness of drug dealing. Availability leads to resumption of use or an increase in use, plain and simple. My suggestion would be to have undercover cops aggressively arrest dealers. I think things would change quickly if that were to happen. Actually it’s always amazed me that this isn’t done, especially in the case of street dealing.
Help these people, get them de-toxed, open up treatment centers with social workers, try to connect them with families, but understand many of them have burnt bridges with families, so its going to take time to heal these people, so have treatment centers, give them purpose by community service, education, or a job, then continue to try to get them a support system either group therapy or get their families involved if they want to be, but yes its going to take time to heal our beautiful city of San Francisco. Lets bring it back. People need purpose and accountability otherwise none of this will work.
Rehab for hard core addicts is a long process...no 30 day nonsense ! They need physical detox and support, supervised living , behaviorial modification, education, lifestyle change training...and not free to leave until goals are met.
Of all the bs... classic.. Get rid of the degenerate drug dealers; The deplorable drug cooks; the organized criminals. Meh.. it's not that easy.. good luck
There are more resources at Union square than in the Tenderloin. Laws are only as good as its enforcement. There are lots of houseless people, home is an abstract concept, we need resources applied towards people and less towards agencies.
I was out there until 04 and to me I would just ask what is the budget and number of people we earmark to to this(council, cleaners,workers) and then be blown away by what they spend and then ask yourself if they want to change. I see it as simple... It has become a huge machine and its great cuz the junky bums and dealers don't have to change... Just glad I don't need the help and became a helper. These guys say more choices and yet no need to change...
The only solution is to enforce a ban of any and all loitering by anyone who is not a resident with a physical address. Anyone violating the ban should be shipped to Pelican Bay for at least a month for a first offence and double it for each subsequent offence.
Yes all addicts need to be locked up until sober. Locking them up is he kind solution than them wasting away on drugs. It’s not about choice anymore when they not nay hurt themselves but the residents also
Do they have any cellphones or ways to keep in contact for services and receive mail?How do they apply for programs if there is no way to follow up or track their whereabouts? People that go to jail for violent crimes receive free housing, food, medical attention, and send mail and make phone calls. Maybe not a jail for addicts but if your caught with drugs it is a crime and they should be forced into a type of program where they receive help until they rehabilitate.
@@pretorious700 i work in social services and its hard to contact people to follow up with them if there is no consistent form of communication or tracking their location if they are homeless.
san francisco officials needs to follow the model of how findland solved their homeless crisis by housing first and then tackled the drug crisis and mental health crisis
It was the same with all the republican presidents and Democrats neither help the poor they just divide the rich and poor to put them against each other 💯
If we ever want such a thing as a genuine ‘civility’ or ‘society’ to occur, we must, absolutely, concede that it is only genuine people who will ever be capable of such a phenomenon. The pretentious ‘society’ that greed creates simply does not develop the capacity for genuine civility..
The MEN should be responsible for keeping the community SAFE and CLEAN for the women and children. They ALL (MEN) should come together and TALK A SOLUTION and fix the problem. If the community LOOKS like crap it's because of the MEN in the community.
노숙자가 많은거리에는 청소부가 많이 필요하며 월급도 높이 줘야겠다 더럽고 힘든 직업이며 그리고 벽의 낙서도 지우기위해 일꾼들이 필요하고 시나 정부의 큰 땅에 홈리스파크를 만들고 텃밭도 만들어 야채와 과일도 자급자족하고 봉사위원들 이 식사도 주고 중독자들은 차료센타에 보내고 가장먼저해야할일이 청소와 거리 낙서를지우는 일이다 직업청출도 되니 청소부와 낙서 젝거반도 모집해서 인건비를 최저임금보다 높이줘야한다
I lived in the Tenderloin back in 1966 for a short time on Turk Street . . . it’s time to put the drug dealers to work . . . cleaning the streets . . . fighting fires or two years mandatory military service . . . marching drilling instead of laying about preying on the weak.
This even happens at when our economic is doing good with a lot tax revenue. I can’t image how homeless problem would look like in SF if we hit recession in the future.
It's so sad I've seen warzones with better service and help than that place. They don't choose that life so don't blame them they do what they are forced to do.
Call in the national guard to round up the dealers. Then prosecute and incarcerate for a minimum of 6 months so progress can take hold before the dealers get released again…
This needs a different approach. Seriously... approach the drug issue as if you were trying to take down Amazon, since the drug market works the same way. Items are shipped across long areas, sold in bulk, split up, shipped more, etc and in the end get to the consumer/user via the drug dealer or delivery driver... Drug dealers rely on logistics just as much as Amazon does. So, leaving the dealers alone to focus on the "big guys" is the opposite of what needs to be done, the small drug dealers are the heart of the operation. Go after them.. sure, they might get right out of jail, but harass them enough and eventually it just isn't worth it for small dealers to sell drugs in San Francisco. It doesn't matter how many drugs they smuggle into the city, without a distribution network of dealers, they are useless, this is how ALL commerce works, not sure why it is taking so long to figure that out, and why they keep doing the complete opposite and leave the dealers alone....this the the best thing we could do to help the drug dealers succeed. You can see that using Urban Alchemy to kick dealers out of specific areas does work..... but it is being done on too small of a scale, the dealers just go a block over. If the city seriously put resources into harassing the dealers... increase the area "patrolled" by Urban Alchemy, create a auxiliary police force that handles ONLY moving drug dealers out of the area. You don't have to arrest them. Harassing them and those coming to buy the drugs makes it very inconvenient to sell drugs at that location, make "that location" the entire city. The idea of using Urban Alchemy to do security and keep drug dealers out of certain areas is actually a GREAT IDEA, but it needs to be increased, massively, and we do have a LOT of out of work people that would gladly get paid to stand on a street corner daily and chase away drug dealers. Once that starts to happen, a lot of drug buyers will also avoid the area... increase police presence.... not by doing more arrests, but park squad cars with officers on the streets while they do paperwork and etc.. Nobody comes and buys drugs from a dealer when a cop car is sitting down the block... Many ways to do this but TARGET THE DEALERS!
We are still trying to force help on people who don't want it. First, the homeless people need to want the help and want to change. As long as they don't want it, homeless people will push back harder on us. My suggestion? All we can do is to wait for them to seek help. Until then, why can't we round up all the homeless and move all of them away from the general population and give them minimum sustenance and freedom to use drugs and poop any where.
U need put them in a program to keep them off the streets. Two choices clean up there act or put in a special home for them because they can not be in public because they are a safety matter. On drugs so government needs things happen.
