Authorities swept through the city on Aug. 1, confiscating tents and household items belonging to homeless residents. Four days later, however, sites in Bayview documented by Mission Local appeared much as they did prior to the “very aggressive” sweeps pledged by Mayor London Breed.
Division Street Sweep
On Division Street under the highway.
The sweep started at 8 a.m.
Bayshore Sweep
Over on Bayshore directly
across from a Navigation Center.
The sweep will start at 1 p.m.
Division Street Sweep
On Division Street
under the highway.
The sweep started at 8 a.m.
Bayshore Sweep
Over on Bayshore
directly across from
a Navigation Center.
The sweep will start
at 1 p.m.
Map by Xueer Lu. Last updated: 11:30 a.m. Aug. 1, 2024
By Tuesday morning, the sprawling encampment of five or so residents, stretching a block long on Jerrold Avenue, had returned. Public Works employees tore down street dwellers’ wooden structures across from Fire Station 49 on Aug. 1. Displaced homeless people said today that they had spent some time under the nearby freeway, but returned to the sidewalk over the weekend. The site is now occupied by two couples and a few other individuals.
A line of four RVs remained parked across the street on the south side of Jerrold Avenue. The city forced them to move Monday night, but they returned Tuesday morning, said resident Rafael Solomé Romero, 52.
On Aug. 1, Mission Local witnessed a homeless man named Ronald being arrested for illegal lodging. Four days later, the corner he and his girlfriend previously inhabited, on Barneveld Avenue across from the Bayshore navigation center, remained unoccupied.
A friend who had lived near the couple said they were still under the freeway where tents, clothing, and piles of other possessions could be observed from the road.
Down the block, tents belonging to Deshan Card, 33, and another neighbor had again been erected.
While encampments have re-entrenched along Bayshore, Division Street remained clear on Aug. 6. On Aug. 1, Public Works employees threw away belongings left behind by residents who had decamped that morning, and power washed the street.
On Tuesday, possessions bundled in a tent had been tied to a fence, and several residents wandered around pushing packed shopping carts. Otherwise, the sidewalks remained empty.
Please sweep them again.
Keep sweeping until they decide to go somewhere else to smoke fentanyl and shoplift.
Sounds like this effort has been successful on Division. Now they should keep it up for the other places where tents keep coming back.
Is that how you view the homeless. Just shoplifting drug addicts?
Most homeless can’t even enter a store. Without being prosecuted. Greedy people shoplift. And EVERYBODY does drugs. Aspirin to kill the pain, alcohol to kill the pain, anti depressants to kill the pain, fentanyl to kill the pain.
Difference is homeless aren’t being taxed to get high.
“City is shocked to see Thing Happening that advocates warned and warned would happen. News at 11.”
Jeez, Madam Mayor, that was money well spent.
Thank you Mayor Breed. Let’s keep sweeping. Street people have many choices, bus ticket, shelter, asylum, rehab or jail.
By street people you mean humans right?…
Mayer breed is sweeping in circles.
How do u fit 7000 people in 4000 beds? You don’t u send them to a diff county to deal with, or put them in jail which houses actual criminals. Or asylum the Hospital.where were they going to put them in the hospital???
“Street people have many choices, bus ticket, shelter, asylum, rehab or jail.”
“bus ticket”
75 percent of people living out doors are in the same county they were living in when they were homeless.
“shelter”
No. The city is short thousands of shelter beds.
“asylum”
What do you think an “asylum” is? Have you been asleep since all of the inpatient mental health facilities were closed beginning in the ’70s? No, there is no “asylum” choice.
“rehab”
First of all, nice conflation of “living out doors” with “drug-addicted,” and nice implication that being an addict means you deserve being humiliated.
Oh, and guess what else the city is woefully short of? Treatment beds! Not only that, but people who actually know what they are talking about will tell you that forced treatment doesn’t work. You know what works? The one thing you couldn’t salivate to type: housing.
