Posted on 10/08/2018 5:32:23 AM PDT by upchuck
SAN FRANCISCO — The heroin needles, the pile of excrement between parked cars, the yellow soup oozing out of a large plastic bag by the curb and the stained, faux Persian carpet dumped on the corner.
It’s a scene of detritus that might bring to mind any variety of developing-world squalor. But this is San Francisco, the capital of the nation’s technology industry, where a single span of Hyde street hosts an open-air narcotics market by day and at night is occupied by the unsheltered and drug-addled slumped on the sidewalk.
There are many other streets like it, but by one measure it’s the dirtiest block in the city.
Just a 15-minute walk away are the offices of Twitter and Uber, two companies that along with other nameplate technology giants have helped push the median price of a home in San Francisco well beyond a million dollars.
This dichotomy of street crime and world-changing technology, of luxury condominiums and grinding, persistent homelessness, and the dehumanizing effects for those forced to live on the streets provoke outrage among the city’s residents. For many who live here it’s difficult to reconcile San Francisco’s liberal politics with the misery that surrounds them.
According to city statisticians, the 300 block of Hyde Street, a span about the length of a football field in the heart of the Tenderloin neighborhood, received 2,227 complaints about street and sidewalk cleanliness over the past decade, more than any other. It’s an imperfect measurement — some blocks might be dirtier but have fewer calls — but residents on the 300 block say that they are not surprised by their ranking.
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Pelousy
I thought liberalism had poverty licked? You meant it hasn’t?
It can’t be blamed on Republicans. They don’t run California.
Tourist-wise, I think it’ll really start to show over the next two years as upscale hotels can’t fill rooms, and the city tourist tax revenue drops like a rock.
“For many who live here it’s difficult to reconcile San Francisco’s liberal politics with the misery that surrounds them.”
I just got back from a week in SF.
It’s not difficult at all to reconcile those things. The first is the cause of the second.
I saw nothing like this when I visited San Francisco in the 1990s. Things have gone downhill there since then.
Then it has to be because carbon taxes are too low.
CA is a one party.state. There is no incentive to change things or to improve the quality of life.
As long as Californians continue to vote Democrat, things will remain the same.
“difficult to reconcile San Francisco’s liberal politics with the misery”
No it’s not. Socialism exacerbates differences between the rich and poor.
It was free market capitalism that created the ability to move from poor to rich. Prior to that, the only way to up your class was through physical force.
Never been there and don’t want to.
I’ll stick with reruns of The Streets Of San Francisco, Ironside, and McMillan & Wife reruns for any SF fix.
I think all that is left is to reditribute the dem leaders income to achieve Utopia.
very sad indeed... I do think its interesting the city is beginning the process of institutionalization, renaming it conservatorship. De-institutionalization happened across America in the 70’s, dumping these people into community services that have never had the resources to follow up.
Last night, we watched the last episode of Goliath on Prime TV
The newly elected mayor of Los Angeles was the sister of the chief of a Mexican cartel.
Re-open the asylums; 90% of them are mentally-ill and need institutionalization. After that, the streets will return to normal.
SH_TH_L_
“I’d like to buy a vowel?”
I spent a day in the Marina district last month and saw none of this. I guess it depends on where you’re looking.
I agree. Ceasing to lock up the nutballs is the primary reason for this. It had a seriously bad effect on SF and the country at large.
Maybe, someday, the Liberals will see the error(s) of their ways. Nah :)
Seems pretty straightforward to me. If you don’t want to live in a sh*thole, stop turning the place you live into a sh*thole. Seriously, did conservatives come in and dump their trash and feces on the streets? No. The wonderful residents of SF are the ones trashing SF and then complaining about “...the dichotomy of...” etc. etc. Get it through your thick, indoctrinated skulls libtards: no-one is responsible for your misery except you!
They call that neighborhood the Tenderloin and it has always been a dangerous neighborhood. I lived there 50 years ago and even then it was for derelicts.
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