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In Not-So-Brilliant Move, San Francisco Spends Over $60,000 per Homeless Tent

In Not-So-Brilliant Move, San Francisco Spends Over $60,000 per Homeless Tent
San Francisco’s first temporary sanctioned tent encampment for the homeless in San Francisco on May 18, 2020. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images
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San Francisco supervisors are all shook up! They just learned that they’re spending about $61,000 per year to put a tent over a homeless person’s head, and they’re not going to be reimbursed by the federal government (FEMA) for their foolish experiment because the tent encampments are considered group shelters.

Tony Hall
Tony Hall
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Tony Hall is a former supervisor for San Francisco's District 7. He has held executive and administrative positions in seven different city departments in all three branches of government over a 33-year period.
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