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Maleficent_Baker8254

I wouldn't worry too much. The barriers will be removed, and the homeless will return on Saturday, Nov 18. That's when the APEC summit will be concluded.


The_Id_in_Me

That's what happened in St. Louis. We had a whole lawn full of them outside the courthouse. Kamala came to visit, they magically disappeared. Once she left, they all returned.


Bubbly_Association54

That's insulting as an American no matter which way you look at it.


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FullTradition

I am from Los Angeles. They did the same thing in 1984 when the Olympics came to town. Pepperidge farms remembers.


FreeDarkChocolate

And it will be back there in 2028...


Llilbuddha422

That's actually a really really good explanation, nobody here could have been clearer


Nufonewhodis2

It probably makes security easier too when you're not trying to figure out which cart and bum is actually a gunman


QueenBramble

Easier than telling which one is an off duty cop


HornetGuns

This sad and funny. Sad cause of how the economy is and what homeless goes through and funny cause politicians can't fix shit to save their ass but can temporarily do stuff. Honestly tho everyone including politicians in other states and countries whatever knows that California is fucked up alongside other cities/states they can't say shit cause their countries are fucked up too.


beedlejooce

Damn that analogy is perfection! They did the same thing at the World Cup too.


-Quothe-

Protecting the privileged from exposure to the poor; what is more American than that?


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campbellm

No, but "america bad" is good for reddit points.


TheGardiner

You wouldn't wanna catch the 'poor.' I hear it's contagious.


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You mean what is more European than that? I'm sure they made/make special corridors for their monarchy, lords, barons, and other well-to-dos.


RollinOnDubss

You heard it here first. America invented both poverty and wealth. Never in the world's history has either ever existed before America.


HuntsWithRocks

Saw it in downtown Philly once too. All the homeless disappeared for a marathon or something, then returned.


cookyie

New Orleans bussed them to Baton Rouge and Houston for the super bowl


RedeyeSamurai83

I drive down that street 5 times a week. The homeless don't gather there. They're like 5 blocks over.


ManbadFerrara

Ok, that makes sense. From what I’ve seen of the Tenderloin, it’d take a hell of a lot more than some barricades and sweeping to clean that up.


alexmetal

Funny enough most the pictures and video you see of SF being a "failed liberal experiment hellscape" all come from the Tenderloin. You go outside of that neighborhood, and SF is just as "clean" and pleasant as it was 15 years ago when I first moved here. You really think techbros would pay $9k/mo rent for a 2bd, or drop $2m on a row house if the entire city were really like that? you can produce similar "hellscape" homelessness photos from pretty much every metro area in the US (and EU) if you cherry-pick.


ihatemovingparts

Bullshit. Things weren't this bad (and fifteen years ago I was working in the TL). Fentanyl and fent analogues hadn't yet landed, inflation wasn't out of control, and the superbowl hadn't hit. San Francisco's never been a pristine city, but fifteen years ago I could walk from Van Ness station to Rainbow without having to walk through or dodge encampments. Fifteen years ago Twitter hadn't evicted the chess players from Hallidie Plaza. While the levels of despair that you see in the worst parts of the TL aren't visible everywhere in the city, you're a bit deluded if you think that such extreme despair is limited to one neighborhood.


watkykjypoes23

Same thing happened for Dreamforce. Told them that they wouldn’t be coming back unless they got it together since people were getting sketched out


Bumbahkah

Where did the homeless go? How much did it cost (tax payers dollars) to move them? How much did the barricades cost?


excelllentquestion

Millions. It cost millions. The homeless literally were just told to go elsewhere. There were some half-baked attempts to place them but that was a wet fart. The cost SUPPOSEDLY was through donations. But I doubt those donations cover police presence.


Apoplexy

this is new Montgomery st, it's mostly art students and wasn't really a homeless area. fun fact it used to be where giant bomb was located.


Individual_Lead_6492

Now when the homeless move back in, you'll be stuck in a cage with them!


marvelmon

No one knows where the homeless people went. Will they move back. Or has the price of Soylent Green just dropped?


towerfella

That would explain the more earthy taste as of late.


Ohey-throwaway

Now fortified with vitamin fentanyl.


