The San Francisco Trash/Needles/Poop in the Streets Containment Thread (Oakland: transfer, bus)

[NewbieHere]

I’m here and so far I see less homeless people then I had fear. But there are some near Union Square.

[BlakeJones]

If those numbers are correct it's pretty crazy how San Fran allows such a small group of people to wreck the city for everyone else

[veritased]

Originally Posted by NewbieHere

I’m here and so far I see less homeless people then I had fear. But there are some near Union Square.

haha stick around... walk (carefully) around... you'll see soon enough for yourself.

[NewbieHere]

Originally Posted by veritased

haha stick around... walk (carefully) around... you'll see soon enough for yourself.

I did see some homeless people begging but no feces, no people in tent. I’m back already, only went up for two days, I was near Union Square and China town, not tenderloin. Did see one homeless person in front of I-Out-Burger and he was berating a lot of Korean tourists.

[nowhereman427]

Originally Posted by NewbieHere

I did see some homeless people begging but no feces, no people in tent. I’m back already, only went up for two days, I was near Union Square and China town, not tenderloin. Did see one homeless person in front of I-Out-Burger and he was berating a lot of Korean tourists.

[2sleepy]

Originally Posted by NewbieHere

I did see some homeless people begging but no feces, no people in tent. I’m back already, only went up for two days, I was near Union Square and China town, not tenderloin. Did see one homeless person in front of I-Out-Burger and he was berating a lot of Korean tourists.

Thanks for posting an objective view on this. When I said the same thing that you did I was accused of lying because I'm a "bleeding heart liberal" or a "SJW"

[NewbieHere]

I didn’t go everywhere, just Union Square and the cable car, Chinatown, Fisherman’s Wharf.

[likealady]

Originally Posted by NewbieHere

I didn’t go everywhere, just Union Square and the cable car, Chinatown, Fisherman’s Wharf.

Union Square typically has a bunch of homeless hanging around the Powell Street Station nearby the cable car turn-around, and then on a few street corners north (usually Geary), as well as along the mall. Head West down from the cable car and 5th st onward is littered with them. I know this because my office used to be around there. I rarely go to the Wharf so I don't know what the homelessness is like over there, but there's usually a handful of them along Embarcadero st. Chinatown doesn't really have many homeless from my observation, with exception to Portsmouth Square.

That said, tourists have a tendency to have their head in the clouds or a phone. Not to mention it's been rainy lately and many might be tucked under overpasses for now.

[NewbieHere]

It may have been the rain but this tourist didn’t have her head in the cloud. I was watching the street for feces and needles. I saw some homeless people begging but no feces. That’s my point.

[nowhereman427]

Originally Posted by veritased

haha stick around... walk (carefully) around... you'll see soon enough for yourself.