Posted on 11/10/2023 4:40:40 PM PST by grundle
San Francisco officials have been working to clear some of the city’s hot spots for homeless tent camps ahead of world leaders, dignitaries, corporate executives and international journalists descending on the city for this month’s Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit.
A high-ranking official in the city’s Public Works department listed seven intersections in the Tenderloin and South of Market to target in an email to other city officials on Sept. 25.
“With APEC coming, I am concerned about historical encampments that are close to priority areas,” wrote Christopher McDaniels, superintendent of Street Environmental Services, in an email obtained by the Chronicle through a public records request.
All seven intersections are in the two neighborhoods that have long been at the epicenter of San Francisco’s unrelenting crises of homelessness and public drug markets.
Half an hour later, McDaniels’ boss, Deputy Director of Operations DiJaida Durden, chimed in, noting that an encampment on Van Ness Avenue had “popped up in the last two weeks” and was getting larger.
“Are any of these locations on schedule?” Durden asked. APEC “is coming and we need to stay on top of the growing encampments; do we have a plan?”
Now, with the high-stakes APEC summit set to begin Saturday, the intersections flagged by McDaniels are largely free of tents.
The clear sidewalks are an apparent reflection of the city’s push to be more aggressive about clearing encampments as the leaders of 21 countries and regions begin to descend on the city, along with thousands of other foreign officials and a crush of foreign reporters, representing San Francisco’s biggest moment in the international spotlight since the founding of the United Nations in 1945.
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Where is their compassion?
Where is the ACLU? Why aren’t they suing and getting injunctions against this travesty?
Head ‘em up! Move ‘em out! And don’t let ‘em come to Phoenix.
But they cant do it for the tax paying citizens who live there.
Got it.
Some of those ‘homeless’ will act like soot soiled pigeons, and simply go for the time being, only to circle back a week later in the exact same spots! Security will need to be paid for overtime to keep those bums from doing the boomerang.
Let’s hide the mess before the visitors arrive so they won’t think that we are slobs...
Think of it as a kind of Potemkin village.
Amazing isn’t it? Some big government meeting and suddenly the homeless are disappeared. All this is ok since its dims doing it.
Gee, how come I didn’t think of that.
“You have to go.”
Huh. Maybe no one ever tried it before.
they should make camps on public land, no law says they get to sleep where they want if there’s a place made for them...
The government can do anything it wants. Therefore, the dysfunction we see everywhere is what the government wants.
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Rollin’, rollin’, rollin’, rollin’, rollin’, rollin’
Rawhide, rawhide, yo
Keep rollin’, rollin’, rollin’
Though the streams are swollen
Keep them dogies rollin’, rawhide
Through rain and wind and weather
Hell bent for leather
Wishin’ my gal was by my side
All the things I’m missin’
Good vittles, love and kissin’
Are waitin’ at the end of my ride
Move ‘em on, head ‘em up
Head ‘em up, move ‘em on
Move ‘em on, head ‘em up
Rawhide
Yo, ride ‘em in, cut ‘em out
Cut ‘em out, ride ‘em in
Ride ‘em in, cut ‘em out
Rawhide
Movin’, movin’, movin’
Though they’re disapprovin’
Keep them dogies movin’, rawhide
Don’t try to understand ‘em
Just rope an’ throw an’ brand ‘em
Soon we’ll be living high and wide
My heart’s calculatin’
My true love will be waitin’
Waitin’ at the end of my ride
Move ‘em on, head ‘em up
Head ‘em up, move ‘em on
Move ‘em on, head ‘em up
Rawhide
Yo, ride ‘em in, cut ‘em out
Cut ‘em out, ride ‘em in
Ride ‘em in, cut ‘em out
Rawhide, rawhide, rawhide
See how easy it is to clean the streets?
They’ll do it for Chinese visitors, but not for Americans hwo live there
They could have done that 10 years ago.
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