Posted on 01/16/2020 7:13:16 AM PST by SeekAndFind
In the 1970s, San Francisco, as was true for most major American cities, had gotten very shabby. While tourists still flocked to the neighborhood directly north of Market Street, where they could find Union Square, fancy stores, and upscale hotels, those who crossed Market Street and headed south found themselves in a four-block-square area of unpleasant squalor. There were always a handful of drunken men sleeping it off in the doorways of decrepit buildings and the sidewalks stank of urine.
By the end of the 1970s, San Francisco began a massive plan to revitalize that area. It tore down the decayed buildings and, in their place, built the Moscone Conference Center, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Yerba Buena Gardens, and the Metreon theater and shopping center. It was all beautiful and inviting. People loved coming to trade shows and conferences in San Francisco, and families happily took their children to the museum, the garden, the skating rink, and the movie theaters.
Things aren’t like that anymore. While it was once just the South of Market region that was icky because of a few sleeping (or rambunctious) drunks, some stinky pee, and some shabby buildings, tourists are discovering that San Francisco’s entire downtown is inundated with hundreds of scary homeless people, mounds of fecal matter, thousands of discarded needles, and clusters of tents and shopping carts.
That the buildings still look nice is irrelevant. To get to them, one has to do the urban equivalent of walking across slippery stones spaced at far intervals in a slimy, alligator-filled swamp.
Ironically, all of this foulness and decay lives cheek by jowl with incredible wealth and excess. San Francisco’s Leftist government has effectively recreated a medieval city,
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
The JPMorgan gathering at the Westin St. Francis, which attracts about 10,000 people, has long drawn the ire of some attendees. Conference-goers have taken to Twitter and blog posts to express concerns about the homeless situation and watching city officials clean up human feces, all while spending thousands of dollars on hotel rooms and resorting to holding meetings in bathrooms.
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Most of the hotels in the conference’s vicinity were completely booked weeks ahead of time, with rooms that were available going in some cases for more than $2,000 a night. A more affordable option, the Lombard Plaza Motel, was sold out Monday but had rooms for as much as $500 a night starting Tuesday, according to Alex Patel, a front desk attendant. That’s nearly four times its normal rate.
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“I’ve been coming to JPM for five years, and the homeless situation has gotten much worse,” Selin Kurnaz, co-founder and CEO of New York-based Massive Bio, said at a party Monday night in the Tenderloin. “I feel unsafe walking around at night, especially as a young woman.”
You get what you vote for.
Always.
Vote democrap, get crap.
Always.
Imagine if SF was a closed system, with no one allowed in or out like in communist countries (the pinnacle of liberal progress).
Sorry...I’m confused. Didn’t California INVITE the homeless? I mean WE didn’t in our state...and our homeless problem (there IS one here too) is nothing like the problem THEY have in San Fran
On my way to VN war I stayed at St Francis Hotel in a corner room on Union Square complements of a cousin who was Asst manager. Quite a beautiful place in those days.
SF will be just fine as long as there is enough Wealthy Citizens to employ a Private Security Force.
Chesa Boudin (SF DA) will be the one to watch.
To quote my former CEO circa 2004: "San Francisco is the most beautiful city in the world - from ten feet above the ground on up." :)
The Left, of course, imports these problems to maximize its own power, but most of the voters are not really hard Leftists - they are mostly delusional white fools. They firmly believe San Francisco is some kind of sanctuary from all of the racism, sexism, classism, and homophobia of the outside world, and that social decay must be tolerated for humanitarian reasons. The poor homeless can't be sent back where they came from, or they will be lynched by all of those white, Trump-supporting, KKK members in horrible places like Oklahoma City and Nashville. Black criminals who ride BART into the city from Oakland to rob people must be tolerated, because "We can't let racists like Trump change who we are." Onerous taxes and regulations on small businesses must be encouraged - because they have enough money and "need to give back" to the community to solve the problems the voters' own voting patterns have created.
It's the Kumbaya idiocy of the white San Francisco voter that has caused the city to spiral out of control - and there is no real fix for it.
Still voting Pelousy and expecting a different city?
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Mostly moonbeam and Newsom’s fault.
Now all they will need is for a young Hitler who believes the city state just needs some straightening out. And then, out will come the bulldozers.
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