COLUMN: Bottom line? If we continue down our current path — 10, 20, 30 years from now — we will be vilified for allowing masses to walk down a sure path to death.
People gather at United Nations Plaza on Friday, not far from The City’s linkage center. Dozens. Hundreds. Thousands of suffering, drug-addled street people inhabit our core metropolis. From City Hall through the Tenderloin, down into SoMa and out to the adjacent neighborhoods, zombies walk among us.
Supervisor Matt Haney sits in La Cocina, an oasis in his Tenderloin district, on a recent Friday afternoon. He represents more than this neighborhood; he lives here and his political legacy feels cemented to these streets. “Most of the problems the Tenderloin experiences have their roots outside of the neighborhood,” says Haney. “People don’t have adequate access to housing. They’re living in poverty, being displaced, leaving hospitals or jails without any connection to effective treatment. These things disproportionately impact this neighborhood because this is where people end up. They’re not allowed in other neighborhoods. They’re not served in other neighborhoods. So they end up here.
“We needed a street presence that wasn’t solely the police,” said Haney. “Police don’t do ‘fixed posts’ like this. And unfortunately, they don’t walk the beat too much. So the police are mostly in their cars and the Urban Alchemy folks are on the streets. This is a new model of managing. It certainly has a positive impact where they are. Our issue then becomes where they’re not.”Further down Eddy Street sits another oasis of sorts.
Across the way, The City’s new linkage center is taking in visitors. A security guard tells me people seem to like it because they can do their drugs there. A tent city of homeless people sits across the street, surrounded by high chain-link fences.Across Market Street, things get dodgy. Seventh Street has become an active corridor for drug dealing and using, rife with dealers gathered on corners and users shuffling around in shabby clothing.
Let’s rebuild our state mental health and drug rehabilitation system. There is nowhere for the worst cases in San Francisco to go. Let’s create the necessary institutions. We need to send our sickest residents to the hospital.
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