When he was the mayor of San Francisco in 2008, Gavin Newsom announced a ten-year plan to “end chronic homelessness” in the city. This was a big challenge, Newsom said, and that’s why it would take a decade — longer than it took us to land the first men on the moon after Kennedy promised to do so. But after ten years, Newsom insisted, the residents of San Francisco would finally be able to enjoy their city without hordes of junkies and prostitutes and mentally ill vagrants wandering around downtown and defecating on everything. Watch:
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