I have long believed that the power balance in San Francisco politics would not flip Moderate until there is a significant loss in residential real estate.

This is now underway.

Residential values are down 17% from the peak, compared to 3% nationwide.

hoover.org/research/san-f… Median sale prices in San Francisco have dropped $220,000 from a year ago.

Think about that for a moment... The average San Francisco homebuyer from last year is facing a loss of a quarter of a million dollars.

That is a life-changing loss for most.

dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…

The writers guild is striking outside ABC.

I asked the woman at the table what they were asking for and she said she didn't know. Told me to check the website.

She works for the Union. She gave me this paper. Still unclear what they are asking for.

I just analyzed drug overdose deaths in San Francisco before & during the operation of our safe injection site from January to November of 2022.

In 7 out of 11 months it was open, *more* people died than during the same month the previous year. For those who would like to double-check my analysis -- here is the Google Spreadsheet.

I entered the data manually from the PDFs posted on this site:

sf.gov/departments/ci…

docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…

The San Francisco homeless population created $20 million worth of damage to hotels during pandemic.

*This is why people in SF are scared*

It isn’t about homicides. It’s about untreated mentally ill people high on meth who can be quite destructive when not supervised.

https://twitter.com/NickBergSF/status/1648891889733738497

Our local papers keep pushing the “crime is down” narrative.

With all due respect, *nobody* cares if homicides are lower now than in 1990.

What they are about is how they feel walking to the local park with their toddler.

Leftist Twitter proved yesterday that they are more outraged by my asking a philosophical question about the death penalty than the actual crimes going on in San Francisco.

*Noted*. I saw hundreds of these yesterday.

As a reminder, I was asking a theoretical question. I studied philosophy in college.

I was asking about the morality of the death penalty. I do not advocate for it.

These people, however...

I walk around San Francisco 6 miles a day and speak with homeless people often.

Most will die from an overdose soon if we don’t make changes to our policies.

Today I was absolutely eviscerated by the hard left.

But it did not hurt.

I know what I am fighting for is saving… This is not about politics. This is about results. Facts do not care about your feelings.

You may *feel* that it's wrong to put a drug dealer in jail. It isn't. It's saving lives.

We should treat drug dealers like people who shoot a gun into a crowded room.

"Harm reduction" activism + understaffed police force = stores closing --> neighborhoods without grocery stores What happens to low income families in neighborhoods without grocery stores?

Where are they supposed to get produce...?

Kids who eat junk food early in life are at higher risk of diabetes and other obesity-related issues down the road.

Which leads to an early death...

Imagine this scenario:

It's 12:30am and your dog woke you up because it needs to go to the bathroom.

You walk outside and sleepily shuffle down the street in your slippers.

Suddenly you spot a man, half naked with a comforter draped over him, stumbling out of the park… This was me last night.

And, this is me most nights.

At night, weird men who are clearly not mentally sound are wandering around my apartment.

A severely drug-addicted woman in San Francisco just lost both her feet b/c she did not want to go to the hospital.

She still is "not ready" for treatment.

For San Francisco's leadership to say "oh well, it's her choice" is a dereliction of duty, and morally wrong.

https://twitter.com/war24182236/status/1636732451912572936

This woman (who looks to be in her 30s) is crippled for life.

Can you imagine anything more horrific than waking up to find both your feet gone? She is now wheelchair-bound.

This was her before the amputation.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1636725234744311809

Is the 🤡 emoji considered conservative or "right-wing"? Chat GPT:

Currently trending on r/sanfrancisco. Some interesting responses... 😬

Despite representing <5% of San Francisco's population, Black people account for 37% of our homeless & 25% of overdoses.

Thousands of homes & businesses have signs up saying "Black Lives Matter" -- but few people seem to care about the overdose deaths.

Why is that? According to the Washington Post database, seven unarmed black people were shot & killed by police last year in the United States.

Meanwhile, in San Francisco *alone* ~155 Black people died of an overdose.

Why is nobody saying their names...?

This is a San Francisco politician arguing that we should still have a ban on evictions because of COVID.

And our city wonders why almost nobody wants to build here and we have a housing crisis...

https://twitter.com/DeanPreston/status/1633225355111854080

If San Francisco government wants to make housing more accessible to lower & middle-income folks they should probably do the opposite of everything they have been doing.

Our policies on zoning, rent control, evictions, short-term rentals & unit conversions are byzantine.

Almost every long-time San Franciscan I know says the city is currently in the worst shape they have ever seen.

https://twitter.com/EugeneMarangoni/status/1633188494003654657

Please note - I do not say this to complain.

I say it to share that it hasn't always been like this...

SF & CA governments have made a lot of policy decisions in the past 10 years.

We should be evaluating their efficacy.

Last night I went to a bar in downtown San Francisco.

It looked like a dystopia.

I saw hundreds of people folded over (likely high on Fentanyl), or sitting on the sidewalks smoking.

Almost every person looked homeless.

I felt scared to park and walk two blocks. I took a drive down Mission street and saw tent after tent, person after person sleeping on the sidewalk.

The Tenderloin & SOMA were the same.

FiDi didn't have any tents (probably because the high-end property managers send in power washers at night).

It was beyond sad.

Assaults are too common in downtown San Francisco.

Many of my friends have been assaulted at some point in the past few years.

The bystander in this video actively discourages the victim from calling the cops.

Serious question - why? Source:

TikTok: tiktok.com/@contaxt2film/…

Reddit: reddit.com/r/PublicFreako…

Crime in NYC is up 38%.

This morning I dug into the stats.

Here is what I found. (1/x) First, the good news.

Shootings & murder are down ~12%.

With that said, incidents are highly concentrated in poorer neighborhoods with high % of POC (e.g., East Bronx, Harlem, parts of Brooklyn)