Finally cleaning it up! San Francisco sees a 41% drop in homeless tents as city ... trends now
San Francisco's recent homeless crisis appears to be easing according to new figures released by the city's woke mayor, London Breed which see numbers hitting a five year low.
The city calculates its homeless figures every three months and at the end of the last count in April, a 41 percent reduction was noted compared to July 2023.
There were 360 tents and structures counted in April - down from 610 last summer and 385 during February's count.
It is the lowest figure the city has recorded since it began tracking the data in 2018.
Breed says the reduction has come about as a result of a number of factors, not least the police enforcement of anti-camping laws when homeless people have reasonable access to shelter accommodation.
San Francisco has cleaned up several well-known homeless encampments
Where tents were previously propped up, sidewalks are clear and spotless. Locales where homeless once congregated are now cleared
The city calculates the city's homeless figures every three months and at the end of the last count in April a 41 percent reduction was noted compared to July 2023.
San Francisco's recent homeless crisis appears to be easing according to new figures released by the city's woke mayor, London Breed
London also touted the increased availability of new shelter beds and a renewed effort to fill vacant housing units as being behind the reduction in numbers.
'Our encampment teams and outreach workers are working tirelessly to go out and help bring people into shelter and clean up encampments,' said Mayor Breed. 'We are continuing to use all of the resources we have and working to add more, but there is a lot more to do.
'We will be relentless in our efforts to help people into safer, supportive facilities, and make our neighborhoods cleaner and healthier for everyone. I want to thank our outreach workers across all of our agencies for their commitment to getting people help.
'This is not easy work, but it is making a difference. We are continuing to use all of the resources we have and working to add more, but there is a lot more to do', Breed said in a statement.
Early in the morning a homeless man and woman quickly pick up their belongings as Urban Alchemy crews begin their daily cleaning of the streets in the Tenderloin neighborhood of San Francisco
City workers are seen cleaning the streets and removing tents and items belonging to homeless people
The area outside the United States Federal Building in San Francisco, was considered the biggest of all the open-air drug markets across the city
Hangouts along Mission Street and Market are also no more, along with a brazen open drug market that for more than a year that had been outside the Nancy Pelosi Federal Building
Federal rules have now freed the city's ability to forcibly move homeless encampments with the rules allowing for tents to be taken down by force by police if people are
