We see tents and take it for granted -
something we did not ten years ago.
San Francisco is a filthy rich city - we have corporations in San Francisco - here, that make BILLIONS and more.
Yet, these corporations and financial institutions - have no compassion and less empathy for the poor.
The indigent, those that have fallen on bad times - the mentally challenged and the physically challenged.
Seniors, that have severe health problems - those is authority are playing with fire.
God is watching them all - others who act as if they have immense power - mere human beings.
God can strike them down - right here in our City and County of San Francisco - they will fall flat on their face.
From time to time I visit the poor - living in tents in places - where there is no clean drinking water, no toilets, many in filthy conditions - and there is more.
Some ten or fifteen years these human beings - lived in homes - now no more. They see me and feel comfortable to tell me their woes, their trials and tribulations - what they tell me is not pretty.
I see no compassion, no empathy, no consideration, no serious commitment - from our SF Board of Supervisors.
They all seem oblivious to the situation and have all these many years. More those who are seeking higher office - and have show NO intention to represent those that they serve.
There is now talk of building small box homes - from shipping containers - doing the minimum for those that for decades paid their taxes - some illness, some bad luck - set them back - and soon they were found on the streets - trying to survive.
There are hundreds of slow deaths on our street. Many bodies lie in the brand new morgue - built in the Bayview Hunters Point near Heron's Head Park - those in the neighborhood have no clue about the morgue.
Can the SF Health Department - post on the internet - in general how many bodies lie in the morgue - those that have died on the streets of San Francisco?
At this time - Easter Time - we must focus on our spiritual values - more have compassion and empathy - have some feeling - good feeling for those that truly need help.
The SF Planning Department - has been giving folks like the Academy of Art - that has now change its name - a pass. Hundreds of buildings - rent control buildings - were bought by the Academy of Art.
These many rent control buildings - converted into dormitories - to accommodate foreign students - who were hoodwinked that there would be living in apartments - charged a lot of money - this empirical data is there for all to see - and we still give the Academy of Art - a pass.
After 15 years - the SF Planning Department - fined the Academy of Art - back and forth in the courts - while thousands of San Franciscans - were deprived - of decent, rental housing, and that is a crying shame.
Advocates and I am included in that group- again and again voiced our opinion - the many Directors of the SF Planning including the present Director John Rahaim heard us - but truly speaking - the issue has NOT be adjudicated - holistically.
The Ohlone were here for over 13,000 years.
The strangers came - polluted and contaminated all =
that was once pristine and pure.
Thousands of human beings immigrants, gays, those that felt that San Francisco would give them succor - came here to San Francisco - the land of the Ohlone - more the Muwekma Ohlone - and took refuge.
Soon they saw that most San Franciscans - embraced them - that was good - but many could not find a nice place to stay and live like human beings.
The lack of rental units, the very expensive rents, cost prohibitive living - have all resulted - creating a state of emergency - that we see today.
There are certain segments of the population seniors who are treated with disdain, gays who suffer from AIDS, sub-acute patients who have been thrown to the streets, the mentally challenged, the physically challenged - and I have helped many of these human beings.
I simply do not see the compassion and empathy from the SF Health Department - who still use Single Residency Occupancy (SROs) - to help the indigent and poor - many of these SROs - in unkempt conditions.
I am requesting the Director of the SF Health Department - Barbara Garcia to look into these issues - Tomas Aragon who also should do more than just pay lip service.
Many vague and shallow statements have been made - about helping the poor and more those that are very sick - there has been no real action - worth the salt.
Happy Easter to those of you that read my blog - share some love and more compassion - the Great Master said " blessed are the poor for theirs is the kingdom of heaven ". Aho
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