Is San Francisco Un-Fixable? Is it worst the cost?
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- Опубликовано: 16 июл 2022
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We all have heard of San Francisco, California. We also have heard it is a nightmare of crime and homeless. The question remains What is wrong with this city and why is it this bad?
San Francisco is a historic and beautiful city. It is just a shame it has so many problems.
This video will explain why I think the city is so bad and why it hasn't been fixed.
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I think your stats on how many homeless people are on drugs or have mental problems are inaccurate. Only the homeless people in the most desperate situations get noticed. People who don't stay in shelters or live in tents don't get counted. Many homeless people live in vehicles and don't hang around other homeless people and aren't part of the stats because they're harder to find. There are plenty of homeless people with jobs or who are trying to survive on a social security check.
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I’m fairly liberal and recognize the criminal justice system has been unjust for decades. However, cities like San Francisco overcorrected this problem and now have basically decriminalized crime. You can be compassionate, but still enforce laws.
But San Francisco has been liberal controlled for way longer than decades. The dems don't care they just want your vote so they can impose high taxes so they can skim off the top while they fix nothing never trust anyone who says they're gunna raise taxes to fix things. They have more than enough already to fix it they just don't.
Maybe Bezos and Musk will chip in their fair share?? Tax Dodgers Are Killing The USA
It's the fact that liberal policy makers and voters confuse compassion with tolerance. There's nothing compassionate about enabling people to live on the street, prolong their drug dependency, and/or be left vulnerable due to mental health issues. But liberals will absolutely tolerate that.
You're part of that group that caused the problem (You're Lib) . GO fix it and then SOBER up.
I'm a Libertarian. I wish we could restore sanity and once again be able to agree or disagree with each other in civilized and constructive ways.
By the way, I agree with your point of view. Going from one extreme to another is usually not the best approach.
When tolerance degrades down to “you have the right to do whatever, no matter who or what it impacts” you have lost me.
Abusing our rights and yet demanding more, more and even more is what will bring down the US.
Agreed!
SF used to be "tolerant," open to all views. If you're even slightly conservative, you're labeled a Nazi by Bay Area people .BTW, I was born & raised in San Mateo, living there until 2000, and you couldn't pay me enough to move back to the Bay... maybe far North Bay, but not the Peninsula, East Bay, South Bay or, most especially, SF. Feel bad for friends & family still there, but they made their bed. Let them live in the filth they've created.
I agree but then San Francisco lost you in the 60s lol. Unfortunately all those enablers never seem to pay the price of their actions.
Or my favorite phrase police officers will say "live and let live", they actually say that to people in Vancouver who report drug addicts shooting up in the street. The leniency is disgusting.
If your town tolerates a certain behavior it will increase. If your town encourages that behavior it will increase exponentially. Not complicated, not political. It doesn’t matter if we are talking about littering, speeding, prostitution, crime, or homelessness.
Have you ever been to San Francisco? Hitchcock called it the Paris of the United States. Go blow your life-sized Regan doll
Give them ( homelessness) an inch , they will Sheit for a mile. Stand with your morals.
So jail them?
@@marcelrobinson Shelter them. Give them opportunities.
@@PimpMatt0 Every-
time that is attempted, it’s been blocked
I escaped 12 yrs ago. After 3 decades . I was a Community Health Outreach Worker in The Tenderloin. For years it has been ankle deep in sh*t & syringes. I weep for my beautiful City. Their Poverty Industry is alive & thriving.
Left couple years back it will never be same
@Jay Dog How do you know? It Sounds like you’re a San Fran Fan Boy
@Jay Dog So... You've been in their presence 100% since birth? How would you know where anyone has been? And what part of the city? It varies a lot. Some areas of every major city are crappy, some are good. human nature and all that.
The video does give us a good view though, and I can see how someone might want to "escape" at least the bad areas, for sure.
@Jay Dog Leftard
It is an industry you are on the money there!!!
When I was a kid, if I tried to pitch a tent and camp in a park or any other public place, the cops would put an end to it quickly. Now, "everything's OK" and people can camp, piss and shit, do drugs in the comfort of their little tents anywhere they want in these cities. Hell, over here, we even have a camp near our Sheriff station and they are powerless to do anything about it. The courts have tied their hands. People can also steal stuff and as long as it's under about $900 in California, it's a ticket. No jail.
What really cracks me up is people get on a plane and fly to Hawaii to be homeless.
We've created this problem with our over permissive courts and governments.
Why Hawaii?
One thing I remember the most about living in San Francisco is this: The tourists from other states and countries were always 10x nicer than the locals.
There are very few “locals” left, so what does that say?
Tourists are very nice I agree. The "locals" are sometimes cool.
@@Parker-Green SF people, along w/ LA, Portland & Seattle, really put the intolerance in the left. They don't want nor will even consider other views, but want to hear their views from your mouth.
Remember when the poem said "live in NorCal but leave before you get too soft?" Yeah, that doesn't apply anymore.
It’s part of the big city vibe: rude locals mad at the out of towners. Also there’s a lot to be unhappy about in California lol
@Parker G I was a petition circulator for 2 years in that city. My job was to approach strangers and persuade them to sign our petition. It literally ruined my faith in humanity for a while. Like dude I get it, a lot of people don’t like to be approached by strangers, but the amount of entitled and judgmental assholes I encountered doing that job ruined SF for me.
Same in Berkeley. Everyone in the area wants to help and support the homeless, unless they are camped next to my house. With a reasonably young demographic, the tolerance is higher. We older folks are getting cranky and less tolerant
Less tolerant for many reasons!
We over 35 types have seen more of the downside of "hey man, can I have....."
@Marie Baker Drugs or money or food or ten minutes alone with some supple body part you have etc. They all universally want.
Agree. But perhaps it's because we've seen so much more and also we know what it used to be.
To little to late in my view. This isn’t just a Bay Area problem. That same ignorant liberal thinking has caused more damage to this country than anyone can measure. Unfortunately until people stop discarding and changing things that have been proven to work albeit imperfectly and replacing them with things that sound good (Marxist & Socialist ideas) we will never reach our full potential. The world isn’t perfect. There will always be suffering because the world is culturally and religiously very diverse! Please realize and know the freedom that US citizens have been fortunate enough to enjoy are not our making. We don’t enjoy these freedoms because of our current individual thinking but because of the knowledge and thinking of our founding fathers who experience tyrannical governance. Our goal should be focused on preserving our constitutional freedoms not replacing them with socialist values which have never proven themselves to be successful.
Drive through SF a lot for work and witnessed my first smash and grab right in front of me. Feel bad for the victims but cops and DA just release them. Why report the crime? Tourists beware when visiting here. Best part for me visiting San Francisco is leaving.
When my brother-in-law was visiting us we took him on a kind of scenic loop of the city, and his reaction was, "They need to just burn this place down..." and he paused, during which time I thought he was considering how to better rebuild... "and leave it. Just get rid of it." A little harsh, but while I had an overall great experience working there for 18 months I can see his point of view.
Yup, one RUclipsr was all excited going to SF and recorded it for her audience. Had her car's window smashed and got a laptop and camera stolen worth around 5K. That's why they advised visitors not to rent a car. But of course, carry everything will you is not safe either. lol
@@joelness Your brother in law doesn't sound any better than the criminals. Straight up psychopath. He belongs with the smash and grabs degenerates.
SF gets the rep for what other cities and outlying areas perpetrate. BTW, we're pretty glad to see you go too.
I have live in CA since the late 70's, and mostly of the homeless are from other states. Weather is great all year round. Homeless camp by the beaches, great parks, city streets and humanitarian food trucks come every morning to serve them breakfast. There is plenty of jobs and programs for them, but they choose to live with No rules in the streets.
