In today's Bay Area, $150,000 can get you a house in East Oakland, or a public toilet in the Tenderloin. Such a princely sum for a throne fits the TL, a neighborhood where the numbers are impressive: the highest concentration of children in San Francisco; the most services geared toward people living on society's fringes; the most shit. The Department of Public Works responded to 2,500 calls to clean up human waste on TL streets in 2011, according to spokeswoman Gloria Chan — about seven calls a day — but the situation is much worse than that, according to street-cleaning nonprofit Clean City, which says it wiped up human waste from TL streets... More >>>