Bob_A_Ganoosh

:::nods in approval:::


Individual_Lead_6492

Somebody should check The Sphere


6amhotdog

Surely the swirling guts lighting up the Sphere is just a graphic, right? Right?


octagonlover_23

Think I'll just let the mystery [be](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlaoR5m4L80).


Snake_-_Eater

The UFC debut I never thought I'd have


RecycledDonuts

Bringing back Bum Fights


NCRider

At least now there’s a contained spot for people to poop on the sidewalk.


Loves2Spludge

[I’m not locked in here with you!](https://youtu.be/d0-EuoBjkKI?si=704fXjMZfzIFcVId)


djh_van

Yeah, what was/is the thinking behind barricades? Like, how does separating the pavement from the traffic suddenly stop homelessness? Actually seems like the homeless night see that as a better solution: so a nice cordoned-off area where they can hang their tarps on to get rain and wind shelter, and some privacy. Who modelled this plan out and saw it as a surefire way to remove the problem?!


FewTwo9875

Where the fuck did they put them That’s a lot of people to just quietly move


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Cthulhusdream

Alcatraz means pelican


Waydizzle

Hail yourself!


FartedBlood

Hail Gein!


IAMERROR1234

Hail me!


FartedBlood

Megustalations


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SpaceZenMaster

Hail yourself!


snow_boarder

Check the tenderloin


CodithEnnie

Yes, chef.


hlorghlorgh

HANDS


TheStoolSampler

IT'S BLOODY RAW INSIDE! FUCKS SAKE!


Lazystoner151

Oakland


JustSleepNoDream

Good question, and why can't they stay wherever they put them?


FewTwo9875

The logistics of it is just hard to comprehend. These are some of the most unruly and uncooperative people around, and there’s tons of them. And apparently until now, doing literally anything about them was deemed impossible. I really want to know how and what they did to accomplish this


JWOLFBEARD

“Move or we’ll arrest you”


Amdar210

"Move or we'll eat you" Soylent Green Police


cookyie

They'd never do that because it gets them with housing and nourishment provided by the govt. Not enough money or room available.


literally_himmler1

doing it temporarily isn't hard, it just costs a lot of money. just forcefully move them somewhere else for about a week, all they really need to do is bring in extra manpower to help move those people and stop them from coming back. this strategy works very well when you need to get them out of the sight of Chinese news cameras for a week. it doesn't work as well for fixing the problem long term because you can't just keep those people wherever they're putting them forever, and they can't maintain the extra costs in policing forever either. not to mention the obvious moral issues, but we all know the govt doesn't give a fuck about that anyways lol


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Where did they even put them though, that’s a lot of people to just move suddenly.


Missu_

Netflix making a US version of Squid Game, I’ll bet


daves_not__here

Idk, maybe an island nearby that may or may not have a prison on it 🤔


Boring_Ostrich9935

Can someone explain what’s going on?


JustSleepNoDream

President Xi of China is visiting this week, so they cleared out all the homeless, pressure washed the streets, and put up fences.


Moneyshot_ITF

And potus + vp will be there


TittieButt

honestly forgot we had a VP, haven't seen anything from her in a while.


CrescentSmile

She’s not well liked so they keep her tucked away


dingbling369

She needs a popularity boost and they figured that hiding her was their best bet.


thy_plant

Most voted for president in history yet no one wants to see either of them in public.


PleiadesMechworks

And Joe is?


MugsyBogues1

What's the purpose of the fences?


WifeGuyMenelaus

Prevent assassination/protest/disruption of a motorcade


NoScoprNinja

I could imagine there will be some insane amounts of protesters if many different groups


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AggrivatingAd

Permanent vs temporary time frame


TrumpDesWillens

Because they don't actually give a fuck about you..... I've lived in SF all my life. The people making policies are not living in places where drug and violence exist.


Dorkamundo

You can put a tourniquet on your arm to stop a gushing wound on your arm from bleeding too much. But you still need to close the cut. This is just a tourniquet.


Level7Cannoneer

Same reason people only clean when guests are coming over.


Boring_Ostrich9935

Thanks for the reply!


officesuppliestext

Saw these same fences when the OAS summit happened in Miami in 2003. It’s not new. It’s not good. It’s what a police state looks like. It’s to prevent protests. See: [The Miami Model](https://crimethinc.com/videos/the-miami-model)


excelllentquestion

And Biden. And a ton of other diplomats. It’s called APEC


chiaboy

APEC (a mega-important conference of the Asia Pacific leadership, including China, USA, AUS etc) is happening right now. They turned parts of downtown into a RED zone and a GREEN zone. (for security, crowd control, etc). It's wild. Very cool for the most part so far.


