A city sanitation worker gets to work in downtown San Francisco, which says it is expecting its street cleaning budget to be more than $70 million this coming fiscal year.
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San Francisco’s streets are so filthy that at least one infectious disease expert has compared the city to some of the dirtiest slums in the world.
The NBC Bay Area Investigative Unit surveyed 153 blocks of the city in February, finding giant mounds of trash and food on the majority of streets. At least 100 discarded needles and more than 300 piles of human feces were also found in downtown San Francisco, according to the report.
San Francisco’s new mayor, London Breed, had proposed adding nearly $13 million to the city’s $65 million street cleaning budget over the next two years, according to NBC Bay Area.
“I will say there is more feces on the sidewalks than I’ve ever seen growing up here,” Breed told NBC Bay Area last month. “We have to make sure people who live here, [and] sadly, people […]
The leaders of San Francisco are so busy with being a sanctuary city and other snowflake activities that they have no time to actually take care of the city. One reason why there is so much trash is that there are so few trash receptacles on our streets. In Vienna I saw these on every street corner. Not here.