San Francisco cleans up its filthy streets in anticipation of Xi Jinping visit from China

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[–]sdl5 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I think word went out regionally they were planning some kind of purge of unknown scope or areas...

Or that SF was going to offer free something like real housing or transit plus services in new locale if you were homeless there by October latest.

Evidence:

A bizarrely early and foreshortened pattern of seasonal homeless waves came through here an hour north, the "pros" barely stopped at all, many were clearly moving in groups South, and then abruptly a few weeks to a month back back nearly every homeless enclave and visible person vanished- until this last week.

A small but persistent clutch of longterm regular thoroughly broken peeps have now reappeared here, but the rest are still gone.

Rumor is SF transported every body to far away city where returning would take weeks vs days....

[–]Maniak🥃😾 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Would be nice if he went to visit paris then.

Though I doubt that even this would be enough to make it into less of a filth-infested shithole, and I'm not just talking about the politicians.

[–]chakokat[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

In the span of a few days, the city scrubbed seven intersections in the notorious Tenderloin and South of Market - leaving the hotspots almost unrecognizable

Where tents were once propped up, sidewalks are clear and spotless. Locales [Areas] where homeless once congregated are cleared, video from the sites shows

Hangouts along Mission Street and Market are no more, along with an open drug market that for over a year has been outside the Nancy Pelosi Federal building

[–]BlackhaloPurity Pony: Pусский бот 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

If it's that easy, why did they not do it before now?

[–]Maniak🥃😾 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Wild guess: because they're expecting business opportunities from China following this, which makes the expense worth it, whereas doing it as a public service would only cost money with no return because only worthless worms who don't generate profits would be helped by it.

Of course there's the whole "using tax money for public services is the whole point of the social contract and if the government doesn't do it then taxpayers have no reason to pay their taxes until the government starts serving them first" thing, but it's apparently been forgotten.

[–]Maniak🥃😾 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Locales [Areas] where homeless once congregated are cleared

Random question: what have they done with those homeless? Because I somehow doubt that they used any of the unoccupied housings to help them. Or that they helped them in any way.

[–]Super_Soviet_Gundam 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

We're probably at the point of civilization decay where they're sold on the black market for organs.