San Francisco public toilets help homeless, cost $200,000

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco launched its portable toilet program five years ago after children in a homeless-heavy neighborhood complained of dodging human waste on sidewalks on their way to school.
The “Pit Stop” program has now grown to 25 locations within the city and spread to Los Angeles, which is also struggling with a homeless crisis.
Not all Pit Stop users in San Francisco are homeless, but advocates say steam cleaning requests have dropped in areas surrounding t