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SF reversed course on the police budget cuts the next year and has seen year over year increases, despite crime violent crime never peaking to historic highs.

https://abc7news.com/sfpd-budget-defund-the-police-department-funding/12321818/

Rent control efffects only 60% of housing and still allows for obscene increases of up to 7% per year. The entire state of California has a cap at 10%. Is LA also a shithole?

https://bungalow.com/articles/rent-control-in-san-francisco-everything-you-need-to-know

Harm reduction literally keeps used needles off the streets, preventing children from getting Hepatitis in playgrounds. You’d have to be a moron to oppose it. The city of Vancouver, a highly sought after location has had this since the 2000s. Geneva, Switzerland has had successful harm reduction since the 90s.

https://vancouver.ca/people-programs/four-pillars-drug-strategy.aspx

The issues in SF are based on three things: NIMBYism, tech worker housing demand, pandemic work from home killing downtown business

Capitalists have done everything in their power to destroy one of North America’s greatest cities and they refuse to take any of the blame.

Sorry in advance to the cities in Texas they’re all moving to now.

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Right, my point exactly! Vitalik wrote about that a year or two ago and I agree. 

The NIMBY aspect is the biggest problem. It prevents high speed rail, affordable housing (which prevents new schools), pretty much everything except for new office spaces.

Because single family homes are treated like investments instead of homes. Anything that could slow price increases is vehemently opposed by existing homeowners. It’s ridiculous.

It isn't just San Francisco - tech has had a net negative for all of Northern California, the entire landscape from SF to East Bay through the Central Valley up to the Serras has been forced to take the impact of SV

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A Texan tear is cartoonishly large and no matter where it falls from it lands on an enormous belt buckle shaped like either the state of Texas itself, the flag of Texas or the USA, or a cowboy hat identical to the one worn by the person crying 