Your post didn’t offend me, if anything it reminded me how hard the problems are to truly solve. I appreciate your ideas, but we are in a democracy and you need buy-in.
> the city is empty
Maybe so, but you have to convince the residents that doubling the density won’t affect them. I’d be happy to double the height of my residence and house another family or two here, but right now I’m already near the max zoned height.
> A toilet could be a simple as a hole over the sewer: squat and go.
We have storm drains. The problem is any time we offer privacy, they get used for shooting up drugs and people pass out inside the bathrooms. This greatly raises the cost. We could solve this by being super tough on crime but for better or worse we’ve decided not to mass incarcerate.
I agree that SF does homeless sweeps now and then, but it’s generally a last resort, not a first one. And notice is required… other cities will give you much rougher treatment than SF. Or they have severe weather which acts as a more effective deterrent to homelessness than any level of policing.
I’m also seeing a lot more old RVs where I used to see tents, I think that’s an improvement even if I’d still consider them homeless. RVs are also illegal but are much less of an eyesore than tents and probably safer too. There’s probably even roaming services going around and “emptying” the RVs because I’m seeing a lot less urination on the street lately.
> the city is empty
Maybe so, but you have to convince the residents that doubling the density won’t affect them. I’d be happy to double the height of my residence and house another family or two here, but right now I’m already near the max zoned height.
> A toilet could be a simple as a hole over the sewer: squat and go.
We have storm drains. The problem is any time we offer privacy, they get used for shooting up drugs and people pass out inside the bathrooms. This greatly raises the cost. We could solve this by being super tough on crime but for better or worse we’ve decided not to mass incarcerate.
I agree that SF does homeless sweeps now and then, but it’s generally a last resort, not a first one. And notice is required… other cities will give you much rougher treatment than SF. Or they have severe weather which acts as a more effective deterrent to homelessness than any level of policing.
I’m also seeing a lot more old RVs where I used to see tents, I think that’s an improvement even if I’d still consider them homeless. RVs are also illegal but are much less of an eyesore than tents and probably safer too. There’s probably even roaming services going around and “emptying” the RVs because I’m seeing a lot less urination on the street lately.