Issue Summary: Public-Space Waste Mitigation in San Francisco

By Alessandra Suuberg, Decency LLC

The topic of homelessness in San Francisco is broad—as is the topic of San Francisco’s street-cleaning efforts—so this summary focuses on one extensively-documented sub-topic: the mitigation of fecal waste, including but not limited to human fecal waste, in San Francisco’s public spaces.

The goal of this summary is to present a public health challenge and a set of attempted interventions, for each intervention taking a look at (1) the reasoning behind the effort, (2) the impact of or responses to the effort, and (3) lessons derived from that experience.

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