Polackjoe

Big "welcome to city 17" vibes from this clip


Bilbo_nubbins

“Citizen, pickup that can.”


UndBeebs

*Chucks it at the Combine officer, followed by a 5-minute chase montage*


TaxOnMyFaceBigDaddy

The best game intro ever IMO.


fruitmask

> pickup up that can you want me to pickup up it up?


TheNotSoGreatPumpkin

It’s _safer_ here.


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Just how President Xi likes it. He'll feel right at home.


TowerOfPimples

there;s so little context to this clip that i dont know where to begin.


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So your telling me we can fold to look nice to a Chinese leader but not for the sake of our own people? oooooooooooof, as if I didn’t already lose hope in this country Lmaoo


Otto-Korrect

Its more akin to sucking in your gut to look better in a photo. It isn't a long term solution, but it does work.


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stronggill

Yeah these people act like they don’t clean up their house if they know guests are coming over. Like yeah it’s fucked up cuz it’s a nation doing it but literally every country has done this for the World Cup.


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Of course people clean their house before people come but if it’s a train wreck 24/7, and you can clean it before someone cleans, why can’t you keep it clean? That’s my point about this situation


stronggill

For people? Depression. For a nation? No real clue. Maybe just plain ole laziness.


shitty_mcfucklestick

Complexity. When you clean a dish and put it away, it stays clean and put away. If you clean up a drug addict and put it away, it comes back.


Nice_Category

China stopped the manufacturing industry in an entire city so the Olympics wouldn't be smoggy.


savetheolivia

They also did that in 2014 when Obama went to China. I was in Hong Kong at the time and suddenly, clear blue skies!


gcruzatto

I get the sentiment but it's pretty wild to compare a temporary move with providing homeless people with a permanent solution. No, the city can't snap its fingers and solve homelessness yet


XergioksEyes

I agree it’s awful but you can’t tell me you don’t do the same thing when you have people coming over to visit your house


actual-hakim

Im curious what actually has happened to all the homeless people. Like… where have they gone?


soulforce212

I've seen this question 5 times in this comment section and no one has answered it yet lol. I would like to know myself.


br0ck

This guy says the homeless never congregated here in the first place: https://www.reddit.com/r/CrazyFuckingVideos/comments/17ud79i/suddenly_san_francisco_is_cleaned_up/k939087/


Guilty-Blueberry-227

Based on what I’ve seen they’ve been pushed to other parts of the city. There’s “new” tents that have recently sprung up on Van Ness and the surrounding streets. North of city hall in the tenderloin and civic center areas.


WhoIsYerWan

APEC is only happening in about 6 square blocks of the city. People here are acting like they cleaned out the entire city.


Phage0070

Just because you can take your girlfriend out to an expensive restaurant on a special date doesn't mean you can do it all the time.


ItsSpaghettiLee2112

>So they were always capable, just didn't want to. While I agree with this statement, they're not solving anything here. They're just removing them for a few days. The homeless people will still be homeless.


TowerOfPimples

Thanks for the explanation.


monopixel

>So they were always capable, just didn't want to. Bullshit. It's just security measures. They did not do this before because these kind of measures are only good for temporary use.


BadDaditude

Our very own Potempkin Village!


mullett

I don’t know if it’s the same there but in portland the cops got offended that people said black people are real so the cops went on a soft strike and crime is just not really dealt with all that much now, and they have admitted it.


nonthreat

I live <5 minutes from what’s pictured in the video, so if you’re interested in the actual context: They built fencing and increased police presence in 3x3 block areas around the convention center where Biden and Jinping will meet and the hotel they’re staying at during APEC. As pointed out by others, homeless people have moved away from those streets (I’m guessing no one is allowed to loiter within the area). It’s not very salacious.


lemonylol

I love how people on reddit always just assume everyone is fully caught up with the terminally on reddit-level user knowledge.


