Doug

Again, this is the city that has the lowest homelessness rate of any major US city, about 70 million a year. San Francisco spends 850 million a year on homelessness. It is an astronomical amount. You could buy entire homes for people almost with that amount of money.

Again, this is the city that has the lowest homelessness rate of any major US city, about 70 million a year. San Francisco spends 850 million a year on homelessness. It is an astronomical amount. You could buy entire homes for people almost with that amount of money.

Again, this is the city that has the lowest homelessness rate of any major US city, about 70 million a year. San Francisco spends 850 million a year on homelessness. It is an astronomical amount. You could buy entire homes for people almost with that amount of money.

They're buying... I mean, unironically, that's what's happening. If you spend... And we're going to get into this and all this process.

They're buying... I mean, unironically, that's what's happening. If you spend... And we're going to get into this and all this process.

They're buying... I mean, unironically, that's what's happening. If you spend... And we're going to get into this and all this process.

Yeah, and it's this fucking tragedy, man. So again, Houston, lowest homelessness rate of any major US city. They estimate it costs $17,000 to $19,000 to house a homeless resident in Houston. In San Francisco, the estimated cost is $40,000 to $47,000. So it's just over twice as much. In Houston, the median home costs a bit over $300,000. In San Francisco, it's $1.7 million.

Yeah, and it's this fucking tragedy, man. So again, Houston, lowest homelessness rate of any major US city. They estimate it costs $17,000 to $19,000 to house a homeless resident in Houston. In San Francisco, the estimated cost is $40,000 to $47,000. So it's just over twice as much. In Houston, the median home costs a bit over $300,000. In San Francisco, it's $1.7 million.

Yeah, and it's this fucking tragedy, man. So again, Houston, lowest homelessness rate of any major US city. They estimate it costs $17,000 to $19,000 to house a homeless resident in Houston. In San Francisco, the estimated cost is $40,000 to $47,000. So it's just over twice as much. In Houston, the median home costs a bit over $300,000. In San Francisco, it's $1.7 million.

So it's like, yeah, no shit. If you make home absolutely obscenely expensive, you make housing expensive, people are going to fall through the cracks. And it doesn't matter if you pour almost a billion dollars into homelessness and you have like a thousand NGOs and nonprofits giving people support, which I've personally seen in San Francisco. It doesn't matter if you don't provide housing.

So it's like, yeah, no shit. If you make home absolutely obscenely expensive, you make housing expensive, people are going to fall through the cracks. And it doesn't matter if you pour almost a billion dollars into homelessness and you have like a thousand NGOs and nonprofits giving people support, which I've personally seen in San Francisco. It doesn't matter if you don't provide housing.

So it's like, yeah, no shit. If you make home absolutely obscenely expensive, you make housing expensive, people are going to fall through the cracks. And it doesn't matter if you pour almost a billion dollars into homelessness and you have like a thousand NGOs and nonprofits giving people support, which I've personally seen in San Francisco. It doesn't matter if you don't provide housing.

And so then you probably wonder, why aren't we building housing? You know, housing specifically is like its own kind of rabbit hole about all the policies in place that, which we've touched on a little bit, that incentivize people to not allow housing so that their home prices go up.

And so then you probably wonder, why aren't we building housing? You know, housing specifically is like its own kind of rabbit hole about all the policies in place that, which we've touched on a little bit, that incentivize people to not allow housing so that their home prices go up.

And so then you probably wonder, why aren't we building housing? You know, housing specifically is like its own kind of rabbit hole about all the policies in place that, which we've touched on a little bit, that incentivize people to not allow housing so that their home prices go up.

But I want to highlight some of the sort of stories and instances from this book or that Ezra Klein has been talking about that I think are particularly illuminating and frustrating about how Democrat-led governance isn't doing anything. It's not building anything. So number one, this is a video about Ezra Klein talking. This is actually just broadly about not being built.

But I want to highlight some of the sort of stories and instances from this book or that Ezra Klein has been talking about that I think are particularly illuminating and frustrating about how Democrat-led governance isn't doing anything. It's not building anything. So number one, this is a video about Ezra Klein talking. This is actually just broadly about not being built.

But I want to highlight some of the sort of stories and instances from this book or that Ezra Klein has been talking about that I think are particularly illuminating and frustrating about how Democrat-led governance isn't doing anything. It's not building anything. So number one, this is a video about Ezra Klein talking. This is actually just broadly about not being built.

If I pull up the one with Jon Stewart, he did a... That's somewhere around here. Oh, okay. Elon posted it for some reason. So he talks to Jon Stewart. We don't need the audio here because it's a long clip. You might have heard about the Build Back Better program from Joe Biden. Yeah, let's spend like a trillion dollars on infrastructure and supporting the city. And this sounds great, right?

If I pull up the one with Jon Stewart, he did a... That's somewhere around here. Oh, okay. Elon posted it for some reason. So he talks to Jon Stewart. We don't need the audio here because it's a long clip. You might have heard about the Build Back Better program from Joe Biden. Yeah, let's spend like a trillion dollars on infrastructure and supporting the city. And this sounds great, right?