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.”