Mayor Ed Lee has called on the city’s homeless population to leave the waterfront before the Super Bowl,promising an ‘alternative’. But victims of the problem say it’s not that simple: ‘You can’t clean things up just like that’As the sun comes up, the crack pipes near out. A woman shields her face behind the frame of a store’s roll-down security shutter and a moment later a cloud of thick, and pale smoke puffs into the morning air. The short,scorched glass pipe is visible as she takes a hit from a packet in her palm.
Five paces further on, the scene is repeated by someone else.
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Source: theguardian.com