It’s a useful article in the sense that it raises awareness of what a basket case that city is. My dumb pet theory is that SF found itself between the two moti

It’s a useful article in the sense that it raises awareness of what a basket case that city is. My dumb pet theory is that SF found itself between the two motions of the left-right pendulum. A city that tolerates huge amounts of homelessness and urban crime and which therefore should be dirt cheap to live in and subsequently provide _some_ opportunity to its inhabitants to pull themselves out. But… it’s astronomically expensive and filled with people who largely don’t work for the “tangible world” and who’s industry and wealth is unreachable to most without the means for education. So it won’t swing left to cater for the poor but it also won’t swing right to make it unattractive to the poor. In the meantime everyone knows that you can run amok and basically run-sack a wall greens and you won’t go to jail, there’s filthy rich people everywhere who may help you with a handout and the weather is forgiving. If I was homeless in America I’d be tempted to get on a bud and try to get to San Francisco.