Outgoing pol Mayor Breed continues to get more aggressive re: homeless overnight parking

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Maggie Angst, in a recent SF Chronicle article, discusses the proposal by the once-charming suburb to the north to install heavy restrictions on the overnight parking of recreational vehicles to decrease homelessness and increase available parking.

Under the city’s plan, the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency would prohibit large vehicles such as travel trailers and mobile homes from parking on all city-managed streets from 12 a.m. to 6 a.m., according to city documents. Vehicles in violation of the proposed regulation would be subject to towing. ...

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The Breed administration has taken increasingly aggressive approaches to address the city’s homeless crisis in recent weeks. Those include ramping up citations and arresting people for unlawfully setting up tents on sidewalks and instructing city employees to offer homeless people bus tickets out of town before shelter or housing.

The citywide limitations are intended to address the concerns about long-term parking of oversize vehicles, such as traffic hazards, safety concerns for cyclists and pedestrians, and interference with transit service, according to a Sept. 5 letter from SFMTA representatives to the Department of Planning. 

Critics, on the other hand, say the restrictions will only add further hardships for people living in their vehicles, especially families.

The number of unhoused people sleeping in vehicles in San Francisco spiked 37% over the past two years, going from 1,049 in 2022 to 1,442 earlier this year, according to the city’s latest point-in-time count. The city estimates that the growing group includes 130 families living out of vehicles.

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• LA, like SF, gets increasingly serious about illegally-parked RV's amid safety concerns

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