“Homelessness” is a myth. It’s not about the cost of housing, it’s mostly a combination of mental illness and drug and alcohol abuse.

This is why in San Francisco, caring for the homeless involves handing out free pot and booze.

The San Francisco Health Department claims that handing out drugs and booze to junkies with coronavirus is actually a “harm reduction practice” that has “significant individual and public health benefits”.

And, best of all, the same Health Department waging a campaign against smoking is providing the tobacco, along with “medical cannabis”, and “medically appropriate amounts of alcohol”.

“Our behavioral health experts are offering services every day, medication assisted treatment including nicotine and opiate replacement, behavioral health counseling,” Dr. Grant Colfax, Obama’s former National AIDS Policy Director, gushed, “and in cases where people decide that they are going to continue to use, our focus is using the best evidence to help people manage their addictions.”

“It is a mystery why the homeless are coming to San Francisco,” the San Francisco Chronicle wondered.

The cost of the free booze for bums is adding up to $5 million a year.

The City of San Francisco is handing out bottles of beer, glasses of wine and shots of vodka to homeless alcoholics – and spending $5m a year on the program.

Nurses assess patients and typically serve them the equivalent of 1-2 drinks between three and four times a day — handing out either 1.7 ounces of vodka or liquor (about a shot), 5 ounces of wine (1 glass) or 12 ounces of beer – about three-quarters of a pint.

“Nurses.” Is that what we’re calling it now?

San Francisco now faces a nearly quarter of a billion-dollar deficit.

Budget officials told the Board of Supervisors in a January hearing that San Francisco is projected to face a $245 million deficit in the coming fiscal year, which starts in July, and a $555 million deficit in the following year.

I know where they can find $5 million in cuts.

“Our families know about balancing budgets, having to make hard choices. But the choices are different for different parts of our city,” Maria Zamudio, interim executive director of the Housing Rights Committee of San Francisco, said at the rally.

“Some people are choosing between … different kinds of milk at the coffee shop, and our families are choosing whether they pay rent or food or medicine,” Zamudio noted.

Fact check. We have a choice being buying food or paying taxes to San Francisco’s homeless industrial complex can buy booze for bums.