Erica Sandberg, a community advocate and journalist, broke it down for us: "Right now the major issue — people always call it homelessness — but the major issue is drugs."
While San Francisco has always battled homelessness and currently has about 7,000 homeless people, the drug issue is exacerbating the problem.
The city currently hands out more than 400,000 syringes each month but only 246,000 are returned, leaving 154,000 syringes left on the streets.
...The most shocking part about our entire time in San Francisco was not the drug problem— we knew that was an issue— it was the open use of drugs.
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