Agreed. I spend the majority of my life among the local homeless population. I throw small parties down there 3 days a week providing food, clothing, coffee, cocoa, sometimes even cigarettes, tents, sleeping bags, you name it. I have “just out of jail/rehab kits. I don’t do it for anything besides love and comradely. I moved to CA from the East coast 4 years ago and honestly, they seemed like the only humans left. The only people available for good old fashioned, phone free, family time. I absolutely love the individuals down there but the public has had enough. They are being run out and run off and soon, fun lovers like me will be irrelevant. I’m out here with them on the beach, waiting the world out to see if humanity will wake up and realize these people are the symptom of the sick, upside down system we’ve all been living in. Every time someone wants to run these people out, they are adding another bar to their own prison. Asking the same entity who created the traumatized human, to fix it.
I’ve been in that jungle, accepted as one of their own, on my own wits and accord, for years now. I cannot believe how people can’t see it. Like holy shit.
@Jay Dog Its still miles better than basically the entire rest of the country. My city in Canada has a climate that is sort of similar to San Francisco but colder and wetter, and all the homeless people from across the country come here because even though its still cold and damp, its still a million years warmer than the rest of Canada during the winter.
So if someone's choice is Wisconsin or San Francisco they're probably going to pick San Francisco even if there are warmer/dryer places. I'd probably be more comfortable being homeless in San Fran than LA just because being in the heat is just as deadly as being in the cold and San Fran is a good compromise.
@@chez5860 Sounding like an enabler.
@@lj2265 They're here for the handouts and easy access to drugs. If you are high on fentanyl, you don't even know what temp it is outside.
You might change your opinion if you see a homeless person lying on the sidewalk with no shoes on and frost all the way around them from the 28° temperature. Such is life for the homeless in Sacramento.
Worked in S.F. in the 70's, 80's and 90's and drugs, homelessness was a problem as long as I can remember. But, as you noted, it has gotten worse. Your analysis was spot on and balanced. Really appreciate the comprehensive approach you take in this video. Everyone who cares and loves San Francisco should watch this. It is still one of the most visited and great cities in this nation. Thanks.
Yes brother Ralph,I always was fascinated with The bay area.visited in the 80s & 90s but their policies come back to bite em on the ass. Its out of control now & I'm done going on trips to the land of " milk & honey"!
I worked there too in construction for an infamous electric utility company. I was at the Peoples Temple the day after the Jonestown massacre, been to the top of the Sutro Tower, supplied electricity to Embarcadero 4, Levi Plaza, Moscone Center, etc., entered an opium/gambling den in Chinatown. I've been in Pacific Heights mansions to basements of the Tenderloin. I've been to every inch of The City, and witnessed it's decay. Liberalism is a mental disorder.
@@waltlikker3988 you’re so right and it also appears to be more contagious than Covid!
Came here in '79.
Homelessness is indisputably worse.
But nobody who knew the Western Addition in its Pink Palace heyday - or Garfield Square in the Mission in that era would ever tell you that the city is a more dangerous place today.
The visitors to this YT post have the luxury of strolling those neighborhoods today - utterly oblivious of their not too distant history.
Born in Oakland and grew up in the Bay area. I lived in SF for 3 years, in the early 70's, just outside of the Tenderloin. SF has always had areas that were sketchy and you had to mind where you were. There were people living rough, but I don't remember people using drugs in the open, crapping on the sidewalk in front of everybody and just sleeping or nodding off in any random place. The tourism has nose-dived in the City and though SF used to be a great city, I will have to humbly disagree, it is not anymore.
Having lived near SF for 30 years, at this point I can only say that I wouldn't mind if the whole thing actually did fall into the Pacific Ocan.
The politicians in this city (and state) seem to be completely out of touch with reality. $0 bail for career criminals, free shoplifting for all, and cops being prosecuted for even the smallest "infractions."
I remember back in the late 1980's going to SF or "the city" as we call it on a Saturday night was a treat. Wonderful world-class restaurants, safe streets, no car break-ins, and so on. It really was very nice. My then girlfriend, now wife and I just loved that feeling of a big, spectacular world-class city. Taking a walk on Union Square at 1 AM was amazing! The view of the city skyline from Treasure Island was just incredible. It almost seemed unreal. All those lights!
Fast forward 30 years, and no sane person wants to make a trip to SF on a Saturday night these days. Well, not unless you have a death wish on your mind or some similar plans.
It is so very sad to me to witness the fall of this once great city. I can't help Californians to overcome their Stockholm Syndrome behavior. Let them keep on voting [ D ]. Charles Darwin was right.
Same experience here. I lived in Berkeley/El Cerrito 41 years and went into the city a couple of times a week. In 2017 I moved to Bangkok. On my return visits in 2017, 2018, and 2019 the stark contrast between clean orderly Bangkok and dirty dangerous San Francisco was eye opening.
Why do people keep voting for the same politicians then? 😅😅
I grew up in San Francisco. It was an amazing city I’m sad it is the way it is now. Contrary to popular belief no the whole city is not riddled with homeless. However, Those areas that are make things very difficult and bring a bad reputation to the city. Yes cost of living is insane.
Let me know where there is not this issue in SF. I would like to visit again, but it was my experience that every block had homeless, drug addict or mentally unstable person.
@@TheDenisedrake Stay away from downtown and tenderloin and you will be fine. Maybe stay away from Mission. If you visit some of the party areas where locals go to then you won’t see much.
@Jay Dog you sound hella dumb. Yes they do leave. They leave because of the cost of living or a change of scenery. You think everyone who graduated high school and goes to college from SF stay in the city?
@Jay Dog lmao. It is not safe. There are car thefts all the time. Stores get broken into all the time. The police does not do anything. Having you been to the mini flea market on Mission? Where does all of that merchandise come from? All the stuff that is stolen and the police doesn’t do anything. People get harassed in Bart all the time by homeless people.
Tesla?? Haha. Teslas aren’t even that expensive, you don’t need to be rich to have one. I don’t see why you’re denying the reality of San Francisco. Obviously if you go to Sunset or somewhere like that you won’t see a lot of crime and homeless but that’s not the reality for the rest of the city.
@ Francisco same here. It sucks now. Many people don't know the place we came up in.
I live in a strongly conservative area of California and we still have drug and homeless problems here. It’s not a red vs blue fight, it’s a common sense vs stupidity fight
Yeah but people want to create the divide and act like it only happens in blue places. Like Texas doesn’t have a homeless problem
it’s definitely a red vs blue fight bro. the reason why you have this problem in rural/conservative areas in California is because what’s going on in Sacramento, San Francisco, and LA. I live in one of the most expensive, unaffordable cities in the country, Miami, and we don’t have these problems to California’s level
@@njv1234 Laughs in Ohio
@@njv1234 or West Virginia
Actually the red areas of California are documented as sending their homeless to San Francisco and LA on one way bus tickets. It got so bad in SF that they stationed social workers at the bus terminal to intercept them. They started sending them back. Liberals at least try to help them. I don’t see that from conservatives. Nobody will convince me that the homeless in SF could have ever afforded to live here. You have to earn six figures to live here. That means they come from somewhere else. I also think they come for our glorious weather. Who wouldn’t prefer 63 year round to 100 degrees? It makes sense they would rather be in better weather.
Inspector Callahan did his best but the progressive DA's made things impossible for him
I left SF in 1973 and moved to a small Central Valley town to finish high school. SF had become very dangerous in the 70s. Kids were actually being killed by other students in violent stricken high schools. Believe it or not I felt safer in the Tenderloin (my high school was near there) then in the dangerous Hunters Point neighborhood. In the 80s and 90s the city improved and I felt pretty safe when visiting. But I also knew which areas to stay out of. But in the 2000’s something changed. Liberal government leaders just let things go. Drugs, indecency, lack of morals, and the allowance of living on the street increased dramatically. SF still is a beautiful city if you know where to go to see the beauty. Unfortunately you have to travel through the filth to get there.
The mission district is very covered with graffiti and shady people dominate the area.
I’d rather live in Tracy ca then sf. TracyIs still a short drive from the beaches in the Bay Area.
