Another failed liberal program: San Francisco Closes Their $22 Million Experimental Open-Air Drug Market

[JGalt]

Their experimental Tenderloin Emergency Initiative was supposed to help the city with their homeless and drug addict problem. It served 400 people a day with a meal, shower, and a safe space off the street to take drugs, at a cost of $55,000 per person.

But the results were less than 1% of visitors were helped, and it had no impact on overall homelessness.

"Earlier this year San Francisco declared a state of emergency in the Tenderloin district. Part of that effort involved the creation of a new “linkage center” so named because it was intended to link the homeless and drug addicts on the streets to needed services.

Shortly after it was set up, Michael Shellenberger wrote that the Linkage Center had become the city’s leading open-air drug market.

By June, Mayor London Breed announced that the linkage center would be closing.

The center’s last day was Sunday. So did it accomplish anything? The San Francisco Chronicle reports the answer is that it was a mixed bag at best. It may have helped a few hundred homeless people get through the day but there’s not much evidence it had an impact on homelessness overall."

San Francisco's Tenderloin Center closes - did it do any good?

 

[Fueri]

That didn't work?

I. Am. Shocked. That creating a nexus for drug activity didn't result in rainbows flying out of everyone's ass.

Maybe now they can bring together all of the smash and grab gangs for an open air flea market, so they can maximize their profits and, therefore, improve their 'situations'.