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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Janie Har

One of San Francisco's most troubled neighborhoods brings a pumpkin patch to its children

San Francisco Pumpkin Patch - (Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)

Children from San Francisco's Tenderloin ate pizza, jumped in a bouncy house, got their faces painted and scooped up bags of candy Wednesday during the neighborhood's first ever pumpkin patch festival.

The Tenderloin neighborhood near City Hall is among San Francisco's most troubled, rife with open drug use and homelessness. But it also has the highest concentration of kids in San Francisco, an estimated 3,000 children from largely immigrant families.

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