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Nick Berg 盧柏格

@NickBergSF

1 year

The biggest lie in SF is that the folks we see on the streets are low income earning San Franciscans that couldn't keep up with rent increases. I have friends that got priced out of SF. They moved to Vallejo & Concord. NONE downsized to a tent on the sidewalk in the Loin.

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@NickBergSF

1 year

This is anti-civilization behavior.

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@NickBergSF

4 months

There's an L-shaped corridor of San Francisco voters who want criminals to escape, taxpayers to fund street drugs, and our brightest children held back from reaching their full potential. At some point, we need to have a family meeting about this.

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1 year

Rumor is that the witness doesn’t want to cooperate. Public Service Announcement: If you witness a crime and refuse to cooperate, you are allowing the criminal to continue victimizing the rest of us.

DA won’t file charges now against pair accused in S.F. carjacking, dramatic crash

The San Francisco District Attorney’s Office said that the pair accused of stealing a...

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1 year

Also, 100% of wedding crashers self-reported that they were invited guests of the bride and groom.

New Study: 90% of State's Homeless Are Local

A new study provides a comprehensive picture of adult homelessness.

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@NickBergSF

4 months

Someone is really upset about drug screening for welfare cash in San Francisco.

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@NickBergSF

1 year

If you give away free apartments with NO sobriety requirements (i.e. "Housing First"), the property will get trashed. San Francisco has already paid over $17 MILLION in settlements related to damage at SIP Hotels. $2,900,000 Tilden Hotel $5,362,325 Hotel Union Square

Gina_Mothers Against Drug Addiction & Deaths

@Gina_McDee

1 year

Another $5.4 million settlements for the SIP hotels that were TRASHED during covid. #Americana #Vintage Putting a mentally unstable/severely addicted person a room solves NOTHING. Where is the #TreatmentOnDemand ? @SF_DPH @sfbos @sfgov @LondonBreed

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@NickBergSF

1 year

"People are out here because they're on drugs." - Mark Mazza, SF Dept. of Emergency Management

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@NickBergSF

1 year

If you give away FREE apartments with NO sobriety requirements (aka "Housing First"), the property will get trashed. San Francisco has already paid over $44 MILLION in settlements related to property damage at SIP Hotels. $19,500,000 Hotel Whitcomb $3,893,862 Good Hotel

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@NickBergSF

1 year

You cannot solve this problem by giving away free housing. The more public housing we create, the more we must spend to manage and maintain those buildings. Even worse, more people from elsewhere come in search of free housing. It’s NOT sustainable.

California homelessness: Where are the state’s billions going?

An increasingly bipartisan chorus is asking where all the money goes for the state's homeless crisis. Here's what we know.

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@NickBergSF

3 months

Dear SF voters, Unless you want Aaron Peskin as mayor, you need to rank ALL three of the viable moderate candidates (Farrell, Lurie and Breed) and leave Peskin blank. If you only rank one or two of the candidates, your ballot might get exhausted - allowing Peskin to win.

Aaron Peskin

@AaronPeskin

3 months

Thank you to the 75O+ people who packed Portsmouth Square today to help kick off our collective campaign to bring neighborhood voices back to City Hall! This campaign is about uniting the City that we love and raising all ships together. I’m humbled and grateful for your support.

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@NickBergSF

1 year

When can I expect harm reduction policies and tolerance to start working? I'm still waiting.

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@NickBergSF

1 year

I was in Hong Kong recently and (unlike SF) had lovely shopping experiences. Retail stores (including high end retailers) had expensive items fully accessible (and, yes, easy to steal). Yet, there is very low retail theft. Why? Because there is high accountability for crime.

