San Francisco is spending $1.7M on one public toilet
&gt; <i>San Francisco, which is struggling with a troubling homelessness and public-defecation crisis, needs more public toilets.</i><p>The irony in this statement, given the reasons why this toilet costs so much, is absolutely unreal. I had to check the date on this article to make sure it wasn&#x27;t an old April&#x27;s Fools skit or something, but it seems red tape and NIMBYism have escalated to such a degree in SF that (a) securing budget for a single toilet that will take 3 years to build is considered a political victory worthy of patting themselves on the back in the press, and (b) a toilet to &quot;ease&quot; rampant homelessness is considered a far better option than actually trying to provide housing or attack more of the root causes.<p>Wild.