The Toilet Economy of San Francisco
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"Business," of course, being a euphemism.
Roberts noted that, with only two public toilets available in the Tenderloin, city workers were dispatched 2,500 times in 2010 to clean excrement off the street. The nonprofit Clean City did so 10,000 times to boot. Building and maintaining a public toilet in San Francisco costs hundreds of thousands of dollars -- as does paying workers to clean up after those who befoul the streets.
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