One Day With the Squad That Removes Needles and Feces From Downtown Portland
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#2Dear San Francisco,
Can we have a few of these squads?
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#3Dear San Francisco, Can we have a few of these squads?
That would make the people that generate the needles and feces effectively invisible in our society. Their suffering would be for naught.
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#4If it employs those that need it, keep the business environment clean, and makes everybody safer, it isn't all bad.
It's also worth noting the homeless are not being run out of town.
Things could be worse.
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#5Dear San Francisco, Can we have a few of these squads?
SF (and most major cities) already have these. Here’s the list of neighborhoods with a “business improvement district”: https://oewd.org/community-benefit-districts
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#6If it employs those that need it, keep the business environment clean, and makes everybody safer, it isn't all bad. It's also worth noting the homeless are not being run out of town. Things could be worse.
It'd be even better if they could go around fixing broken windows.
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#7Dear San Francisco, Can we have a few of these squads?
That would make the people that generate the needles and feces effectively invisible in our society. Their suffering would be for naught.
So it’s better to not provide the people in this horrid situation with any dignity in the hopes that something changes and shames society into some unknown action?
Portland IS trying to provide public toilets and a cleaner environment on the streets at least. It sounds like the person profiled for this article actually was able to get her life together. It’s a step.
SF can learn a lot from Portland. For example, it is possible to provide people with the dignity of a toilet while fighting off a lot of the problems that are currently used as an excuse not to provide these: https://www.businessinsider.com/portland-loo-perfect-public-...
Providing these does not make the situation worse or less visible.
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#8Dear San Francisco, Can we have a few of these squads?
That would make the people that generate the needles and feces effectively invisible in our society. Their suffering would be for naught.
As someone who pays huge amounts of taxes to live in San Francisco, to be perfectly frank, I don’t think it’s necessary to walk through human feces to know we have a homeless problem. If my tax dollars aren’t going to be put to use fixing the problem (they arent) then at least let me walk through my own city that I pay to live in with some amount of decency.
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#9Dear San Francisco, Can we have a few of these squads?
There was a recent article that touched on the daily cleanings of the Tenderloin among other things: https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/philmatier/article/Clean...
Re: One Day With the Squad That Removes Needles and Feces From Downtown Portland
#10Dear San Francisco, Can we have a few of these squads?
SF (and most major cities) already have these. Here’s the list of neighborhoods with a “business improvement district”: https://oewd.org/community-benefit-districts
The community benefit district folks, including the various “Clean Teams” don’t necessarily deal with the toilets or feces. Mayor Breed established initial funding for the “Poop Patrol” back in August [1], as well as slightly expanding the Pit Stop program (public toilet and needle drop off, with staffing).
[1] https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/hea...