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> The city needs to evaluate and track people in homeless programs > San Francisco, which gets an influx of about 450 chronically homeless people a year, needs
by jkot 10y ago
> The city needs to evaluate and track people in homeless programs
> San Francisco, which gets an influx of about 450 chronically homeless people a year, needs to shed any perception that it is a sanctuary for people who are unwilling to participate in programs designed to get them off,
> It is neither inhumane nor “criminalizing poverty” to enforce laws against aggressive panhandling, tent encampments or defecation and urination in public places....are no longer afforded the option to flout the law with impunity.
So plan is to build a few houses and put everyone who is left into jail.
- sp332 10y agoYup. SF has a dearth of public restrooms (and almost no public showers). Criminalizing public urination is criminalizing homelessness.
- sidereal1 10y agoThis is becoming an issue in Sacramento as they continue to shut down public restrooms. There's is talk of setting up port-a-potties with full time attendants, so we will see how that goes.