People in San Francisco raise money, so far $80,000, for legal fight to stop homeless shelter in wealthy area.

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Homeless people from all over the country come to these "sanctuary" locations that tolerate these people living in the streets. Just look at the 3 cities that have the largest population of homeless and you see that San Francisco-Los Angeles-New York all have policies to leave them alone and to provide whatever other services they can to them.

San Francisco hands out 400,000 free syringes every month to these drug addicts. Why would not any drug addict come here for free stuff? and to be left alone by law enforcement.

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This is why we are so adamant that the RV living stops now so we do not escalate into what these other cities look like today, S.F-L.A-N.Y.

CNBC has a report that it would cost 12.7 BILLION dollars to deal with the affordable housing problem in the bay area.

And like the developers all want to make a LARGE profit on the situation.

Most likely the real cost will be at least 25% lower than what was reported, the 25% would be profit.

Talk about cost inflation being demonstrated at a large scale.

All the major west coast cities are and have always been collecting areas for the homeless from the rest if the nation. It makes sense; you want to be down by the river in North Dakota during the winter? It's no surprise that the majority are from other states...coming for the dream or just escaping freezing to death.

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You sound like we are getting persecuted by the homeless?

Is that your intent?

Granted, California climate conditions are more likely to be survivable.

Boston, where I was raised, has a large homeless problem too.

But imagine that 3 months in a year it can be above freezing for high temps and in 3 months in a year it can have 95+ degrees F with high humidity.

New York has 14% of the nations homeless.

San Jose is ranked 6th in the nation,

San Francisco is ranked 7th in the nation.

THe worse ones are in order: District of columbia, San Diego, Seatle, Los Angeles and New York City.

My observation, with such healthy economics in this area, there really is no excuse for the problem.

"WE Get...

You sound like we are getting persecuted by the homeless?

Is that your intent?"

No,I'm sorry your interpretation of my post was incorrect. My intent was to simply point out most people have a very hard time trying to survive a winter of homelessness in, say, Bismark so they migrate west to a more comfortable climate. The better homeless services avail in many west coast cities aid in the motivation to get out of where they are and into a better place, relatively speaking.

Those free services and accommodation provided by the Sanctuary cities only attracts more homeless population and deteriorate living quality of residents. It won't solve the problem from the root cause.