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70% of San Francisco residents say quality of life has declined: poll
- AussieWog93 5y agoI wonder what percentage of residents support the tax increases necessary to provide such services.
- wombatmobile 5y ago> I wonder what percentage of residents support the tax increases necessary to provide such services It depends on how the question is phrased. Few people want to pay more taxes. Most people want a better society, not just for themselves, for everyone, since we are all connected. The art of good government is asking the question in a way that shines a light to where 51% of people will dare to go, that many of the remainder will tolerat.
- ivalm 5y agoExcept the issue is that there is a tragedy of commons, as SF increases resources for homeless more and more homeless flock to the city thus requiring ever increasing amount of resources. I am honestly not sure what to do other than support more nationwide solutions.
- IncRnd 5y agoWhat solutions would you propose nationwide?
- Ericson2314 5y agoThe services should be nation-wide, and should be housing. Everything else is just a palliative.
- underseacables 5y agoDid this happen in Portland? I can’t put my finger on it but I seem to recall something about how Portland’s public assistance largess had become a beacon for people across the country to go to Portland to take it advantage of that. Thus increasing the number of people needing those services, and causing the friction.
- bink 5y agoThere was a discussion today on NPR about Venice Beach and how they're providing housing to those living on/near the pier so people are migrating up from other neighborhoods to take advantage. It's only a couple hundred people total but it's still an interesting experiment.
- bingidingi 5y agothis also happens in other major cities like NYC, Boston, etc… most of the local homeless are from small cities and towns and go to the city because they hear it’s better… and it is, because many small cities have next to no services for them if you spread out the homeless proportionately to the population of the country it becomes a much more manageable problem
- jboy55 5y agoThe small towns literally bus or have the police drop off homeless into big cities so they don't have to pay for it. In Santa Cruz, there are tonnes of homeless. 10 miles away in Scotts Valley there are no visible homeless, that's because Scotts valley PD picks up homeless and drops them off in Santa Cruz.
- bingidingi 5y agoand of course conservatives ignore this entirely and blame these cities for creating homeless problems… quite a scheme
- nebula8804 5y agoThis is a tech city, start fingerprinting and ID'ing where their real residential address is and send them back after a nice shower and a good hearty meal. If the same people keep coming back, start filing lawsuits against the towns or send them a bill. As soon as this happens the Republican lawmakers will start to pass laws banning this. Assert states right and start pressuring local companies to stop doing business in those states or else face consequences. It would take a leftist with real guts to do stuff like this. I also wonder if it is legal to put checkpoints in the entrance to states so that if a bus arrives, they need to be subject to inspections. This stuff sounds cruel but the cities are not fighting for their tax paying residents. Its unbelievable how much of a scam this country is in favor of typically rural white people. 1) Red states typically get out more than 1$ of every tax dollar they put back in. Source: https://apnews.com/article/north-america-business-local-taxes-ap-top-news-politics-2f83c72de1bd440d92cdbc0d3b6bc08c?referringsource=articleshare https://apnews.com/article/north-america-business-local-taxe... 2) Red states get an additional subsidy in the form of sending their homeless to the blue cities. This allows them to reduce their tax burden while increasing the tax burden of an already highly taxed blue electorate. The decreased tax burden directly translates into more renovations to the towns and better quality of life for their citizens(ie more services) while directly reducing the quality of life for the left leaning counties. 3) Red states are overrepresented due to gerrymandering, the electoral college, (and because the Dems never fight), now the supreme court so the mechanisms to change this system are all blocked for the left wing population. We don't have a Democratic party that fights for us. I'm convinced that they are actually on the same side as the Right but only pretend to actually care about the people in the left states and stop all opposition using cancel culture. They of course cater to their wealthy constituents but everyone else that makes up the Democratic party: minorities and the poor are in this hellish limbo where they have no real say in governance yet at the same time are paying and suffering the consequences. Its the modern day slavery. We are starting to see minorities run for congress and challenge the status quo. We also see them get co-opted by the Democratic party and muted or aggressively fought against so that they have to work 10 times as hard to get a chance (ie. AOC's initial opponent outspent her 10 to 1, endorsed by the entire party, baseless accusations of being associated with less that favorable figures) (ex2. Ilhan Omar being blasted whenever she opens her mouth). It sounds like it's going to take a whole generation of effort to finally break this cursed situation that so many people in this country are born into. Sorry for the rant, its just that as a minority living in a left state, it grinds me endlessly that I am paying for these Red state jerks while my quality of life continues on a downward trajectory and at the same time no one will fight for me. Not AOC, not anyone in the Dems for sure. What is the way out?