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@NickBergSF

1 year

Jordan Davis received tax-payer funded gender affirmation surgery. She lives in city-funded permanent housing. Somehow, she has time to attend in-person Board of Supervisors Meetings at 2pm on Tuesdays instead of working. Given these many benefits, does she express gratitude to

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Jordan starts tweeting legal opinions says all the profanity is perfectly fine as long as it doesn't disrupt public meetings, three days after proudly proclaiming she disrupted a public meeting @SusanDReynolds @richieSF2016

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@NickBergSF

1 year

Due to @TheCoalitionSF ’s lawsuit, SF can’t stop urban camping until we create 4,000 new shelter beds. But, we can’t create 4,000 new shelter beds because @TheCoalitionSF limited Prop C funds for shelter to 10%. I want a ballot measure to end this Catch-22 of human misery.

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@NickBergSF

1 year

This is gaslighting. We can see that it’s a drug epidemic with our own eyes.

Senator Scott Wiener

@Scott_Wiener

1 year

The dominant cause of homelessness is inadequate supply of homes. The dominant solution to homelessness is building lots of homes, both market & subsidized. Treating mental health/addiction is very important but secondary to housing. Here are the stats:

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@NickBergSF

4 months

Do you really believe that SF progressives lost because of low turnout? Perhaps, it was their awful candidates and failed ideas - like defund the police, decriminalization, cash welfare for drug tourists, math is racist, and endless identity politics. 🤷‍♂️

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@NickBergSF

1 year

Giving away free apartments with no sobriety requirements (Housing First policies) is correlated to an INCREASE in chronic homelessness. San Francisco should provide "shelter first" and disallow urban camping. #EvidencedBasedApproach .

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@NickBergSF

2 years

The flaw in Prop 47 is not simply the $950 threshold. It's also that REPEAT offenses do not result in a felony. For example, there was a woman who committed over 100 thefts from Target.

California Could Toughen Theft Laws To Crackdown on Shoplifting

A new bill from Assemblymember Al Muratsuchi would amend Prop. 47 to raise penalties for shoplifting and theft.

sfstandard.com

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@NickBergSF

1 year

The Harm Reduction folks don’t seem to understand that the growing opposition to their policies isn’t a collapse in compassion. It’s just that highly compassionate people have figured out that enablement is the cruelest approach.

Joe Eskenazi

@EskSF

1 year

If "compassion is killing people" in San Francisco, the city seems ready to give cruelty a shot. Latest column here:

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1 year

The anatomy of a viral “everything in the City is fine; stop complaining” screed: 1) Gaslight residents by claiming that, despite what we can see with our own eyes, the street conditions in San Francisco aren’t so bad. 2) Rebrand the epidemic of severe

About that New York Times Michael Moritz op-ed on San Francisco ...

As a media critic, I’ve watched San Francisco spawn a cottage industry devoted to the...

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@NickBergSF

1 year

@sfchronicle I grew up with the Chronicle being the newspaper of record for the Bay Area. Now, their reporting reads like something from a George Orwell novel. 💔

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@NickBergSF

1 year

San Francisco gives away more FREE apartments to homeless folks than any other city. As a result of this and other incentives, we have MORE homeless and permanently housed people than any other city (per capita). Approximately 50% of homeless in SF are from elsewhere.

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@NickBergSF

1 year

Why are graffiti supply stores allowed to operate in San Francisco?

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@NickBergSF

11 months

When did the ACLU decide that urban camping was a civil liberty?

Update: SF Rejects ACLU's Surprise Settlement Offer in Lawsuit Against Homeless Sweeps

The ACLU and the Coalition on Homelessness offered SF City Hall a settlement to end their nearly year-long lawsuit against encampment sweeps, but City Attorney David Chiu says no deal.

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@NickBergSF

11 months

New 9th Circuit Court of Appeals definitions: Involuntary Homeless = have NOT received an offer of temporary shelter from city. Untouchable. Voluntary Homeless = have received an offer of temporary shelter and rejected it. The city CAN take enforcement action.

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@NickBergSF

11 months

Don’t settle. Take it all the way to the Supreme Court if necessary. There is NO constitutional right to do urban camping.

Annie Gaus

@AnnieGaus

11 months

Attorneys for the Coalition on Homelessness, which accused the city of illegal encampment sweeps, are proposing settlement talks. Deets here:

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@NickBergSF

7 months

It’s NOT a promising solution. We’ve already tried this at full scale in San Francisco. Cash general assistance with NO conditions attracts drug tourists and enables addiction. That’s why 66% of likely March voters support Prop F (drug screening for cash welfare).

