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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#NancyCleanYourHouse1st
What do they expect? They turned san fran freako into a welcoming haven for non-natural practices, promote drug use, turn it into a sanctuary city. What do they expect?
Seen enough,
Thanks.
California can Rot!
For many who live here it's difficult to grok the concept of cause and effect.
Cant believe the NYT said that.
Now that is something I never thought I would see...a liberal arguing for involuntary commitment. But what is "conservatorship"? I doubt it would be commitment to Bellevue which is exactly what we need to bring back.
“Human waste has become such a widespread problem in San Francisco that the city in September established a unit dedicated to removing it from the sidewalks. Rachel Gordon, a spokeswoman for the Public Works Department, describes the new initiative as a “proactive human waste” unit.”
The Tenderloin has always been the seediest part of the city, a part sane citizens know to avoid. I moved to SF in the summer of ‘73 and we knew even then it was a no-go area of winos, addicts, crazy people and filth. The human debris has always been contained in that district. It’s weird that the old upscale theater district abuts the Tenderloin. As the Tenderloin has spilled out, the Theater District has deteriorated. Lots of huge conferences at the Moscone Center hold overflow events and presentations at hotels next to the Tenderloin. It makes for a fun time going to those presentations.
There was a comedy set in SF about a couple in a two-family home whose young adult daughters lived in the downstairs apartment...ok, I pasted that line into BING and got the name...Too Close For Comfort. Ted Knight was the dad, and the younger daughter was a real hottie!
Monroe!
They just hired six pooper scoopers making $180k a year.
They will soon wipe off that sh*t. No word whether they will be wiping the bum’s and druggies asses as well.
“For many who live here it’s difficult to reconcile San Francisco’s liberal politics with the misery that surrounds them.”
Liberals have trouble with cause and effect especially when it comes to human nature.
“I’ll stick with reruns of The Streets Of San Francisco, Ironside, and McMillan & Wife reruns for any SF fix.”
The movie The Presidio is pretty darn good.
“I saw nothing like this when I visited San Francisco in the 1990s. Things have gone downhill there since then.”
I was in Sacramento in 1993...that was the last time I was in CA. California was still a nice, fun, optimistic, tfull-of-life place...near as I could tell. Apparently the intervening 25 years have not been kind.
Monroe was a hoot!
Dirty Harry.
Some people have suggested that the opioid sales that started in the late 1990s...started the trend. Heroin started up about fifteen years ago as a trend in general.
For a way-back look at a civilized society and city, the movie “Vertigo” is a treat. Wonderful street scenes of the era, and of course, an amazing Hitchcock work of art. I am just old enough to have personally experienced that world, and my heart aches for it.
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