San Francisco Castro District merchants say the homeless situation is so bad they're threatening to stop paying city taxes and fees until progress is made.
SAN FRANCISCO -- Members of the Castro Merchants Association in San Francisco said they may be willing to stop paying local taxes and license fees if city agencies do not improve their response to people in need which, they say, has allowed an increase crime over the past four years.
"I think we became a second Tenderloin. We are at that point," said Ken Khoury, who owns Castro Coffee Company."As merchants, we are struggling to basically have things taken care of." The city's Department of Public Health and the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing responded to the merchants' letter on Thursday. In a joint statement to the business owners, the agencies explained that they are working on a multi-pronged approach to address the health and safety of people on the street.
"I want to almost compare this district to the Tenderloin, it's getting bad," said Alex Avila, an employee at Marcello's Pizza. He says he has been assaulted twice in the past six years."We've instated a new rule that no one is allowed to leave unless they're with someone else." Some of the response around San Francisco recently has just pushed people from one community to another part of the city, according to business owners.
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