Send most of the homeless to those dark, empty castles.
Of course, then the Mayor would need to budget an on call clean up crew, armed security force and indoor health clinic or should I say, de-tox clinic.
Wistling past the graveyard. What is really required is for the city to clean itself up. That would require tough policing, something I can't see happening until things get a lot worse.
Approx. 30 years ago I worked in downtown S.F., and frankly the seeds of the “doom loop” go back a lot further than many realize. In a lot of ways, this has been a long-term decline that was largely “papered over” by a tech/startup boom that have supplied a steady stream of boom/bust office tenants for the past 25 years.
Allow me to explain... ~30 years ago, downtown S.F. was the headquarters of a half-dozen or so really big, traditional companies that each employed thousands to tens of thousands of workers: Chevron (aka Standard Oil), Wells Fargo, Bank of America, Pacific Telephone, Pacific Gas & Electric, Charles Schwab. Bechtel. Through various mergers and moves, every single one of those companies’ headquarters eventually moved out of S.F., with maybe 80-90% of their erstwhile workforce gone. Yes, the Twitters and Ubers and Airbnbs came in and hundreds of lesser imitators rolled in, but it wasn’t the same thing. The tech companies and their workers come and go. It’s a totally different thing than the Chevrons and Wells Fargos that had the same boatloads of people working there for 20 or 30 years. We can talk about the crime and the drugs and all that stuff has hurt, but the fact is that SF cast its lot with a startup-tech industry that has proven unreliable over the long term.
The commercial death spiral will continue. They have nothing to inspire revitalization. Investment opportunities? Ha! Only cheap rubble for concrete crush as roadfill.
And who wants to haul crush hundreds of miles to an active economy?š
PR firms 1st mistake, use The NY Times to āsellā SF to people who could possible help. Liberals are the problem, not the solutionā¦.. Of course I donāt know any conservatives who would move thereā¦..
“”At some point, someone will find it cheap enough to sign a lease for a startup””
The only ‘startup’ that has any chance of succeeding would be Pooper Scoopers, Inc. No one else wants to ‘invest’ any $$$ in that cesspool.
Detroit was once a great city. Now the forest is slowly returning.
Somebody in that leftist city government will soon get the bright idea to convert all that office space to homeless living quarters. It’ll be great. Then they could have all the sh!tters indoors in the hallways. It couldn’t happen to a more deserving city.
Move the UN there.
"The new levy will charge landlords $250 per linear foot of street frontage if the owner (or tenant) keeps it unoccupied for more than 182 consecutive days. The fee goes up to $500 in 2023 and $1,000 in subsequent years."
AND...to be sure they catch the scallywags...vacant store owners must REGISTER their vacant stores with the city:
Vacant San Francisco’s office space as the homeless call them condo’s.
Perfect spot to resettle all illegal entrants. Put a wall around the city and let them govern themselves, as a separate US entity from California.
Only way is to vote out all democrats in all offices.