Pricey Mother and father Throughout America: Hold Your Youngsters Away From San Francisco

Dear parents across America: Keep your child away from San Francisco.
Dear parents, does your child seek protection from criticism about their drug use, does it suffer from an intellectual disability or does it simply want to live “off the grid”, free from the constraints of societal norms? You shouldn’t be coming to San Francisco.
Be warned: San Francisco officials have been donating taxpayers’ hard-earned money to unaccountable nonprofits in the homelessness and drug addiction sectors to administer programs on their behalf, which has ultimately been ineffective.
Mayor of London Breed speaks at the Women’s March rally on January 18, 2020 in San Francisco, California. (Photo: Sheila Fitzgerald/Shutterstock)
Our Mayor, London Breed, and our Board of Directors (our City Council), which allocates spending, disregard accountability; The town hall refuses to recognize the unscrupulous waste of money. Your child will not receive meaningful care from the city, nor a safe environment in which to rehabilitate, get clean, find a job, or find an apartment. Recently released statistics paint a very bleak picture for those who come (or are lured) to San Francisco to escape a difficult home environment. This is my appeal to parents across America: keep your child from coming to San Francisco.
News reporters, concerned citizen journalists and civic organizations regularly conduct interviews to solicit comments directly from the homeless and drug addicts on the street. Those affected say that many of them have been forced from their homes by their families. Most tell us they understand that San Francisco is the place of choice because our city accepts homelessness, lax law enforcement, monthly financial support, and easy access to cheap medication. California also has a law (Prop. 47) that classifies theft of goods under $950 as a misdemeanor, essentially stating that stores can be looted and theft is not a criminal offense. So I ask you: How long before your child is living in a tent – maybe a camp – in filth, garbage and hazardous waste, being sexually abused or trafficked to take their drug of choice and stealing from our local businesses, with their life then being subsidized by local San Francisco taxpayers?
Unfortunately, people die every day on the streets of San Francisco and in shelters from fentanyl and other highly addictive, dangerous drugs. Overall, more people have died from a fentanyl overdose than from Covid. There is practically no meaningful treatment of street drugs here. none.
The greatest achievement in San Francisco is bringing your child home. Polls and data have consistently found that the best plan is to actually provide individuals with a ticket to get out of town and live with their loved ones through the Homeward Bound program. Statistically, this means that all other treatments and solutions for San Francisco’s distressed, addicted, and homeless people have been unsuccessful. Under a plan devised by former mayor (now governor) Gavin Newsom, Homeward Bound covers travel expenses to transport individuals home. From March 2023, current Mayor London Breed is expanding access to this scheme.
Who pays that? taxpayers do. I do. My hard-earned money goes to the city in the form of property taxes, business taxes, sales taxes, hotel occupancy taxes, parking meters, gas taxes, bridge tolls, and more. We residents are exhausted, we are overwhelmed, and the high costs of homelessness, addiction, drug overdose, and emergency care programs account for a very significant portion of our city’s budget while other agencies, departments, programs, and resident/business and student needs struggle for funding.
Fiscal 2023-2024 deficit forecast at $760 million; for 2024-2025 it will be significantly higher.
Last May 2023, an official meeting of the San Francisco Mayor and Board of Directors (City Council) was held outdoors, but ended early amid a rowdy crowd. Finally, a deranged person from the crowd threw a brick at the mayor. The brick thrower was a 26-year-old transgender woman whose mother had sent her to San Francisco from Texas just a few months earlier. The mother issued a statement to the media shortly afterwards about the violent incident, admitting she knew her daughter was suffering from bipolar disorder – and saying she hoped “San Francisco would take good care of her.” The daughter is currently in prison and faces charges of attempted murder. This is precisely why our roads have become dangerous. For this reason, San Francisco cannot continue to be a city where “difficult” children are sent; we are not a rehabilitation center; We don’t take care of your child.
Our city is in deep trouble on many fronts and moving your child here to depend on local taxpayer funding is unfair, reckless and truly irresponsible and can be deadly. Please talk to your child, your extended family, the health professionals and find an alternative to San Francisco. Please.