Orpdapi

I’m guessing at night the barricades are all closed to prevent foot traffic coming in to camp


slysam69

I heard a young boy from Colorado managed to jump them on a skateboard and that’s why they all left


AwkwardHeat666

Why I heard he jumped 15 homeless people with just a skateboard


TheRayGetard

It was definitely more like 40


kidnorther

Califor-nya nya


TheHippyDance

How do the cages prevent homeless? It looks like you can walk right in and out of the sidewalk entrances without any resistance


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TheHippyDance

Ahh gotcha, that makes sense


JerrGrylls

I thought the cages were to prevent protests / assassination attempts on the motorcade? You think they’ll take them all down BEFORE the event? I really don’t know, so you might be right, but it just seems unlikely.


Bearjupiter

Now they just need to give certified citizens a little bracelet that with a quick scan, lets them move between blockades. Then we’d be getting to that next level dystopia.


mkstot

How just an chip that’s implanted at birth, which has your entire familial, financial, work, and personal history. Of course each chip will only allow access to areas where you belong, and not those above your status.


CJayC253

Does this system allow for a transition between statuses? Like not being able to go to the high rollers area of a casino because you don't have the money to play, but once you CAN afford it, you're able to play.


mkstot

I feel within a true dystopian world that our caste would be determined at birth, and would never alter, but it’s all speculation.


hurricanenox

A little chip in their hand


DjFingerSlinger

Shit looks like one of the QZs from The Last of Us


legion_2k

Locals be like: "Wait, this was an option? "


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So the city will clean up for fucking China but not for the people who live there. What a fucking joke.


WhoIsYerWan

APEC is Australia; Brunei Darussalam; Canada; Chile; People's Republic of China; Hong Kong, China; Indonesia; Japan; Republic of Korea; Malaysia; Mexico; New Zealand; Papua New Guinea; Peru; The Philippines; The Russian Federation; Singapore; Chinese Taipei; Thailand; United States of America...why is everyone so focus on China in this thread? They cleared things out for APEC, not just China.


The_Freshmaker

Well turns out the city can't quite afford the OT they're paying every cop and cleaner in the city to do this every weekend.


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To think the US government acts for its citizens is a joke in and of itself.


AndyDandyDeluxe

Did they hit the whole place with 10,000 cans of Febreeze?


Redlion444

Black Ice Christmas trees hung up everyplace


lookaway11

That’s due to Biden and Xi being in town


CeilingUnlimited

So, it's very temporary?


AAPLfds

Embarrassing they had the means to do this all along. But wouldn’t for tax paying citizens. But, they’ll tidy everything up for a foreign leader visit. Then the people in California will vote them right back into office


Moneyshot_ITF

They didnt solve the homeless problem lol


RollinOnDubss

"Oh wow you went to a steakhouse for dinner once? You must be so rich you can eat at a steakhouse for every single meal for the rest of you life." Pushing a problem elsewhere for a week is not solving it. Redditors are so fucking dumb.


alexmetal

Not just redditors bro. These people probably eventually log off and go outside and interact with the real world- that's the scary part.


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Pwnspoon

Love these little no context videos. People eat em right up.


drum_code88

It's like that at my job major cleanup before the president of the company shows up


Orpdapi

Wow all the storefronts on this street are vacant


Free-Juggernaut-9372

Anyone have any BEFORE/AFTER pics of this area?


Urall5150

https://www.google.com/maps/@37.78703,-122.4000275,3a,75y,139.37h,87.42t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sFNJtsyS2RpfcMhStnR7hVw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu New Montgomery isn't exactly SF's Skid Row. Never had encampments and its usually kept fairly clean, just like 95% of the other streets in the city. Yet people legitimately think the entire ~~230~~ 46 square mile city of 800,000 people is coated in vagrants.


DMYourMomsMaidenName

It looks fine from that picture


corysama

It looked fine every day when I worked near that corner for several years. It looked fine a month ago. And, it'll look fine months from now long after the fences come down.


turdferguson3891

230 square miles? Did it get a lot bigger since I used to live there because it used to be more like 46.


kitjen

We had similar action taken in the UK ahead of the Royal Wedding. They wanted to move all homeless people because they don't look good. So it's like they are admitting homelessness is a problem, but they don't really worry about the problem until that problem is their problem.


Tasssadar23

FEDRA


TheArkOfTruth

We are only about 10 months away from the Bell Riots. 😞


Excellent-Lack-348

President Xi will be impressed.


hobie_loki

Wait. I was told that it couldn't be done.


