[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] - The new linkage center, aimed at connecting homeless addicts with rehab facilities, opened on January 18
- The center is located at 1172 Market Street at the United Nations Plaza in the Tenderloin neighborhood of San Francisco and is equipped to serve up to 100 people at a time
- Photos taken by DailyMail.com show an illicit drug consumption site that is now littered with needles and crowded with addicts shooting up in broad daylight
- San Francisco never approved the creation of a supervised consumption site at the linkage center and the site is in violation of state and federal laws
- The open air drug market was first reported on by journalist Michael Shellenberger, who said in his Substack blog that he'd witnessed a drug deal and blatant drug use at the site
- The center is part of Mayor London Breed's Tenderloin Emergency Intervention plan to address public drug use and overdose deaths in the neighborhood
- Breed generated national news media coverage last December when she announced the crackdown on open air drug use in the downtown Tenderloin neighborhood
- In addition to helping connect people with service, the center will also help people living on the streets get access to basic things like food, water, bathrooms, showers and laundry
- The center operates seven seven days a week between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m., with limited staff due to the impact of COVID-19. However, the center will expand to operate 24 hours a day and 7 days a week
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