Before World Leaders Arrive, San Francisco Races to Clean Up
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Crowding in front of multi unit housing garage (has a brutal metal roller) door entrance risks accidents with cars from the garage on the people, with people and the door itself, and with cars moving through the alley encountering now-blind garage traffic. Also increased risk of illegal entry, for shelter and theft.
Located close to downtown. Clearly APEC coincidental. Fentanyl is a super common invader into these people's lives .. cheap escape, deadly, and the people are preyed upon by the many dealers .. if you did not know.
Agencies have swept people twice from the alley over a few days. Piles of disassembled bicycles. Automobile car seats. Luggage, tarps, bags. When the people are not there, it is left as a collection of 5 foot tall piles of odds and ends.
It is a sad and unfortunate situation.
I see there's little Grace in the way how anyone directly involved is living. Though everyone is trying to fight against problems .. they're under-resourced to solve them. So the grace of trying is masked by the overt signs of failing.
The Sanitary conditions are pretty bad .. though it's a major city with ERs, plus counseling and some low cost or free shelter.
Not necessarily in this alley situation: The people who tip negatively on the hygiene scale, and have open wounds festering are disturbing. They have in my experience mental health issues which are complex to treat, legally and otherwise practically.
Or disgusting and disgraceful by entirely different standards??
Definitely a different crowd doing breakfast this morning a the hotel.