{"id":283,"date":"2021-03-15T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-15T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/box5458.temp.domains\/~brianhp3\/?p=283"},"modified":"2022-01-18T18:15:15","modified_gmt":"2022-01-18T18:15:15","slug":"lack-of-water-for-homeless-san-franciscans-called-a-human-rights-abuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianhowey.com\/?p=283","title":{"rendered":"Lack of Water for Homeless San Franciscans Called a \u2018Human Rights Abuse\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap wp-block-paragraph\">The lack of fresh water available to homeless people in San Francisco during the COVID-19 pandemic constitutes a \u201chuman rights abuse,\u201d a community organizer said as the city\u2019s shelter-in-place orders drag into a second year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Before the pandemic, many of the city\u2019s homeless residents relied on bathrooms in restaurants, libraries and other public facilities to bathe, collect drinking water and use the toilet. The shelter-in-place order shuttered many of those spaces, leaving homeless residents without water access when good hygiene was paramount to containing the spread of the coronavirus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A year later, many homeless residents still face the same hurdles to water access, a report by the Coalition on Homelessness says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis is a human rights abuse,\u201d said Carlos Wadkins, a coalition organizer. \u201cHomeless San Franciscans are living at a standard beneath what any organization that focuses on water would call adequate access.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Read the full story <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfpublicpress.org\/lack-of-water-for-homeless-san-franciscans-called-a-human-rights-abuse\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfpublicpress.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"819\" height=\"78\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brianhowey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/SFPP-Logo.png?resize=819%2C78\" alt=\"San Francisco in grey letters. 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