Post by High Priestess on Nov 14, 2018 17:56:26 GMT
Airbnb will be donating $5 million over the next 3 years to help with the homeless problem in San Francisco, which is among the worst homeless situations in all of the US.
This would be nice if throwing more and more money at a problem could result in fixing the problem. But according to Gavin Newsom, former mayor of SF and now the new Governor of California, throwing more money at homelessness is NOT what is needed to solve this problem. He understands that more money thrown at it can just result in attracting more homeless to SF to take that money and what it provides. What's really needed is smart policy, and this is what has been sorely lacking in many cities.