Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, a city native, has embraced homelessness as a philanthropic cause, pumping millions into a 2018 city measure to tax wealthy companies to pay for homeless services.The five-year initiative funded by Benioff will conduct academic research, provide testimony and fact sheets, and train people who have been homeless as expert speakers. The UCSF Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative will be part of the school’s Center for Vulnerable Populations, led by Margot Kushel.
Some San Francisco residents are frustrated with technology companies like Salesforce, a cloud-based software business, saying they contribute to inequality with high-paying jobs that drive up housing prices. More than 4,000 people sleep on the streets every night in the city, where the median price of a two-bedroom home is $1.3 million. A family of four earning $117,400 a year is considered low income in San Francisco.Benioff approached the university because he wanted officials spending tax money to make decisions with the best data available, Kushel said. The plan is for researchers to study the data and provide neutral, trusted analysis.
The initiative could help a city, for example, decide whether and how to implement an alcohol management program, study the results of that program and then broadly share the information. “We want to be a rapid response team to really help the public,” Kushel said. “This is democratizing data; this is meant to get the data out there.”
Arimari90801427 Our overlords are too greedy to pay people a living wage. This is why many people are homeless even tho they are employed.
Wouldn’t it be funny if a root cause of homelessness ends up having something to do with billionaires?
The root cause Progresses policies / No personal accountability yes been there and done that!!
Root cause is drug addiction. Duh!
You can buy a man a fish. You can teach a man to fish. You can window sit at Red Lobster & wonder why man on street isn't eating fish.
I just face-palmed myself so hard, you'd think I slept on concrete.
Great job.
Drugs? Alcohol? Mental illness? Solution: donated your $30 million to bill shelters, implement drug and alcohol rehab programs, and more treatment programs for mental illness.
Mental illness, addiction, erosion of nuclear family.
He could just pay them a salary
Homelessness: Mental illness, lack of affordable housing, under educated/trained, sudden family or life tradegy & discovering paycheck to paycheck = homelessness when the job is gone, no retirement plan, PTSD. Just to name a few.
Benioff is the non-Dorsey. He could get things rolling. That’s fine with me. Regarding causes for homelessness, extremely complicated, but start with capitalism, lack of mental heath & addiction services, discrimination & profound social apathy and/or fear.
Why not just use that money to build places for homeless people to live? You don’t need to research the various reasons why people become homeless because that’s already known. They need help and resources.
Too many people, too many subsidies, too much government. Close the border, build the wall. End housing subsidies. Deregulate housing. Easy fixes. Your welcome.
psycho-pathology solving problems
He’s either a certified idiot or he’s giving this money to people he likes, or both.
save 29 million...its about mental illness..drug addiction poor economic choices..not know how money works..poor family planning...little ecominc opportunities..no trade schools in the inner city..pls end me my check as soon as possible
That would build a lot of studio apartments, even in San Francisco.
Asinine.
I can give him a clue. DemocratsAreDestroyingAmerica
Drugs, alcohol and mental illness. Just saved you 30 mil. Your welcome.
Psycho is the major issue of homelessness. The root should come drugs. This $ should be used to clean up drugs and illegal criminals enter to 🇺🇸, and build the mental health institutions to keep homeless population in the safer place.
Thats great donate to replacing the failed leadership in the Dem party controlling SF
Wow! Er, I have an answer for you already 😳
Drugs. Check please.
Tryin to get his son in?
We all know what the problem is. All the illegal aliens Democrats friends. Ship the aliens back to where they came from. Get rid of the Democrats problem solved.
such a mystery what could be causing chronic homelessness in the most expensive city in the U.S. maybe a tech billionaire could donate $30 million tax free to find an answer? AnandWrites
Um. Voting democrat is a root cause.
The root cause of US poverty is an imbalanced global economy with aristocrats operating in it, who insist on a corrupted version of capitalism for the US, and free housing, school, infrastructure projects, and healthcare for their own.
He could just.... house them..,
I'll tell him the answers for 1 million.
Why not donate that money to someone OUTSIDE of California to come in and do research on why things are the way they are here and not other states? They’re just moving money around here trying to make themselves feel like they’re buying their way into heaven.
Here’s the root causes of homelessness. The majority of those that are homeless, are homeless by choice!
Reduce Unnecessary Taxes, Cut Spendings and Let the people keep their hard-earned money. 🤷🏽♂️ Don’t waste the $30 million for “research” 🤨
Finally someone helping to solve this important problem. Thank you
Only in Frisco and UCSF buddy
Again, should have just set up a company and built housing
'Behind every great fortune lies a great crime'-Honore de Balzac Today I tried to give a homeless guy in Hollywood $5 he told me to kill myself didn't want it I'd gladly take the $30Ms
Why not give it to the homeless, sounds like something the government would do, study, investigate, and then do nothing.
$30 mil to research? Root cause? People don’t have 🏠 to live in. Solutions? People need 🏠. Not 🚀 science. And it takes a village to take care of people in our own community - no matter where they came from and what their circumstances might be.
The real ticks of society are these so called do gooders who just want research $ to use the homeless to get a job & a home! They're sick people pretending to be nice.
The worst thing is throwing $ into a system that all it does is 'research,' 'investigate,' 'look into,' the problem.
I've been homeless twice and I have a degree, former biz owner. 1. Mentally ill drug addicts 2. Mentally ill alcoholics 3 Bipolar/depression 4 Schitzophrenia 5 Physically disabled under 65 have no where to live or afford a place to rehab at 6 Ex-felons/illegals 7 vets
We already know the cause the real problem is what to do about it
Damn, put that 30 million back in your pocket and help see that the homeless get a liveable wage, before they become homeless.
The root cause is people give up and don`t want to earn your $lave money any more here is what will get people working.
Duh! We already know it’s the white, male patriarchy.
How is a study better than just paying for mental health or alcoholism treatment? Ah, well... it’s his money to spend wisely or waste as he wishes.
That’s how a real rich person helps out, unlike Corrupttrump
Billionaires. Billionaires are the problem. (Not that the money isn’t sorely needed...)
I think to ask the homeless directly, you'll be able to see the commonality of their plight. The problem is veterans are experiencing after returning home, for defending the freedom for the citizens of this country and abroad. The help with PTSD, injuries healthcare availability.
Drugs. You’re welcome.
With 30 million you can buy a lot of houses for them but you won't solve the problem
Make rich people pay MORE TAXES! Ok ? Can I get some of that donated money?
Who else thinks that the $30,000,000 could have better served the homeless if it were given DIRECTLY to them to FEED THEM AND GET THEM OFF THE STREETS?!
the root cause is a system that allows this guy to have billions (and evidently to still be clueless) while others have nothing. what a dipshit.
selfhelp5 I am not an expert and maybe way off base but couldn't $30 designed to create viable jobs and employ people be more effective than more research?
Let’s start with gentrification and people being pushed out and being unable to afford a roof over their head? Oh because cost of living went up but wages stay the same and oh the mess causes other things like depression etc etc etc.. that’s one reason out of many...
Apply that money to housing for the homeless. Wtf We know the root causes and that most homeless prefer that lifestyle.
What a waste of money. He could help them instead.
Root causes are drugs, income disparity, and mental health. Can I get some of that $30 Mil now.
Fatherlessness is the root cause of homelessness. Now give me 30 mill.
What a waste of money
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