Once the Chinese leave, the homeless will be back shitting on the street within a half hour.
Because to hell with American citizens.
San Francisco has undertaken a significant effort to glam up streets ahead of a vital U.S.-China summit next week, including the removal of homeless camps around the city.
Newsom admits he's only doing this for foreign patrons.
"I know folks are saying, 'Oh they're just cleaning up this place because all those fancy leaders are coming to town.' That's true, because it's true -- but it's also true for months and months and months before APEC [Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit], we've been having conversations," California Gov. Gavin Newsom said Friday at the unveiling of a new program to plant trees in urban neighborhoods.
You talked about moving the homeless out for months, in anticipation of a visit from your Chinese paymasters. You only did it when they came.
And you will let the homeless back in as soon as Xi is on his way back to China.
KTVU noted that the efforts to clean the city have created "noticeable" cleanliness to the streets but also far fewer homeless encampments on major thoroughfares.
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Peskin pointed to the influx of people and personnel during previous conferences at times of trouble for the city that helped kickstart economic activity, but to make that impression, the city has undertaken an incredible beautification project, which has included shifting the significant homeless population that has flooded into the city.
"They've cleared out the tents that were near the Moscone Center on Howard Street, which tells me the city had the capability to do this all along -- instead they just do the bare minimum, community activist Ricci Lee Wynne told The New York Post.
"Once APEC is gone, police presence will start to simmer down again, the tents will return, and it will slowly flare up again," Lee said. "What we need is a permanent solution."
He's running for president, and he'll soon be bragging, "I was the man who got the herds of homeless drug addicts to stop shitting in the streets for forty-eight hours." If he can sharpen that up, he'll put it on a bumper sticker.