- foobar33333 5y agoMost places deal with this via border restrictions. One country with better welfare does not allow themselves to be flooded with people from other countries. This problem can not be solved by one city without the ability to restrict movement.
- wyager 5y agoIt's going to be interesting to see earnest social welfare advocates and earnest open borders advocates realize that their beliefs are totally incompatible. Of course, right now, most of the politicians successfully selling those policies don't really care about either at a deep level.
- digianarchist 5y agoOr transfer payments like we do in Canada.
- jboy55 5y agoPeople from other countries do not get welfare in the USA. that is a myth. The problem with 'SF' is people flocking from conservative areas in the US that have solved their homeless problem by literally bussing people to SF. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2017/dec/20/bussed-out-america-moves-homeless-people-country-study https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2017/dec/...
- foobar33333 5y agoMy point is that SF can not fix welfare on its own because it doesn't have the power to stop people from other states moving in. It either needs to be a nation wide fix or for the city/state to become its own country.
- IncRnd 5y agoMaybe the rest of the country should stop people moving out of that city/state.
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- richiezc 5y agowell it short of already has begun, it was voted on and I do pay for the CBD covering my area to clean up the streets and provide security services: https://oewd.org/community-benefit-districts https://oewd.org/community-benefit-districts
- fastball 5y agoThe problem is that taxes are already fairly high. Throwing more money at the problem is not going to fix these issues. Bad administration is bad administration no matter how much money you burn.
- clra 5y agoExactly this. The city's budget was $6.4B in 2010, and $12.6B for 2021-2022, which is down from $13.7B for 2020-2021 (only because of Corona). That's a _doubling_ in a decade, and speaking somewhat subjectively as someone who's been here the entire time, all public services and the state of the streets have continued getting worse. Even if you don't buy that, it's absolutely certain that nothing has gotten better. It's not clear how SF can escape the situation, but there are a few things that are absolutely certain, and one of them is that more money is not going to fix the problem. We need a different approach.
- towergratis 5y ago> I wonder what percentage of residents support the tax increases necessary to provide such services. Straw man fallacy. Why do you jump to the conclusion that the problem is financial. SF is among the top 5 richest cities in US. You really have to prove that the problem is financing, before you make the argument you made.
- andrewnicolalde 5y agoI think they're saying the problem is political, not financial.
- AussieWog93 5y agoI'm just being cynical. If you ask people whether or not they some ostensibly good policy should be implemented, the majority will agree. When you ask taxpayers to actually cough up and pay for the services, though, the majority will get extremely upset. A more interesting survey question would be how much people are prepared to sacrifice to make these problems go away.
- dougmwne 5y agoI am currently in Warsaw. I have lived in SF. The quality of life is astoundingly different. There nearly zero visible homelessness people. There are low levels of crime and none visible. There are hardly any murders or gun crime. Not much property crime. There are quite a lot of police, but no brutality that I have heard of. I feel safe walking around at night. People have health care, higher education, and employees have strong legal protections with sane working hours. Taxes are reasonable. There's a good tech job market. As I was leaving SF, I watched a homeless man with no teeth pick a morsel of food out of the gutter and eat it. I am not sure if it's a case of boiling the frog, but trust me when I say that SF has an absolutely shameful inability to solve it's problems and that a city that was no more than a crater 70 years ago absolutely shines in comparison. I would not believe it if I hadn't seen it with my own eyes.
- pmalynin 5y agoAnd how about religious freedoms, reproductive rights and the feelings about LGBTQ folks? To add a little bit of context to the folks bellow: I actually am from Eastern Europe and consider myself rather lucky to have escaped it to Canada and the US. If you’re a good an American straight white male, with a lot of dollars then yea of course you’re going to have a pretty good time. But let’s not trivialize the issues here. For some people the trade-off for freedoms might very well be worth, but it isn’t for me and for quite a bit of folks that I know personally. For all it’s warts, San Francisco still continues to attract people, and a part of it is it’s tolerance to all kinds of behaviors. In conclusion, I don’t like it when people only talk about the the few good things about a country / city / state and ignore all the other, less talked about things. Let’s not pretend Poland is some kind of paradise.
