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This encampment was forced to move from underneath the Bart tracks by the fire department (individuals were burning large quantities of wire and threatening the train infrastructure), and they have now set up shop across from residential units. A major encampment was cleared from this area last summer, and allowing this encampment to exist will only increase the number of encampments in the area. We are already seeing a rapid increase in property crime and drug usage by the three encampments that the city allows to exist in this area. I cannot even leave my house to walk to International without being harassed by the individuals residing here, which worries me as I have two children I have called the nonemergency line and I have called MACRO, both of which tell me nothing can be done unless there is an emergency. The emergency is that this neighborhood is mixed industrial and residential (homes on 45th, 46th, and 47th) and is being overrun by illegal dumping, and by lack of enforcement of encampments that produce trash extending out over the sidewalk and into the street. The emergency is that there are people doing drugs in neighborhoods where children reside. Many of my neighbors are undocumented and thus are afraid of reporting this to the city. I am trying to speak up for everyone who lives in this area. Just because we are not the rich people in the hills does not mean we deserve to live with these filth producing individuals. The drugs and the human waste is out of control. Please clear these encampments and do something so that they do not return. We need cameras, concrete blocks, regular patrol of the area, something. App will not let me upload photo, but please trust that there is an out of control situation here. Just come by and look at it yourself.