In 2004, 37 million people, or 12.7 percent of American population was living as a homeless person, according to the National Coalition for the Homeless. If San Francisco, the 13th-biggest U.S city by population have such a large population of homeless, how much money do they spend of homeless problem compare with money generated by the Super Bowl. An article by Alison Vekshin, “San Francisco nudges homeless away from Super Bowl fan village” is about how the governor is kicking out homeless of the streets that involve in Super Bowl territory. Every year it was close to 1 million people that descend on San Francisco in early February for festivities related to the Super Bowl football game. During the football game there are going to be performances from talented people and fireworks displays. The city plans to send the homeless will head to shelters where they can be connected to social services. They only said that they want to send the homeless somewhere else because the guests do not want to see so much homeless people on the streets. But I wonder how much money is putting out to pay for the homeless people and how it’s generated with the cost of the Super Bowl. After I did my research, I reach upon that about $4.5 billion is spent on the Super Bowl, and every year it goes up and up. The data collected that San Francisco's homeless budget is $167 million, in 2014. So, they are spending more on homeless shelters than on the Super Bowl.
