Just for perspective. The Tenderloin has been a slum for as long as SF has existed. About every 25-30 years, SF goes through a boom / bust cycle. This has been

Just for perspective. The Tenderloin has been a slum for as long as SF has existed. About every 25-30 years, SF goes through a boom / bust cycle. This has been happening as long as people have called it San Francisco and will likely happen as long as it remains a city. In the late 90's early 00's Market St was a porn hub. Before Twitter was gifted their headquarters, that part of the city was a dump full of porn shops, abandoned buildings and bums. In the 70's it was a dangerous heroin invested place with open air prostitution and lots of crime. The greatness of SF is its ability to not only reinvent itself, but with it reinventing how the US and the world at large function. SF will emerge from this slump in a new and better form. This is just a part of that process. In other words: Same as its ever been...