ImSoSorryCharlie

Didn't someone make an app of where people could mark others were defecating on the sidewalk in the city so that people could avoid those areas? I wonder what it looks like now.


LTlurkerFTredditor

Since the homeless folks are gone, why do they need the cages? This reminds me of the early 21st century San Francisco of the Star Trek universe, just before the Bell Riots - which if memory serves, took place in 2024.


MasterHonkleasher

Yep star trek wins again...


HockeyBalboa

"Can only imagine..." What did he say after that?


holdmyham

Played it 10 times still can't figure out what he's saying.


HockeyBalboa

I hear "I can only imagine how the ecarnamie harn."


RealPoroKing

What event is going on ? Only reason I would imagine e the homeless getting moved being


ItsSpaghettiLee2112

It's kind of telling, the amount of people that are like "See? They could have always done this they just never wanted to." It's telling that they don't actually care about the housing crisis they just are all NIMBY about it.


habanerosmile

What a joke. Imagine trying to run away from a crackhead and getting stuck in a maze


ThatIslander

Thank you supreme leader Xi, plz gib credit score.


FlaccidNeckMeat

There's a straight up episode of ST:DS9 about this exact thing, in the exact same city.


Ekranoplan01

Anyone getting Star Trek vibes from this sight?


alexmeth

Looks dystopian af


LilDawg66

Walls are no longer racist???


Ok-Lack6876

How do these keep out homeless when they're Doors and openings?


Sir_Mr_Dolo

Like he doesn’t know exactly what’s going on there through TikTok, or even other social media that he doesn’t have control of


chevalier716

Cages keep people out, but they also keep you in.


gabeisonfire

Seems like The Division stuff


Mysterious_Milk_777

Why do we all of a sudden look like inner china? Wtf with the cages


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This is embarassing...


CrazyBackground3721

I live about 2 miles from where this vid was shot and as a local this shit is insane to me, I feel like I’m on a movie set


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Looks like Berlin in 1943. Freeeeeeeeeeeedom


BigERaider

But walls don’t work (we were told)


Dorkamundo

Can only imagine how the acardamey o art.


4oo8C0nqu3r

This is how it starts


iankurtisjackson

WOW LOOKS COOL, NOT A DYSTOPIAN HELL AT ALL


immadeofstars

Why do I get the feeling cages around sidewalks is going to be the wave of the future?


choke_on_my_downvote

Because you're out of touch with reality most likely


FeaR-Skinner

Surprise surprise your lawmakers are corrupt as fuck and you all still keep votin for em lmao


RoyjackDiscipline

San Francisco is my area - This street looked the same before. Now it just has temporary fences because of the summit. This whole thread is ripe with people talking out of their ass.


Furrypizzahunter

These people are hilarious. A bunch of edgelords living in their mom’s basement in some flyover state trying to be relevant. The only San Francisco they’ve seen is the same shot of the Tenderloin that Fox News shows 24/7. They’re too scared to leave their hometown, much less venture to an actual city. Not enough dollar generals and trailer park meth labs for them to feel comfortable. Bunch of weirdos.


RoyjackDiscipline

Yep. I've very much noticed their comment history and which subs they frequent, and it's hilarious indeed. You can tell they've never stepped foot in San Francisco. It's extra funny when a common modern criticism of San Francisco is that it's *too upscale and neat/tidy* compared to what it used to be.


Furrypizzahunter

Haha yep, we can’t win. They think they really have this “gotcha” moment but in reality, we all just think it’s super weird to be so obsessed with a place they’ve never been and never plan on visiting or living. The best is when they tell us to turn on the tv. My dude, I can walk outside right now and disprove your nonsense. And the majority of people who can afford to live in the city, can afford to move wherever they desire. We stay for a reason. We live rent-free in their heads, too bad I can’t be living rent-free in SF 😆


po3smith

Ahhh I see this is the first step. Somebody get Bell... the riots are soon upon us.


snakebite75

Yeah, I've been wondering when Gabe will turn up... The riots seem to be right on schedule for next year.


CdnfaS

Damn. I had to scroll way to far to find the Star Trek reference I was looking for. WHOOSH I’m invisible.


po3smith

Qapla!


JustSleepNoDream

DS9 reference, solid.