Coronavirus forces San Francisco to put homeless into hotels

SAN FRANCISCO - The coronavirus crisis is beginning to do something the city of San Francisco has been unable to accomplish for years - move homeless people off the streets and into shelters, including some of the city’s now-empty hotels.

The hotels may additionally house high-risk individuals among the 19,000 people living in single-room occupancy buildings with shared kitchens and bathrooms who similarly cannot self-isolate. Progressive San Francisco lawmakers want to triple the number of rooms to 14,000, enough to shelter all of the homeless and some additional people from the SRO buildings.

A move to hotels may be the most aggressive intervention in years to address homelessness in the liberal-leaning Bay Area. Between 2015 and 2019, the homeless population in San Francisco grew nearly 30%, according to city figures.In San Francisco’s central Tenderloin neighborhood, tent encampments still lined the streets after city officials issued stay-home orders on starting March 17.

To give the homeless more room to spread out, city officials are converting an upscale tennis club in the South of Market neighborhood and part of the Moscone Center, a venue for glitzy technology conferences, into shelter facilities. Anand Singh, president of United Here Local 2, the union that represents more than 14,000 San Francisco hospitality workers, said he knew of two local budget hotels near the Tenderloin that have signed on to take quarantine guests.Slideshow

NJFrandino katielpaul StephenNellis This should be done here

NJFrandino katielpaul StephenNellis Good luck ever removing them

NJFrandino katielpaul StephenNellis good.

NJFrandino katielpaul StephenNellis Isn't there a park for them?

NJFrandino katielpaul StephenNellis Finally. Maybe they can use part of Pelosi’s walled compound.

NJFrandino katielpaul StephenNellis You see San Francisco can solve the homeless problem if there is real incentive. They just showed they can do it and were dragging their feet by not doing it. Now, what do they do throw them out once this passes?

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NJFrandino katielpaul StephenNellis Good to see that many cities worldwide are doing this, unfortunately when this is all over these poor homeless souls will be pushed back out onto our streets and forgotten about once again.

NJFrandino katielpaul StephenNellis .some good things to come out of this tragedy

Worth Respect.

How tragic for them.

Poop problem solved 💩💩

Good job Coronavirus this time.

Lets protect the World together

So what are they going to do when it's all over? Turf them all out onto the street again?

I hope they do so because we r all human and some of us are scared I can only imagine how the homeless is feeling especially if they have a spouse and children :(

So, they let prisoners out of jail and then put them in a hotel? What’s the friggin difference?

So there is an upside to the WuhanVirus response. Not letting the mere peasants live on the street, dropping Gavins all over the street & sidewalk, pretending that it is “compassionate”. darksecretplace jasonrantz sfgov

Why, if the streets are empty?

US new cases chart

Old Hotels iN Major Cities Should Be Converted iNto Shelters Considering Constant Construction Homeless Epidemic Solutions RussellRope 🏨🛏️

Good, and maybe they can avoid further Typhus outbreaks at the same time.

As of late Thursday, more than 245,000 Corona cases in the US Latest updates | cases per million population👇 CoronaAlert COVID2019

Will they have personal potty trainers too?

Atonement

Well pandemic turns capitalists into socialists

Wow. 'Forced'? Says something about the USA. Not positive. Conservatives call this a 'Christian nation.' 🥴

Sad something like this is what it takes for them to do something about their homeless problem.

Trust me, it’s worth it.

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