UN Expert says San Francisco reminds her of Indian slums
Posted by Leslie Eastman Sunday, July 7, 2019 at 2:00pm
A longtime United Nations envoy would disagree. She recently visited the Bay Area and was astonished by what she saw.
When Leilani Farha paid a visit to San Francisco in January, she knew the grim reputation of the city’s homeless encampments. In her four years as the United Nations Special Rapporteur for Adequate Housing, Farha has visited the slums of Mumbai, Delhi, Mexico City, Jarkarta, and Manila. The crisis in San Francisco, she said, is comparable to these conditions.
. . . . At one point on her trip, Farha encountered a young man living underneath a highway underpass, cooking quesadillas on a small stove with an open flame.
“The last time I had seen someone cooking on the sidewalk like that was in India, with the pavement dwellers there, and here I am in San Francisco in a state with the sixth largest GDP in the world,†said Farha.
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