It's really laughable to read comments here about San Francisco being some failed city because it...hasn't recovered from Covid and its police department/DA refuse to do anything about the crazy homeless people? Come on...you guys need to get out and see more of this country and get some perspective. Yes, the entire Bay Area has an affordability problem, but again, the whole reason that's a problem is because
too many people want to live there. On the whole, San Francisco is a wildly successful city, and the Bay Area is a wildly successful and prosperous region.
I think some of you guys take growth for granted. Look at places where the growth machine ended long ago.
This area was, at one time, a vibrant and prosperous neighborhood in Cincinnati before the city started shrinking and declining for ~60 years. Can you imagine a street in the Mission or any other SF neighborhood looking like this? That's what happens when cities actually decline. And Detroit is not some outlier, as has been claimed in this thread. The level of destruction and decline might be most extreme there, but you can find similar scenes in Cleveland, Chicago, St. Louis, Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati....many, many cities. We're not talking about *gasp* the horrors of needing to live with roommates or a crazed junky smashing out BMW windows. We're talking real poverty and real decline. As Iheartthed said, SF has rich city problems.