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@NickBergSF

1 year

Over $20 MILLION in settlements related to damage at SIP Hotels. $3,750,000 Kimpton Buchanan $2,900,000 Tilden Hotel $5,362,325 Hotel Union Square $3,367,576 Hotel Vertigo $4,692,008 Americania Hotel $ 762,965 Executive Hotel Vintage Court

Gina_Mothers Against Drug Addiction & Deaths

@Gina_McDee

1 year

Add $3.75 MILLION to the list of settlements payed by @sfgov for trashed hotel rooms used for shelter-in-place. #KimptonBuchananHotel

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1 year

Profoundly stupid editorial from the SF Chronicle. Particularly following their reporting about how these drug dealers are amassing small fortunes with low risk of prosecution and no risk of deportation.

Deporting Honduran migrants won’t solve S.F.’s drug crisis. The Chronicle’s investigation shows why

The key to any antidrug strategy is the one thing San Francisco, and California more...

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@NickBergSF

6 months

This summer, the Supreme Court should rule that cities have an absolute right to ban urban camping. Encampments are unsanitary, cause fires, attract drug tourists, enable addiction, host property crime and violent crime - including sexual assault.

Supreme Court to rule on clearing homeless encampments in California and the West

The Supreme Court will decide if homeless people have a right to camp on public property if no shelter is available, a 9th Circuit legal standard that has complicated efforts in Western states to...

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@NickBergSF

1 year

The reasons for eviction include drug use, smoke damage, fire damage, water leakage, hoarding, pests, noise nuisance, non-payment, violent behavior, and harassment of building staff. Do you still believe we can solve this by giving away free housing?

Supes question rash of evictions from S.F. housing programs

Following a Chronicle investigation, San Francisco supervisors pressed city officials to...

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@NickBergSF

1 year

@LondonBreed We need "Shelter first, Housing earned, NO urban camping". Urban camps are a dangerous fire hazard.

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@NickBergSF

1 year

Did we become so tolerant that we began tolerating foreign drug dealers? Cartel-affiliated drug traffickers should not enjoy sanctuary protections in San Francisco.

jj smith

@war24182236

1 year

Supervisor Sherman Walton

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@NickBergSF

1 year

Homeless Migration is Real 🧳UCSF asked where person was "last housed", not where are you from 🧳No verification of self-reported answers. 🧳California is home to 12% of the nation's population and has 50% of the nation's unsheltered homeless population. 🧳As of 7/7/23, there

UCSF Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative

@ucsfbhhi

1 year

"When people lose their housing, the last thing they’re really able to do is garner the resources to pick up and leave everything they knew behind,” @MKushel tells @sagevanwing for OPB. 🎧Learn more about #CAHomelessnessStudy findings: #homelessness

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@NickBergSF

3 months

Aaron Peskin: - supported efforts to defund the police - opposed the Chesa Boudin Recall - opposed the School Board Recall - opposed drug screening for cash aid Rank ALL THREE (Farrell, Lurie, Breed) Leave Peskin blank

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@NickBergSF

1 year

The recent mass shooting in SF occurred at a graffiti supply store () that also sells F The Police pins and SuckaFreeCity backpacks. Truth is: we are suckers for tolerating a business that glorifies and enables the destruction of our tolerant society.

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@NickBergSF

6 months

Fun fact: when meth smoke seeps into drywall, it has to ripped out and disposed as haz mat. So, if you put a meth addict in a tiny home, the structure gets used once before being destroyed. In an apartment building, you’re looking at interior demolition and reconstruction.

Adrian Covert 🇺🇸🗽🥑

@AdrianCovert

6 months

The opposition to streamlining tiny homes for homeless people on the grounds that they’ll become shanty towns is utterly baffling. Like what do you call where they’re living *right now*

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@NickBergSF

1 year

Urban camping will continue, until the Supreme Court comes to the rescue of West Coast states.

