Last week, U-Haul reported that so many San Franciscans were moving out of the city that they were having trouble keeping moving trucks in stock.
Now, we’re possibly starting to see why.
The NBC local affiliate in San Francisco, NBC Bay Area, surveyed a 153 block area in downtown San Francisco for litter, needles, and human feces. The report found that most blocks in America’s most expensive city were, in fact, absolutely filthy.
In the middle of San Francisco – surrounded by multimillion-dollar penthouse apartments – 41 blocks had drug needles and a whopping 96 had piles of human feces.
According to 311 calls, the number of both needles and feces found on city streets has skyrocketed in San Francisco over the last few years.
The city’s hygiene problem is not for lack of care: according to Mohammed Nuru, San Francisco’s Director of Public Workers, the city spent $30 million on cleaning up feces and needles from homeless camps and city sidewalks over the past year.
But Nuru described it as, ultimately, fruitless. “Yes, we can clean, he said, “and then go back a few hours later, and it looks as if it was never cleaned. So is that how you want to spend your money?”
San Francisco is estimated to have the third highest homeless rate in the United States – with 0.8 percent of its 900,000 residents classified as homeless.
AAN Staff
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