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San Francisco's new mayor London Breed has lived in the city by the Bay for most of her life - and in all that time, she told a local NBC affiliate that she's never seen as much human feces piled on the sidewalks as she did during a recent stroll through the city.
"I will say there is more feces on the sidewalks than I've ever seen growing up here," Breed told NBC in a recent interview. "That is a huge problem and we are not just talking about from dogs - we're talking about from humans."
Breed's findings are a part of a broader issue affecting San Francisco in which 7,499 homeless individuals live on the city's streets without access to public restrooms and other necessary resources. Due to a variety of factors, including a lack of affordable housing and shortcomings in the mental healthcare system, the homelessness crisis in the city has resulted in drug needles, human feces and garbage riddling the streets to a degree comparable to that in some of the world's dirtiest slums.
Just last week during Breed's tour of the city, a video captured by NBC Bay Area shows a man appearing to prepare a needle as the mayor walks past him.
what freaks me out is how many homeless people congregate in San Francisco even though it is so expensive!!
The hand outs must be good.