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Podcast: News For Reasonable People
Episode: #2,634 - SF’s ‘Bus the Homeless Out of Town’ Strategy Now Catching On With Other California Cities
Description: A few other California cities are duplicating San Francisco’s tactic to merely hand the homeless a one-way bus ticket out of town, not because it's proven to be a particularly effective strategy, but more because it's just cheap and easy.
The San Francisco strategy to put a dent in the homeless population by just handing unsheltered people a one-way bus ticket out of town has been around for about 20 years (one shelter resident described it to the Examiner in 2016, as the “Get your ass out of here” program). But the SF Board of Superv...