9th Circuit conservatives blast homelessness ruling, say issue is 'paralyzing' U.S. West

Some of the most powerful conservative judges in the U.S. took aim at the idea that homeless people with nowhere else to go have a right to sleep in public.

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@NickBergSF

10 months

10-year high in the number of building fires in San Francisco. Everyone knows it's because of public camping and Housing First policies (placing drug addicts into a free apartment with no sobriety requirements). @SFFDPIO

S.F. is seeing a troubling trend: an uptick in building fires

The number of fires in low-rise, high-rise and commercial buildings are the highest since...

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@NickBergSF

2 years

@LondonBreed Defund programs that enable addiction.

Drug Tourism in San Francisco

Why it's happening and how to change the incentives

nmberg.substack.com

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@NickBergSF

1 year

End sanctuary protections for drug dealers and deport. We’ll never succeed at building a case and prosecuting each Honduran dealer for distribution. The FBI didn’t get Al Capone on murder and racketeering. They got him on tax evasion.

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@NickBergSF

1 year

Many urban campers are in San Francisco because we don’t prohibit urban camping. They also like that we offer $687 per month in cash assistance, free harm reduction supplies, lax enforcement of property crime, and the drugs are cheap. #incentivesmatter

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@NickBergSF

7 months

Most fires in San Francisco are caused by urban camping. @SFFDPIO correct me if I’m wrong.

The San Francisco Standard

@sfstandard

7 months

Multiple fire trucks responded to San Francisco's Central Freeway after a fire erupted underneath it. Full story:

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@NickBergSF

2 years

28% of Generation Z have a favorable view of communism - ignorant of the horrifying results when nations DID implement it in the early 20th century. This is a dismal flunking of historical literacy and economics that high school teachers should have to explain.

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@NickBergSF

2 years

We already ran this experiment in San Francisco. Gifting free apartments with no sobriety requirements is financially infeasible, creates a magnet effect on troubled folks from elsewhere, results in property damage, and leaves people to OD and die alone in their rooms.

Los Angeles Times

@latimes

2 years

Mayor Bass' program to move homeless people indoors to launch Tuesday

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@NickBergSF

1 year

Housing First is prohibitively expensive, attracts addicts from elsewhere, results in severe property damage, and leaves people to persist in addiction until they overdose and die alone.

Diane Yentel

@dianeyentel

1 year

At last week’s hearing, Senator Vance said familiar mistruths about homelessness - that substance abuse is root cause & that homeless people should be required to address addiction before receiving housing assistance. I was very glad to respond for the record.

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@NickBergSF

1 year

@sfstandard Another business votes with its feet. Another sad day for SF.

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@NickBergSF

1 year

Drug addiction rates are higher in Appalachia, but they have cheaper housing - and therefore fewer homeless than San Francisco. So what? How are you going to lower the market price of housing in SF to match Appalachia? SF already provides more PSH than any other city. New PSH

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@NickBergSF

9 months

Worst citizen in San Francisco

bettersoma

@bettersoma

9 months

Enough of this bullshit. Public comment should be eliminated with commissions and task forces. Enough.

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@NickBergSF

1 year

#HousingFirst does NOT work. It simply attracts more homelessness. SF gives away more permanent housing per capita than any other city. Because of this (and other incentives), we have 5X more people who are either homeless or living in public housing than other local cities.

Housing California

@housingca

1 year

“The fact is that #housingfirst works. It needs no defense. Folks are finding the stability & transformative benefits of home. The work of everyone attending the 2023 Housing CA annual conference is proof of that. We’re doubling down.” #RichardCho @hudgov #HousingsNextChapter

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@NickBergSF

1 year

The doctors within the Homeless Industrial Complex (including @ucsfbhhi ) have done countless small group studies on Harm Reduction and Housing First. But, I’ve never seen them do research on: 1) the “magnet effect” these policies create on troubled folks from elsewhere. 2)

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@NickBergSF

10 months

The goal is for the taxpayers of San Francisco to stop funding the purchase of street drugs.

