[jimt1234]

I lived in San Francisco for the summer of '92. I couldn't get friends/family to visit from Modesto; everyone said basically the same thing as today: too expensive (even to visit), too much crime, too many "crazy people" (90s for "homeless"), and so on.

I honestly don't think San Francisco is any worse than it was 30 years ago; I just think perceptions and narratives have changed.

[verteu]

Unsheltered homeless count is up 65% since 2005 [1], and property crime has doubled since 2009 [2].

So there's a reason people think SF is going downhill.

A 1991 paper [3] estimates homelessness at 535.1/100,000, about half the current rate [4].

[1] https://sfgov.org/scorecards/safety-net/homeless-population

[2] https://sfgov.org/scorecards/public-safety/violent-crime-rat...

[3] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1749371/

[4] https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/2022/fixing-san-francis...

[inferiorhuman]

  So there's a reason people think SF is going downhill.

Something to do with using scarce housing stock for short-term rentals instead of housing residents I assume.

[snypher]

Humans are great at short term trends and terrible at long term numbers I guess.

Edit; three months ago the weather was so much cooler, at this rate it will be 150F on Xmas!

[more_corn]

You obviously haven’t been recently. Go check it out. I’ll accept your apology when you return.

[yuppie_scum]

But that doesn’t make it “good.”