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A tech worker wants to put up San Francisco's homeless population on a cruise ship

Greg Gopman has plans to put a homeless shelter in the San Francisco Bay aboard a 13-deck cruise ship.

A man stands outside his tent on Division Street in San Francisco.

A tech worker once publicly berated for his negative comments on the homeless population is floating an idea to put people living without shelter on a cruise ship.

In an interview with The Guardian, Greg Gopman, a serial entrepreneur and a former Twitter contractor, revealed plans to build a homeless shelter in the San Francisco Bay aboard a

The project has drawn mixed reactions from local organizations that work with the city's homeless population, largely because of the past controversies surrounding Gopman.

In 2013, Gopman, who was working at the fourth startup he founded, wrote a Facebook post slamming the "homeless, drug dealers, dropouts, and trash" he came across in downtown San Francisco. "The degenerates gather like hyenas, spit, urinate, taunt you," he wrote. "There is nothing positive gained from having them so close to us. It's a burden and a liability."

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The post went viral. Industry blogs and social media condemned his insensitive remarks. In 2013, Gopman was fired from his contract job at Twitter when a TechCrunch article resurfaced his inflammatory comments from the past.

Since then, Gopman has sought to educate himself on issues around homelessness and become involved in causes that help those individuals get back on their feet.

"It's very possible [that] for this thing to happen, people would have reservations about me being involved," he told The Guardian.

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