[franklampard]

The amount of tax revenue and budget is still insanely high.

Need to be more efficient

[paxys]

San Francisco spends more on homeless services than most cities its size spend on everything. And the homeless problem is getting worse every year.

[idlewords]

At the same time, there is a large municipality right next to San Francisco (Colma) that consists entirely of graveyards. Homelessness in SF is not just a housing problem, but the housing crisis amplifies it and could be instantly ameliorated by just building the hell out of things.

[0xy]

It's all embezzled and frauded away. [1] [2]

[1] https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/CEO-of-S-F-nonprofit-...

[2] https://sfist.com/2023/02/11/saturday-links-lawsuit-alleges-...

[Pigalowda]

Well it’s an expensive place to live so of course you have to hire experts and social workers at $400k/y! Then they make powerpoints and present them to each other. It’s probably the police department’s fault so they better be defunded and that money should be rolled into the homeless social services program so they can hire more people.

[brightball]

That in itself might be a contributor.

[marklubi]

It's the Homeless Industrial Complex

[raverbashing]

Aided in no small part by the NIMBYs