SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) — Fed up with the “concentration” of public health and unhoused services in their neighborhood, a group of neighbors are now asking the state for help.

Three months ago, ABC7 Eyewitness News showed you a map of all the city services and their exact locations.

The majority are concentrated in the South of Market and the Tenderloin neighborhoods leading residents here to pay over $800,000 for 12 months for private security.

Luz Pena: “Has anything changed?”

“No, nothing has changed. We are putting more security guards with coverage from the city,” said Alex Ludlum, Board member of the SoMa West Neighborhood Association.

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Now the SoMa West Neighborhood Association, which represents more than 200 city residents are taking their concerns to the state.

“The conditions of the people in the streets is hard to see but it’s also sad that the city keeps doing things like this and not listening to the people,” said Adam Hong, Vice President of the SoMa west neighborhood association.

The residents submitted a complaint to the California Department of Housing and Community Development.

The complaint is accusing the city of San Francisco of a deliberate “containment strategy” residents argue the city is violating state law

“SoMa has only 11% of the city’s unhoused, but we host 28% of the city beds and at the same time our police station is understaff and we have less trash cans than other neighborhoods,” said Shaun Aukland, Board of Directors of the soma west neighborhood association and added,

“The law is clear it is illegal for the west side to deny facilities and its equally illegal to concentrate them all here and in the Tenderloin. Our goal is true geographical equity.”

Supervisor Matt Dorsey represents SoMa.

Luz Pena: “Do you think the city of San Francisco has failed this neighborhood?”

“I do,” said Supervisor Dorsey, and adding, “Most of the problems that have happened in this neighborhood have been a direct result of decision that the city made as policy response to COVID, drug dealing and everything else.”

Supervisor Dorsey said he supports his constituents, but sees the value of adding more resources that point people to treatment.

In the coming months, the city is planning to add another resource center in SoMa, Supervisor Dorsey supports it.

“It wouldn’t make sense to have a South of Market enforcement area if we are locating it in a different neighborhood. The value proposition of the RESET center is to reduce from multiple hours to 15 minutes the amount of time police needs to make consequential intervention in someone’s intervention of illegal drug use,” said Supervisor Dorsey.

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In a statement the California Department of Housing & Community Development said:

“HCD has received this complaint and it’s currently under review; we cannot comment on open matters.”

We took this to Senator Scott Wiener who said he couldn’t speak about the legal aspect of the complaint but added, “Having over-concentration is a problem, and we have homeless people in various parts of San Francisco, and we should move away from the containment zone model that San Francisco has traditionally employed.”

These residents said they are not ruling out the possibility of turning their complaint into a lawsuit.

“We are hoping for administrative relief from the state. This is a formal process that we are allowed to go through and if we don’t achieve relief through administrative relief we are considering all options and that could include a lawsuit,” said Aukland.

When we asked some of the group member what they would like to see change in their neighborhood they said, “Promises delivered, the same convictions in any other neighborhood, fairness, geographical equity, cleaner streets.”

Anthropic’s Howard Street hot streak continues with its third lease in less than two weeks. 

The artificial intelligence giant just inked a short-term lease for roughly 70,000 square feet at 405 Howard Street, the San Francisco Business Times reported. With this deal, Anthropic now has a presence in each of the four buildings of the Foundry Square office complex, which occupies all four corners of the intersection of Howard and First Streets in downtown San Francisco. 

The lease at 405 Howard will add about 350 desks to the company’s inventory as it prepares its phased move-in to its new headquarters at 300 Howard Street next year. The company does not yet occupy all of its leased space, and some of the offices such as 405 Howard are meant to fill a gap until it consolidates headquarters operations at 300 Howard. 

The 10-story 405 Howard building is also known as the Orrick Building, named for a law firm that is one of the structure’s largest tenants. In 2018, consulting giant PwC leased 200,000 square feet at the roughly 520,000-square-foot building. 

Anthropic now leases roughly 1 million square feet in the neighborhood, according to the Business Times. That marks a notable milestone that competitor and fellow downtown San Francisco occupant OpenAI recently passed. 

The recent leasing spree by the Dario Amodei-led firm started earlier this year with a lease for the entire 420,000-square-foot building at 300 Howard Street and the adjacent 342 Howard Street, totaling about 480,000 square feet. 

Last month, Anthropic signed a deal for about 100,000 square feet across three floors at 400 Howard Street, known as Foundry Square I; as with its later move into 300 Howard, it plans to move employees there in phases. The company also converted its sublease for the 240,000-square-foot 500 Howard Street building, known as Foundry Square IV, into a long-term lease in recent weeks. — Chris Malone Méndez

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The San Francisco Giants welcome the Philadelphia Phillies to Oracle Park tonight to begin a three-game series.

Taking the mound for the Giants is righty Adrian Houser, who makes his second start with the organization. His first start was solid, as he gave up three runs to the San Diego Padres in 5.1 innings, but just one of the runs was earned.

Houser will face off against Phillies right-handed rookie Andrew Painter, making his second big league start. His first was in the Phillies’ 3-2 win over the Washington Nationals on March 31st, in which he allowed one run on four hits with eight strikeouts and a walk in five and a third innings.

Who: San Francisco Giants (3-7) vs. Philadelphia Phillies (5-4)

Where: Oracle Park, San Francisco, California

Regional broadcast: NBC Sports Bay Area

Radio: KNBR 680 AM/104.5 FM, KSFN 1510 AM