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Originally Posted by Pedestrian
San Francisco is doing this. In fact, the Hastings College of the Law (U/C Berkeley law campus), which is on the fringes of the San Francisco Tenderloin/Civic Center, joined forces with a neighborhood group and sued the city for allowing the proliferation of homeless tent camps and their associated drug dealing and other undesirable activity. The city settled:
https://www.sfchronicle.com/local-po...n-15336228.php
Reports are that they've actually accomplished the 70% figure but partly by pusing the tent campers into adjacent neighborhoods.
Meanwhile, my good friend used to work at the San Francisco J W Marriott (laid off) and he tells me they have rented out whole floors to the city to house medical staff and "first responders" who are reluctant to go home and possibly bring the infection with them to their families so they are staying in hotels at city expense. |
yeah, its sort of the return of the sro.
upon research in nyc it looks like 13k homeless are in hotels, 19k in traditional shelters and 3-4k living on the streets lately. the latter count of people living on the streets is hotly debated as a gross undercount, with some estimates up to a staggering 78k.
https://nextcity.org/daily/entry/the...r-into-a-hotel