Wealthy San Francisco neighborhood where homes sell for up to $2.9M is in ... trends now
Residents of an affluent San Francisco neighborhood are in uproar over the opening of a homeless shelter that has seen hundreds of violent incidents.
Neighbors in the Mission Bay area say they have witnessed open air drug use, fights and lewd public sex acts at the HomeRise facility.
More than 1,000 service calls have been recorded at the shelter since October 2022, with 666 requiring police action - despite the complex being located next to a police station.
Terrified locals say the usually quiet area, where homes sell for up to $2.9 million, is fast descending into 'disruption and fear' with some of them too scared to walk past the facility.
'Two of my experiences from HomeRise impacted my neighborhood. One, open drug use,' one resident told city hall during a tense meeting on Thursday that became so heated Board Supervisor Catherine Stefani was forced to call for order.
Residents of an affluent San Francisco neighborhood are in uproar over the opening of a homeless shelter which has seen hundreds of violent incidents
Neighbors in the Mission Bay area say they have witnessed open air drug use, fights and lewd public sex acts at the HomeRise facility
More than 1,000 service calls have been recorded at the shelter since October 2022, with 666 requiring police action including one man who smashed a window at the facility and left glass on the sidewalk
'They do it openly and they get away with it. Drug deals, this is what I see,' the resident added.
'I don't walk down the street anymore, I would like to some day [...] but at this point I'm afraid.'
'I want to tell you this breaks my heart,' neighbor Arlene Singer added. 'A small number of people, causing a huge problem for us is really heart-breaking.
'As an elderly person, I was afraid how it may impact me. I was told they would be carefully vetted and security management would be available would be in there.
'Since HomeRise is next to police headquarters, I assumed we would be fine. I was wrong.'
Singer is a resident of The Madrone, a high-end apartment building located directly opposite the complex.
Many of the service calls about HomeRise stem from Madrone residents, the the SF Chronicle reports.
Around 160 of all the service calls were priority A, the most serious category.
Mission Bay resident Arlene Singer told the meeting the situation is 'heart-breaking' as she demanded more security
There were reports of 121 fights, 20 of which involved a gun or a knife since October 2022
Evidence submitted to the SF Board of Supervisors about antisocial behavior at the facility
Reported incidents included open drug use, a man who broke a window and left glass on the sidewalk and a man
