Here's a look at SF Tenderloin 1 month after encampment crackdown (youtube.com)
4 years later, local officials were again allowed to remove people encamped on the streets of the Tenderloin. But slow progress, because no one wants to go to a shelter.
Good journalism. ‘We came out here to find out for ourselves without anybody from any city department leading us. We’ll find what we find.' Just as many people sleeping there, but less tents and structures. Public works are constantly cleaning and powerwashing. 45 minutes to clean just one side of one street, several workers, and that's only if the people sleeping on the street are willing to move. ABC7 found 7 city workers waiting for one tent to voluntarily move so they could clean it. They had been waiting 20 minutes. It took an hour for the tenant of the tent to leave. ‘They want to be always in the street. Maybe in the homeless shelter they're not allowed to be doing what they're doing outside. I think this is the main problem.' A large majority refuses the constant offers of help. And what drug addict would ever accept that kind of offer?
The city is offering free bus tickets to go somewhere else. A few dozen people accept the ticket.
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