Unlike NYC, SF has a sizable problem with the sheer number of unsheltered homeless. NYC is required by a consent decree to provide shelter, and they do to a gre

Unlike NYC, SF has a sizable problem with the sheer number of unsheltered homeless. NYC is required by a consent decree to provide shelter, and they do to a great extent. This does a lot of limit the visibility of the problems there. I think the rest of it might be the contrast. SF is seen as - sees itself as - the shining city on a hill, the city of the future, a place made of innovation and progressiveness. Where kindness and compassion flow like water.