Jackie Fielder

@JackieFielder_

10 months

What is the actual goal of drug testing welfare? Given that - Not all 5,000+ SF welfare recipients use drugs - Not all drug users are welfare recipients - Not all homeless people are on welfare Long term treatment, mental health services, & housing > whatever this is

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@NickBergSF

2 years

I’m call it @thecoalitionsf ’s Catch-22: ✅ SF can’t clear encampments unless we have sufficient shelter capacity under Martin v Boise. ❌ We can’t create sufficient shelters because the homeless non-profits advocate for funding Housing First, not shelter.

Judge bans S.F. from clearing most homeless camps as lawsuit moves ahead

A judge on Friday night temporarily banned San Francisco from clearing most homeless...

www.sfchronicle.com

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@NickBergSF

7 months

I blame Supervisor Preston and the Homeless Industrial Complex for the drug crisis in San Francisco. They tax earnings and use the funds to enable drug tourism.

Aldo Toledo

@aldot29

7 months

S.F. Supervisor Dean Preston blames capitalism for San Francisco’s homeless and drug crisis via @sfchronicle

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@NickBergSF

10 months

We gave free permanent housing (with no sobriety requirements) to drug addicts. Smoke from meth/fentanyl got into the drywall ruining it. Folks had a psychotic break & ripped out fixtures. Leaks & spills caused water damage. Hoarding & human waste caused pest infestations. 😲🤯

🌶 Radical Centrist

@Tenderloin94109

10 months

@auweia1 Why doesn’t anyone ask how those units were damaged so heavily? If you are trying to house the homeless, wouldn’t it be good to prevent heavy damage to units in the first place?

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@NickBergSF

10 months

If I had a child who was addicted to drugs, I would rather spend $4,750 per month on urine tests and drug treatment than spend $687 on a monthly allowance with no sobriety or treatment requirement.

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@NickBergSF

11 months

You cannot solve Urban Camping by giving away free housing in Marin County. It will simply attract MORE troubled people from elsewhere - making the problem WORSE and ultimately bankrupting the county.

San Francisco Chronicle

@sfchronicle

11 months

A Marin County supervisor said the hope is to cut the camp’s population of about 90 residents in half within two years and empty it in three. “The ultimate goal is to get people housed,” supervisor Eric Lucan said.

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@NickBergSF

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@becauseberkeley Agree. I would have raised you to be better than this.

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@NickBergSF

1 year

@StanleyRoberts In any small town, people would have assisted. But, near an open-air drug market, it's hard to expect personal risk taking from average citizens. There is no social order to defend.

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@NickBergSF

5 months

In practice, UCSF's "Housing First" policies enable drug addiction - creating unsafe, unhealthy, undignified places where people persist in their addiction until they overdose and die alone.

UCSF Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative

@ucsfbhhi

5 months

We envision a world in which everyone has a safe place to live, and communities can flourish in health, equity, and dignity. Help make this vision a reality as our new Policy Director! Join us: #PolicyLeadership #HealthEquity #HousingAdvocacy

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@NickBergSF

10 months

If you give away free apartments with NO sobriety requirements, those units will get trashed. Housing First doesn’t work! @ucsfbhhi

bluoz

@auweia1

10 months

Homeless Oversight Commission 9.7.23 HSH - 260 units taken offline and need a large amount of work because they have 'heavy heavy damage'

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@NickBergSF

1 year

Perfect example of “Incentives Matter” “San Francisco’s status as a sanctuary city makes it more attractive to the Honduran dealers, some of them said, because it means a lower risk of lengthy jail time and deportation if convicted.”

This is the hometown of San Francisco’s drug dealers

One area in Honduras is the hometown of a stunningly high number of people who, fleeing poverty and violence, migrate to San Francisco, where they ultimately sell drugs.

www.sfchronicle.com

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@NickBergSF

1 year

Public use of drugs and public intoxication have always been crimes. We just stopped enforcement. Our intentions were good, but we failed to consider the incentives and 2nd order outcomes it would create. The Era of Enablement has been a disaster. Time to turn the car around.

