{"id":62091,"date":"2024-08-21T16:49:38","date_gmt":"2024-08-21T23:49:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eltecolote.org\/content\/?p=62091"},"modified":"2024-09-05T11:52:17","modified_gmt":"2024-09-05T18:52:17","slug":"sf-mayor-homeless-encampments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eltecolote.org\/content\/en\/sf-mayor-homeless-encampments\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside S.F. Mayor\u2019s push to make street homelessness \u2018uncomfortable\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>San Francisco Mayor London Breed swiftly launched a crackdown on homeless encampments this month, immediately following the Supreme Court\u2019s Grants Pass ruling in late June.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Grants Pass v. Johnson, the court ruled that the Eighth Amendment\u2019s \u201ccruel and unusual punishment\u201d clause does not apply to fining, ticketing, or even arresting those who are homeless (even in the absence of public shelters), overturning past legal precedents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Voices: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/eltecolote.org\/content\/en\/these-handwritten-notes-reveal-human-cost-of-s-f-s-aggressive-homeless-sweeps\/\">These handwritten notes reveal human cost of S.F.\u2019s aggressive homeless sweeps<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>In San Francisco, the ruling vacates a 2022 injunction issued by Magistrate Judge Donna Ryu, which prevented the ticketing and arrest of unsheltered people for simply being homeless. Breed, long frustrated by her inability to take a tougher approach, swiftly directed the San Francisco Police Department and other city departments to launch what many describe as aggressive sweeps of homeless encampments and individual tents across the city\u2019s neighborhoods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Painting these new tactics as \u201ctough love\u201d and a shift \u201cfrom a compassionate city to a city of accountability,\u201d Breed has tried (unsuccessfully) to distract from them by simultaneously promoting the Journey Home program, which provides bus tickets for unsheltered individuals to a location of their choice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yet the sweeps happening throughout the city are impossible to ignore, particularly in the Mission, which has been swept 33 times since January. An <a href=\"https:\/\/1drv.ms\/b\/s!AiZ-ZG7ci8dC2GiGsLRqGzQ1W_s7?e=I5n9fB\">SFPD \u201csweep schedule\u201d<\/a> from two weeks ago (obtained by Mission Local), detailing which parts of the city were to be swept and when, showed that the entire Mission was to be hit twice over a course of five days. These sweeps have been conducted in a manner that is not only aggressive and compassionless but also in violation of the city\u2019s own laws regarding such procedures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the Coalition on Homelessness, the tactics the SFPD, Department of Public Works, and several other city departments are using to clear encampments are commonplace practices that have taken place for years and are not limited to any one neighborhood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unannounced sweeps, failure to bag and tag items for later collection, and instances of police confiscating IDs are just a few examples of infractions that have been downplayed until now. The Mission is just one neighborhood where these problems have been observed, but it\u2019s unique in that it clearly demonstrates the practical, legal, and emotional shortcomings of the policies and methods in place to address homelessness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The rate of encampment clearings in the Mission has remained high ever since Breed issued an executive order on July 30 to begin conducting them more often and more aggressively. However, encampment and tent clearings in the Mission have been largely ineffective at encouraging unsheltered individuals to seek out alternatives (shelters, busing, etc.) to tents and vehicles. Many witnessing a sweep quickly gather their possessions to avoid confiscation, only to return to the same spot afterward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not all are so \u201clucky.\u201d Legally, the Department of Public Works is required to give 72 hours\u2019 notice before coming to a space and clearing it of unwanted or abandoned articles; law enforcement is required to give 24 hours\u2019 notice before clearing obviously inhabited tents and encampments. But there are numerous accounts by unsheltered people of being given little to no time to take their things before they\u2019re confiscated and thrown away\u2014another illegal but commonplace practice. Those whose possessions are tagged have a window of only three days to collect their things from Public Works; otherwise, they\u2019re required to fill out forms requesting the return of their belongings, a process that can be flawed, as the only identifier on a bag is a person\u2019s name. On the other hand, those who have had their things discarded have to rebuild from scratch, which is not as easy as it sounds; a formerly houseless individual at a July SFMTA meeting commented that \u201cbeing homeless is expensive,\u201d a cruel irony that\u2019s difficult to miss.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The emotional toll of the sweeps is profound. It\u2019s not simply that a person\u2019s belongings are being confiscated, but that their home, and sometimes their entire community, is swept away in a matter of minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Michail Huston Jr., a 42-year-old man who has experienced homelessness for four years now, said, \u201cThe biggest impact was when DPW came and took my tent because there were sentimental values in there.\u201d Huston recalled how employees of the Department of Public Works threw away his mother\u2019s and brother\u2019s cremated ashes: \u201cThey can\u2019t be replaced, you know?