Did the fences work? Yes and no. The southwest corner of the intersection has become quite civilized, with permitted vendors selling jewelry and knickknacks and handmade curios. Across the way, on the northwest corner, it’s a free-for-all.
Abraham Mohammed leans up against a delivery truck parked in front of his Mission Street shop with resigned disgust on his face. Visitors to the Mi Pueblito grocery store can barely approach on a sidewalk crammed with vendors and street people. Mohammed emigrated from Yemen 11 years ago to find a better life in San Francisco.
“The police come in the morning and kick everyone out,” said Abraham. “Thirty minutes later, everyone comes back. That’s life at 24th and Mission.” “It’s wonderful,” she told me. “But they make it only for three months. They try to stop the illegal vendors. Because many people, you know, they steal items in the stores and they resell it here. All the street vendors that I have here , most are legal. We are like a small community, and we work together. This fence — it’s more safe for us for many reasons. Because before that, it’s a lot of homeless people doing drugs behind me. They did many bad things, and looks very ugly.
That process of help is about to change. For years, vendors went through the San Francisco Police Department to obtain permits. Due to a new law, authored by Ronen and passed in April, vendors will now have to petition Public Works for permission to sell on the streets. The law went into effect in June, but the permit process has not been established yet by DPW, so the legal vendors wait.
“We work with the small businesses and the vendors, and we were hearing them loud and clear that they didn’t feel safe,” said Rojas. “They really like the fence. The amount of people on the plaza has reduced. We know it’s not perfect. We know it’s not over. But at least we can see people are making a strong effort to make it safe. Make it like it used to be with music and vendors.”
Many of them have come from the Tenderloin where a police crackdown is pushing regulars to other neighborhoods. And the proximity to public transit makes it easier for vendors hawking stolen goods to go out on the prowl and return to this newly formed marketplace. They are crowding out and intimidating the long-standing vendors that ply their trade legally in the neighborhood.
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