A San Francisco library is turning off Wi-Fi at night to keep homeless people from using it

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[–]hfxB0oyA 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Sorry to hear that. Is it as bad in your area of the city as we're hearing vis-a-vis the drug use, street defecation, etc?

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In downtown SF it is indeed as you hear in the news, shit and passed out junkies on the sidewalks. Of course they also refuse to put in porta-potties lest it attract more of them to the area. Oakland and San Jose are more just littered with tent encampments under bypasses and on the sides of streets. Same issues, but the poop and drugs are a bit more out of sight. There's also illegally parked motor home and cargo van rows with semi-homeless people with jobs who can't afford $3000/month for a 1-bedroom apartment.