Yet another 'sf is dooooomed' article which I'd like to eye roll away as another right wing troll farm hit piece, but I think this one is a bit different. Maybe it just becomes troll-y in the comments? The author does not directly attribute the problems in San Francisco to liberal policies, but they finger an excess of performative actions (vs practical solutions, a common problem in both left and right wing American politics) and 'neoliberal greed' as root causes.

This this article when first posted in commercialRealEstate was immediately followed by a predictable chorus of 'libtard policies make failed cities' with an equally predictable lack of data and surplus of inference and correlation. Similar problems in American cities that are not liberal bastions are ignored. The implication that if the liberals would just be tough on crime, all these problems would go away is ever present and never substantiated.

So /r/bayarea, I challenge you to read through this article, which the author explicitly says was not originally intended to counter doom narratives, yet it became a doomer article based on interviews and experiemces, and ask you to share instructive, well sourced arguments for the causes of the perceived current crisis in sf and policies to reverse the situation.

Are we in yet another San Francisco's boom bust cycle? Is this a failure of leadership pursuing ineffective strategies? Is this a problem shared by many American cities being driven by larger American political and socioeconomic trends? Is this a conspiracy of the Illuminati, jealous of San Francisco's Free love vibes and desiring to put the lizard people in power?

https://www.curbed.com/2023/05/san-francisco-doom-loop.html