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A few years back, the city of San Fran spent MILLIONS of dollars to make sure that homeless people were allowed to stay homeless. They’ve fought anti-panhanding laws and other efforts to try to get their growing homeless population under control. Now, they have LOTS of homeless people and it looks like the homeless are moving into the neighborhoods and the homeowners are becoming a bit less tolerant.

‘Enough is enough,’ S.F. says of homeless
Residents of a famously liberal city appear to be changing views

San Francisco - the liberal, left-coast city conservatives love to mock - could be undergoing a transformation when it comes to homeless people. Although the city would still be a poor choice for a pep rally for the war in Iraq, indications are that residents have had it with aggressive panhandlers, street squatters and drug users.

Consider the case of David Kiely, who has lived in the South of Market area for 18 years. He bought a home when prices were low and now lives there with his wife, Jenny, and their three boys, ages 7, 4 and 1. Kiely insists “we’re not some white, yuppie parents saying we can’t take this.” In fact, he says, they donate to programs for homeless people at Glide Memorial Methodist Church and the food bank at St. Anthony Dining Room. But he’s finally saying “enough is enough.”

“I don’t expect it to be Cow Hollow or Pacific Heights,” he says. “But the other day Jenny is bringing the kids back from the park, and some guy is standing on the corner throwing up on himself.”

Trent Rhorer, executive director of San Francisco’s Human Services Agency, is at ground zero for homelessness concerns. He’s heard it from local residents at meetings, he’s read the polls, and he noted the huge response to Chronicle columns about the homeless people and intravenous drug users in Golden Gate park. Like others, he thinks there’s been a change in the way San Franciscans think the homelessness problem should be approached.

“Maybe,” Rhorer says, “you just need a guy with a badge standing over them and saying, you can’t stay there any more.”

Read the entire article. It shows the pathetic failures of liberal social policy. It shows how quick liberals are to change their tune when they themselves become inconvenienced.

It’s hard for these libs to admit that their approach has failed and that a more conservative policy would have been better to adopt. In fact, they won’t admit it. They want to make sure that you understand that they still hate George Bush and that they aren’t changing that much. Here is the leftie line of the week:

“Maybe there has been an epiphany,” says David Latterman, president of Fall Line Analytics, a local market research firm. “People have realized they can hate George Bush but still not want people crapping in their doorway.”

It would be asking too much of them to admit that if they adopted conservative principles to begin with, they wouldn’t have had those people crapping in their doorway to begin with