> Alongside that vote, the city’s quality of operation has noticeably deteriorated. Encampments are more common, drug intoxication to the point of collapse and physical decay is highly visible. Robberies have become commonplace.
These have been mainstay of San Francisco life for at least a decade: some neighborhoods suck and have a ton of homeless folks, and where they are tend to move around (in gentrifying neighborhoods). I remember the first time I moved here almost a decade ago and was shocked with the drugged homeless folks. They're still there.
Those protests will go the way of the Google Bus protests: make a lot of noise, before they disappear.
> Those protests will go the way of the Google Bus protests: make a lot of noise, before they disappear.
Totally agree, I expect they’ll dissipate pretty quickly, because there’s no actual committed support.
>These have been a mainstay…
Disagree here. Yes, these issues have always been more visible in SF than elsewhere: mild climate, permissive drug laws, and a low income area in the Tenderloin that’s closer to more affluent areas than other major cities.
The extent has changed markedly over just the last few years. Police don’t respond to calls. Home invasions don’t result in charges.
Physical attacks by the unhoused used to be a concern of suburbanites on a weekend trip, not something residents really factored into realistic risk.
Now it’s something folks in my circle who have been here for a very long time witness and in some cases have experienced.
I hear you that to a certain extent this has always been here, and I agree. But this is outside of the normal bound of historical SF.
These have been mainstay of San Francisco life for at least a decade: some neighborhoods suck and have a ton of homeless folks, and where they are tend to move around (in gentrifying neighborhoods). I remember the first time I moved here almost a decade ago and was shocked with the drugged homeless folks. They're still there.
Those protests will go the way of the Google Bus protests: make a lot of noise, before they disappear.