SF Ditches Plan To House Homeless At Moscone
Center During Pandemic In Favor Of Hotel Rooms
KPIX-TV [San Francisco CA],
by
Staff
Original Article
Posted By: NorthernDog,
4/7/2020 6:48:43 PM
SAN FRANCISCO – San Francisco officials have reversed a plan to shelter homeless people at the Moscone West Convention Center. Instead, the city will continue with a plan to place homeless people at hotels in an effort to mitigate the spread of the coronavirus, said Trent Rohrer, director of the city’s Human Services Agency. (Snip) Video and photos of the space at Moscone West showing rows of cots placed closely together drew immediate criticism. “It looked like a World War I flu hospital,” said Matt Haney, a San Francisco Supervisor who has been urging the city to move more quickly
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Strike3 4/7/2020 6:59:56 PM (No. 371991)
Excellent free vacation opportunity for anybody who dared to blend in with the homeless. $500 a night hotel rooms in San Fran. A bonus would be not having to step over the homeless when you ventured out. Downside, nothing is open.
Cots lined up close together in a convention center? It would be safer to stay out on the streets in tents. That was an act of genius on somebody's part.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
crimea river 4/7/2020 7:03:10 PM (No. 371993)
Raise your hands. If SF had housed homeless at the Moscone Center, who among us would be attending a Moscone convention there in the next few years?
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
aasilver 4/7/2020 7:10:10 PM (No. 371998)
I went to a graduation in SF in December. I made a reservation at the Ritz Carlton. The week before we were due to go my wife asked me if we really wanted to stay in downtown SF. The answer was NO.
We changed our reservation to the Weston at the airport rather than put up with the disaster that is downtown SF.
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I"m guessing the visual wasn't looking good.
Plus, now they can spend the gov't money on hotel rooms now - they aren't free - which will help many of them stay in business.
But, it will be nearly impossible to re-locate them after they are in a "home".
Once they are in this particular "home", they'll be registered to vote,with enterprising Democrat advocacy groups harvesting the votes. Just watch.
Also, anyone notice how little the TV folks have highlighted how many people are at those drive-thru testing facilities?
I'm presuming they aren't as busy as they expected, or you'd have TV crews camped out showing how massive the problem is.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
DVC 4/7/2020 7:27:05 PM (No. 372018)
And then flame purify the rooms?
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
worried 4/7/2020 7:58:59 PM (No. 372049)
How many to a room? And I can just see them inviting their fellow homeless to come share the new digs. Party time! And just try to evict them! Any landlord can tell you how hard that is.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Videodrone 4/7/2020 8:01:40 PM (No. 372051)
How (and who) are the hotels going to clean after they move out? Would like to have a list of places so utilized as I'll never stay in any of them!
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
curious1 4/7/2020 8:03:51 PM (No. 372055)
Wouldn't individual tents with port-a-potties be cheaper and more sanitary?
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
bighambone 4/7/2020 8:04:32 PM (No. 372057)
Chances are in downtown San Francisco the hotel rooms are going to be very expensive and if I were a corruption or fraud investigator I would be following the money. In any case I would bet that it is going to cost the city of San Francisco a lot more to refurbish the hotels after they move the homeless back out on the street.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
TJ54 4/7/2020 8:05:51 PM (No. 372060)
Why aren't the Homeless being housed on the Pelosi walled estate? I thought she was a "devout" Catholic.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Mike22 4/7/2020 8:10:24 PM (No. 372063)
I had an office near Moscone, I used to love to go down to the city, stay in those nice hotels and enjoy the city - restaurants, shops, museums, street performances, conferences and the tourist traps like pier 39. But I have stopped, it is ruined. Aggressive homeless people and dangerous human predators roam the streets day and night. You can not enjoy anything because you need to be code red vigilant at all time, everywhere.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
whyyeseyec 4/7/2020 8:36:51 PM (No. 372080)
@#4- Precisely!! Once they have an address they can vote 'by mail' in June for an election that doesn't take place till November.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
stablemoney 4/7/2020 9:06:26 PM (No. 372103)
I would not want to occupy any of these hotels, after they import this infestation.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
RuckusTom 4/7/2020 9:10:25 PM (No. 372106)
Tent cities. Why aren't they consulting with Sheriff Joe?
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
padiva 4/7/2020 9:21:08 PM (No. 372117)
Hey, even the homeless need a vacation from being homeless. /s
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Venturer 4/7/2020 9:44:29 PM (No. 372135)
They are still discussing where to put them? The pandemic will be over before they get them settled.
By the way Shipping containers are cheap and they could put 3 to a container divided by a plyboard wall.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
XCenturion 4/7/2020 10:02:12 PM (No. 372144)
Yet another reason for people not to visit that S hole city by the bay. With all the crap on the sidewalks in SF, your chances of getting cholera is better than catching COVID-19.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Jesuslover54 4/7/2020 10:11:10 PM (No. 372154)
If you want to make sure you will co-opt a lot of hotel rooms just make the alternative look like Gone With the Wind.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
lakerman1 4/7/2020 11:10:00 PM (No. 372183)
This should be interesting.
FEMA placed New Orleans residents around the U.S. in 2005, after Katrina ,, free hotels, meals, cable tv...and it took nearly a decade to move them out.
i asked a FEMA administrator, years after Katrina, why the NO relocatees were still in hotels.
Her answer was succinct. 'They have lawyers.'
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 4/8/2020 1:33:24 AM (No. 372248)
The Moscone center would be a pit of sewage and filth by the time it is all over.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Daisymay 4/8/2020 7:41:52 AM (No. 372367)
Obviously the people in charge of this decision don't remember what happened to the Superdome in LA after it housed thousands of people during Katrina. They practically had to burn the place down it was such a horrid mess from those people treating it like their private Toilet!
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I assume there is 'free' room service too.