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Jun 8, 2022 · In addition to the supervised drug-use facility in the plaza, San Francisco has a specially sanctioned and city-maintained slum a block from City Hall, where food, medical care, and counseling are ...
Nov 15, 2023 · Furthermore, due to the dense layout of the city, the unhoused often are forced to live on city sidewalks in heavily-trafficked areas, which has made some residents, potential tourists and business leaders wary of the city. On November 8th, the San Francisco Chronicle reported the city was clearing "homeless hot spots" ahead of the upcoming ...
- Adam Downer
- A 'Broken Network' in The City
- More Than A Tech Workers' Exodus
- Is This The End of San Francisco?
- A Warning to Other U.S. Cities?
"The pandemic really changed the pace of the city and, to a certain extent, the lifeline of the city," Lu Chen, San Francisco resident and senior economist at Moody's Analytics, told Newsweek. San Francisco, with its proximity to Silicon Valley, had grown in the past few decades to become one of the country's main tech hubs. Young, skilled workers ...
There are other issues which might have prompted some people to abandon the city—like the fentanyl crisis gripping the Tenderloin district, where overdose deaths have surged since the beginning of the year. Gen-Z activist Darren Stallcup, who has lived in the Tenderloin all his life, told Newsweekthat he feels "traumatized" by the number of people ...
Despite the city's troubles, experts are not ready to proclaim the city dead. "We are seeing a lot of private and public partnership to save the city's destiny, and that is a good move," Chen told Newsweek. "We are seeing the city removing a lot of barriers for converting the commercial use properties into residential, creating the mixed-use neighb...
The conditions that brought on San Francisco's decline are unlikely to befall another American cities, according to experts. "I think that San Francisco has its unique characteristics," Chen said. "San Francisco is the only city so far among all major American metros which hasn't fully recovered from the pandemic. "Other major cities, like New York...
- Giulia Carbonaro
Sep 25, 2023 · San Francisco’s national reputation has plunged since the pandemic began, and many residents say they are frustrated by how their beloved city is being viewed.
Oct 16, 2023 · The city’s longtime chief economist, Ted Egan, told me one afternoon that he could see four paths to disaster for a city like San Francisco. “Office industries are eighty per cent of our ...
- Nathan Heller
Jan 20, 2023 · The San Francisco metro area lost a total of nearly $14 billion in household income between 2019-21. And those leaving San Francisco were wealthy enough that the city’s median income dropped by 4.6 percent over the 2019-21 period. As San Franciscans have left, San Francisco’s downtown has suffered the most, as many tech workers and their ...
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Nov 29, 2023 · Nov. 29, 2023. A view of San Francisco from Treasure Island. Nicholas Albrecht for The New York Times. Perhaps you remember when two high-profile crimes in San Francisco this spring put the city ...