- mwkaufma 5y agoManufactured consent.
- AnimalMuppet 5y agoCould you be a bit more specific about what you mean? By itself, that drive-by comment doesn't tell us much...
- underseacables 5y agoWell, a quick Google search brings this up from Wikipedia: Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media is a 1988 book by Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky. It argues that the mass communication media of the U.S. "are effective and powerful ideological institutions that carry out a system-supportive propaganda function, by reliance on market forces, internalized assumptions, and self-censorship, and without overt coercion", by means of the propaganda model of communication.
- khazhoux 5y agoSo... this survey is propaganda?
- actually_a_dog 5y agoAssuming it's a properly conducted and accurately reported survey, I would say no, except in the very postmodern sense that everything is "propaganda" of a sort, since what is chosen to report and how to report it is determined by the media, and is at least significantly influenced by those who own and control the media.
- akomtu 5y agoMost surveys are propaganda: a sample size of just a thousand people allows to get any result in any area. I could get 85% respondents to support ktulhu as the official deity by handpicking the right respondents. Even if I really wanted to know how much support ktulhu really has, I'd be very troubled because accountants in Idaho are going to view ktulhu differently than mechanics in Florida. For this reason, when I see "N% support X", I read it as "the media agency wants me to think that X has N% support" and I wonder why. Most of the time the answer isn't terribly complex: it's the party affiliation of the agency.
- burlesona 5y agoI feel like this experience is so common it’s almost cliche, but I ended up moving with my family out of the city in mid 2020 mostly due to the major influx of homeless into our neighborhood, which had very little before. I didn’t like my kids facing that every time we walked to the park or the grocery store. There was also a rise in petty crime that made the neighborhood feel a lot less safe. It’s a tough situation. At the end of the day, mental health shouldn’t fall to any one city to be responsible for, but we have to start somewhere. I hope for the best and that SF can come up with an effective way to help people off the streets.
- mnouquet 5y ago> I didn’t like my kids facing that every time we walked to the park or the grocery store. Be careful, such thinking is very frowned upon around here...
- ergocoder 5y agoPetty and non-violent crime is only petty and non-violent because the victims don't fight back. I don't know what the solution is, but calling these petty/non-violent feels like an unfair take. A victim is often traumatized about this kind of experiences, but that is never taken into account. I feel San Francisco is such a screwed up place. But many would disagree with me. I don't live there anymore, but it seems people there like restorative justice, and outsiders should help cheer for that to see whether it will work. We need this kind of experiments anyway. Whether it works or not, it will be a great experience to learn for outsiders... So... Go Chesa Boudin! Fighto! We support you 200%!
- taylorlapeyre 5y agoI'll share my experience as a proud SF resident of 6 years. The quality of life here decreased dramatically through 2020 for obvious reasons. Now, it seems like the city is much more alive. Restaurants, bars, etc are all open, parks are packed. The weather is still great. My coworkers are moving back to the Bay Area now, and we're all very excited to get to hang out again. Overall I'm much happier now than I was 6 months ago. That being said, the most upsetting thing has been the loss of my friends who have left SF over the last year and a half to move other places. Losing your friends and community is much worse than losing a coffee shop. This is, to me, the biggest downside of SF: it's a temporary stopover for most people, and your roots will always be lain in thin soil.
- underseacables 5y agoThis is interesting given the protests. As I understand it, San Francisco is generally considered to be a very liberal and progressive city. The politicians are generally considered to be very liberal and progressive. These are the same groups, however, that want to defund the police. I don’t get it. You can want both police reform, and policing, but without the police there’s not really anyone capable, trained, or just available to confront dangerous criminals and individuals. It’s almost like a very radical group pushed for something and they went way too far, so now the more rational side is like whoa wait a second
- wyager 5y ago"Defund the police" is mostly a shorthand for "federalize the police". Some people with little political power might interpret it literally, but they're not really calling the shots.
- khazhoux 5y agoYou're mixing issues. The homelessness problem has been growing for the last 15 years (I mean, before that too, but I remember never being shocked in the early 2000s like I always am today), whereas the "Defund" thing is only in the last year. The homelessness crisis is not caused by a lack of police enforcement.
