I’m not saying there aren’t many factors that have led to our diminishment, but I’ve been in the city since 1988 and it’s not the progressive policies, it’s the vast income inequality and lack of money in the system that has made it unaffordable. Every mayor since Art Agnos had tried to fix
Homeless and it never happens because there’s never been money for housing. Never been money for mental health services. We are are just shuffling people from one neighborhood to another and thinking that will solve it? Meanwhile the rich play. Now we have a billionaire mayor. And his friends. 😑
We should tax the ultra-rich for sure. But if we don't diagnose the problem correctly, we can never solve it. Our problem is not lack of money. SF spends $1.2B on homelessness annually. What do we have to show for it?
Pretty much everything we don't like about SF now -be it the cost of living, homelessness+mental health+fentanyl crisis or property crime- can be traced back to decades of progressive politics.
It's not Musk or Bezos who's keeping us from building new housing, building mental health facilities or prosecuting the bippers + drug dealers. It is our elected officials who are responsible, and we have only ourselves to blame for electing them.
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