SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS RADIO) – As San Francisco starts to put up barriers in the Mission District to try and quell the proliferation of sex work, one city supervisor is suggesting a long range plan that would take a page from Nevada and Amsterdam.
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Complaints of rampant prostitution have been flying around the city, directed at the Mission District's Capp Street. Instead of barricading the area, which some officials are considering, Supervisor Hillary Ronen is backing an idea to create a commercial zone to allow for regulated sex work.
"The only way you truly truly fix this problem is by legalizing sex work, regulating it, getting it inside and being able to protect the women engaging in this type of work," Ronen told KCBS Radio.
Some Mission District neighbors say they are seeing an influx of drug dealing and prostitution, partly because of a concentrated push to clean up the Tenderloin, which is forcing sex workers into other neighborhoods.
Currently, you would have to change state law in order to legalize sex work, but Ronen is drafting a resolution, urging state lawmakers to consider it.
"It's super frustrating to me that we just move this problematic, dangerous activity from street to street and when you move it out of neighborhoods, you can actually end up isolating sex workers even more, where they face even more dangers," she said.
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