Thread by @MattHaneySF

The Mayor's budget proposal eliminates all 36 public toilets deployed during the pandemic, 25 of which are already gone.

It also eliminates the three 24 hr toilets that existed before the pandemic.

That would devastate access to clean, safe, healthy bathrooms. It can't happen.

These toilets get over 90,000 uses a month currently, even before we reopen. The uses will only go up as more tourists, visitors and workers come back.

This is a no brainer for keeping our city clean and healthy. It's cruel, a violation of people's human dignity and rights.

Last year, when we had all of these toilets still open, they were getting over 140,000 uses a month. The more toilets we have, the more uses there are. The need is huge and obvious. This is important for all San Franciscans, businesses, and visitors. This shouldn't be a fight.

SF would still have 25 public bathrooms under the Mayor's budget proposal, none of which would be open at night.

This would be a roughly 80% decrease from a year ago (June 2020) in terms of total hours of public bathroom access.

This also means our city would eliminate jobs for 40+ people, who provide staffing for the pit stop bathrooms.

If people don't have a place to go, that doesn't mean they don't go somewhere.

It doesn't mean that they go away.

It generally means that where they go is on a doorstep or sidewalk.

Some more background on the 2+ year fight over this issue, that should have never been a fight:

https://twitter.com/MattHaneySF/status/1292830211411554305