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@NickBergSF

1 year

I'm pleading with you as a housing provider - we can't do our jobs without the resident being sober. If you give away free condos with NO sobriety requirement, it results in property damage, pests, nuisance issues, unsustainable & never-ending costs, and overdose deaths.

Senator Scott Wiener

@Scott_Wiener

1 year

@MKushel : “I’m pleading with you as a healthcare provider - we can’t do our jobs without housing… if you try to fix those other things without fixing housing, our hands are really tied behind our backs.”

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I’m looking for help with the following data: 1) What day of the month is $687/mo in Cash General Assistance in San Francisco paid out? 2) SF overdose deaths for each day over the past few months.

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@NickBergSF

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@adamjohnsonNYC The anatomy of a viral “everything in the City is fine; stop complaining” screed: 1) Gaslight residents by claiming that, despite what we can see with our own eyes, the street conditions in San Francisco aren’t so bad. 2) Rebrand the epidemic of severe drug addiction as

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6 months

LA Times just endorsed the re-election of DA George Gascon, a radical pro-criminal, anti-police progressive prosecutor. How did LA’s “paper of record” devolve into the “breaker of social order”?

Endorsement: Reelect George Gascón as Los Angeles County district attorney

L.A. Dist. Atty. George Gascón is making the criminal justice reforms voters elected him to carry out. Ignore the law enforcement establishment's resistance and keep him on the job.

www.latimes.com

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@NickBergSF

1 year

In other words, “the Homeless Industrial Complex has a financial incentive to endlessly perpetuate homelessness, not solve it and put themselves out of business.

Stephen Martin-Pinto for District 7 Supervisor SF

@StephenMPinto

1 year

Former mayor Willie Brown: [the homeless problem] is not designed to be solved, it is designed to be perpetuated...

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@NickBergSF

8 months

Drug Consumption Sites are NOT “living rooms” where people “can be human”. They are DRUG DENS that enable addicts to continue destroying their lives and the lives of their families. These sites are inhumane.

Rachel Winograd

@rayraywino

9 months

On SF’s Tenderloin center: “The living room area was key. Places people could be human. We heard from a lot of folks this was the only physical space in their lives they could just BE” 💜 @suenlw at #AMERSA2023

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@NickBergSF

1 year

Imagine that you are a drug addict. Your primary drive is to obtain cash benefits (to buy drugs), do urban camping (to eliminate housing expenses) & feed your addiction full-time. Which Bay Area city would you move to? I don’t have to say it. You already know the answer.

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@NickBergSF

6 months

Kelly doesn’t understand that giving everyone a free apartment is prohibitively expensive, attracts drug tourists, removes incentivizes for independent living, enables addiction, results in property damage, and leaves people to overdose and die alone.

Kelly Doran MD MHS

@KellyMDoran

6 months

Sweeps don’t work. What does work? Supportive housing. Here’s a new study showing that people placed in supportive housing are significantly more likely to be able to refill & remain adherent to their prescription medications versus a comparison group.

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Nick Berg 盧柏格

@NickBergSF

2 years

Unpopular opinion: Downtown San Francisco won’t be saved by @Benioff . 👎 Advocated for Prop C which increased incentives for drug tourists. 👎 Funds @ucsfbhhi that pushes “Housing First” 👎 Allows employees at Salesforce to continue working from home

This half-empty office tower could help transform downtown San Francisco

What if the co-CEO of Salesforce took one of his towers and filled it with housing and...

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Nick Berg 盧柏格

@NickBergSF

1 year

We need "Shelter-first, Housing-earned, NO urban camping". Encampments are a dangerous fire hazard.

London Breed

@LondonBreed

1 year

The cause of yesterday’s fire in Hayes Valley is still under investigation. While there is always a rush to judge what the cause may be, we must allow our investigators to do their jobs. However, I want to address concerns raised by the neighbors about nearby encampments.

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Nick Berg 盧柏格

@NickBergSF

6 months

It’s a drug epidemic. Do you really believe that we can solve this by giving away free homes with no sobriety requirements? It’s never going to work. There is inexhaustible demand across the nation for free homes where you be a full-time drug addict.

