[Bigg Red]

I am going to go slightly off-topic here, so please forgive me.

I have never vistied SF, but I understand it is a beautiful city. From what I have heard and read, though, there are parts of it, particularly on the water, that are infested with bums who sleep, urinate, and defecate right out on the street.

Recently, I was wondering why a city would allow itself to become so unattractive. Surely, I thought, there are many desireable waterfront homes and businesses whose value is plummeting because these homeless people are driving everyone away. Then, I had a flash of insight. Could it be that there are people in power with a vested interest in snapping up some wonderful real estate at bargain prices. Buy it cheap, clean up the area, and then sell at an enormous profit.

I think someone should look into this. The politicians in power would be too smart to leave a paper trail on this, but I’ll bet they have surrogates or they have friends willing to give them a big reward.

[Lurker]

It's actually far less complicated than that.

SF, while a beautiful city, is infested with howling, barking, slobbering, gibbering, lunatic moonbat liberals who are now reaping what they've sown since 1968.

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[Jolla]

There is very little waterfront that is run down. In the south of the city it is very heavy minorities and although some parts have been renovated, those properties did not sell well, people even in gated communities are not going to live there.
The bum situation is no worse (I have lived in La Jolla and San Francisco along the beach) in So Cal as it is in Nor Cal.

[Mr. Jeeves]

From what I have heard and read, though, there are parts of it, particularly on the water, that are infested with bums who sleep, urinate, and defecate right out on the street.

San Francisco's dirtiest areas are actually away from the waterfront - the Market Street corridor, the Tenderloin, and other heavily bum-infested zones are inland a bit. So tourists who stick near the still relatively clean and new waterfront areas may never become fully aware of the problem.

It's really about the Leftists on the Board of Supervisors getting a two-for-one deal - encouraging nationwide bum immigration to make a statement about the evils of global capitalism, then shaking down local corporations for ever-greater tax revenues and donations to deal with the problem the Board has created.