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October 16, 2018

San Francisco eyes new tax on business revenues to help homeless, mentally ill

  • Up to 400 businesses would be affected, with internet and financial services sectors bearing nearly half the cost.
    • By JANIE HAR
    Associated Press

    SAN FRANCISCO — San Francisco has come to be known around the world as a place for aggressive panhandling, open-air drug use and sprawling tent camps, the dirt and despair all the more remarkable for the city's immense wealth.

    Some streets are so filthy that officials launched a special “poop patrol.” A young tech worker created “Snapcrap” — an app to report the filth. Morning commuters walk briskly past homeless people huddled against subway walls.


     
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