A legal fund to sue SF over housing deadlock
I’m not American but have been to SF many times for work. Few places have made me feel more at risk than SF.<p>Can I ask some naïve questions here and have them interpreted kindly, I’m not trying to point to suggest anything or push any agendas. I don’t and won’t live there just trying to understand the dynamics.<p>A proportion of the population will have mental health issues that are perhaps incurable and treatable to certain degrees.<p>Couple severe mental health issues with lack of free and competent medical treatment and access to hard drugs.<p>Now also make it known country wide that there is a place where you’ll be given (relatively generous) financial assistance and little to no oversight and lax police enforcement when you use drugs.<p>Now also build more housing and shelters and combine with amenable weather.<p>Isn’t SF just the most attractive place for self destructing mentally I’ll people to flood to?<p>Anyone in the US from any state can walk into California and receive the benefits and get handled by California police and funded by California tax dollars.<p>This feels like having your cake and eating it to? Shouldn’t this be a federal problem? What would happen if people from Alabama and Texas were shipped back to their states or deprived of financial assistance, or maybe assigned the assistance they get back home?<p>Many of my questions here are based on assumptions and “facts” that are possibly totally wrong. So be kind.<p>I’m just wondering, doesn’t the problem need to be handled at a “systems thinking” level?