San Francisco Mayor London Breed slammed the “homeless coalition” after a court blocked the city’s ability to clear homeless encampments.
Breed made the remarks outside the United States 9th Circuit Court of Appeals as a large crowd urged it to cancel a court order to bar the clearing of homeless encampments in the city, Fox News reported . The mayor of the city, which suffers from a significant homelessness crisis, extolled the city’s efforts to assist the homeless, but she said that the “homeless coalition” is holding the city “hostage.”
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San Francisco Mayor London Breed waves after speaking at a rare outdoor meeting of the Board of Supervisors at UN Plaza in San Francisco, Tuesday, May 23, 2023. Mayor Breed attempted to answer questions from supervisors demanding her administration do more to shut down open-air drug dealing, but the meeting had to be moved indoors to City Hall because of disruptions. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)
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“The homeless coalition has held San Francisco hostage for decades. It is time for their reign to end,” Breed declared.
She has also argued that it is inhumane to allow the camps to remain with unsanitary conditions. Used needles, rotting food, and human waste are scattered throughout the encampments.
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However, homeless advocates argue that it would be inhumane to remove the encampments while the number of homeless people outnumbers the total number of beds in homeless shelters.
“There are 3,000 shelter beds in the city for 7,000 or more unhoused people who are sleeping outside every night because they have no choice in the matter,” Zal Shroff, interim legal director at the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area, said Wednesday.