@@UmAdxXbRo I live here in Mountain House rt outside of Tracy. Me and my wife enjoy going to the city for dinner and a day out
but definitely nice to drive back home afterwards to more small town slow pace a short drive away.
I live in the Tenderloin. At Turk & Jones. There are no high schools in the Tenderloin. The nearest is the Chinese Central HS. Unless you're Asian, you won't get in there. HP isn't dangerous at all. It's people like you who claim that you were assaulted or raped or beaten in some fictional HS that makes it seem that life is rough here. Get off you pity wagon and get a F-in job you rat.
@@eightiesbabynintiesmademe you’re lucky! SF is a great place to cool off from the valley heat on a daily basis.
I grew up in the SF bay area, beautiful city, people and what's left of nature but the last 10-15 years its turned ugly and depressive, which has had a toll on the people because if your surroundings look like garbage your mentally going to feel like garbage. It's like watching a loved one loose a battle with addiction and you honestly don't notice its affect until you just leave
Ditto
I'd say this comment is pretty accurate.
maybe you should take a look at the rest of the world. is there a perfect beautiful heaven on earth somewhere? then you should definitely go there and take your nasty attitude with you I'm sure they'll be so happy to welcome you
Yeah pretty much
Not only depressing but dangerous, dirty w/ excrement & needles but expensive beyond beleif.
I lived in the South of Market - SOMA- area for about 4 years and then lived up in Bernal Heights - which is on top of a big hill - for 12 years. In SOMA there were a lot of homeless people and many of them were clearly mentally ill. I choose one woman on the street to give money to and to talk to - there was such a need I found it useful to focus on one person. Her name is Debbie she told me - she was in a wheel chair and didn’t have much use of her legs. She had a certain smell and didn’t have much in the way of teeth but she kept herself fairly clean - she had a place to stay in the night. She told me she is from Texas.
When I moved up to Bernal there were no homeless people there - no services and it was up a big hill. I still would see Debbie downtown since I worked down there.
The homeless thing got a huge start when California took the lead in shutting down mental institutions in the 60s and 70s. There is a lot of mental and emotional illness in our society - the homeless people on the streets of SF are kind of like throw-away people - society cannot accommodate them. I got sick of it - now live in Marin County just north of the city. Never see homeless people here.
Thx Bill. It's Systemic. Maybe Bezos and Musk will chip in their fair share?? Tax Dodgers Are Killing The USA
Your so right about closing or release folks from the mental institutions. That act alone created a big problem because there was nowhere for them to go. My mom lived in San Rafael. When I got out of the Army in 71 I stayed with her for a while. Back then you saw Street people but nothing compared to the way things are now. Sometimes people and governments get what they ask for. I loved being in California back then but not now.
"The homeless thing got a huge start when California took the lead in shutting down mental institutions in the 60s and 70s" - yeah, you can thank Ronald Reagan for that. Funny how Republicans forget that sort of thing.
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I think this is a unique experience for you, and it also gives you more insights into life and more growth. isn't it?
I interned in San Francisco for a summer and got a job offer. I wouldn’t trade the time I spent in SF for anything but I quickly learned I could never live there. You have to give up many things to live here as a young person if you’re making 150k or less. You likely can’t afford to park your car in a garage, you likely don’t have a dishwasher or washer and dryer in your apartment, and restaurants are extremely expensive. Even when you put aside the homeless problem these issues really lower your quality of life. With cities like Austin, Denver, Salt Lake City, and Phoenix where everything is significantly cheaper and the quality of life is higher there’s really no reason for a young person to chose SF over other growing cities.
As a second generation older native Californian, San Francisco use to be one of my favorite cities to visit. Sadly no more. Just driving through there on the way to the Redwoods was depressing. SAD it's such a gorgeous city
I visited some years ago and thought it looked old and seedy. Thats before even considering the price. You could find equally run down areas in other states where property would go begging for buyers at any price. Even back taxes. Yuck. Its attraction is illusionary.
Also a 2nd generation native Californian, heartbroken by the state of SF. Recently lived up in Mendo County for 3 years and now am leaving the West Coast altogether for an affordable retirement in Georgia. I am devastated and heartbroken by the trashing of SF. We drove down during the worst of the pandemic and it was like a war zone.💔
@@soundreflections9126 I am jealous that you are leaving. My hubby is from the midwest and said I wouldn't like the weather anywhere else than Southern California. He won't move. I remember all of the orange groves growing up and the great safe cities. Sad sad sad
California devotes an insane amount of money to the homeless situation. Problem is the gouging and fact the cash flows through an insane amount of pockets before it gets where its supposed to. Colion noir breaks it down in an episode on joe rogans podcast. I suggest watching it. Its no wonder the homeless problem is so bad in california. Its a lucrative business. Why work yourself out of a cushy job.
Maybe Bezos and Musk will chip in their fair share?? Tax Dodgers Are Killing The USA
@@christopherking9338 that has absolutely nothing to do with it. The money is there. Theres just entirely too many people with their hand in the cookie jar. There is no reason one of those little sheds they convert into a home should cost anywhere nesr 700k to build.
You are so right. It's what happens when the mafia runs the country.
I was a teenager, 1972-76, living in SF. It's a beautiful city. Lots of interesting people. An experience I'm glad I had but equally glad it's in my past.
I was a kid in Fairfield then
So cool. Wish I could travel back in time.
Yeah got out of the Army in 71. My Mom lived in San Rafael and I stayed with her for @ while. Loved the entire area back the. In 86 I lived in the avenues and that was enjoyable too. The city started going down hill in my view since Willy Brown.
@@TomBTerrific People the 50s thought it went down hill in the sixties. Life, in general, gets more complex and complicated as time goes on. Second law of thermodynamics: messy happens. If we want to roll a ball up hill, we must invest energy to it. Humans are smart, we're just slow sometimes.
When a state gets overrun with a population it really can't support it becomes a victim of its own success.
Same story can be said about cities in Texas, Florida, as well as CA & NY regardless of their politics.
It is difficult to believe that the homeless problem was relatively better before 2010. I lived in SF from 2003-2006, and homeless people were living in playgrounds in Golden Gate Park, in public restrooms, in BART stations, and who knows where else. If you walked for more than 15 minutes anywhere, you would see people passed out on the sidewalks or wandering around either mumbling or yelling and gesticulating. I remember right before we left during an unseasonably warm, sunny day going to Washington Square park in North Beach, and seeing a lot of people hanging out in the park enjoying the sun while a shirtless man ran around screaming at everyone and scaring the hell out of families who just wanted to enjoy the weather. At least the police eventually chased him off. If it’s worse now, then God help everyone who lives there.
So...we need another Dan Brown. Idiot.
My wife and I went there for vacation back around 1999. We couldn't believe how many homeless were just living EVERYWHERE. Honestly, I can't believe it could have gotten worse.
Remember when BART had to shut down the elevators and escalators at its stations because they were corroded by human urine? Man! SF is devolving, not evolving. If this is "progress", I don't want any of it! None!
@@1QKGLH My company has an auxiliary office in SF. I finally had to go there two years ago. It was dangerous and depressing at the same time. You have to drive through the ghettos to get to the business district. Those aggressive bums at the stop lights do not like to hear "no." Knowing what was in store, I drove our beater spare car, but I still got hit up for "spare change."
@@midcenturymodern9330 Wow. Time to load the windshield washer bottle with pepper spray LOL
I live in SF and most crazy city I’ll ever seen badly run 🏃♀️
Grew up near SF and will never lose my love for the city. The good is extreme, and the bad is extreme--and the middle ground is expensive. In my opinion, the biggest problem is a lack of political diversity. They have one method of managing the place and will not consider any alternatives, even if they might work better.
Bingo!
👆👆👆I agree. I live near SF.
SF will never have political diversity. Why vote differently when you get a lot of "free" stuff? (You are spot on with your analysis, btw.)
It sucks, because these mindsets spill over to neighboring cities. I'm from Sacramento so I can attest
@@mattr2626 Same here.
