'When I moved into this house, the garage which faces the ally and the crawl space under the house was infested with rats,' Neumann told DailyMail.com. 'It's not uncommon to see rats scurrying down the ally - especially at night,' he added.
'San Francisco is pushing for higher human density, like having people convert garages into rental units. More people equals more rats,' Neumann said. He also cited the city's pervasive homelessness problem as a driver of rising rat infestation.
'Humans defecating on the street attracts more rats,' he said. In Oakland, a family's apartment has become overrun with rodents, forcing them to move out as neither the landlord nor the city have solved the problem.
'The rat problem has progressed since I started my job here,' one employee told CBS news in Spanish through a translator. 'We've seen dead rats; the smell is terrible. The odor from their feces and urine. It's gotten us to this point where we're now speaking up.'
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