The area of the federal building has been a hot spot for drug users and dealers. The moment we arrived on 7th Street and Mission, we found a group gathered, doing drugs in plain sight.
That blasé behavior no longer surprises the security at the federal building. Guards occasionally come out to ask them to move. One guard told me off camera, that's all they can do.So much so, that The Chronicle
that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services which has a regional office here, has told its employees to work from home "in light of the conditions at the federal building.""We're not solving anything if we're not solving police staffing," said Dorsey who adds that he knows of another situation involving the daycare center used by federal employees here.
"They shared with me that they are doing everything they can to hire people to do childcare work and among 18-19 applications, a large majority of them decided they had no interest in working there once they found out where the location was," explained Dorsey.The federal government spent $3 million making "improvements" to the outside of the building which included a galvanized steel fence to keep the plaza free of drug users and the unhoused.
"Not even the library allows it, so far this was the only spot that was safe for everybody," she tells us. "When they gather in one place, I think the police go there and then they move to another spot, that's how it is," said a local resident."When I would travel people would ask me where I was from. I'd say San Francisco and they'd be like, 'Oh it's such a beautiful place.' Now when I travel and tell people where I live and I say San Francisco, they ask me, 'Are you OK? Are you OK? It's wild out there isn't it.
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