A tech entrepreneur famous for an anti-homeless screed and a former mayor of San Francisco are lobbying to have a $13 million cruise ship put into use as a homeless shelter, in a bid to house at least some of the city’s nearly 7,500 homeless.
Gopman wrote a Facebook post in 2013 about the homeless in San Francisco that quickly went viral and eventually led to him losing his contract job with Twitter.
“The degenerates gather like hyenas, spit, urinate, taunt you,” he wrote in the post. “There is…