San Francisco Chronicle: S.F. street ambassadors won’t reverse a ‘doom loop’ on their own. Here’s why we still need them
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San Francisco Chronicle – May 8, 2023
By Heather Knight
It’s easy to spot the ever-expanding team of Urban Alchemy workers patrolling San Francisco’s Mid-Market and Tenderloin neighborhoods and wonder what exactly they do. Sometimes, it seems like they just stand around, shooting the breeze, amid the misery.
For a quick, in-your-face answer, walk one block down Eighth Street, traveling south from Market Street to Mission Street.
On a recent afternoon, the west side of the block, abutting a shuttered Chase Bank, was filled with people, many of them either using drugs or passed out. Piles of trash dotted the sidewalk. Yet the east side of the block was clear. No signs of drug use. No trash. In the sunlight, the sidewalk literally sparkled.
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