“About every half hour to hour we have some kind of incident, another theft, violence, crazy people walking around, people who need mental health,” he told KRON. “There’s needles everywhere… people have threatened me with a needle.”

A January “point in time” count found the homeless population of San Francisco had grown by 17 percent over the 2018 count to more than 8,000 people, KQED reported.

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San Francisco now spends about $300 million annually dealing with homelessness, KQED reported.

Mayor London Breed says more changes are on the way to address the problems, KGO reported.

“I would say to people who have had enough to just hold on,” Breed told the station. “We’re working toward resolving the issue. It will take some time but we ask for patience.”

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