I was born in SF and frequently visited my dad who lived there, until he passed away in 2008. I haven't had occasion, except a theater performance now and then, to visit it since. I'll live with my happy memories of what it used to be because there doesn't seem to be any reason to visit it now. And we haven't gone to a theater performance for the past 5 years.
Well done video, Briggs!
Feel the same way about Colorado.
When I retired I frequently went to theater afternoon matinees near Union Square but I would not want to be on the streets at night in the theater district now.
Born and raised in SF, now living south on the Peninsula.
The homeless issues of today took seed during the time Art Agnos was mayor. During his term, Agnos remarked that he thought the SFPD should not be rousting the homeless out of the east end of Golden Gate Park (near the Haight for those unfamiliar with the City.). Well, the police took that to be an order and stopped enforcing vagrancy laws in that area. Naturally, what happened is that the number of homeless multiplied and, soon, the neighborhood was up in arms because petty crimes were rising, play areas were being overrun with homeless and the area was in rapid decline. Agnos then tried to backtrack, but by that time, the homeless advocacy groups had sprung up…..the beginnings of what many now call the Homeless Industrial Complex. The advocates organized what became known as Camp Agnos, a homeless encampment in Civic Center Plaza, directly across from City Hall, and quite visible from the balcony in the Mayor’s Office. Even with a decent performance during the recovery from Loma Prieta, Agnos was a one term mayor. He was replaced by former police chief Frank Jordan. Jordan was a nice man, but a horrible mayor. While Camp Agnos disbanded, homeless camps started sprouting up all around. Willie Brown took over from Jordan and that’s when funding for homeless programs exploded higher. Unfortunately, while money was poured in in the Brown, Newsom, Lee and, now, Breed administrations, there has been no improvement and no real review of how the money was spent. But rumors abound that a significant portion of the funds never make it to the street, instead being spent on advocating for more funds, for outlandish “administrative” costs and “contributions” to the coffers of the politicians shoveling out the money.
In the meantime, petty crime is absolutely out of control, as the homeless and other assorted scum know they can steal with impunity. Car break-ins are likely two to three times higher than police statistics show because people don’t even bother to report them since the cops do nothing. And City “leaders” sit back and claim their policies are compassionate while the homeless slowly (and sometimes not so slowly) kill themselves with drugs, alcohol and living in their own human waste. It’s the absolute least compassionate policy I have ever seen.
It's Systemic. Maybe Bezos and Musk will chip in their fair share?? Tax Dodgers Are Killing The USA
I lived in the Berkeley area from 1976-2017. I think you got the history just right.
You summed it up very well. Homeless Industrial Complex. San Francisco budget for 2021/2022 is $1.1 billion. Am I right?
@@martypoll So now you have chosen to leave?
@@joanna5529 Left the US 5 years ago.
Big corporations are purchasing apartments and houses in San Francisco as an investment. These corporations can charge as much as they want for rent.
And many of them are being deliberately left vacant because SF's rent control laws penalize you if you rent at reasonable rates.
I work in San Francisco, and always upset everything closes at like 6pm. It's the city that ALWAYS sleeps.
I got the notification for this as I got an ESPN notification.
Imagine my surprise when I open my phone after hearing Na-NaNa, Na-NaNa and read “WTF Is Wrong With San Francisco?”
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I am from Southern CA, in 2017 I went to SF with my wife and young kids for a GS Ceremony. It was a mess then, it is worse now. Some more memorable events were accidentally stepping in human Waste on the sidewalk, having a homeless person screaming outside our hotel (Sheraton) at 3am, and having a drugged homeless guy screaming and threatening our Girl Scouts. If I never go back to SF I will be just fine. IMHO a big problem is SF has a local and state govts that enable all the problems it has. Police cannot hold or prosecute anyone for a theft less $950. You have a now governor who supports setting up locations for people to shoot up drugs. What they should do is hold criminals accountable and work to get people off drugs but they won't because it costs money, money that they would rather spend on a 'happy' PR campaign for SF. Until SF changes it's way, it is doomed. As my friend who moved away because she could no longer afford to rent a home and business said. "The romance of the bay city is over."
Maybe Bezos and Musk will chip in their fair share?? Tax Dodgers Are Killing The USA
I personally had an overall positive experience spending 18 months up there, but there were many things I consciously overlooked, and many memories that I'd rather forget like the first time ever seeing someone sitting in their own excrement on the floor of the Embarcadero BART station. With my wife's overall experience being less positive than mine, by the time my work there was coming to an end we had a baby and a 2nd on the way, and we didn't consider looking for my next job up there, but moved back to So-Cal for the sake of the kids.
@@joelness My cousin and her husband used to live up in SF, then her husband was offered a job in the UK for a couple of years. When they came back she was shocked. Kind of the same thing, she had gotten used to living with all the problems, but when they came back it really opened their eyes to the problems and they could no longer afford to rent a place in SF. They ended up moving out of the bay area altogether, his job he could do this, but she used to write for a local magazine and was now out of touch with the downtown scene.
You’re spot on.
Take a look at who's running the city and that's all you need to know about why nothing has gotten better.
London Breed
I still love SF. And I still love California. I lived in SF from ‘95 to ‘99 and I enjoyed every minute of it; I’ve visited every year since then too.
Having said that, SF is worse than it’s ever been. It’s incredibly disheartening. What’s the solution??
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Stop voting for Progressive politicians. They come into office not wanting to commit to the wants and wishes of the people who vote for them. They come into office wanting to enforce their own beliefs and agendas. That is why San Francisco is messed up. As an example, do you really think the voters of SF want junkies to get free needles so they can shoot up their drugs?
A massive earthquake.
@@lanaj1107 With a tsunami
Maybe Bezos and Musk will chip in their fair share?? Tax Dodgers Are Killing The USA
Nuclear blasting to completely disinfect the city 🤓
I've lived in the SF bay area my whole life. I lived in SF for a couple years in the early 2000s. Not only is the homeless increasing over the decades, but now its spilling out to the surrounding cities and down the peninsula. We use to go up to the city for the day all the time... we don't anymore. Other than driving through it, we haven't spent any time up there this year. It has such a great history, so hopefully its actually getting better.
You are dead on right with the policy issues. Awesome vid.
Despite my former comment defending the choice of continuing to live here (in San Francisco) I absolutely DO agree that our policy regarding homelessness needs to CHANGE. Crime enforcement as well. Most people would probably define me as a liberal if pressed, but honestly I consider myself non-partisan and more of a realist. It’s a “free ride” straight to hell to set up a system that supports decay and degeneration. Yes, we can still be compassionate (as we should be) but being an enabler to addiction is a lose-lose for EVERYONE whether it’s on an individual or governmental level. I still love my city a lot so it hurts to see it maligned, but I’m hopeful that change is on the horizon here. Literally EVERYONE I know regardless of political or ideological orientation recognizes that this shit needs to change.
The only problem there will be some homeless advocates giving politicians a tough time if policies were to become more of a tough love type of deal.
@@Rhaspun San Francisco has made it pretty clear via voting where we stand and it’s for change. We ousted Chesa Boudin and like I said, everyone I know here has had it. We can still be compassionate in our approach and that’s always going to factor into decisions here. In conjunction with compassion we need policies to uphold civic decency and public safety.
Maybe Bezos and Musk will chip in their fair share?? Tax Dodgers Are Killing The USA
Verukasalt "Realist" pretty well describes conservative.
I have to be honest. I don't know what the solution is. I don't think it's a Republican/Democrat problem. Maybe if the Republicans and Democrats work TOGETHER for a change, something could work. As long as both parties stop being interested in lining their own pockets.
You got that about half right.
I’m a moderate myself and agree. As much as I hate saying it though in California it’s the Democrats faults all the way. I mean Idk how the Republicans would handle the state crisis and I know for a fact the Republicans are no great either when you look at states like Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, and whatnot, but California’s situation specifically has the leftists to blame all over it.
