San Francisco has boasted that it sends less trash to the landfill than any other major American city. That’s because they leave it on the streets.
In 2011, San Francisco hosted a mere 5,547 public poop incidents. In 2018, the city reported more than 28,000 public poops. That number’s slated to increase this year.
So @open_the_books mapped out every report of human feces on the streets of San Francisco since 2011 and uhhhhhh https://t.co/7t3Cocc6Qf pic.twitter.com/5B5sw8R3xC
— Lachlan Markay (@lachlan) April 22, 2019
Fear not, though. California’s Silicon Valley’s on it! A tech bro made a handy dandy “Snapcrap” app for you to report fecal matter on the street.
The poop problem has surpassed the public drug needle problem. Last year, there were only 7,537 reports of drug needles on the street. The city is debating whether to extend its needle exchange program for another seven years.
I don’t want you to think that San Francisco isn’t a lovely city. It’s just the streets that are, for lack of a better term, a little shitty. The Victorian, bay-windowed homes are some of the most stunning in the nation. And one can be all yours for the median home price of just $1,353,500.
If you want to join the beating heart of the world’s technology, you’ll want to pay up now, though, if you get the chance. Of nearly half a million occupied housing units, just 5,471 were sold. If you absolutely have to rent, you may as well consider posting up at one of the bay’s RV camps. The median price of a two-bedroom apartment in the city is $3,100.
It’s not just San Francisco’s tech bros that run the country. Its representative is Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Its former mayor, Gavin Newsom, is now governor of the state. And it may just send its former district attorney, Kamala Harris, to the presidency.
Don’t worry, guys. Just like San Francisco, I’m sure that as long as she can get in, it’ll at least be lovely inside the White House.
