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<\/a>Photo: <\/span><\/i>Franck Michel\/Flickr<\/span><\/i><\/a><\/p>\nSan Francisco’s tent cities\u00a0recently made national news<\/a>, and\u00a0as the November election approaches, officials are looking for ways to address the city’s homelessness problem. Proposition Q, which will be on the ballot next month, is one\u00a0measure that’s been introduced. It would give police the power to remove street tents and encampments after giving 24 hours of notice \u2014 as long as the city can shelter those being displaced.<\/p>\n That might sound positive, but many have\u00a0doubts about how well the policy would\u00a0work. For example,\u00a0who will make sure enough beds are always available? According to Stuart Schuffman of\u00a0the San Francisco Examiner<\/a>, \u201c[t]he problem that it doesn\u2019t seem to take into account is that there are already more than 700 people on the list each day to get into shelters \u2014 there are no lonely beds thinking, ‘oh, why won\u2019t somebody just sleep in me tonight?’\u201d<\/p>\n Similar issues have been widely raised by others. The headline of a recently published San Francisco Chronicle article is simply\u00a0\u201c<\/span>Prop. Q will do nothing to clear S.F. sidewalks<\/a>,” while another San Francisco Examiner story is titled “November ballot measures incite class hatred in San Francisco<\/a>.”\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n