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My sister lives there. The downtown is terrible. Most of the people labeled "homeless" are not even from there. Many are drug addicted transients that live in tents and some mentally ill who refuse shelter when offered.
The "Homeless Industrial Complex" as I have heard it labeled there is a big business. I don't have figures for SF but Seattle is spending 1 Billion a year on the homeless issue. (works out to be $100K per person)
The situation is not safe, sanitary or sane. Unfortunately this same issue is creeping into smaller towns all around America and ruining them too.
If it's such a terrible place, why does it have the highest rents in America, some of the lowest vacancy rates, and millions of visitors from the US and abroad coming there to stay at its hotels and enjoy its famous sites and attractions?
San Francisco is hands down one of the most beautiful cities on this continent. Hands down.
True.
It also has huge numbers of homeless. That makes it home to possibly the world's greatest assemblage of people who are able to speak of income inequality from a first hand perspective.
Why doesn't Pelosi fix it?
Can't?
If it's such a terrible place, why does it have the highest rents in America, some of the lowest vacancy rates, and millions of visitors from the US and abroad coming there to stay at its hotels and enjoy its famous sites and attractions?
Long time SF residents are horrified at what is happening downtown. It's the face of their city that people see first. There is quite a bit of division among residents on how to deal with it too. It's in the SF papers all of the time. You can google to see the articles. Huge crowds are showing up at public meetings.
Here is one excerpt from an article a few days ago from the homeless advocates POV in the SF Chronicle:
NIMBYs beware: Latest bold SF plan asks every neighborhood to house the homeless
How many times have we heard our fellow San Franciscans gripe about the city’s worsening homeless crisis and then reject a proposal to help if it’s too close to their comfortable homes? You know, the ones with warm beds and stocked refrigerators and functioning bathrooms?
Lots of people spending precious time vilifying a city they’ve probably never visited.
Who would want to?
Ever see Stanley Roberts' "People Behaving Badly" series? Watching enough of those, not only do I see a city that doesn't look that nice at the street level but also a city that seems out to get its population. From frequent multiple jurisdiction task force clean ups to traffic lane laws so complex, it's easy to see how people could be confused about what is right and what isn't.
There he goes again, bashing American cities when he is the president of America.
I wonder how posters here would react if it were Ilhan Omar bashing American cities.
Kidd, I don't believe Trump is bashing these cities (at large). He's criticizing the leaders/mismanagement of these once great cities.
In my opinion, it's hard to discredit Trump's critique that Baltimore has diminished over the years. Fleeing population, rising crime, riots, etc.
I've been to SF, but I'm less knowledgeable about their contemporary history/changes. peace
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