After viewing so many laughable woke comments above, I am compelled to speak! :) I was a tourist in SF once, will never go back. Encountered several homeless people aggressively confronting/panhandling random people including tourists in a way that bordered on extortion. My son was with me and only five years old. And that was in 2005, and it's only worse now. We went all over CA for three weeks and SF was the only bad experience.
And what have SF woke policies done to help these people in the 18 years since then? Nothing. Letting homeless people, many maybe most mentally ill, run rampant harassing people, shooting up in plain sight, and defecating everywhere is not helping them. Are the homeless now better off? Only per the woke anarchist person's twisted idea of utopia, where the homeless are, as all victims, to be revered and lionized. And hence the exodus from SF.
More madness from liberals politicians (empowered by their constituents) who think they are helping mentally ill by letting them rampage the streets and prey on the public. No lefties, you not helping mentally ill people, many who are homeless simply because they are not functional enough to maintain an apartment, e.g., budgeting for rent, grocery shopping, etc. They can't do it. They need help from society to provide the basic necessities, not the "freedom" to -------- on sidewalks, wear filthy, torn clothing, and never bath their bodies.