Kelly Doran MD MHS

@KellyMDoran

6 months

Moderator @TracieMGardner brings it home with this summary: "We *know* that housing works and it's just astounding that it's still being questioned." (2/2)

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Nick Berg 盧柏格

@NickBergSF

2 years

Why is San Francisco a popular destination for drug tourists? Answer 👇 from @theallinpod with @ShellenbergerMD

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@NickBergSF

1 year

Someone in San Francisco less than a year is NOT from SF. ~50% are from elsewhere per self-reported data. Real number is much higher.

The San Francisco Standard

@sfstandard

1 year

Where unhoused people are originally from plays into debates about how to tailor city services, namely access to permanent housing.

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Nick Berg 盧柏格

@NickBergSF

5 months

Many WANT a free apartment with no rules where they can use drugs. Cities will never solve this problem by granting the wishes of the nation's addicts. They will only make conditions worse by attracting more.

UCSF Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative

@ucsfbhhi

5 months

“I get people are frustrated but what they should be is really, really concerned,” says John Brady of @LivedAdvisers . Instead of asking, “How can we force people?” @annymoliva suggests asking, "What can we build that people want?”

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Nick Berg 盧柏格

@NickBergSF

4 months

The San Francisco mayor's race won't be decided on housing policy. The winner will be the candidate who explains how they will remove incentives and create disincentives for addicts who migrate here, use drugs full-time, camp on our sidewalks, and boost from our stores.

Dustin Gardiner

@dustingardiner

4 months

The race for San Francisco mayor is now all about housing. @AaronPeskin jumping in gives @LondonBreed ’s allies exactly the foil they wanted to run a YIMBY-focused campaign

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@NickBergSF

1 year

@Scott_Wiener You forgot to condemn making threats and physical menacing of our retail workers.

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@NickBergSF

7 months

If you believe any of these “studies” conducted by biased non-profits using flawed survey data, then I have a bridge to sell you.

San Francisco Chronicle

@sfchronicle

7 months

In a preliminary report, a San Francisco nonprofit and USC researchers found that giving unhoused people $750 a month made them less likely to be unsheltered.

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Nick Berg 盧柏格

@NickBergSF

2 years

This is drug tourism. The incentives in San Francisco (cash assistance, harm reduction, housing first) are well-intended. But, they attract and enable folks from elsewhere who want to live in addiction for free.

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Nick Berg 盧柏格

@NickBergSF

5 months

Giving the Homeless Industrial Complex more money and more housing facilities will make the problem WORSE, not better. They want to incentivize drug tourism, not solve it.

UCSF Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative

@ucsfbhhi

5 months

Happening now: “The homeless services system is working hard to manage a crisis they didn’t create–and can’t solve–without sustained investments in increasing the supply of deeply #affordablehousing ,” @MKushel tells CA Assembly Committees: #endhomelessness

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Nick Berg 盧柏格

@NickBergSF

1 year

There are certain institutions that are unpleasant, but necessary for civil order. It’s a bad idea to tear them down without superior alternatives working at scale. In particular: ▪️Mental Institutions ▪️Prisons ▪️Police ▪️District Attorneys ▪️Penalties for shoplifting

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@NickBergSF

2 years

Apparently, we shouldn’t have a SFPD reality show because the public will see: 👮‍♀️Cops doing heroic & important work. Inspiring some into law enforcement careers. 🦹‍♂️ Criminals who need accountability. Much better if they keep us in the dark and feed us 💩

Why the last thing San Francisco needs in 2023 is an SFPD reality show

Jurisdictions across the country have canceled their contract with ride-along shows in...

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Nick Berg 盧柏格

@NickBergSF

1 year

What percentage of fires in San Francisco originate from urban campers? Why isn’t the SF fire chief speaking out about it?

SAN FRANCISCO FIRE DEPARTMENT MEDIA

@SFFDPIO

1 year

SF fire chief doesn’t want driverless cars in the city – NBC Bay Area

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Nick Berg 盧柏格

@NickBergSF

1 year

Pamela Price makes a fair point - the voters are partially to blame.

