San Francisco's Xi Homeless Sweep Was Cheered by the Right. It Was Also Illegal, Advocates Say
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The action, which housing advocates allege violated a court injunction, was celebrated by right-wing figures and the tech crowd.

Hundreds of unsheltered people living in tent encampments in the blocks surrounding the Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco have been forced to leave by city outreach workers and police as part of an attempted “clean up the house” ahead of this week’s Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation’s annual free trade conference.

The action, which housing advocates allege violated a court injunction, was celebrated by right-wing figures and the tech crowd, who have long been convinced that the city is in terminal decline because of an increase in encampments in the downtown area.

The X account End Wokness wrote that the displacement was proof the “government can easily fix our cities overnight. It just doesn’t want to” (the post received 77,000 likes). “Queer Eye but it’s just Xi visiting troubled US cities then they get a makeover,” joked Packy McCormick, the founder of Not Boring Capital and advisor to Andreessen Horowitz’s crypto VC team. The New York Post celebrated the action, saying that residents had “miraculously disappeared.”

  • PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee
    17·
    11 months ago

    At this point the homeless ought to try staging a camp in at the city hall. Get the headlines all over them being dragged out of there.

    • Got_Bent@lemmy.world
      221·
      11 months ago

      I remember homeless people doing exactly that in Santa Cruz back in the eighties to great success.

      However, public sentiment over the past thirty years really seems to have swung aggressively toward the fuck you I got mine so die end of the pendulum.

      • HorseWithNoName@lemm.ee
        9·
        11 months ago

        Food Not Bombs did it there ten years ago too. They camped outside of city hall every week, getting arrested over and over. They were finally given a vacant lot next to the freeway to freely camp in after that. It started after SC passed anti-camping laws, making it illegal for any unhoused person to fall asleep.

      • PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee
        42·
        11 months ago

        I seriously doubt that’s the case compared to the 80s, the 80s is how we got Reagan, and whatever qualms you have with Mr. Tangelini, Reagan was demonstrably worse.