Links and sources, please. I stand by what I wrote. It's downtown SF that is a ghost town, but it will revive after Covid-19 shutdowns end. Everywhere else in SF, is still populated and business is happening. I was in downtown SF a few days ago, on the west side of Van Ness which cuts through the middle, and it was crowded and busy, no parking to be found. Homes that are for sale, still sell quickly within a week or two. I'm in South SF, two homes went on the market in my neighborhood and have sales pending within a week. Same goes for what a couple of my relatives living in SF tell me. People may be leaving, but others are still coming. And a lot of Chinese are still coming in. I see mostly Asians at open houses for sale. Just because a lot of techies are telecommuting from home and not going into downtown to work does not mean they have moved away. One of my daughters and her husband have been telecommuting daily rather than go into work in SF to their techie jobs. Once the Covid-19 restrictions end, they'll be back at the job sites.
In addition to things like Nerdrotic’s podcasts, where people are reporting this, there’s my relatives in SF.
They’re ethnically Chinese.
They’re telling me that they and most of their communities are leaving.
Mind, most of them are going up to the Seattle/Vancouver area, so not the smartest idea, but they’re leaving.