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@NickBergSF

5 months

Thank you, @sfstandard for finally confirming what many of us have been saying: Homeless encampments are a major fire hazard!

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@NickBergSF

1 year

@Sharkyl 💯% agree. Henceforth, I will be referring to folks like those pictured as “public campers”, not as “homeless people”.

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@NickBergSF

10 months

Yes! We deserve to know how much of the “homelessness” we see is actually “drug tourism”. Former addresses must be verified. Don’t solely rely on self-reported surveys like @ucsfbhhi .

Matt Dorsey

@mattdorsey

10 months

“Notably, no one was from San Francisco.” That’s what @SaraSidnerCNN reported about drug scenes and camps she visited for @CNN ’s special last May, “What Happened to San Francisco?” We need rigorous data analysis and reporting to fully quantify “drug tourism” in our City… 1/3

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@NickBergSF

1 year

@LondonBreed By "unpermitted vending", she means "fencing of goods that drug addicts shoplifted from our retail stores".

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@NickBergSF

2 years

Giving away free apartments with no sobriety requirements is not economically feasible, creates “magnet effect” on troubled people from elsewhere, and fails to consider the severe toll that treatment-refusing addicts inflict on the property & neighbors.

8 ways to improve San Francisco housing for homeless people

San Francisco SROs, or single-room-occupancy hotels, often fail to help formerly homeless people due to ramshackle conditions. Here's what it would take to build better housing.

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@NickBergSF

2 years

The Enablement of Addicts has been far worse than the War on Drugs.

Paul

@netfire4

2 years

@GabeFerreiraD3 @mattdorsey What obviously isn't working is the longtime abysmally failed #WarOnDrugs . Evidence shows it exacerbates drug usage, addiction, overdoses lawlessness and organized violence in our community. #EndTheWarOnDrugs and follow the evidence for a safer society.

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Nick Berg 盧柏格

@NickBergSF

8 months

“Evidence-based policies” and “Data-driven decisions” are doublespeak phrases. The Homeless Industrial Complex use them to deceive the public into believing that their methods are tested and proven using the scientific method. Alas, they’re not.

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@NickBergSF

2 years

@DeanPreston It’s a wake up call that @TheCoalitionSF has been playing us. ✅ We can’t clear encampments unless we have sufficient shelter capacity under Boise v Martin. ❌ We don’t have sufficient shelter capacity because the homeless non-profits advocate for permanent housing, not shelter.

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@NickBergSF

11 months

UCSF will be creating more propaganda for the Homeless Industrial Complex.

UCSF Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative

@ucsfbhhi

11 months

We are thrilled to partner with @TheOpEdProject to help align the public narrative with the real challenges our homeless community members are facing. Meet the team: Get updates: #EndHomelessness #NewNarrative

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Nick Berg 盧柏格

@NickBergSF

6 months

“We are enabling [drug addiction]”

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@NickBergSF

1 year

@LeeHepner Counterpoint: Driverless cars are far safer than human drivers and will ultimately be able to perfectly coordinate with each other reducing gridlock. Certain bus lines will become obsolete just as those bus lines made certain trolley lines obsolete a century ago.

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Nick Berg 盧柏格

@NickBergSF

1 year

@alanburradell $19,500,000 Hotel Whitcomb $3,750,000 Kimpton Buchanan $2,900,000 Tilden Hotel $5,362,325 Hotel Union Square $3,367,576 Hotel Vertigo $4,692,008 Americania Hotel $762,965 Executive Hotel Vintage Court Total: $40,334,874

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@NickBergSF

1 year

If you give away free apartments with no sobriety requirements to drug addicts, they WILL cause severe property damage. This is one of the reasons that “Housing First” is economically infeasible.

Gina_Mothers Against Drug Addiction & Deaths

@Gina_McDee

1 year

Hotel Vertigo gettin' it's $3.6 MILLION in damages from @sfgov after being used as a SIP hotel. Tell me how housing solves everything?

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