I LEFT MY HEART . . . .
How to solve San Francisco's public pooping problem
Updated 8:47 am, Wednesday, August 26, 2015
While Mayor Ed Lee announced this week that "the homeless must leave the street" for Super Bowl 50, it's more what they leave behind on the street that is a concern for the million or so people who have to walk a few blocks or a few miles in the city every day.
"We'll give you an alternative," Lee said when he was asked whether the sidewalk sleepers will have to go before San Francisco plays host to the thousands in town for the Super Bowl in February. "We are always going to be supportive. But you are going to have to leave the street. Not just because it is illegal, but because it is dangerous."
The idea is to house street campers either in the city's new Navigation Center in the Mission District — where people can live while they are routed into housing, rehabilitation, employment and other services — or in an estimated 500 units of supportive housing the mayor hopes to have rehabbed and open by the end of the year.
Mayoral candidate and comedian Stuart Schuffman aka "Broke Ass Stuart" has a solution to the excretion problem, and it actually makes sense. "Free to pee" signs in business, incentivized by tax breaks. And he's got a few more ideas in the video.
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