San Francisco plans to move homeless people out of the city

San Francisco’s Democratic mayor issued an executive order Thursday aimed at removing homeless people from the city.

According to ABC 7 News, Mayor London Breed’s executive order directs city employees to offer bus passes to homeless people before any other service. Breed stated that homeless people will be offered relocation services because shelters and housing options are already at capacity.

Breed said in the order that a recent study “found that 40 percent of the homeless in San Francisco did not live here before arriving.” A January study found that there were 8,323 homeless people living in San Francisco.

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Breed said in the order that the city must “take more aggressive and targeted action” when dealing with homeless people who “cyclically cycle in and out of city-funded programs without accountability or a clear path to stable housing and care.”

Most of the city’s homeless people are not from San Francisco, and some flock to the city because they know they will receive services, Breed noted in the order. Breed said the city “cannot continue to ask San Francisco residents to support the needs of individuals who come here solely for care.”

“A lot of people come here thinking that San Francisco is going to be a great state for them to live and thrive in, but they actually leave home because they think they’ll find something here for themselves,” Donna Hilliard, executive director of the nonprofit Code Tenderloin told ABC 7 News.

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Breed’s “journey home” program includes three directives that include offering relocation services before offering housing, training first responders on information about the program and tracking down those who refuse to offer relocation services, according to the order. Breed ordered the directives to be completed by Sept. 1, 2024.

“San Francisco will always lead with compassion, but we cannot allow our compassion to be exploited,” Breed said in the order. “We will not be the city that has the reputation of solving housing and behavioral health problems for people across the country.”

Breed’s office deferred issuing a press release to the Daily Caller News Foundation.

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