“jail”
Jails are overcrowded and they exacerbate every mental health condition, not to mention being vectors for other diseases such as Covid. (Hey, guess what else are dangerous, overcrowded, and good at spreading disease? Shelters!) Not to mention that you’re arguing that we should put people in jail for not having the money to afford a place to sleep.
You know, if you don’t know what you’re talking about, it’s really okay to just stay quiet.
Many homeless need mental health help and medical services!! And the drug addicts need help to become sober. I think that these things need to be found in order to begin the healing of the homeless problem. Affordable housing, or 3v3n shelters should work on a ‘merit’ system, where th3 homeless can work at community service and if they show improvement, they move up the ladder to being closer to having a better living spac3 and become independent. The ones that don’t want to better themselves or their situation(unless handicapped, elderly, etc) choose to end up in jail, or out of the city limits. It should work on the merit system and they should ‘pilice’ their own community and learn how to become real citizens and contribute to society. Those that are not willing to comply should be the ones that don’t get help and not allowed to cost the community grief and money. Help for those that need it, and nothing for those that just don’t care. Nothing else has worked, so far! This idea can’t hurt ,if given the chance. Just a thought…
Being homeless appears to most not to be ok .
Most who are ,and in their right minds , would gladly and quickly accept temp shelter food, clothing and help . They want a better life .
The Supreme Court , Governor and Mayor have all agreed . It is now law .
Either accept shelter ,jail or leave town .
Public property must be shared and equally accessible to all.
After seven plus years of not being able to use the sidewalk and being disabled myseld , it is beyond time to clear the sidewalks . This is an ADA law .
I ask how many people who are homeless have found a job to contribute to their costs ?
Most persons go or move to a place where they can get a job and care for themselves
There are plenty of jobs just not in SF.
Most of my friends left because they realize you need to work
Expecting the government and taxpayers to continue to pay for the homeless who refuse to move is not ok .
Self worth and accountability must start .
On my block the same persons are still around for years . The main problem
Is the unchecked drug supply .
Services are offered and refused . I’ve seen it .
It is time to move on.
Go out ,move and make the most of your life rather then rotting on the sidewalks in SF .
Breed is such a grifter, she used the injunction to claim that her hands were tied to address the proliferation of public squalor, and once the injunction was lifted, she resumes the cruel game of human whack-a-mole that solves nothing.
Breed’s machine and the nonprofits don’t have squat after laundering $10b in 20 yr. Keeping people housed is wonderful. But that does not change the fact that keeping people housed does not address the problems on the street, that public squalor is what triggers the Leviticus inclination for people to avoid the unclean, and that perfectly rational response is red meat for the right wing, it has been for decades now.
The nonprofits gifted Breed with $300m or so per year with Prop C. Breed has declined to spend those dollars to mitigate public squalor. The nonprofits complained, but made no waves and everyone got back to laundering public dollars.
You can’t beat something with nothing. Sweeps are something. What is the “something” that can beat sweeps or is it going to be deja vu all over again?
i think what we need is drug rehabilitation treatment centers and mental health facilities…most of those homeless are mentally unstable…plus if you remove them were they going…nowhere…..
Demo VP candidate Tim Walz has quipped that he is of the opinion that
Baghdad by the Bay is a most beautiful city. Next time he is here, Ms. Harris
or her mentor former Mayor Brown can take him on a guided tour of Civic Center,
and the Main Library, as they are being power steam washed every morning so
as to clean up the human feces which abounds in those areas.
As well, they could go over the the Pomeroy Center behind the SF ZOO to
view the RVs, after they have are driven around Harding Park Golf Course.
Given the spike in crime in the City, Governor Walz can feel right at home,
as Minneapolis, adjacent to the St. Paul ( the Capitol of Minnesota), has
and is experiencing epidemic crime sprees due to the Defund the Police
policies which the Governor favored in the Land of Ten Thousand Lakes.
He could wander downtown, especially Union Square, to see first hand what the
“Progressive” ( read WOKE) policies have fostered. Alas, the erstwhile Ms. Harris
and former Mayor Brown should advise Governor Walz against leaving anything
of value in their vehicle, due to the smash and grab epidemic which Prop. 47
engendered.