Will San Francisco’s Encampment Sweeps Help Reduce Homelessness, or Is It Election Year Political Theater?

‘People need to be made to feel sick and tired of being sick and tired,’ a formerly homeless fentanyl addict, Tom Wolf, says.

Caroline McCaughey/The New York Sun
A street corner in San Francisco's Tenderloin District. Caroline McCaughey/The New York Sun

SAN FRANCISCO — “Where do you go from here?” I ask a group of homeless persons clutching their straws and belongings on one side of Willow Street as San Francisco Public Works employees in neon-green vests pressure-wash the sidewalk as part of Mayor Breed’s new directive to clear encampments.

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