- underseacables 5y agoTrue, but lack of police enforcement has led to greater numbers of homeless people acting without worry, setting up camps, pooping in the streets, vandalism, assault, robbery, etc. Greater police presence is an excellent deterrent for homeless misbehavior and crime. Otherwise there is no limitation on what those unhoused persons can do, thus exacerbating the problem. It may not have caused it, but the lack of police is certainly not helping it
- adjkant 5y ago> but lack of police enforcement has led to greater numbers of homeless people acting without worry, setting up camps, pooping in the streets, vandalism, assault, robbery, etc. From my experience, homelessness is not affected by police presence/enforcement other than to force them into other areas. An unhoused person has to go somewhere, so using police to approach that simply pushes them in larger numbers into other areas, making it someone else's problem. That seems like a huge waste of resources.
- spoonjim 5y agoNews flash: Raging pandemic lowers quality of life.
- xwdv 5y agoUsed to walk to the office in SF. No more.
- hourislate 5y agoChesa Boudin was elected in November 2019 on a progressive platform centered on ending mass incarceration. DA Boudin personally understands the impact of incarceration; both of his parents were incarcerated (for Murder) throughout his childhood and his father is still in prison. San Francisco residents deserve to reap the fruits of their Prophet.
- bink 5y agoThis problem existed well before 2019.
- hourislate 5y agoIt got way worse since 2019
- jboy55 5y agoAnd it was way worse before 1999. In California the rate of violent crime was 3X in 1992 than it is now.
- mnouquet 5y agoAre you implying his parents are innocent from the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1981_Brink%27s_robbery https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1981_Brink%27s_robbery ?
- Google234 5y agoIt would be nice if they voted in new people (read: republicans) based on this. I think the city would be improved with some different ideas in government.
- fullshark 5y agoShame these days all politics is national
- NeverFade 5y agoWill never happen. SFers will keep voting for the wokest candidates, then quietly skip town when the expected consequences of woke policies arrive.
- ryanobjc 5y agoThe republican brand is associated with racism and declining to govern. They cannot win in the Bay Area. I’m unclear what policies they’d bring except more bashing in homeless skulls?
- jboy55 5y agoThe republicans would do what they normally do with homeless, they ship them to a different city. SF should put its homeless on buses to rural Texas, but they'd all just end up being moved to Austin by the local police.
- alea_iacta_est 5y agoReality always catches up.
- desine 5y agoIt's just a symptom of the neo-pseudo-scientific political system. I can find plenty of articles that "fact check" my gut instinct that deporting illegal immigrants who commit violent crime will reduce the violent crime. A cursory googling will remind me that SF's ban on handguns, licensed carry, and other gun restrictions protect me. After all, if I were in danger, the police average under 8 minutes response time on top priority calls. Every time I visit my family there, and remind myself not to pack sandals because of the number needles on the ground, I pull up my bookmarked journals reminding me that we can't be hard on drug use, even in public, because that makes the problem worse. SF is a fantastic reminder that we cannot trust our gut instinct and logic on how to deal with the problems of society. I look forward to the peer reviewed article explaining why this is just bias and misconception of the status quo. I used to enjoy my memories of playing ultimate frisbee barefoot in Delores park, as a young teenager, with no concern over safety taking public transit. But I must remember that my memories are subject to fallacies of their own. Likewise, those un-scooped poops I used to see were probably human, like they are now, I just didn't realize it then, because I was so naive. The neo-liberal politics of finding, or creating the studies that support the policies that "feel good" and not the ones that actually tackle problems are making the problem worse. And like a snowdrift growing on a ledge, it will continue growing, until it collapses into an avalanche. The longer we let it grow, the more casualties we will see when the correction arrives. I have family that's now leaving the city. Chesa Boudin and his policies was their personal tipping point
- joemazerino 5y agoI wonder how many journalists who wrote these fact checked studies actually live in the area.
- astrange 5y agoI've never seen anyone call Chesa Boudin "neoliberal" before. Actually I haven't even seen anyone call "neoliberal" policies not right-wing enough. Very innovative post.
- desine 5y agoYou're right, he's a communist from a terrorist family, but I didn't want to get too analytical on the politics. I'm comparing the SF policies of over 20 years ago to now. A lot has changed.
- psychlops 5y agoI'm curious what the results would be if they polled the homeless there.
