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Not likely. But a new effort to sanitize Sixth Street is underway, starting this month, care of the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency. And what, exactly, will clean up San Francisco's scariest and urineiest intersection? Two-way radios. According to SF Examiner, "Two full-time officials will begin patrolling the street and its alleys this month. They will have two-way radios to report crimes, provide advice and clear paths for pedestrians." The city will dish out $150,000 to employ two full-time guides (not SFPD officers?) to "patrol the corridor for a year." SF Coalition on Homelessness, of course, thinks this is a bad idea. COH Executive Director Jennifer Friedenbach tells the Ex that these kinds of programs simply "remove the presence of poor people," homeless or not.
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Jennifer Friedenbach tells the Ex that these kinds of programs simply "remove the presence of poor people"
Actually, at 75 grand a pop that would make two fewer poor people.
wish they would have been there last Friday when I got my bike stolen at 6th and Minna
Why? What would they have done?
Talked about it on their walkie-talkies.
Please remove the poor people. I want my street nice and respectable. Well actually you can leave the poor as long as they are pretty. Nothing about being poor says you have to be disgusting and disrespectful.
Dede Wilsey, quit trolling SFist!
No Jennifer, just the poor drug dealers and addicts.
What?
For 75K a year, I'll walk the streets of 6th and blab into a walkie-talkie...
"clear paths for pedestrians"???
Ooh. Big man with your big walkie talkie.
There's no WAY this is gonna work. I see cops down there all the time and even they can't do anything. Arresting people for crack possession, to put them in jails only to get out in a couple weeks? This is so ridiculous. Let's have some real ideas people!
COH should invite these derelicts to their homes rather than insisting taxpayers should just have to "deal" with people who don't want any help that we fund to the tune of $200 million a year.
I'll believe it when I see it.
You can either try to move the drunks, druggies and creeps out, or keep them penned in. What's your pleasure? Remember, you can't help an alcoholic until they want it more than booze.
I have my doubts about the effectiveness of anything like this, but something probably does need to happen.
The clear problem, is that the homeless in the SOMA area haven't bothered to socially upgrade themselves like the area is trying to do. We've put in $500k-1M lofts, and the people that are going to keep those afloat aren't the homeless. It's a monetary thing plain and simple.
I think that removing the presence of poor people is exactly what most people want done. You don't drop half a mil on a condo just to have a junkie on the corner scaring your friends from Atherton away when they come into the city for the evening right?
The clear problem, is that the homeless in the SOMA area haven't bothered to socially upgrade themselves like the area is trying to do.
This? Is awesome.
Is it the vagaries of the micro-climate that stops the drunks, addicts and homeless from setting up their encampments in the Marina? There's plenty of elbow room and the views are, well, they're scrumptious!
It's odd how certain parts of the city are virtually free of undesirables yet some areas can't seem to shake them no matter how much money they throw at the problem. How do the clean-livin' folks in Specific Whites keep their sidewalks free of pests and vermin while other neighborhoods resemble Dickensian London?