San Francisco's hotels and motels are slowly emptying of the homeless people that the city placed there during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Where will they go? Elected officials have come up with a new plan: turn the whole city into a network of homeless encampments.
Could San Francisco really turn school grounds and other public spaces into dozens of city-sanctioned homeless encampments? The prospect sounds inconceivable, but the ball began rolling last week, when Supervisor Rafael Mandelman introduced "A Place For All," legislation that would establish Safe Sleeping Sites around the city.
The city would thus have to accommodate not just the people currently living on the city streets but also the newcomers arriving daily.
Each site would house up to 150 people-so if 5,000 were to be routed to tents, the city would need to build at least 33 sites across San Francisco's small footprint.
The proposal to transform what remains of San Francisco into a mass of sanctioned homeless camps has supporters.
When the city attempted to turn the Palace of Fine Arts into a homeless shelter, Marina residents resisted, and the plan was quickly scrapped.
https://www.city-journal.org/san-francisco-proposal-homeless-camps
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