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> Mayor Ed Lee said this week that the homeless are “going to have to leave” the streets before the Super Bowl comes to town in February China had similar appr

• fredkbloggs 11y ago
  In this case it's doubly silly, since the Super Bowl is being played 80km and two counties away in a different city for which SF has zero responsibility. Undoubtedly a few of the visitors will stay in or visit SF while there, but probably not all that many since it's a 2+ hour drive with traffic and there's no direct mass transit option. Seems like much ado about nothing, or perhaps an excuse or rationalization.
  • rsync 11y ago
    I think you'd be surprised ... Last college bowl season, I saw numerous college football players in downtown SF who had a game to play later that day. If you make it all the way to the bay area, you're going to come into the city.
• peterwwillis 11y ago
  How are people not picketing this? Where the fuck are these people going to go? There are over 6,000 homeless in the city. Do they think they're just going to take a bus to some other city? (Which, by the way, is what both Sacramento and NYC have done in the past, among others) If they can't get them out of the city or into permanent housing, they're just going to wander around looking for a new place to collect change, soup, methodone, dope, and a corner to sleep in. That's going to anger residents and result in many conflicts.