How Bad Is San Francisco's Homeless Problem?
Heritage Explains
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4.7 • 847 Ratings
🗓️ 16 January 2020
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
Last month, President Donald Trump tweeted that San Francisco, California has "rapidly become one of the worst anywhere in the U.S. when it comes to the homeless and crime." The homeless situation is so bad that there are maps dedicated to alerting the public where there is human feces or needles on the street. In this episode Katrina Trinko, editor-in-chief of The Daily Signal, discusses her reporting on what the streets of San Francisco are really like.
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| 0:00.0 | From the Heritage Foundation, I'm Michelle Cordero, and this is Heritage Explains. |
| 0:19.9 | Home to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's congressional district, San Francisco is reliably blue in every election. |
| 0:30.0 | In just the past year, the city's board of supervisors declared the National Rifle Association to be a domestic terror organization, and the school board |
| 0:40.8 | voted to hide a mural of George Washington in one of the city's high schools. |
| 0:47.2 | But this is the norm for San Francisco, who in the past decade has also banned fast food restaurants |
| 0:53.2 | from including toys with most |
| 0:55.3 | children's meals, prohibited city-funded travel by local employees to 22 pro-life states, |
| 1:02.2 | and raised the minimum wage from $9.79 to $15.59 an hour. And last month, President Donald Trump tweeted that San Francisco has rapidly become one of the |
| 1:16.7 | worst anywhere in the United States when it comes to homelessness and crime. |
| 1:21.6 | The homeless situation is so bad that there are maps dedicated to alerting the public about where there's human feces or needles on the street. |
| 1:32.9 | The conditions in Nancy Pelosi's once great city of San Francisco are deplorable. |
| 1:40.8 | They're deplorable. |
| 1:42.9 | Kate Trinco, editor-in-chief of The Daily Signal, Heritage's multimedia news organization, grew up in the Bay Area, and decided to see if the situation was really that bad and report on her findings. |
| 1:56.0 | Kate's article inspired this week's episode, and after this short break, we'll chat with her about what San Francisco streets are really like. |
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