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1) Promote home ownership by people who already live in the city. People who own houses in the community are invested in the community and will help to care for it.
2) Sharply limit the number of "investment properties" that can be purchased in the city.
3) Provide funding for long-term mental health care. I am a mental health professional, and work every day with people who will never be able to support themselves. These people need our care and compassion. They do not need *bus tickets out of town* where they will become "someone else’s problem".
4) For homeless individuals who are able to work, offer city jobs (such as garbage pick-up). This can double as a job training program which teaches "soft-skills" (like showing up to work on time) to individuals who have long been out of the work force.
5) Provide long-term, frequent therapy, childcare, and addiction treatment services to individuals who are trying to escape homelessness.
6) And please, please, please do something about some of the schools in Bayview Hunters Point. There are elementary schools that look like prisons, have broken heaters, dirty walls that haven’t been painted in decades and very little school supplies. These schools aren’t places for animals, much less for children. These children are coming from already troubled homes, and school should be a refuge for them. Instead, some of these schools are hollowed out, miserable places that the staff can’t stand to stay at for more than a year. The children, sadly, have no choice but to come every day. These schools are breeding grounds for the next generation of addicted, homeless pan-handlers that some other San Franciscans so despise.
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