Restaurateurs are crowdsourcing cleaning solutions on social media as they are left spending thousands to clean graffiti and fix smashed windows.
Just 3% of restaurants in crime-riddled San Francisco have not experienced graffiti or property crime in the past month, a shocking new survey found.
That adds to the feeling that running a small business in San Francisco is like “death by a thousand cuts,” according to Hanson Li, a partner at three different restaurants. “When we had more than a year of not going to enforce [it], if we didn’t have that stick with the carrot… sometimes people would just let it sit on their building and then … more tags will come and another and another,” Rachel Gordon, a spokeswoman for the San Francisco Department of Public Works told ABC 7.
In total, requests to clean up graffiti skyrocketed 74% since the pilot program was introduced, Gordon told ABC 7. Meanwhile, San Francisco has spent $1 million on grants for vandalism relief since 2021 and earmarked another $500,000 over the summer due to demand, reported the Chronicle, which found that nearly 800 businesses received either a $1,000 or $2,000 grant for broken windows, graffiti or other vandalism.San Francisco has spent $1 million on grants for vandalism relief since 2021 and earmarrked another $500,000 over the summer to meet the surging demand.
She is pushing for “low-hanging fruit,” such as pausing the fine for businesses that do not clean up graffiti.
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