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SF’s Block-by-Block Plan to Keep TL Safe During COVID-19

Focusing on 13 specific blocks, SF plans improved bathrooms, more police and deep street cleanings
By - posted 5/11/2020 No Comment

Thanks to SFGate for letting us know about SF’s plan to help clean the Tenderloin amid COVID outbreak.

Last week, San Francisco released the Tenderloin Neighborhood Safety Assessment and Plan for COVID-19. The Tenderloin Plan seeks to address and improve conditions in the neighborhood, with an initial focus on 13 blocks in the Tenderloin that are most highly impacted.

Implementation of the Plan will be iterative and informed by ongoing community input, with a goal of expanding to the other 36 blocks in the Tenderloin not specifically identified in the Plan. View the PDF of the plan.

The Plan has eight main goals:

  1. Address encampments by offering safe sleeping alternatives to unsheltered individuals.
  2. Facilitate social distancing compliance by closing streets and limiting parking.
  3. Ensure that all residents, housed and unhoused, have safe passage and access to their homes and businesses.
  4. Improve access to hygiene stations, restrooms, and garbage disposal for unhoused individuals.
  5. Address food and water insecurity for housed and unhoused residents alike.
  6. Increase police presence and activate community care ambassadors to mitigate public safety concerns.
  7. Increase health services in the neighborhood.
  8. Increased education and outreach to residents and businesses through a community care ambassador program.

The City has begun implementing the recommendations in the plan and is focusing first on the 13 blocks with the highest needs. The City has already installed six drinking water fixtures in the Tenderloin called manifolds that attach to fire hydrants and allow for drinking water access.

Starting the week of May 11, the City will activate a “Safe Sleeping Village” at the current Fulton Street Mall encampment, which will have on-site services and be operated by Urban Alchemy.