By Laura Waxmann, Mission Local
Community members and homeless advocates frustrated about the dozens of tents that have popped up in the Mission District shouted down city and police officials on Wednesday during a discussion of a new plan to tackle homeless encampments in the neighborhood.
“We had encampments catch on fire right on my street. After living here all these years, I’ve seen things really get ugly,” said Gilles Combet, who lives on Shotwell Street between 16th and 17th streets and has voiced concern of an encampment there for years. “We are letting people live without bathrooms, without showers, with nothing at all — that’s wrong.”
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