End Poverty Tows Coalition’s rally in Civic Center Plaza (across from the front steps of City Hall) on Tuesday, September 17th at 12:30pm to oppose the upcoming proposal to tow oversized vehicles on city streets. After, please join us in giving public comment at the SFMTA Board meeting in City Hall in Room 400 at 1:00pm.
Summary of the proposal:
The SFMTA Board will soon consider passing a resolution to permit towing of oversized vehicles on designated city streets. If people’s RVs are towed, they will lose their only form of shelter. And the City does not have enough shelter beds to offer the over 1,400 people living in their vehicles in San Francisco. As the 2024 Point-In-Time Count describes, 90% of families experiencing unsheltered homelessness live in their vehicles.
The City and the SFMTA Board must recognize that the solution lies in investing in Safe Parking Sites – a promise that has failed to come to fruition – and understand that RVs and vehicular homes are low-cost HOMES. By towing and impounding people’s homes, the City will force vehicularly housed San Franciscans into street homeless.
Lukas Illa
Human Rights Organizer
Coalition on Homelessness
280 Turk Street, San Francisco, CA 94102
O: 415-346-3740 ext. 316 | C: 206-819-4724 | Pronouns: They/Them
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