Complaints of human and animal excrement on streets of San Francisco are up 35% with more than 28,000 grievances lodged last year – forcing city to launch a ‘poop patrol’ for cleanup
- The human and animal excrement problem generated 28,315 calls to the city’s 311 line in 2018, an increase of 35 percent, reports RentHop
- The online apartment search company says the number of complaints have risen about 80 percent since 2011
- San Francisco can blame its love affair with pets. The city has more than 120,000 canines, according to San Francisco Animal Care & Control
- The rest can be attributed to some 7,000 homeless persons, in a city that’s lacking enough shelters and services to help them
- A ‘poop patrol’ has even been sent out on to the streets armed with power washers to hose away the waste
San Francisco’s excrement problem is worse than ever.
A new study found that the city by the bay fielded 28,315 calls about human and animal waste piling up on the streets from 2017 to 2018, an increase of 35 percent.
The figures were compiled after a review of calls to San Francisco’s 311 line, according to the report by RentHop, an online apartment search company.
The worsening situation comes as San Francisco poop complaints have steadily risen about 80 percent since 2011, RentHop reports.
San Francisco has seen it’s excrement problems pile up, according to a new study
The study by apartment search site RentHop found that the city by the bay fielded 28,315 calls about human and animal waste piling up on the streets from 2017 to 2018, an increase of 35 per cent. The above map shows where the greatest concentrations of poop complaints are
San Francisco can partly blame its love affair with pets.
The dog-friendly city has around 120,000 canines, according to San Francisco Animal Care & Control.
The rest can be attributed to some 7,000 homeless persons, in a city that’s lacking enough shelters and services to help them, says RentHop.
The problem has even prompted San Francisco to send out a ‘poop patrol’, armed with street washers to hose away the waste.
The problem has even prompted San Francisco to send out a ‘poop patrol’, armed with street washers to hose away the waste
Richard Tarlov, owner of the Canyon Market in the San Francisco’s Glen Park section, where the city had 61 complaints of the neighborhood getting pooped on by either human or beast in 2018, calls it a ‘serious public health concern’
‘It’s a serious public health concern,’ said Richard Tarlov, owner of the Canyon Market in the San Francisco’s Glen Park section, where the city had 61 complaints of the neighborhood getting pooped on by either human or beast in 2018, up from just 20 complaints the previous year.
Tarlov, in an interview with KRON, called the city’s excrement woes a problem also for public relations, tourism and convention hosting.
‘Frankly it’s embarrassing’, he told the news outlet.
Part of the problem is attributed to some 7,000 homeless persons who are on the street
Homeless people in the city have been blamed for leaving trash and excrement on the street because of a lack of shelters and services to help them, says RentHop
The dirtiest neighborhoods are at the heart of San Francisco, with its Tenderloin neighborhood winning the ‘poopiest neighborhood’ contest three years in a row, says RentHop.
Tenderloin saw 8,644 incidents of either human or animal excrement per square mile in 2017, 7,722 in 2018, and 6,887 so far in 2019.
The dirtiest neighborhoods are at the heart of San Francisco, with its Tenderloin neighborhood winning the ‘poopiest neighborhood’ contest three years in a row, says RentHop