My Changing Neighborhood(s): homeless

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Thursday, December 6, 2018

SAN FRANCISCO INDUSTRICAL COMPLEX

Tuesday, October 16, 2018

SAN FRANCISCO INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX COMICS

I started seeing this comic posted on lampposts and buildings around SOMA and Van Ness-Market in June of this year.

June 11, 2018

It's the work of local artist is Josef Norris.

June 21, 2018

I was curious as to why it was called 'SF Industri(c)al Complex, and emailed him to find out.


July 21, 2018

He replied, "I call it San Francisco Industrial Complex - after other terms like 'Military and Prison Industrial Complex' -

August 16, 2108

which refers to an industry-driven society that determines policy and the way we treat people."

August 19, 2018

He went on to say "San Francisco is one of the most affluent cities in the United States with a Homeless Crisis that makes it look like a 3rd World country in the shadow of the Salesforce Tower and other Tech companies. I wanted to explore these contrasts in this city."

September 3, 2018

You can see more of his work at josefnorris.com.

Thursday, June 7, 2018

CONTEMPORARY SIGNS OF DISCONTENT (#33 in a series)

Thursday, December 7, 2017

CONTEMPORARY SIGNS OF DISCONTENT -- #32 in a series

50th Summer of Homeless

Sunday, February 26, 2017

FERN ALLEY MEMORIAL SERVICE

Wednesday, December 14, 2016

HOMELESS MAN AND BEST FRIEND

Photograph taken earlier this year with permission..

Friday, April 15, 2016

HOMELESS FORWARDING ADDRESS

Sunday, February 14, 2016

HOMELESS HEART 2016

Once again, someone has filled in the homeless heart on the chain-link fence at Market and Van Ness for Valentine's Day.

Saturday, July 4, 2015

HOMELESS PATRIOTISM

Homeless Encampment, alley off Polk Street

You love america, but does america love you?

Sunday, March 29, 2015

NEIGHBORHOOD REMODELINGS 2015 – SROs (#4 in a series)

This is the Sonoma Inn Hotel at Bush and Van Ness.

It used to be an SRO where drug addicts lived. I remember the day it closed. A meth-head couple, their dog and few meager possessions were huddled in the doorway, taking a final hit on the pipe before trying to find someplace else to live.

This is the Dorel Hotel, another SRO, at the corner of California and Larkin.

I remember a time when it was much more habitable; only in the last several years did I notice how much disrepair the owner had allowed it to fall into. For the longest time, until just recently, it seemed to have only one or two tenants. Whoever they were, they’re gone now, and the hotel being remodeled.

There’s also the New Pacific

and the Marathon

sfhomeless.wikia.com/wiki/Marathon_Hotel

former fleabag SROs where the skid row population lived, are empty and being remodeled.

Where did the people go who lived in them? Fern Alley, Civic Center, Mission, Castro...

Photo by Michael short, SF Chronicle 1-7-2014

San Francisco isn't the only city to destroy skid row housing for money and create a homeless population, but those cities, however, have much more land space to endlessly move the homeless around in.

This is why, outside of re-building SROs (or ‘cash-up-front-no-questions-asked’ housing) I don't think San Francisco will not be able to solve its ever-escalating homeless situation anytime soon.

Postscript: Does that mean I would re-open those SROs so that derelicts can live in them? As opposed to having those same derelicts urinating, defecating, using drugs openly where I live? ... Absolutely.

Wednesday, December 31, 2014

NEIGHBORHOOD CHRISTMAS DECORATIONS 2014 – WHY I LIKE LIVING WHERE I DO (#3 in a series) – part 5 of 5

Window Decorations, Hotel Potter, 1288 Mission Street

Hotel Potter Lobby

Hotel Potter Inrterior

Hotel Potter Christmas Tree

Lobby, St. Clare's Hotel, 1334 Bush Street

Christmas lights, homeless lean-to, Fern Alley

Monday, December 22, 2014

HOMELESS CHRISTMAS TREE

Outside the BART Station, Market & 8^th

Wednesday, August 13, 2014

NEIGHBORHOOD CURRENT EVENTS – LPN, FERN ALLEY

The next meeting of the Lower Polk Neighbors will happen tonight

at 7:00 p.m. at the 1^st Congregational Church at the corner of Bush and Polk (1300 Bush).

The second event is more long-term. Fern Alley between Larkin and Polk

s undergoing sewer replacement for the next several weeks. Since Fern Alley is where many homeless people encamp during the day, they will most likely move into the surrounding streets during the day until construction is over.

Thursday, July 24, 2014

THINGS THAT ANNOY ME (#2 in a series) – THIS SAYING

Blackboard at Moka Coffee, 1605 Polk

It's not certain Al actually said this. I hope not, because this has to be one of the dumbest statements ever made.

Doing the same thing over and over again, blah blah blah, is not insanity. It’s either stubborn, stupid, or both.

Insanity is: hearing voices, hallucinating, bi-polar disorder, homeless hoarders, schizophrenics, etc.

Einstein didn’t live in 2014 San Francisco.

Friday, July 11, 2014

STATING THE OBVIOUS

Advertisement for Pacific Terraces apartments, 1595 Polk at Pacific

Homeless people, Fern Alley

No shit, Sherlock.

Thursday, June 19, 2014

CRY OF THE HOMELESS

Graffiti on wall outside Buzzell Electric Works, 130 Eighth Street

Wednesday, April 2, 2014

BLOG UPDATES – IDEAL AUTO REBUILDERS, NARA SUSHI, HOMELESS HEART

Ideal Auto Rebuilders (1/11/14 blog) may be gone but they have clearly not been forgotten –

Sign on former garage of Ideal Auto Rebuilders, 1355 Larkin

so much so that Al & Jorge had to put up a sign telling everyone of their retirement and referring customers now to Cars Dawydiak, another black-painted neighborhood building.

Cars Dawydiak, 1540 Pine Street

Nara Sushi (1/6/14 blog)

no longer accepts bitcoin.

Nara Sushi, 1515 Polk Street

The Homeless Heart (2/15/14 blog)

has been battered and lost its color, but its outline and intent remain visible.

Homeless Heart, April 2014, corner of Market and Van Ness

A man, upon looking at it and realizing it was a heart, remarked to his friend that he had some old locks at home and maybe he'd remember to bring one or two to add to the Heart.

Copyright © by Chris Enquist 4/2/14

Friday, March 21, 2014

THINGS THAT ANNOY ME #1 – PEOPLE WHO EXPECT THE HOMELESS TO WORK

Would you hire this guy?

What about him?

Would you put these people on the shortlist for the next job opening at Twitter? How about any job opening anywhere?

No? Then stop expecting them to get jobs. To put it bluntly, many homeless are, unfortunately, fubar human beings. Expecting them to be able to work is like expecting a legless man to be able to run, then yelling at him for being a lazy moocher when he can’t. (If you think a lot of homeless people are either 'faking' it or anywhere near to being functional adults -- well, I don't think you're very observant or realistic.)

And please don’t start with that ‘these-people-don’t-take-their-medication’ nonsense. The last time I checked, medications cost money, and psychiatric meds can cost a lot of money. Where is this money supposed to come from? And how are you supposed to get a prescription filled without an address -- or a job?