There is an “upper” Pac Heights and a “lower” Pac Heights - one is the uber wealthy area, forgot which one.
My daughter lived in the cheaper “Pac” area right out of college - her job was nearby and the rent almost killed her.
The park across the street from her had been recently cleaned up - I’m guessing b/c wealthy people were moving into the area, the homeless were moved on - and cleared out of the financial district as well, my SIL told me Asians from Asia were refusing to do business in the are b/c it had become so horrible and dangerous.
The homeless haven’t left, they’ve been moved - Mission and Tenderloin district and around the Civic Center. Absolutely wretched, entire area smells like urine (NOT KIDDING).
When our oldest son first moved to SF 14 years ago, he had a roommate in the Mission district. His roommate got married, so our son had to move out on his own. The only place he could afford (with a small amount of help from us) was a studio apartment in the Tenderloin. It was wretched back then. One time I was on the phone with him, as someone attempted to mug him. I heard the skirmish live from central Ohio. Luckily, our son was able to hold his own, and got away. He has never carried money on his person once he moved to SF.
We were so happy when he met his wife, and he moved out of the Tenderloin. The next apartment was near the baseball field, but I don’t know what part of town that is. Not long after that, they found the apartment in Pac Heights. Two incomes really helped out.
That’s when they had encounters with homeless that made them want to move. First were problems with the garbage cans. My son traveled some, and once while he was out of town, my DIL found a homeless guy going through their trash, BEHIND their fenced yard, and now with access to their apartment. So she moved the trash cans to in front of the fence, and the city fined them for having them there. They told them what happened with the homeless guy going through their trash, and how it made her feel unsafe. The city said, too bad, you pay the fine.
The next thing that happened was a homeless person defecated on the sidewalk in front of their home. The city fined them for THAT, too. The city wouldn’t clean it up. My son was supposed to clean up the feces from some other drugged out stranger. Good Lord.
That was the straw that broke the camels’s back, and they were on the hunt for a new place. They moved out to the Marin area. It is so expensive, but at least they don’t have to put up with SF city officials anymore.
I always wish they would move back to the Midwest, but I doubt that will happen.