‘While there aren’t actually more homeless people than there have been in the past, the gentrification of San Francisco has had a severe effect on the homeless.’
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SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA — It’s an empirical fact: San Francisco is a crappier place to live these days. Sightings of human feces on the sidewalks are now a regular occurrence; over the past 10 years, complaints about human waste have increased 400%. People now call the city 65 times a day to report poop, and there have been 14,597 calls in 2018 alone. Last year, software engineer Jenn Wong even created a poop map of San Francisco, showing the concentration of incidents across the city. New mayor London Breed said: “There is more feces on the sidewalks than I’ve ever seen growing up here.” In a revolting recent incident, a 20lb bag of fecal waste showed up on a street in the city’s Tenderloin district.
It’s neglect on the part of our green, politically-correct, sanctuary-city, virtue-signalling board of supervisors which is too busy with their causes to take care of basics like cleaning the city. It doesn’t help that city trash cans are few and far between compared to places like Vienna.