Can San Francisco Be Saved?

They need to be tough on crime and clean up the homeless

10 out of 10 criminals voted SF as best city to live in

California and cities like san francisco keep voting for this idiocy. Soft on crime policies are destroying this kind of city.

The politicians definitely have destroyed this beautiful city. It's so sad!

All those city council members ran the city to the ground.

Crime and corruption are Gavin’s legacy.

I live in Detroit and we are rebuilding with leaders who give a shit. This makes me so sad, San Francisco is such a beautiful city! They need to get some sane people in office!

TECH will never attract tourism the way ART and MUSIC did 😢 Artists can't afford rent here. We have a culture crisis : the RENT IS TOO DAMN HIGH😢

I was a libertarian before, the “I support your freedom to use drugs” kind. I’m not anymore. Drugs kills a community. Drugs, homelessness, crime, and mental health issues go hand in hand.

The pandemic had little to do with how San Francisco stands today. The issues are the local and state politicians are their policies. Additionally the residents who live there refusing to vote conservative to implement laws with common sense. Where else do you find law abiding citizens who work hard and pay taxes have less rights than criminals and homeless drug addicts?

Punishment for crimes! When you are not safe, you have nothing! People don't go there to take a chance to get robbed. Safety safety and safety.

Look, we can all call it as it is, but I blurted out with a laugh when you said the Tenderloin was a vibrant place. It's always been sketchy, and unfortunately still is. Have no idea why you're trying to put some revisionist spin.

I lived in SF from 1987 to 1996. The tenderloin was already a place for homeless, and relatively unsafe. When did tenderloins a bustling nightlife area with restaurants and hotels?

I moved out of SF back home to Mumbai and I haven't been happier. I make way more money than I did in SF and I don't need to attend any office. I think part of the reason of SF's demise is hidden in the tech ecosystem which has become increasingly commoditized and has allowed a ton of low skill folks to move into tech, but here's the thing, one does not need all that much know how any more to build anything, everything is on the internet and whatever low hanging fruits there were, everything has been built. It's back to big corps and big money era. And to add AI into the mix, that's even lesser number of people needed. Lack of ideas, saturation of markets, automation and AI, it's a perfect storm and the glory days of SF buzzing with young wannabe entrepreneurs is history. It's kind of sad but it is what it is.

I was there June and 2024 and what a mess. People just stealing from target and walking out with out getting in trouble

Soft on crime is what makes it difficult for tourists to visit & workers to want & come.

The vast majority of vacated retail spaces will never fill up again. Too many factors working against retail.

Union Square was once the top 5 retail hub in the U.S. Now it's empty.

I'm a native San Franciscan who's left and returned four times over the last 50 years. I always thought of myself as first a San Franciscan. But when I left in 2015 I realized it isn't just a San Francisco problem, but a California problem and by extension a U.S. problem. There are deep roots to this problem that no one wants to talk about: collapse of the educational system, rampant corruption, and the atomization of life. Sadly, the worst is yet to come as the national decay catches up to the urban decay. It's very, very sad, but delusions would fix the actual problems.

born and raised in sf and had a business for 8 years here. Recruit more police and have subsidized housing for them. Mandatory shelter for homelessness and mental illness. and more