City Hall may have outflanked a planned protest by homeless rights advocates on Thursday, according to organizers who were readying a rally during a scheduled encampment sweep at Jessie and Sixth streets today.
When organizers with the Coalition of Homelessness, a group that advocates for unhoused people in San Francisco, showed up in the SoMa at 11:30 a.m., they found that the city had already completed the sweep. The sweep had originally been scheduled for 1:30 p.m. according to a city schedule.
Not a single person from San Francisco Public Works remained on site, though a few tents had already been set up again. The Coalition wanted to draw attention to “human rights abuses” and pressure the city into stopping them. …