How American cities can get rid of homeless encampments, excrement covered streets and spruce up their roads and buildings – invite a string of foreign dignitaries – preferably communist dictators
From here:
APEC San Francisco: City Cleans Up Streets Ahead of Summit (sfstandard.com)
“San Francisco officials and Caltrans are racing to complete multiple projects to spiff up the city ahead of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit, an international gathering of world leaders, including President Joe Biden, that starts Saturday and runs through Nov. 17.”
5 days to go!
The UK’s Daily Mail covered the story here:
“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 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”
Remember this from 6 months ago?
San Francisco’s Streets Are Filthy. A New Survey Shows How Dirty (sfstandard.com)
“And San Francisco’s favorite cleanliness fixation, human or animal feces, continues to be a sore spot for the city: Almost half of the surveyed commercial areas observed feces. Citywide, that figure was just 30%.”
Was it really five years ago when we were reading these headlines?
“San Francisco spent nearly $54 million this year on street cleanup, and $35 million the year before.
While the average city cleanup staff has around 40 workers, San Francisco's has more than 300.
The city has hired new workers to rid its streets of needles and feces: two effects of the rising homelessness crisis”
Patriot Clash commented on the issue here:
San Francisco Kicks Out Homeless…You Won’t Believe Why – Patriot Clash
“Ahead of the highly anticipated U.S.-China summit, the city streets have been scrubbed clean, homeless encampments vanished like a bad dream, and even the roads have been repaved. California Governor Gavin Newsom even reportedly admitted candidly, “Oh they’re just cleaning up this place because all those fancy leaders are coming to town.”
The articles do not say what happened to all the people in those homeless encampments. Were they put up in hotels or deported to the suburbs? Will they be back in a few weeks?
Still the message is clear. If Baltimore or Portland or St Louis want their cities to be cleaned up of crap and crime, just have an international conference!
Onwards!
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California leadership has got to be worst in the country. Smug, self-righteous, impractical, and out of touch. Don’t worry, the bums, addicts, tents, trash, and excrement will be back as soon as the visiting dictators are gone.