San Francisco's Crumbled

We usually play the clip "San Francisco's crumblin" but it appears it has already crumbled. Also, you'll hear a clip of a homeless guy who is happy right where he is, enjoying the fresh air. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Why are you flipping me off?

Speaker 2 (00:01):
Bro?

Speaker 3 (00:01):
Why are you taking my picture of bro?

Speaker 2 (00:03):
Because there should be housing for you.

Speaker 1 (00:05):
I don't want housing then, so what do you want?
Just to sit here?

Speaker 2 (00:09):
Then?

Speaker 3 (00:09):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (00:10):
My country ain't it?

Speaker 2 (00:12):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (00:12):
But this is a sanitary we all live here. What
gives you more right than me?

Speaker 2 (00:16):
It's an unsanitary Look what do you mean you should
want better for yourself?

Speaker 1 (00:22):
I like you, like this, I like the fresh air.

Speaker 2 (00:26):
No, I got you, but we all have to. What
if somebody's handicap and they need to get by, they
can't They got thirty six inches.

Speaker 3 (00:32):
Somebody on a mobile.

Speaker 2 (00:33):
Bike can't get through here, got thirty six So your
freedom's more important than somebody else's six No, See, this
is the problem. You think you're more important to somebody
else to sit.

Speaker 1 (00:43):
Here and talk to the homeless guy and hold up traffic.
Maybe somebody's gotta go to the hock brow.

Speaker 4 (00:49):
You see that?

Speaker 1 (00:50):
Well, I knew he knows the regulations. I mean, he
knows how many inches of the sidewalk he has to
leave free to continue to live outside urban camper.

Speaker 4 (01:01):
So that's from crumbling La. This from San Francisco, which
is crumbled. The metal guy needs to do. We have
the San Francisco's Crumbling song.

Speaker 1 (01:11):
Michael, Yeah, I'll grab all that stuff.

Speaker 4 (01:13):
Well, it doesn't matter, you don't need it. The problem
is that it's no longer crumbling. It's crumbled. San Francisco's
crumbled past tense, Yeah, yeah, exactly. New data released by
the San Francisco Department of Emergency Management on Thursday found
that fifty four percent of homeless people in the city
decline shelter, a figure that's been touted by many's helping
explain why San Francisco's homeless problem has gotten worse in

(01:35):
recent years. It's from the fabulous California Globe.

Speaker 1 (01:38):
I realize this is radio, but I need to scrunch
up my I'm shocked face.

Speaker 3 (01:46):
Oh look at him.

Speaker 4 (01:47):
He's clearly shocked.

Speaker 3 (01:48):
Friends, you're telling me there are people on the street
that don't actually want shelter. Whahwy fifty four percent. For years,
the number of homeless and San Francisco has gone steadily
up well, figures ten fluctuate due to the complexities of
the city and counties of the Bay Area, et cetera.
Homeless in this in general has gone up significantly since

(02:09):
late two thousands. In twenty twenty three, San Francisco has
on an average night, thirty four hundred homeless in shelter
beds and another forty four hundred on the street.

Speaker 1 (02:20):
That's not even.

Speaker 4 (02:21):
Close to where larger cities are at, with Los Angeles
alone currently standing at forty six thousand in the city proper.
People who don't spend a lot of time in the
Bay Area don't understand that San Francisco. It's a big town,
but it's not like a super big city. The Bay
Area is a huge metropolitan area, but San Francisco itself
is kind of a medium sized city.

Speaker 3 (02:41):
I was just trying to think, you know, to the
because San Francisco is one of the most expensive cities
in the world. It's only one of the most expensive
places you can live in the United States, And I
think it, why is it?

Speaker 1 (02:55):
Because the excuse always given is that, you know, affordable housing,
that's what we need. We need affordable housing.

Speaker 4 (03:04):
As soon as I have an apartment, I'm gonna give
up this ventanyl habit, that's for sure.

Speaker 5 (03:09):
But why why can't somebody win the argument with thing?
And I realize if you don't live in the Bay
Area and these towns won't mean anything to you. But
if you live in Richmond, why aren't you living in Pleasanton?
Well I can't.

Speaker 3 (03:27):
If you live in Pleasanton, why are you not living
in Walnut Creek Because I can't afford to. If you
live in Walnut Creek, why are you not living in
Marin Because that's another step more expensive I can't afford to.
But and everybody would agree that that makes sense, including
the people in all those towns I just mentioned. But
if you do it on a macro level of people

(03:47):
on the street, why can't you apply it? Then they
can't afford to live here, right, And so you gotta
go somewhere else.

Speaker 4 (03:57):
I know, I know, you need to utterly ignore reality
to be a progressive. That is like to get in
the door. That's the first requirement.