Your city's RV ban has a catch you need to know about
Okay so, remember that RV ban the City rolled out five months ago? The one meant to clear out the streets, especially around those parts of the Mission that went from taquerias to tech offices and now back to taquerias but, like, fancy ones? Well, according to the latest City media release, 82 former RV dwellers have been housed. That's good, right? Always gotta see those numbers.
But here’s the thing: a bunch of others are now just… on the street. No RV, no housing. Just gone from one precarious situation to an even worse one. That’s the City, fam — fog, hills, and all. We try to fix one problem and sometimes it just shifts the chess pieces around.
This also comes as the SFPD is catching flak for potentially breaking California's sanctuary law during an ICE arrest at SFO. Our public health boss is also saying hospital staff, not the Sheriff, stopped a stabbing. It's a lot of questions about who's doing what, and who's protecting who.
What to watch for next is how these folks who got displaced by the RV ban are actually doing, and if the City has a plan for them beyond just "off the street." The sanctuary city stuff? That's gonna keep simmering.
Vivian Leung, MiTL Sports Desk.
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