It has been reported that Mayor Newsom recently ridiculed former New York City Mayor Rudy Guiliani's advise on solving the homeless problem.  Given the increasing numbers of homeless people in San Francisco despite the hundreds of millions being spent by the city, our mayor is in no position to ridicule the advise of a former mayor who brought the homeless problem under control in his city by providing shelter space to all NYC's homeless and not allowing them to sleep on the streets. Why Mayor Newsom has not followed this plan is a mystery.   Instead, our mayor devised a 10-year homeless Read This Posty »

After C. W. Nevius's article in the Chronicle about the homeless advocates once again mobilizing to block enforcement of laws on living in the Park, I officially give up all hope that the "homeless" problem will ever end. So it's goodbye Main Public Library, goodbye Golden Gate Park, goodbye a major stretch of Market Street (from Powell to Octavia), goodbye to much of Van Ness, goodbye Civic Center. All of these areas are no longer for the majority of the population. They are for the homeless to do whatever they please in. I would just remind people of the photographs Read This Posty »

In order to complete the mission with the homeless problem to make an astonishing approach you will have to deal with the rest who are uncooperative with enforcement from the police department otherwise there will not be a huge dent in resolving our problem with the homeless here in San Francisco.  I have lived here in S.F. since I was born and now I am 53 years old and l the homeless problem still exist.  We should have taken care of this problem years ago and appears that since you are our new Mayor you are look upon to the Read This Posty »

What are you doing for the people who pay taxes in this city and are funding all of your giveaway programs?  I can't afford to buy a home, but I can support the homeless and  pay for healthcare for everyone.  What's wrong with this picture? Jim Marshall Read This Posty »

What is bothering me when we reach the end of the rope in assisting the homeless which this problem has been going on for a long time now.  Since we developed this criminal court system the progress is going in the right direction but what do we do with the homeless who do not comply with the counseling assistance towards a better quality of life.  Since a week ago I have seen at least one homeless person or more sleeping on the streets still.  Yet we as taxpayers are contributing to the cause of helping the homeless which indicates compassion.  Read This Posty »

My pet peeve is I hope you do not terminate this site "Pet Peeve" now that you are Mayor again.  I think this site is beneficial for the people of San Francisco and also for you Mayor.  This site is a communication for you as our Mayor and us the People of San Francisco.  So I hope you will continue to keep this site.   I have another concern that is the homeless, I read the article about our outreach and that we are considered as a Model which is great. But my question is what happens to the homeless people Read This Posty »

I have been a resident of Haight-Ashbury for over 3 years.  The amount of young, homeless, and aggressive panhandlers on Haight is staggering.  I have yet to see any any improvement, or any plans for improvement.  Please tell me what is being done to curb this problem.  Name Withheld Read This Posty »

Gavin, Shame on you! And stop being such a boozer. That's for us dissolute Republicans. Your prez, George! Read This Posty »

According to an October 31, 2006 article in the Chronicle, the city spent $108 million directly on the homeless in fiscal year 2004-05; and this amount represented increases of $20 and $9 million, respectively, over what was spent in the previous two fiscal years.  The spending for fiscal year 2004-05 represented $17,285.53 per homeless person (that is $108 million divided by 6248, which was the number of homeless counted in 2005).  Despite this grandiose spending, the number of homeless increased between 2005 and 2007, according to the city's homeless count report.  If the hundreds of millions of dollars spent on Read This Posty »

The $100 million per year being spent on the homeless by the Newsom administration is being squandered.  According to an Oct. 31, 2006 article in the Chronicle, the city spent $108 million directly on the homeless during fiscal year 2004-05 (not counting medical and police emergency services and DPH cleanup work).  This was an increase of $9 and 20 million, respectively, spent in the previous two fiscal years, and it amounts to $17,285.53 per homeless person being spent in 2005. (That is, 6,248 homeless people (as stated in the 2005 homeless count report) divided by $108 million).  Despite this grandiose Read This Posty »

Men urinate on a daily (and nightly) basis in the trees across the street from my building. Taxi drivers, trunk drivers, motorcyclists, businessmen in suits -- they all think that our street is a toilet. I take my dog out there and am afraid to walk among the trees in case I run into a man with his pants down or step in something he left. Help! Name Withheld Read This Posty »

On February 17, 2005, the San Francisco Examiner reported that that Mayor Newsom said that homeless women do not belong in the city's shelter system, and he promised to move 300 women out of the shelters into private housing.  This promise has been broken.  Two years after Newsom's promise, there were more women in the shelter system than when Newsom made his promise.  Specifically, according to city records, there were 523 women in the shelter system in the month of December 2004, and in January 2007, this number increased to 554.  Does Newsom believe that his promises have any meaning? John Read This Posty »

The Newsom administration has no plan to remove homeless people from the streets.  When his administration began, there were over 1800 shelter beds; today there are 1212 shelter beds (according to city records). How do you move homeless people off the street if the number of shelter beds are being reduced.  Newsom may talk all he wants about his outreach programs, but there are 2771 homeless people on the streets (according to the 2007 homeless report) and most of the shelter space is filled every night.  The fact that there may be some available beds in the shelters because people Read This Posty »

Now that there is pressure on vagrants in some parts of the City, they are moving back onto the 1500 block of Market street. Any given morning there are at least 5 and usually as many as 10 or more people camping and drinking and drunk in that block by 8:00 in the morning. Another part of why they keep appearing there is because there is a store in that block that sells liquor very early in the morning and also allows them to keep their shopping carts in their store - so that they can continue to cynically take Read This Posty »

It is the attitude and non-action of the mayor and supervisors that allow the most outrageous acts to go on without blinking an eye. I think if it continues, anyone with a brain will move out of the City. Why stay and pay for those that don't legally belong here, don't want to get a job, don't want to go to a shelter, don't want to obey laws, don't want to allow the police to do their job, etc. Why Mr. Mayor??????? Name Withheld Read This Posty »

A few homeless are ruining the streets of the financial district where I live and work.  Nothing we do seems to help.  Please let us know that you care and that you will do something about this.  At night our sidewalks and doorways become camping sites and bathrooms. Name Withheld Read This Posty »

Filthy streets filled with panhandlers Name Withheld Read This Posty »

This is a pet pee!   Homeless folks constantly sleep, pee and defecate in front of our office on Howard Street near 2nd.  Between high taxes, the parking shortage, rampant graffiti, illegal posters and flyer trash, street potholes and the stench of human waste, It makes running a business in SF extremely unpleasant.  David Blumberg Read This Posty »

Homeless in front of freeway exits/entrances. Ken Read This Posty »

The homeless situation in San Francisco has gone from bad to worse. All those promises when you were running for mayor have gone up in smoke simply because there are seemingly more, and seem to be entrenched. In those days before the election I once saw you on the Van Ness Avenue divider strip, bent over, talking to a homeless person. I thought to myself that here we have, finally, a man who intends to do something to solve the homeless situation. It was not to be. Not perceptiably at least. Soon after I saw you, as I prepared to go Read This Posty »