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2024-07-19 -Land of the Free
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San Francisco's 'very aggressive' move against homeless as mayor Breed warns the time for compassion is over
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[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] The fed up Mayor of San Francisco has said the time for compassion is over as she announced plans to tackle the city's homeless crisis which has left locals fearing for their safety.
Mayor London Breed revealed the city is set to take a 'very aggressive' approach to remove encampments from the streets which have blighted the City by the Bay for the past four years.
Certain parts of the city, including the troubled Tenderloin district have become known for their squalor and misery, becoming so bad that local businesses unable to recruit staff and residents have felt forced to flee.
The rise in the number of homeless, now about 8,300 people, has brought with it a myriad of other associated problems filling the sidewalks with illegal drug dealers, fentanyl users and all round violent and intimidating behavior close to the tent encampments.
'We have had to move from a compassionate city to a city of accountability, and I have been leading the efforts to ensure that we are addressing this issue differently than we have before,' Breed said on Thursday in a change of tack on the issue.
'We are going to be very aggressive and assertive in moving encampments which may even include criminal penalties,' she explained with the 'sweeps' scheduled to begin in less than two weeks once staff are retrained to follow new legal guidance.
Her comments come just three weeks after the Supreme Court granted cities the power to evict unhoused people from encampments.
'The problem is not going to be solved by building more housing,' Breed said. 'Thank goodness for the Supreme Court decision.'
In December 2022, a federal magistrate judge prevented the city of San Francisco from clearing homeless tents although it was not banned from sweeping encampments.
The judge ordered city officials to stop forcing homeless people from public camping sites unless they have been offered appropriate shelter indoors.
Officials were also prevented from issuing citations or arresting people who refused to move.
But now the Supreme Court's 6-3 ruling bestows more power to the city in assisting with the clearing, officials plan to offer shelter and support to help those affected.
The case was the most significant on the issue to come before the high court in decades and comes as cities across the country have wrestled with the politically complicated issue of how to deal with a rising number of people without a permanent place to live and public frustration over related health and safety issues.
'We will continue to lead with services, but we also can't continue to allow people to do what they want on the streets of San Francisco, especially when we have a place for them to go,' Breed said.
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