Mother Nature Network reports that late last month, a special United Nations report declared San Francisco's homelessness crisis to be in "violation of multiple human rights." U.N. housing expert Leilani Farha described the treatment of homeless people living in Bay Area tent encampments as "cruel and inhuman." She notes that they've been denied access to "basic necessities."
Farha elaborated to the San Francisco Chronicle: "California is a rich state, by any measures, the United States is a rich country, and to see these deplorable conditions that the government is allowing, by international human rights standards, it's unacceptable. I'm guided by human rights law."