After A Lawsuit By Residents, San Francisco Finally Cleans Homeless Camps Out Of The Tenderloin Districthttps://hotair.com/archives/john-s-2/2020/07/03/lawsuit-residents-san-francisco-finally-cleans-homeless-camps-tenderloin-district/The coronavirus pandemic was (and still is) a potential disaster for the homeless. In San Francisco, the city was forced to reduce the number of homeless people in each of the city’s shelters to prevent them from becoming hotspots for the virus. But doing that meant a lot more people living on the streets. In the Tenderloin district, the number of tents went from 158 on March 3 to 391 by May 1. Even the police officers who normally handle drug-dealing in the area were pulled out creating a defacto lawless zone, a homeless version of Seattle’s CHOP. And just as happened with CHOP, local residents quickly got fed up and filed a lawsuit against the city:
The suit alleges that by allowing sidewalks in the Tenderloin to be taken over by drug sales, crowds of drug users and homeless tent encampments, the city is threatening the health and lives of Tenderloin residents and helping drive merchants out of business…
UC Hastings College, which has several facilities in the Tenderloin District, says it has spent nearly $70,000 on increased security in the first month of the COVID-19 public health order along with an extra $2,100 a week in cleaning services such as power-washing and trash pickup around its facilities, according to the complaint.
The lawsuit wasn’t seeking any money, just action by the city. Soon after it was filed, the city sent cops back into the area and began making drug arrests but they weren’t clearing any sidewalks. Finally in June the city struck a deal with the plaintiffs, agreeing to clean up 70% of the tents by July 20. That day still hasn’t arrived yet but the city is already most of the way toward the goal after a three week push that took nearly 500 homeless people off the streets:
UC Hastings College is a college of ...... law. SF's Tenderloin is not a restaurant district. It has two strikes against it: it's in SF; it's the Tenderloin. Every city (+/- 5%) has it's area filled with drunks, druggies, seedy bars and other decay and detritus. SF's version is the Tenderloin.