Yep. It's Systemic. Maybe Bezos and Musk will chip in their fair share?? Tax Dodgers Are Killing The USA
Certainly agree with the lining of pockets by both parties. However, Democrats legislation has run both large cities and California to the ground for over 40 years. Kinda hard for Republican to work with Democrats when their voices are shut down.
My opinion, cut all Government to a manageable level.
California has the 5th largest economy in the world and New some also has a surplus.
If only Bezos and Musk would pay their fair share in taxes, we wouldn't be having this conversation.
Everything you said is true Briggs, I've lived here since the 70's, and this must stop! Large Rehab centers need to be built outside of cities, all states must kick in for the care, and if the addicts don't want help that's fine, but they cannot live here! It's more than past due for common sense laws, so everyone is taken into consideration, not just those who choose drugs.
Why tf should I have to pay to house addicts. This is a liberal crap hole y'all get what you deserve. I live in America and leave my wallet and keys in my car. Why cuz it's a red state where people work. They don't wanna get shot acting a fool. Pretty simple stuff actually haha
Lived there (1952-1965). So glad I left.
You left right before it got extra weird.
@@WorldAccordingToBriggs yep I sure did. Just in time.
Spent a week there with my son and another family 2013 . Was great beautiful city . But wtf !! FAIL CITY LEADERS AND STATE . They want to do same to nation mow.
I work in the Tenderloin, there is someone posted on every corner in a vest with a radio. I have not seen human feces or needles in the past year, which is a first. I know the bar is LOW, but there is an appearance of improvement. However I am still driving in, and NOT talking BART. Which from what I hear, still sucks.
Please do a Portland and Seattle version of this. The PNW is being ruined by homelessness and drug dependency 💔
Drug dependency is not a bad thing. Please don't conflate "dependence" with recreational addiction. It is harmful to people who actually depend on opiates for legitimate medical reasons.
I remember the first time I visited SF I was in California for a work trip. Being from the East Coast, I was blown away by the scenery and finally getting to see the famous tourist stuff like the Fisherman's Wharf, Alcatraz and the Golden Gate. That was 2002.
I can honestly say that I will Never go back. Completely a shame. Such a waste of natural and man-made beauty. Hard to fathom how something so lovely can turn into something so devastating in such as short span of time.
I been living in SF for about a year. Homelessness is crazy in the city. I struggled with addiction and was homeless for a bit. Most homeless, especially the ones who are on drugs or alcohol are just looking for a handout and nothing else.
I could not fault your overview in any way. Been living in SF since 1985, and have seen it change in various ways, good and bad. But the past 5-7 years is the worst I have seen. You pegged it with the tents…they swoop in and clean up a block, and maybe 48 hours later they are back in the same place. Even the most liberal residents are finally fed up. I am tired of seeing homeless people take a dump on the sidewalk in front of my apartment. No modesty or self pride…just pure animal. We throw hundreds of millions of dollars every year at treating the problems , and it just gets worse. They said today a new organized tent area was being opened up, with city provided tents, that is going to cost us $200/day per tent to operate. Shoot me now…😫
I’m beginning the process of reducing my stuff and heading out of the city next year. Europe is looking really good right now!👍🤟
It is a DAMN shame what has become of San Francisco and moreover, California. I grew up there in the 70s and 80s and moved to Fremont in the mid-90s. Went to high school with then future mayor Breed. She is trying her best but this is a regional problem, not something one mayor or one city can tackle alone. I look forward to soon moving out of California. While I can’t talk crap about the state I grew up in, it sure doesn’t feel like home anymore.
I lived across the Bay in the Berkeley area from 1976-2017. The deterioration that remains large in my mind are: smash & grab car theft (happened to me 3x), homelessness, traffic, crime (not feeling safe walking the streets), and housing costs. Also, political protests, which I don’t have a problem with, inevitably became violent as anarchists high jacked them. In hindsight I realize the BART train system is dirty and overpriced. It has become a city of extremes though as there are some really good amenities to living there. The politics can be annoying and I am grateful to have missed the full fruition of progressivism (and wokenness?). In my case, after 41 years, I just got bored of the region and now I live in Bangkok, Thailand.
@Big Dick Black I was thinking that it is a great place to live. Beautiful country. Wonderful people. Tropical climate. Bangkok is a modern vibrant city. City or country I feel much safer here than the US and I am not alone in that assessment. Of course Thailand has a much lower cost of living. Thailand had much better policies to respond to the Covid pandemic than the US. I am so happy to have been here than there. I find it much more pleasant to live in a non-confrontational Buddhist culture than the tumultuous US culture of recent years. Corruption is a problem here in general but I have never encountered it. It may require putting some distance from the US (8000 miles) to truly appreciate that there are other great places to live. I am retired and enjoying life and . . . really . . . your are going to boast about the US after the last five years ? LOL 😂 Get your head out of Wikipedia and travel a little.
Boy you really got the he'll outta dodge!
Will Bangkok survive abrupt climate change? Or will it become too hot? I moved to Israel and the temperature here is lower than most of the US during summer. Truly bizarre how abrupt climate change affects different places. We had the coldest March since the 1940’s and we’ve been below average on temperatures, while Europe is on fire and half of America is in a extreme drought. I lived in the Bay Area for 7years, and the greed of the landlords plus the fires 🔥 turning the orange for days and blocking the sun, I just thought, “time to go.” But I really miss it. The Bay Area, despite its problems, is the most wonderful place I’ve ever lived
@@jasonnarayan7759 Bangkok is one of those low lying cities vulnerable to sea levels increases but I am 66 years old and won’t be around to see it.
@@martypoll unless you have stage four cancer, you will be around to see it because it’s going to happen within five years
I left Cole Valley for the ranch 13 years ago after being robbed for the third time by a certain element and the sense that the quality of life was going to continue to deteriorate. Sad to say, I was right. Life is so good here on the ranch.
you don't miss the Haight or Victorians?
@@arthurfleck8934 Nope.
I liked this. This was interesting and slightly different compared to some of your other typical stuff but gives some interesting insight on some current issues in well known cities. I would love to see you make some more videos on different cities whether it’s like Baltimore, Camden/Newark (NJ native), etc. just covering how some cities are addressing current issues and how they may be improving
It is not improving in NJ. It is being shifted.
Can confirm the city has become lawlessness. Food prices are insane. $25 for a mediocre sandwich or meal. Outrageous taxes with nothing to show for it except us buying crack pipes for addicts and free Healthcare for illegal immigrants. Strictest gun laws yet every criminal is strapped and hearing shootouts is common. Work trucks and windows get smashed for a screwdriver or radio. Goodluck to this place, It was once iconic.
Leftist dumbocrats
What's wrong with giving free healthcare to undocumented immigrants? That's the problem with you conservatives, you'd rather just let people less fortunate then you to die or suffer because you look down on the poor from your ivory towers.
Lol...25??? Clearly you're just a reptad unpatriotic hater...!!✌
The problem is those who run the City are the Have and the rest of us are the Have Nots. The Haves live in beautiful neighborhoods: Pacific Heights, Presidio Heights, Presidio Terrace and the like. Their neighborhoods are beautiful, pristine and wonderful. They have NO CLUE how bad it is in other areas. There are AMAZINGLY BEAUTIFUL parts of SF. When people who don't know jack about San Francisco say the whole city sucks, I shake my head, because, no it doesn't. But some parts do. Housing and rent here is expensive. I make a pretty good living but I'm not rich, so therefore, I am a Have Not. I live in what used to be an OK neighborhood. Until the Covid Shutdown. Then all things went to hell. Our "lovely" mayor, London Breed, thought doing ABSOLUTELY NOTHING about the homeless (bums), allowing them to put up their tents everywhere was just fine. So, thousands of homeless from across the country immigrated here. Add to that all the new drug dealers from the porous borders and well, the neighborhoods that were once not bad, are really bad now. The Haves neighborhoods are still just fine, so they think everything is Okey Dokey. When we try to tell them how bad things are, they ignore it. I have no choice but live where I live. I will move in two years, because it's not going to get better anytime in the near future and I'm tired of it. If you are rich, it's a great place. If not, it's frustrating. PS: The Walgreens thing has NOTHING to do with SF, that was a California STATE LAW - so do a video on What's Wrong with California. LOL!
