What is it going to take to admit that The City has a problem? Because the collective denial and doubling down on our failed policies clearly isn't working.
A commenter on the SF Chronicle page made an interesting argument: the city should return to at-large elections for the Board of Supervisors. Even though a significant majority of the city roughly agrees the city needs stricter enforcement of the laws, it can't quite get there. Citywide elections typically result in center or right-of-center (in relative SF terms) winners; for example, the most recent left-of-center mayor in SF was Art Agnos, 1988-1992. But a majority of the Board of Supervisors is now left of center; district neighborhoods are too susceptible to pandering and cheap promises.
Unlike the rest of the country, for most of its history San Francisco has had at-large elections for the board. It's only in the past 20 years that we've had district elections. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_Board_of_Supervi...