Now that it has been roughly three weeks since San Francisco hosted Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation, some residents within the Tenderloin say the large cleanup for the summit is eroding rapidly.

During APEC, the realm of Leavenworth and Ellis streets was clear and even seemed to have been sprayed down. Now, homeless encampments have returned, and a number of the gadgets from the unhoused individuals practically block the sidewalk.

“A lot of the streets are still clean, but we have seen some tents coming back,” Tenderloin Merchants Association Executive Director Rene Colorado mentioned.

Colorado mentioned the additional police presence throughout APEC helped shuffle lots of the unhoused individuals within the neighborhood to different elements of town.

But now that they’ve returned, Supervisor Dean Preston, who represents the Tenderloin, mentioned it is clear the mayor’s workplace is as soon as once more dropping the ball relating to dealing with the longstanding homelessness points within the neighborhood.

“There doesn’t seem to be any serious plan for getting folks the help they need and getting folks off the streets, and it continues to be a source of great frustration for people in the neighborhood,” Preston mentioned.

The mayor’s workplace mentioned metropolis avenue groups are out actively making affords of shelter to individuals, however quite a lot of occasions, individuals aren’t taking them.

“Since the end of APEC, the healthy streets operations center, which is a team that I run, we’ve placed 82 people into residential settings, treatment and housing,” Sam Dodge mentioned. (*3*)

According to town division of homelessness, they simply added 300 extra shelter beds because the pandemic and have added 30 extra for in a single day lodging by the winter.

Mayor London Breed has additionally directed metropolis companies to start contemplating a brand new state regulation that goes into have an effect on in January, increasing the factors for getting courtroom appointed conservatorship over individuals in deep disaster due to substance abuse.

But that can simply be yet another software – in an assortment of them – to proceed attempting to get as many individuals off the streets as doable.

“It is a process and it takes time, and I understand it’s not where we want to be,” Dodge mentioned. “We need to get to the other side of this.”