- emerged 5y agoPolls should actually exclude people with homes!
- walrus01 5y agoThe same as with vancouver, San Francisco and Los Angeles are both some of the rare large cities in the USA where a homeless person can live a fully outdoor lifestyle year-round and not risk freezing to death.
- dougmwne 5y agoThis is often repeated, but the entirety of the US south is warm year-round and the proportion of unhoused homeless is much lower in all those southern cities. Clearly there is something else at play on the west coast that resists housing the homeless.
- pengaru 5y agoTurns out the homeless, like many (most?) people, prefer living in desirable places. When you have no ability/intention to pay rent, the whole cost of living deterrent vanishes. So it seems rather obvious to me you'd have a higher rate of homelessness in the most desirable (most expensive) cities. Not without interventions creating costs or inconveniences actually relevant to the homeless as a proportional deterrent. I'm not sure if that's even possible without being cruel though.
- moneywoes 5y agoFrom what I understand, other provinces would buy their homeless one way bus tickets to Vancouver
- DoctorNick 5y agoJust turn back now, this comment section is full of people who took this Dead Kennedy's song as a serious policy proposal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqnaHDdvh5I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqnaHDdvh5I
- w_TF 5y agoI find it weird how everyone wants to point their fingers at politicians or the police as if these are the forces that created this mess, as if those groups simply snapped their fingers then the economic conditions that perpetuate homelessness would magically disappear. Everyone wants someone else to make the problem go away for them, that they shouldn't have to play any part in that because they pay taxes, and all the while they're also lobbying the city to keep housing density low out of some absurd privileged need to preserve a broken status quo of what they think an idyllic neighborhood ought to be. It's incredibly ironic how in America we've recreated the very thing that Americans were trying to escape from in Europe -a landed aristocracy.
- TedShiller 5y agoI agree. It's not the politicians' fault, it's their voters' fault.
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- DoreenMichele 5y agoSan Francisco has some of the most expensive real estate in the country. [1] When I lived in the San Francisco Bay Area like two decades back and looked at housing prices there, SROs[2] were like $1000/month or so. That's a single room, not an apartment. San Francisco has really lovely weather most of the year. It has highly desirable weather if you are homeless: Not much rain and mild temperatures year round.[3] I think California is currently the dumping ground for a lot of America's homeless. I have heard that homelessness is down in other states and up in California. I think part of what happens is people go there because the weather is very homeless-friendly and then get stuck in part because housing costs are so high in California. I think California will not really solve its homeless problem until the entire US decides to resolve our lack of affordable housing.[4] I spent nearly six years homeless, most of it in California. I left the state to get back into housing. I have six years of college and yadda, so what I was able to pull off may not be what most homeless people can do for themselves in the face of a broken system. (Edit: years before I was ever homeless, I took a college class from SFSU called Homelessness and Public Policy. The above paragraph was intended to suggest I'm somewhat knowledgeable about the topic.) I am still dirt poor and trying to establish an adequate income while being told it's somehow my fault that my poverty is intractable and no amount of rebutting the myriad explanations for how it is somehow my fault ever seems to really change the situation. I've been repeating a lot of this for years on HN, seemingly to no avail. I'm frankly amazingly exhausted at this point. [1] Contrary to what internet strangers like to tell me, cost of housing and homelessness are related. https://streetlifesolutions.blogspot.com/2018/11/the-clear-connection-between-housing.html https://streetlifesolutions.blogspot.com/2018/11/the-clear-c... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_room_occupancy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_room_occupancy [3] https://streetlifesolutions.blogspot.com/2019/10/climate-and-unsheltered-homeless-in.html https://streetlifesolutions.blogspot.com/2019/10/climate-and... [4] https://www.geekwire.com/2018/every-100-families-living-poverty-west-coast-no-30-affordable-homes/ https://www.geekwire.com/2018/every-100-families-living-pove...
- jboy55 5y agoTo ignore the relation between homelessness, the high cost of housing, the gentrification as tech people like to live authentic and the absolute lack of building, and to pretend its welfare and the lack of guns is just blindness. People in SF have to either kick the tech companies out, or allow a massive amount of high density housing in.
- 1432132143 5y agoBe a leftist require some sacrifice people of color lives on the street are more important than your lifestyle or freedom. If you are complain you are not a true leftist you are just a brainwashed democrat by some white Fascist !!!!
