SAN FRANCISCO — In recent years, international attention has been focused on San Francisco’s Tenderloin and the immense challenges there. There is homelessness, which surfaced acutely decades ago. There is the drug dealing and drug abuse that has exploded on neighborhood sidewalks in recent years claiming a record number of lives.
While San Francisco has tried to tackle all of that there is one byproduct of those larger challenges which is a tremendous challenge in its own right. That is the trash, food, furniture, bicycles and whatever else winds up on city sidewalks during the overnight hours. Someone has to clean it up.
“At times it feels like, you know, our efforts are for none,” said John Mello, operations manager with the Tenderloin Community Benefit District. “‘Cause we will knock out this block and someone will come back and dump it right back out on us. Almost seems like a thankless job. Because, look at it!”
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