For decades, San Francisco's Tenderloin District has been at the very center of the city's challenges and that has only become more visible in recent years.
Since 2021, San Francisco has been mobilizing an emergency effort to save the neighborhood and bring relief to the many people who call it home. The drug crisis and the associated human despair have drawn attention from around the world, and it ultimately drew this response from the city's mayor.
So what is different? What's working, and what's not? KPIX will be running a series of reports on the Tenderloin, and the effort to turn the neighborhood around. "Having a clear path to be able to see a couple of blocks down is a blessing," Alex Alvarado said at the start of the effort."If we didn't clean here," Alvarado said of the returned trash troubles."This place would be a complete disaster.""Now, what are they gonna do with all the people that are here? I'm not sure," one neighbor said in 2022."How many months are they always calling?" Alvarado asked.
Overdoses continue, at a slightly elevated rate through the first two months of this year. And as for enforcement of drug laws:That pledge has materialized over the past couple of months as police have increased arrests with a new undercover unit. "We're not gonna have any more luck arresting our way out of that crisis by arresting street-level dealers than any prior administration of that or that this country has had," countered Supervisor Dean Preston, whose District 5 now covers a portion of the Tenderloin.
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