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Tech hub San Francisco, California is the second-most expensive US city to live in. It\u2019s also awash with human waste. This year, over 16,000 feces-related complaints have been lodged with city authorities.<\/p>\n
As of Thursday, there have been 16,022 complaints made about \u2018feces,\u2019 and thousands of others made using words like \u2018sh*t\u2019, \u2018poop\u2019 and \u2018excrement\u2019, to San Francisco\u2019s municipal authorities.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cHuman feces still not cleaned up despite multiple complaints. How many weeks will pass?\u201d<\/em> reads one complaint lodged Wednesday.<\/p>\n \u201cBodily fluids and feces down the whole street, garbage, cloths, food thrown all over sidewalk,\u201d<\/em> reads another.<\/p>\n \u201cHomeless encampment is blocking sidewalk and creates a health hazard w trash and feces. Please move them, and send a cleaning crew. Sidewalk is impassable, forcing pedestrians into the street,\u201d<\/em> reported one user, his complaint accompanied with a photo of a tent pitched under a tree in the city\u2019s central Mission district.<\/p>\n San Francisco residents can make non-emergency \u2018311\u2019 municipal complaints with the touch of a button, thanks to a website<\/a>\u00a0and a mobile app. Complainants can attach photos as proof, and the authorities send a notification when the problem is resolved.<\/p>\n Many of the complaints are connected to the city\u2019s homeless problem. Rent in the city averages over $3,500 per month, pricing out all but the highest earners and creating a city of wealthy tech employees on one side, and a teeming homeless underclass on the other.<\/p>\n San Francisco is beautiful, just don\u2019t mind the giant bags of feces and step over the used hypodermic needles!<\/p>\n \u2014 E.Stanley Thurston (@mrgoody_2_shoes) July 4, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n There are an estimated 7,500 homeless people in San Francisco at any given time, almost one percent of the city\u2019s 871,000 population. Elsewhere in California, the problem is almost as grave, with more than one quarter of the US homeless population living in the state.<\/p>\n The city\u2019s seedy underbelly leaves behind other forms of hazardous waste too. A February NBC report<\/a>\u00a0revealed that in addition to feces, downtown San Francisco is polluted with more garbage and used syringes than some of the world\u2019s poorest slums.<\/p>\n Dr Lee Riley, an infectious diseases expert at the University of California in Berkeley, told NBC reporters that in some parts of the city, the contamination is \u201cmuch greater than communities in Brazil or Kenya or Italy.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Getting stuck by a used needle can pass on diseases like HIV and Hepatitis B and C. San Francisco has one of the largest HIV-positive populations in the US, with an estimated 16,010 people living with the disease.<\/p>\n Disturbing survey finds trash, needles, feces littering streets of Nancy Pelosi\u2019s home town. San Francisco has streets covered with garbage, human excrement and hypodermic needles across the liberal city. Discarded needles could cause HIV and Hepatitis B and C, Paradise lost. pic.twitter.com\/UVcYL90ZdQ<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Captain Ron (@papaneeed1) June 16, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n The extent of San Francisco\u2019s human waste problem was graphically illustrated last week, with photos of a 20-pound bag of excrement abandoned on a street corner going viral. The city received several 311 complaints about the bag, as citizens reported a \u201cstrong smell of feces\u201d<\/em> in the area. One reddit user described the bag as \u201cthe most atrocious smell I’ve ever smelled in San Francisco.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Complaints about human waste in San Francisco have skyrocketed, increasing by 400 percent from 2008 to 2018, according to the City. The 311 site and app received over 21,000 reports last year. At the current rate, that figure will be\u00a0more than doubled by the end of 2018.<\/p>\n The problem is starting to hit the Golden Gate City where it hurts too. This week, a major medical association decided to pull its annual convention out of the city, citing safety concerns.<\/p>\n The convention was expected to draw 15,000 attendees and bring $40 million into the city\u2019s economy, but organizers told the San Francisco Chronicle<\/a> that members were afraid to walk the streets and felt threatened by open drug use, unchecked mental illness, and threatening behaviour from the city\u2019s vagrant population.<\/p>\n Twitter users have not been shy about their disgust with the city\u2019s problems, with many blaming years of Democrat leadership for allowing the problem to fester.<\/p>\n San Francisco has reached critical mass in the drug, homeless, crime problem. Now major conventions are cancellingc. Participants too afraid to walk alone in the City by the Bay. So sad. Such a beautiful city being run into the ground.https:\/\/t.co\/GGtecdpY6f<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Kari Lake Fox 10 (@KariLakeFox10) July 4, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n San Francisco is actually a pretty nice city…<\/p>\n You know when you remove the large number of homeless camps, drug addiction, poop maps, and trash lying everywhere. pic.twitter.com\/bMr0m2Nk4P<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n
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