It is interesting that Briggs is not replying to you as he has others with his cell for further conversation...I am stunned to see that he appears to be simply perpetuating a particular narrative rather than speaking to locals and natives who speak to reality rather than narrative.
Thanks for the nuanced and informative video, Briggs.
Thank you for watching
My parents often took us to the city of San Francisco and it was magical and beautiful. Last time I was there was over 20 years ago and it broke my heart even then. Your pictures made me very sad and mad. The politics and politicians took a once beautiful magical city and made it a cesspool
I live in the Tenderloin and it's definitely very out there right in your face. Central Americans that work for some Mexican drug operator in exchange for housing and some money will literally just freely sale narcotics to the junkies who then do it in front of everyone. I seen many vagrants just get their government money at McAllister and Market St. They'll be there waiting in a long line and the drug peddler will be there just waiting near a corner to sale.
If you want a real live experience of this , I'd advise to go to Hyde St between Ellis St and Eddy St within the Tenderloin. You'll be amazed of what you see, just plain impunity for petty criminals. Cops are there in plain sight while all this petty crime is happening. The only minimum thing that these cops will probably do is watch out maybe for any physical violence and maybe just move out some vagrants in front of a business from time to time.
What's crazy is that this area is still a little more better for me than an another area of the Tenderloin where I use to live. I used to live on This apartment building located on an alley known as Ada Court .Since my unit was on the first level facing the alley I had to at times move the vagrants. They will usually be compliant but at times I had to force them out once things got out of hand. The fucken cops of course would be unreliable. If you were to call them, they'd take their sweet lengthy time to arrive and the vagrants knew this, so you had to make your own choices so to speak.
My sister sometimes would tell me why do I engage, and I'd tell her, "you don't do anything about it, and soon you'll have a full permanent infestation of junkies camping or living in front of you "
Now that it has been about two months since I left such place, my sister who passed there while driving told me she saw a large group of homeless never seen while we lived there. "That's exactly what I meant that was going to happen" I responded to her.
Let's see if District Attorney Brooke Jenkins has the "pantalones" unlike Chesa Boudin to do something.
One thing for sure to have this not be of a great problem , they'll have to enforce things and not play around tolerating petty crime. It's simple as that. Instead of saying "these homeless have their rights" what about considering our rights as hard working people,why should we have to live tolerating the extreme unsanitary conditions and face the frequent petty crime? "
They aren't really helping them by just given them money but actually enabling them more towards their bad habits that doen't just affect them, but the community too. If it would be up to me, I'd fucken have them picked up Mexican style and then have them work for themselves in the distanced away rural areas.
If they chose not to work, then that's what they chose. Let them rot from there own willing poor choices. We all have choices and it's up to us to make the best out of it.
Where should I start?
Heartbreaking. I used to enjoy trips to the city. We would walk all over town or catch the Muni. Last time I visited was in 2010. A putrid smelling person of the streets who was wielding a sword hopped on the Muni car I was riding, he refused to get off and scared the bejeezus out of everyone. Sad to think it’s become much worse since then.
Hope someone can turn things around for the city and all those people who need help.
I'm a San Fran native. I am 60 years old this year. I've grown up in S. F thru the years. I loved it in the 80 s went to many discos, met people from all over the world. I also was a member of Glide church, where I knew Cecil Williams was doing something daily about the homeless. He built 2 skyscrapers behind his church to house individuals and families.
I remember before the pandemic folks were paying their rents on time and still being evicted. It was and still is about GREED
Yep. It's Systemic. Maybe Bezos and Musk will chip in their fair share?? Tax Dodgers Are Killing The USA
Thank you. 2nd generation NorCal native here, wishing this video had been informed by us...sigh.
Maybe go after the CAUSE, rather than the SYMPTOMS!!!
It's Systemic. Tax Dodgers Are Killing The USA!! Maybe Bezos and Musk will chip in their fair share??
Progressive politics......it really is that simple...
Totally agree. Unfortunately I live here 💩
Thankfully some progressives politicians were recalled recently there. School board and the DA.
They're spreading that nonsense all over the country. My rent went from 850 to now 1700 in less than 5 years. (I live in vegas)
@Big Dick Black how so? Educate us.
Regressive politics
You nailed it Briggs. Bad policy. Now what we need to clean this mess up is a little Tough Love.
I look around and see a beauty, my hubby looks around and sees poop, homeless, druggies and such. 😂 and this is while we walk together 😂
Saying that it's "better" by going back to mid 2010s level of homelessness isn't really saying much.
San Fran is fine honestly, it's the same as any big city with big city problems.
Before you heal someone, ask him if he's willing to give up the things that make him sick. ― Hippocrates 370 BC
I ride my bike thru this city. A pile of little blue glass nuggets mean that a car window was broken. Yesterday I was on Fulton street near Golden Gate Park. I passed a trio of glass nuggets. That is three cars in a row that got smashed within a day.
I used to go to the Sunday farmers market at the Ferry Bldg. The whole Embarcadero would be littered with broken car window glass from the weekend.
Well if it seems bad now, wait in the future and see what conditions are like. With illegal immigration out of hand we will be a third world country within the next 20-30 years. Many of the cities mentioned have apparently just given up and let the situation go on for many years and now we are at a point of apparent no return. The United States at one time had laws and rules to abide by, those days are gone so it's only going to get worse and one day we will implode and you can write this country off. Politicians today could care less about conditions as they are all wealthy and don't have to deal with it. SAD our country is headed down so fast.
San Francisco will always be my favorite city. In 2017 and 2018, I worked in SF as a teacher and it was an incredible experience. The area I worked in was dangerous at night - but fairly safe during the day. I absolutely loved my colleagues, students and the diverse culture of this city. I first lived in the Bay area in 1972 - and from that time on, nothing else compared. It is a thrilling city - with amazing museums and theaters I really believe that it will come back to it's magnificence someday - the policies there have made it impossible for most businesses to survive. Our society is not set up for homeless encampments - the waste alone contaminates public access areas. Mental health and addiction are the primary issues there.
There are no strangers in this world, but there is no time to meet, what do you think?
You love him so much? Voting for conservatives. That is the only chance you have has Democrats will slowly decay your beautiful city
I use to go to SF every weekend...but stopped cause it is bad...really bad! It was really a beautiful city, but now it lost it's charm.
I lived in S.F in the mid 90's. A lot of homeless also came because of free clinics etc. In many states homeless were just put on busses and transported to S.F.
After living in the city and working in the Tenderloin nothing in the whole wide world can shock me anymore. It has been a good teaching for life.
Thank you for this video. A ton of information with an objective approach. Much appreciated.
I visited SF in 1979 before my husband & I went to Navy Base Yokosuka Japan. It was beautiful. Many folks from SF & Portland, OR moved to my area in early 2000 siting the deteriorating cities from drugs & crime.
I have a relative in San Diego who said the homeless sit. there is terrible citing homeless men naked urinating just on the other side of the fence around his home. Called the police but they said they could do nothing, they have rights!?! He has two young children. He told the police if they didn’t take care of the situation he would, they said if he did they would arrest him. So he left the area. Said it’s a ridiculous situation in California.
Funny how you mentioned Soylent Green. Some Films seem to be a prophecy of things to come. Like the film “Network”.
Maybe you should do a video about Lake Mead. Las Vegas & surrounding area is on borrowed time with water, yes there is the drought but the population explosion in Nevada & AZ definitely has a lot to do with the water shortage at man made Lake Mead, after all when built Las Vegas was just a place to gamble. I don’t think the folks who built it would think so many folks would make it a full time residence. After all it is a desert.