\u201d His is one of many examples of the lack of compassion displayed by the city when conducting sweeps, with seemingly no attention even to items as sacred as the remains of close family members.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The aggressiveness of the sweeps has forced many to find locations that aren\u2019t normally targeted by the city. Daniel Howard, a 64-year-old man who has experienced homelessness for the last 23 years, spoke about the conditions on the streets post-Breed\u2019s executive order. With the exception of a new tent he bought after his previous one was confiscated, he said he \u201clost everything\u2026 It\u2019s rough. It\u2019s bad actually, but now, the last two days the city has been coming by and I make sure to keep my tent far away from the street.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the goals of these sweeps is to create such untenable living circumstances for unsheltered people that they have no choice left but to seek out a bed in a shelter. This, however, comes with its own set of complications, as many have existing trauma from previous experiences that lead them to actively choose living on the street instead of going to a shelter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A representative from the Coalition on Homelessness explained that trauma from past incarcerations, involuntary psychological holds, and other violent experiences often makes shelters feel unsafe, deterring people from seeking a bed. As a result, when those who are unsheltered see a sweep coming, they gather up their things as quickly as possible and move to a location that has already been swept, rather than following the course of action the mayor hoped they\u2019d be forced to take.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Families are not immune to the confiscation of their belongings or an automobile that might function as their only shelter. In the case of unsheltered migrant families, the Supreme Court\u2019s decision makes their circumstances even more tenuous. Compass Family Services, an organization that works with and advocates for unsheltered families, reports that not only is there a vast shortage of family housing resources, but existing homelessness services are not equipped to provide legal help concerning asylum. According to Milli Atkinson, director of the Immigrant Legal Defense Program at the Justice and Diversity Center of the Bar Association of San Francisco, asylum cases can take years to adjudicate, and as there is very little crossover between homeless services and legal aid, it\u2019s extraordinarily difficult (if not impossible) for migrants to obtain authorized work permits, which would open a wider array of employment opportunities and a way out of homelessness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Aggressive sweeps, inadequate legal services, a shortage of mental health and community programs, and insufficient housing reflect a failing system that focuses on removing unsheltered people rather than addressing root causes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Breed\u2019s executive order confirms that resources are not to be improved, nor are the city\u2019s homelessness services and systems to be overhauled in any meaningful way. Regarding unsheltered people in the city, whose style of existence has now been criminalized, Breed has made her main tactic perfectly clear: \u201cWe are going to make them\u2026 uncomfortable on the streets of San Francisco.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mayor London Breed swiftly directed city departments to launch what many describe as aggressive sweeps of homeless encampments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88922,"featured_media":62093,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":false,"newspack_featured_image_position":"large","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"coauthors":[25229],"class_list":["post-62091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","entry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Inside SF Mayor\u2019s push to make homelessness \u2018uncomfortable\u2019<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"San Francisco Mayor London Breed swiftly directed city departments to launch what many describe as aggressive sweeps of homeless encampments.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/eltecolote.org\/content\/en\/sf-mayor-homeless-encampments\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Inside SF Mayor\u2019s push to make homelessness \u2018uncomfortable\u2019\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"San Francisco Mayor London Breed swiftly directed city departments to launch what many describe as aggressive sweeps of homeless encampments.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/eltecolote.org\/content\/en\/sf-mayor-homeless-encampments\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"El Tecolote\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ElTecoloteSF\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-08-21T23:49:38+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-09-05T18:52:17+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/08072024-UNHOUSEDSFSWEEPS-ET-PU-2.JPG.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"798\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Maura Corkery\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@eltecolotesf\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@eltecolotesf\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Maura Corkery\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"6 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"NewsArticle\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/eltecolote.org\\\/content\\\/en\\\/sf-mayor-homeless-encampments\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/eltecolote.org\\\/content\\\/en\\\/sf-mayor-homeless-encampments\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Erika Carlos\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/eltecolote.org\\\/content\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/98e31c3dda2abc936b778a5b89858b5b\"},\"headline\":\"Inside S.F. 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