The city provided a continental breakfast of "coffee, bagels, orange wedges, and blueberries" (delicious!) as well as temporary encampment tents for those that they evicted from Golden Gate Park at 4:30 a.m. this morning. (You can read Chron's article about it here, and SF Examiner's here.)
SFPD and city outreach workers sounded the alarm for this election-year effort to clean-up the park. And "after eight hours' work, 44 people accepted the offer of a roof over their heads, and 40 turned it down." Whether or not Golden Gate Park eventually becomes homeless-free remains to be seen, but it's doubtful. Golden Gate Park is synonymous with homelessness.
Newsom also proposes closing all SF parks from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m., saying "[a] mother told me that nothing good ever happens after midnight, and I think she was on to something." Nothing good? Oh really? [NSFW]
Anyway, some of the removed homeless people have already been put into shelters or transitional housing, a few were handed free bus tickets via the Homeward Bound program.
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