- TedShiller 5y agoYou get what you vote for
- throwawaysea 5y agoThe same thing has happened in Portland and Seattle, both cities with increasing amounts of property crime, increasing amounts of homeless campers taking up public spaces, increasing amounts of harassment from vagrants, widespread open drug-abuse, increasing amounts of blight as pristine greenbelts are trashed, and a revolving door of criminals who are released into the public without consequence by a permissive city leadership. Calls for "restorative justice" always mean being soft on crime, which removes deterrents for crime, and therefore enable increased crime. It's all so obvious and predictable, but these cities are such extreme political echo chambers that no other perspective is really represented or considered at all. In Seattle, these policies were spurred on by motivated progressive activists who aggressively shouted down all dissent in protests, council meetings, and in social media. The rush of transplants from outside Washington state changed local politics significantly over the last decade, importing a lot of SF's policies as the voting constituency changed. As a result, Seattle experiences all the same blight SF does, but with a time delay of a few years. There have been a couple great documentaries about the deterioration in Seattle such as "Seattle is Dying" (https://youtu.be/bpAi70WWBlw https://youtu.be/bpAi70WWBlw) and "The Fight for the Soul of Seattle" (https://youtu.be/WijoL3Hy_Bw https://youtu.be/WijoL3Hy_Bw) that provide a great overview of the issues. The business community also wrote two comprehensive reports about the failure of restorative justice policies as well, called "System Failure" (https://downtownseattle.org/files/advocacy/system-failure-prolific-offender-report-feb-2019.pdf https://downtownseattle.org/files/advocacy/system-failure-pr...) and "System Failure 2" (https://downtownseattle.org/files/advocacy/System-Failure-Part-2-Declines-Delays-and-Dismissals-Sept-2019.pdf https://downtownseattle.org/files/advocacy/System-Failure-Pa...). The response from city leadership? Gaslighting, denial, and absolute arrogance (https://www.seattle.gov/cityattorney/news/seattle-isnt-dying https://www.seattle.gov/cityattorney/news/seattle-isnt-dying) as they continue to ignore the needs of tax-paying law-abiding residents in favor of vocal activists and criminals. I don't think long-time residents have any confidence that Seattle will return to the peaceful, beautiful city it once was given how things have changed and how they continue to get worse. It's gotten to the point where even businesses have just given up and don't report crimes (https://mynorthwest.com/1538741/uwajimaya-seattle-prolific-offenders/ https://mynorthwest.com/1538741/uwajimaya-seattle-prolific-o...), which results in skewed crime figures that don't tell the real story. And just like SF, now businesses have begun closing stores due to unchecked criminality (https://komonews.com/news/local/bartell-drugs-closing-in-downtown-seattle-over-crime-concerns https://komonews.com/news/local/bartell-drugs-closing-in-dow...). More recently, we've seen these policies and political attitudes spread to bigger cities like LA and NYC. LA's district attorney George Gascon now faces a recall (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/19/us/george-gascon.html https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/19/us/george-gascon.html). In NYC, residents and businesses are furious because the DAs dropped charges against hundreds of looters without any charges (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9705219/Fury-New-York-prosecutors-DROP-looting-charges-against-hundreds-arrested-summer.html https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9705219/Fury-New-Yo...). As for Chesa Boudin of SF, although he faces a recall, I am not confident it will succeed due to how much support he has from progressives, and because of the money pouring in to defend him from outside of SF (see https://www.sfchronicle.com/local/article/These-charts-show-who-is-funding-both-sides-of-16082178.php https://www.sfchronicle.com/local/article/These-charts-show-...).
- disposekinetics 5y agoI feel like there has been a whole targeted campaign against SF recently. Am I seeing faces in clouds?
- joshtam 5y agoThere is a major influx of homeless, human feces and high prices to top it off. There were occasions when I went to SF for business snd never came out of the car, becauee of how dirty the city is. This is absolutely understandable!
- reilly3000 5y agoSFDC and others could make a big difference by hiring some homeless workers with a dedicated program. Half of the battle is for dignity and a decent resume. There are plenty of people with college degrees on the streets. Simple changes like not requiring a permanent address on job applications and payroll allowing cash cards as a deposit option (many payroll services do support this) are powerful enablers for people who need a hand up.