San Francisco residents and business owners have criticized the city's clean-up campaign for this week's Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit, saying attempts to push away the homeless and drug addicts from downtown is only a 'Band-Aid' solution.
San Francisco residents and business owners have criticized the city's clean-up campaign for this week's Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit, saying attempts to push away the homeless and drug addicts from downtown is only a "Band-Aid" solution to a severe and year-around problem, the New York Post reported over the weekend.
"They started clearing the tents earlier this week and there is definitely a lot more police presence," South of Market resident and community activist Ricci Lee Wynne told the New York Post. "They've cleared out the tents that were near the Moscone Center on Howard Street, which tells me the city had the capability to do this all along – instead they just do the bare minimum.
Adam Mesnick, another South of Market resident and business owner, said he has seen temporary housing appear in hotels for some of the homeless over the past week.
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