San Francisco's sidewalks once notorious for sprawling tents belonging to homeless people are largely clear.
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Advocates for homeless people say encampment sweeps that force people off the streets are an easy way to hide homelessness from public view. Tracking homeless people is extremely difficult and where all the people once living on San Francisco’s streets have gone is impossible to know. “At the beginning, it was rough, you know, going in and just getting adjusted to being searched and having them look through your bags,” acknowledged Burcell, 51.
“Now they have nothing. They don’t have any shelter at all,” he said. “They just kind of wander around and take buses, like a lot of people do.”
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