The map display for the location of this issue shows it to be about half a block west of the actual issue, which is on 45th between MLK and Telegraph.

Until there are some substantial structural changes in the way city services are funded and managed, this problem is going to persist, and no amount of "clearing out" of encampments is going to work toward addressing the fundamental problems that create outdoor encampments.

The crime rate in the area is not at all related to the amount of encampments of individuals under the freeway. It is a poor utilization of the city's already strained resources to remove sub-freeway encampments.

The homeless living there are the primary victims of crime. Putting up a fence to keep them from finding a dry, sheltered place to sleep does nothing good.

It's amazing to me that the majority of comments here are written by humans more concerned with an eye sore than the human beings living on the street.

Way to show your humanity, folks!

Empty buildings + homeless people = Society failed.

In other streams the discussion regarding the desire/need to clean this area have more to do with the feces and garbage which is strewn on the sidewalks on a regular basis which is in fact a serious health hazard for passer by and folks in encampments, and less to do with evicting homeless. Although, the distinction may be fuzzy.
Further, the crime that people are mentioning is likely a by product of the broken window theory whereby people notice a a bit of dumping, determine that the area is not watched, creating bigger issues (crime, prostitution, drug use) and more dumping. Having cleaned up trash in the area, I can tell you that there is a lot of fast food consumption, drug use and prostitution (or at least condom use) in vehicles in this area.

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I'm not opposed to folks sleeping there as long as they are minding their own business. What I can't abide is the continuing hazards for pedestrians and cyclists from broken glass, waste from fast food and human waste etc.... that is allowed to pile up here.

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Thanks for fixing this issue!