Southern Nevada including Las Vegas uses a very small percentage of the water from Lake Mead.
@@TomBTerrific Really? Hmmmm. Heard Las Vegas gets 90% of there water from Lake mead not including the amount of electricity it uses. R U a Bot?
I actually heard the same thing. I watched a guy who used to be a fishing channel talk about how LA is sucking it all up. Also, bots aren’t magic, that’s not a bot. You also probably shouldn’t use what I’m going to assume is your real name if you’re going to comment either, only the tech illiterate do that. It’s dangerous.
This is an interesting new series, I'd love to see more
Thank you
I literally recommend this video in your comment section like a few days ago thank you so much it’s crazy there 🙏
Thank you
I believe it really started in Ernest in the middle 60s during the counter Culture
I knew a guy who aspired to live on the streets of San Francisco as he put it, "gutter punk". He left a job where he was making 25% more than the cost of living to go live as gutter punk on the streets of San Francisco. Never heard anything about him again. I am still dumbfounded.
Sounds like a dumbass
I grew up in the Bay Area and lived with my parents in San Francisco. It definitely has gone downhill since the 1970s. In the early 1980s my father purchased a condominium at the Mark Hopkins Hotel, then sold it. He could never have done that since. It's too expensive to live there, even if you have a high tech job. And the homeless situation has got worse. And now they have a mayor named London Breed (?!)
yup. which is why there is also a huge traffic problem as well. people driving from hours away to get to the bay area to work causes major traffic jam in the morning and major traffic jams out in the evening
London Breed is actually an improvement over overly slick Gov. Gruesome.
Briggs,
I can easily answer your question about the homeless in San Francisco.
I was born there in the 60’s. Moved away but returned in the 80’s.
This was the time that the homeless problem began to multiply.
After a increase in the population of the homeless the officials began to question the homeless people.
The answer will shock you.
Others States (e.g. Wisconsin, Michigan) were putting their homeless people on buses, trains and shipping them one way to San Francisco.
A very large percentage of these people are from another state.
There is no law against this practice other than good moral sense of those officials from the other States.
California is now a homeless dumping ground for the other States.
Oscar G.
Yes, dumping is not cool.
On the other hand, if you operate a dump...
Facts, I've spoken with many folks from other states that come here to be homeless. This video is on point.
EXACTLY. I saw this with my own eyes at the Port Authority Terminal in NYC.
I grew up in SF. There is no sugarcoating it. My neighborhood went from a family-oriented community to one under siege. It is a failed city.
Elect better politician, when you elect someone to the office, don't ask what he can do for me, ask how he/she can improve the state.
The dems rig the elections.
One weird thing I’ve noticed about San Francisco is that’s there’s almost no kids. Everyone who lives there is a tech bro or part of a DINK couple
It used to be different way back in the day.
A lot of people don’t want to raise kids there.
@@mikewatson497 most can’t afford to even if they wanted to
Even the wokest SJW Noe Valley Liberal couple will decamp to Sonoma the moment their first kid turns 4.
Who would bring babies into this city. I've always called it the childless city. Those with babies live on Noe Valley.
I moved from London to California 4 years ago. I visited Tender Loin SF and I was shocked! Then I visited skid row in LA, I almost went back to the UK.
one of the main problems is they elect terrible people
This is a great commentary on the woes that the "city by the bay" is experiencing. I was born and raised in that area and lived there since the mid 90's. Specifically, the east Bay Area. We used to go over there to SF quite frequently in the 70's and 80's. It was kind of fun to go over there and see how life in a big city goes. Sure, there were always the weirdos over there and that's what we used to think coming from a smaller town in the East Bay. It was culture shock for us kids at first, but we learned to accept the way it was over there. I haven't lived in the Bay Area for almost 25 years, but, yes, I've heard SF is not the place it once was. Kind of a shame, actually, for a place as beautiful and unique as it is.
this happens in every major city in the US!! this video brings a very simple reason why S.Francisco has this problem, but this is simply not true, the problem is the US system, no mental ill facility, too expansive healthcare"70% of Americans dont visite a doctor because of the cost", no social network and much more. Europe and other developed nations faced the same restriction under Covid, but only in the US you saw all this evictions, absolute no help from the government!! your system is doomed to fall!
@@Ezekiel903 No *hit Sherlock, all things fail after a certain time. Everything comes to an end sooner or later and it doesn't matter where you are. Let's just hope that things don't fail too soon, or the hurt from those failures is too deep. And you know what else, we as a species are very adaptable, so I really don't think the pain is going to be too severe. We, as the human race are always evolving or devolving, if you're a "glass half empty" type of individual. So, if you don't know this, I'd like to personally welcome you to the human race. Get a grip with it. Come on, don't be so negative, look at the bright side. You're making the wrinkles on my face more noticeable.
I feel you are special
It’s PEOPLE!!!!
(From Soylent Green)
I worked in The City for nine years, though I didn't reside within city limits. So sad to see this beautiful city going downhill so to speak. The Tenderloin and Hunter's Point back in the day were always kind of dicey, but I rarely felt unsafe. Eye opener of a video.
In 2017 I flew out to the Bay Area to see my son who lives in the East Bay and to visit a long time friend who had a heart and kidney transplant performed at the hospital at SFU. My son and I parked the rental car after a lengthy search and walked to the hospital. After our visit we returned to a car with a broken out window. The only thing in the car was a sweatshirt my son had placed in the back seat. Called the cops and they basically said make a claim with your insurance company.
So here, you need to pay attention to insurance for your car windows, don't you?
They need a special building where people who want to sleep forever...can be assisted to do so.🧐...Pretty sure a lot of homeless, mentally unstable, chronically diseased people would go there.
Hi from the UK. My home city of Brighton is perhaps the nearest equivalent we have to a San Francisco on a much smaller scale. Artsy, bohemian and a little freaky. There are similar problems here perhaps caused by the overly tolerant approach of local government and an under strength police force. The drug problem, homelessness and the rise in property crime have not made Brighton a particularly dangerous place but one that is less pleasant to live in. Also it has a high cost of living and low local wages. I visited San Francisco back in the 1980's and thought it was a great city, sad to see that it now has so many issues.
I was there in 1991 and liked it very much.
@@imd1b4u Good comment, you must have a sunny outlook on life! 👍
Gavin Newsom was mayor of San Francisco from 2004 - 2011. A lot of the decline seen in the city occurred under his watch and as a result of his policies.
The homeless have been a problem since the 1980’s when I moved there. It’s a bigger problem now but has been a top campaign issue long before Newsom.
Visited SF just last month, June 2022. I stayed at a very basic old hotel on Market Street right near 14th St. I love that area since you can walk to just about everything. I walked to the Castro, Ashbury & Haight, downtown and up the steps to Coit Tower, north west to the MOMA and elsewhere. What I found was that Market St was almost completely free of homeless except by City Hall. I was pleasantly surprised after seeing countless videos on RUclips (looking at you Nick Johnson) that slammed SF constantly. Now, when I walked down Mission Street, I saw where the city had relocated the homeless. It was pretty bad. Saw a few hanging around the Castro begging and a few just asleep on the sidewalks here and there but nothing like Skid Row in LA or the TL. Will be going back soon - the weather is simply amazing in the summer time.
Homelessness, drugs, car break ins, etc.
Forced rehab would be a good start. I have no solution for the mental illness. Can’t force someone to take their meds.
I agree.
"Can't force someone to take their meds", is my tired old refrain. You can't. I'd love to see forced rehab, but, again, you can't. The people that need both, forced meds and forced rehab, have rights and those rights seem to surpass the rest of society. On a much smaller scale than SF, my nearest city here in Ont., Canada, has quite a problem with homeless and homeless with addictions/mental health problems, despite the cold winters. It enrages me that emergency services and tax dollars are wasted multi times a day, every day, with "saving" overdoses, yet children and adults with special needs, seniors in LTC, are left in the dust.
