Did anyone else read this weekend's article in The Chronicle, celebrating the five-year anniversary of Care Not Cash? SF Mayor Newsom, who jump started the program that cut monthly $422 welfare checks to $65 in exchange for residential hotel lodging, declared it a victory, saying he's helped rid SF of "9,293 homeless people." City streets, however, have actually seen "a slight rise over the past four years." And for those of you with working eyeballs, panhandling has definitely increased on city streets, because Care Not Cash recipients now have very little, you know, cash. more ›