This week, San Francisco officials finally evicted the homeless from downtown in preparation for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit.
“Sources [said] the homeless have been pushed to other parts of the city in preparation for the [summit]”, the New York Post confirmed
“They started clearing out the tents earlier this week and there’s definitely a lot more police presence,” local resident and activist Ricci Lee Wynne told the newspaper.
“They’ve cleaned out the tents that were near the Moscone Center on Howard Street, which tells me the city had the ability to do that all along, instead they just did the bare minimum. Once “With APEC gone, the police presence will start to drop again, the tents will come back. And slowly it will erupt again,” he added.
And therein lies the dilemma. While it’s good that homelessness is finally being eliminated, it’s clear that the city is doing it now just for looks. After all, it will be the first time the city hosts the annual APEC summit.
“They’re removing homeless people because they don’t want them to see this,” explained Christie Palominos, a 47-year-old homeless woman who lived in the area. Los Angeles Times.
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As such, residents recognize that what the city is doing is nothing more than placing a temporary “band-aid” on a much larger and broader problem.
Jennifer Friedenbach, the executive director of the Coalition for the Homeless, doesn’t like what she’s been seeing.
“With shelters seeing spaces already filled or limiting openings, Friedenbach said it’s ‘very frustrating’ because the city is only displacing groups of homeless people when they move. Instead, advocacy groups they expected more temporary housing for the homeless during the conference,” according to the Times.
“They want to clean up the image of the city and use this conference as a way to shrink tourism,” Friedenbach said. “These efforts never work because people don’t have a power that goes away. People are out because there’s not enough housing. There’s not enough shelter.”
Residents who live in areas where the homeless approach are also unhappy with what’s happening.
“They’re basically fixing the problem but not offering long-term solutions,” local business owner Adam Mesnick told the Post. “I’m outside what they consider the ‘containment zone’ for APEC, so the problem is creeping into my area, which is already quite saturated with drug activity.
“I don’t know if these tents will be in physical view during APEC, but it will be virtually impossible to remove everything,” he added.
The capitalist and self-proclaimed greatest country in the world () is kicking out the homeless and drug addicts in San Francisco. Because?
The APEC summit is about to begin and Chinese President Xi Jinping will visit the city.
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Mesnick went on to accuse city officials of engaging in “performance art.”
“They are very good at creating an illusion and they are very good at performance. It is a Band-Aid and indicates poor administration. And you know, really at this point, the frustration couldn’t be stronger,” he said.
“I’ve compared that time period to the Tenderloin [downtown San Francisco] like the gold rush, but here’s the fentanyl rush. We have the cheapest fentanyl on the planet and it’s pretty easy to have a big hit from below,” he added.
Speaking of fentanyl, that’s also another big problem hiding the city.
“The city is expected to have a record year for fatal overdoses and is on track to reach 800 deaths this year, according to data released last month by the Office of the Chief Coroner,” the Post notes.
“From January to September, the first nine months of 2023, there have been a total of 620 overdose deaths,” San Francisco Behavioral Health Services Director Dr. Hillary Kunins told a news outlet last month. local communication
That’s two deaths a day.
San Francisco is trying to “clean up” the homeless problem ahead of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit. pic.twitter.com/KmEdwX5x2O
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As for San Francisco Mayor London Breed, she hopes visitors to the city will look past the reality of homelessness and instead admire the supposed beauty.
“I see a lot of beauty in all of San Francisco. My hope is that people have the opportunity to experience San Francisco for themselves and tell the whole story,” he said during a press conference Thursday.
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