San Francisco homelessness crisis increases despite $1.1 billion in spending

San Francisco will have spent $1.1 billion on homelessness in the fiscal year 2021–22, which is more than some city's entire operating budgets. Yet homelessness, crime, drug abuse, and the quality of life in the city have only gotten worse.

According to an analysis by the Hoover Institute, since the fiscal year 2016–17, San Francisco has spent over $2.8 billion on homelessness, but year after year, the number of homeless in the city continues to spike, as do opioid overdoses, which outnumber Covid deaths as the city has become one of the most dangerous in the US.

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