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Religious Leaders Reveal City Policy ‘At War With Itself’
A coalition of San Francisco’s religious leaders joined together yesterday to reveal the results of months of study on the city’s homeless policy. The results, they said, depicted an administration simultaneously working to house as many homeless people as possible while criminalizing those they lack the resources to serve. Speakers not only decried the 31,230 ‘quality of life’ citations delivered in the past two and a half years for behaviors like sleeping outdoors or possessing an open container as ‘spiritually bankrupt’ – they also pointed out it cost taxpayers $5.7 million, and that 80 percent of the citations were dismissed. In addition, a civil rights lawyer was on hand to show that these citations often prevent homeless people from getting the housing they so desperately need, revealing a city policy working simultaneously to create housing opportunities, then take these opportunities away. “It’s a policy in this city at war with itself,” said Reverend Schuyler Rhodes.
A coalition of San Francisco’s religious leaders joined together yesterday to reveal the results of months of study on the city’s homeless policy. The results, they said, depicted an administration simultaneously working to house as many homeless people as possible while criminalizing those they lack the resources to serve. Speakers not only decried the 31,230 ‘quality of life’ citations delivered in the past two and a half years for behaviors like sleeping outdoors or possessing an open container as ‘spiritually bankrupt’ – they also pointed out it cost taxpayers $5.7 million, and that 80 percent of the citations were dismissed. In addition, a civil rights lawyer was on hand to show that these citations often prevent homeless people from getting the housing they so desperately need, revealing a city policy working simultaneously to create housing opportunities, then take these opportunities away. “It’s a policy in this city at war with itself,” said Reverend Schuyler Rhodes.
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