The vast majority of “mental illness” is brought on by illicit drug use.
Most of Walgreens closed down due to rampant thefts. The remaining one opened, they have cops watching the store. Just horrible 😞 . Signs all over to not leave any stuff in your car or say goodbye to your belongings 🤬. Tourists getting mugged. Bart trains becomes the new BART HOTELS to crazy violent homeless.🤯
Thx for the video - I was born in SF, lived there until my folks moved to the burbs, now live in the bay area. The changes have been astounding. It is so filthy, when i was a kid everyone took the bus. business men took the bus or even the cable car to work, and even all the kids in the neighborhood would take the buses to school. Now the traffic is bad, the drug use is out in the open, stores are closing because of constant shoplifting. Friends tell me cars are broken into just so homeless people have someplace warm to go to use their drugs. Miss the city of my youth.
I lived in the San Francisco Bay area for almost 20 years. I left about 15 years ago for other reasons, but I would have been gone in a few years anyway b3cause of the cost of living and crime. I loved the Bay area when I lived there, but I hate to even visit these days. It has fallen so far.
Yes, drugs & mental issues are an issue but it's amazing how few folks don't put together the insane cost of living as being the MAIN contributor to the homeless situation. Guess it's just easier to write people off if they're all labeled druggies & crazies.
Okay, you want the LONG list of reasons of what's going on in San Francisco?
Homelessness is one of the hub issues-and it has a lot of spokes. These spokes are-
*Relatively mild climate, so you don't have a lot of attrition of the homeless.
*Lots of benefits, relatively speaking. As long as you're willing to live frugally, you can do relatively well on the streets.
*The closure of the mental health system unless you're "biting people like a dog" crazy. So you have a lot of people that are mentally ill that need to be in long-term care of some kind...that aren't. Which leads to...
*There's been some conspiracy theories/rumors (I haven't found anything reputable, but I just keep hearing stories) that you have some states that will give their mentally ill a bus ticket, enough medication to make it to San Francisco or New York, and just...dump them there. Which helps to improve their stats.
*Drugs, again. Due to a number of factors, drugs that can blow your brains out (i.e. fentynal-laced cocaine and heroin, the pot that has THC levels that are SCARY high, etc, etc, etc) are much more common. This means that you have a lot of people that are OUT of their heads and will never get back in them again.
*Failure to enforce the few vagrancy laws that there are. The encampments are getting common, and often the only reason any of them get cleaned out is if something goes bad, like one in Oakland under the freeway and they had a major fire. Might have dropped the freeway due to heat damage.
And then, we get into law enforcement. The pro-active approaches that were able to get New York under control and fix a lot of San Francisco are going to show up on RUclips and TikTok and be screamed at as every nasty thing possible. It'll show up on CNN and all of the usual Caring And Concerned People will claim that this is racism. They had a Soros-funded DA (Bourdin) that wouldn't prosecute any cases, wouldn't bust dealers, wouldn't deal with the roving crews of people that would clean out stores by shoplifting, wouldn't bust violent illegal immigrants and have them deported, was more concerned about things that weren't his job...
How bad was it? San Francisco had a recall election and booted his butt out. When *San Francisco* decides to boot your butt out...
Housing has always been an issue in California, and the Bay Area in particular. There's a LOT of reasons, not the least of which is just how much it costs in terms of getting all of your ducks in the row, to build anything. It's entirely possible, according to one builder I talked with years ago, that you could go to four different agencies in the same city and county, for the exact same approval, and have to do the exact same process four times and pay four different sets of fees to build a building. And those costs get passed on to the buyers and renters, because the builder has to pay their loans off. There's only so much space that is reasonably viable.
And, the State of California is being run by idiots who have no real counter-balance to deal with their stupid ideas. (Important lesson-having a party super-majority in your government is *bad*, no matter which party it is and it doesn't help that they're gerrymandering districts to ensure a permanent super-majority.) And a huge number of people coming in to chase the tech boom money, and had the disposable income to pay rents that are still cheaper than most places down the Peninsula.
EDIT-Got the DA's name wrong. My bad. Fixed!
I really appreciate the effort you put into this explanation and the list. I think you're probably mostly right. The part that I have a hard time getting on-board about is the building situation. I mean, really, from a metro-area perspective this building stuff should be a non-issue. It hardly matters if a new building is placed in SF proper or in Oakland or anywhere, as long as it is within reach of BART. This is just one big metro area. And sure, maybe SF downtown is kind of like the Manhattan of NYC, so there's some extra prestige. But it's hard to argue that the SF Bay Area as a whole has too little space to build. Right?
@@RandalKoene It's a mixture of issues. The biggest ones are infrastructure and earthquakes. There isn't any real space left over in San Francisco or most of the "easy to access" spots in the Bay Area to put a lot of housing or transit options in. BART is not a subway like the New York Subway but more of a small commuter rail line, and people need to think of that accordingly. Expanding BART would be massively expensive, and a lot of of the core infrastructure is nearly 40+ years old at this point and needs major renovations and/or replacement. The State Of California HATES gas cars, and is trying to get rid of them...but they haven't offered up a viable alternative yet.
And, building very densely gets into the issues of earthquakes. I lived through Loma Prieta and trust me they aren't a joke. The cost of building dense, earthquake-proof housing is not cheap...and that adds to the other costs.
@@project9701 Granted, yeah, earthquakes are an issue. Although, Tokyo seems to handle it. I'm not sure that BART being currently small is such a valid point for long-term city planning. Every subway is expensive to extend (even if large parts of it are not subterranean). California actually benefited from a pretty big budget surplus recent years. Some of that should be used to prepare for future infrastructure needs, including revamping BART and adding some tendrils there. At least BART sort-of-kind-of reaches down to San Jose now. I guess it'll never cross the Golden Gate due to resistance by Marin residents. Still, I think there is a serious possibility to put in some more BART into neighborhoods not on the main line. There'll be a lot of NIMBY complaints, of course, but it's so much faster than MUNI or its Peninsula and East Bay equivalents.
God fair report, Briggs. Back in the 1970s when I was stationed in your state of Oregon, the line we were given was Oregon was where they sent people too weird for San Francisco. Like you, I don't claim sweeping generalizations. But, hey, they are out there. Any response?
I remember back in the 70’s most of the city was spotless well maintained and I always felt safe walking around even at night. Saw a concert there in 2019 and I witnessed a shooting right outside the venue after the show let out. Frightening experience.
P O L I C Y ! Thank you, Briggs. Probably why, while a nationwide issue, it is most prevalent cities/states with progressive policies. 🤔
Exactly. When he said the word “policy” we were actually shocked. It is policy…who has been in charge of SF during this time? Whose POLICIES exacerbated the problems. No one wants to talk about it except to say in the states the homeless come from their “do drugs on the street, poop on the street, and get a paycheck from the state” lifestyles weren’t ok by those states’/cities’ “policy”. 2+2 still = 4.
Yep. It's Systemic. Tax Dodgers Are Killing The USA. Maybe Bezos and Musk will chip in their fair share??
It was a conservative’s (Reagan’s) policies that created the current-day homeless crisis in America
Yeah. How about those “progressive policies” in those healthy, hard working and wealthy paces in KY, WV, MS, AL, etc ?
@@lizhoward9754 not aware of any policies in those states you mentioned that allow taking up $1000 of goods from a store without legal consequences, and although there is certainly poverty and homelessness in those areas, I am also not aware of major encampments where public defecation on the sidewalks, and open drug use is tolerated. Please let me know some examples you have found.
I have never been and I never want to go! Thanks for the video Briggs!
Thanks for watching
Most of these people are from out of state. Officials from different cities and states are bringing them here, they tell them that they'll get the help they need, that the weather is a lot better.
They round them up, throw them in busses and dump them in different cities in California, even without their consent.
Exactly. I witnessed this happening at Port Authority Terminal in NYC.