There are fewer tents on San Francisco sidewalks. The city has ramped up enforcement of anti-camping laws, and police are playing a bigger role.
San Francisco police officers keep an eye on city workers as they sweep unsanctioned tents and belongings from a street in the Tenderloin.California, home to the country's largest homeless population, is in the midst of a crackdown on illegal homeless encampments. Over the summer, Gov. Gavin NewsomSupreme Court ruling in JuneMichael Hood moves on from an illegal homeless encampment that's just been swept by city workers."It's way different now.
Henderson's tarp — and a vintage PGA golf umbrella — are set up directly under a city notice giving 72 hours' warning of the sweep. The officers try to calm him, asking an EMT to bandage his foot and offering him a couple of cigarettes. They give him a citation, release him, and allow him to drag away most of his possessions — minus the tarp, which has been impounded as evidence of a crime."It's just like if I was carrying a bag full of my belongings down the street.
But city officials say they do give people somewhere to go. The city crews sweeping the encampments include outreach specialists who offer services such as beds in emergency shelters. The police department now has its own allotment of emergency shelter beds, which officers can make available to people staying in illegal encampments.
Fable Idris helps his friends assemble a"wagon train" of possessions, as they stay ahead of an encampment sweep by city workers south of Market Street.Nakanishi says this increased enforcement can sometimes push the"tough cases" to accept help — particularly those who have become trapped by an accumulation of possessions.
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